April Fool’s Day Pranks Gone Wrong (excerpt)
From corporate-casual:
Pete K. baked a cake for his friend using salt instead of sugar. His friend thanked him for the cake, but was very full from lunch. He never ended up eating any of the cake, and threw the whole thing away without taking a bite. Pete K. is not very good in the kitchen, and the hilarious cake took him many hours to make.
Popcorn
The composer of the classic electronic track made famous by the band Hot Butter in 1972 does a classical piano rendition, via Smashing Telly.
This tune gobsmacked me when I heard it in the incredible trailer for the yet undistributed Michael Rapaport movie Special (2006), which looks so good, you’ll literally want to take your own life that it never got its due in the US and can’t be found on DVD. What’s the deal, movie industry?
When I heard it in 2006, I made a ringtone.
“Can’t wait. I feel like I am learning a new language.
Jon’s Walker
Jon Deal made a Walker. I don’t know from Star Wars, but public urination is something I can get into.
Drum Tips with Victor Benedetto #1
If you’re Fred Armisen and you’d prefer I take this down from YouTube, please let me know. Or, just call to say hello.
Complicated Drumming Technique - page 7
Eight pages of retardedly complex sheet music come included with the DVD Jens Hannemann: Complicated Drumming Technique, Fred Armisen’s parody instructional drum video I got all excited about last November when it was still sold out on Amazon.
Well it’s not sold out any longer. So if you’re a drummer, you need it.
Mask, the Musical at the Pasadena Playhouse
“Mask” will likely satisfy an appetite for a string of heartfelt toe-tappers tied to highly emotionalized situations, though the evening rarely catches fire as a musical play.
Variety
Rocky sings his way into your heart. Spoiler: at the end, he still dies of big face disease.
via Vulture
Also, “Mask, the Mask”.
via Scene Unseen
Only a Ninja Can Make a Ninja Movie
Ninjas are played out, but ninja movies will never lose their cool. And I’ve been waiting for the longest time for someone of taste and means to revive the genre previously dominated by Golan-Globus and the Canon Group, and to do it in a meaningful way (not you, Tom Cruise and Ed Zwick), which is why it gives me great hope to read of the Wachowskis’ plans for the space.
I grew up on ninja movies, I had Sho Kosugi posters all over my wall (and even got to meet him at a tournament once), and I knew all the ninja gang signs he does in the clip above (from Revenge of the Ninja (1983), which is the ninja cinephile’s Citizen Kane).
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