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So, it's recently come to my attention that there is a metric fuckton of funny/ interesting shit outside of failblog, Australian Idol youtube clips and dinosaurs fucking robots. I want in on this action.

This morning leecie linked me to this awesome blog The Foggy Monocle which is basically about being drunk and classy. Shit My Friends Might Like is pretty much exactly what the title suggests, depending on the calibre of the company you keep, and has kept my highly amused for over an hour today.

There is then the obligatory inclusions such as the aforementioned Failblog and Stuff White People Like. One I know our very own Raz is obsessed with is Qwantz which is an online comic with intelligent dinosaur protagonists.

I know a lot of you have a litany of blogs you follow religiously, whether they be beauty blogs, sports blogs, political blogs, music blogs or blogs about really interestingly shaped turds. Whatever currently floats your boat, post a link here (with a brief description so we know whether or not to waste precious bandwidth) and do your bit to help keep the internet interesting.
 
The Reverse Cowgirl - http://reversecowgirlblog.blogspot.com/
"Sex" blogger, covers the "silicon valley" in a high-brow fashion I guess. Pretty big in "indie" circles. More quotations marks possible? I don't "think" so.

English Russia - http://englishrussia.com/
Because Russia is hilariously broken. This photoblog shows the side of Russia that is kind of glossed over.


I have more, but they are all group blogs on boring topics, plus I spend all day on 4chan anyway.
 
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Can't remember if I have linked you to the one before UAN, but F*** my life. Always funny to laugh at others misfortunes.
 
^ Using the term "blog" there a bit loosely
Wouldn't that be "amusing linkage", O' Moderator?
 
Check out http://www.markprindle.com

It's a music review site that this guy's been operating in his own time for years. There is a slant towards punk/hardcore but he reviews lots of different things. He also gets to interview some fucking cool people.

Anyways he has a cool as fuck review style which may incorporate him rambling on drunkenly about things in his life or telling crude jokes. Unique and he obviously loves and knows a lot about music. I think you would like it UAN, check it out!

It's like one of my favourite sites!

So anyways if you're not sold here's an example:

B-52s Funplex - Astralwerks 2008

I was hoping this album would stink balls so I could use all these great new plays-on-words I made up like "More like the B-50-SNOOZE, if you ask me!" and "More like the B-SHITTY-2's, if you ask me!" and "More like the PEE-52's if you ask me!" but in a devastating blow for the entire human race, it's actually pretty good.

And by "pretty good," I of course mean, "I gave it the same grade as both Cosmic Thing, which I said 'could have been recorded by any worthless batch of anonymous studio musicians,' and Bouncing Off The Satellites, which I labeled 'generic pop music '86. Disappointing. Very, very disappointing.'" In other words, Funplex is better than Good Stuff!

On the up side, there's more guitar on here than on their last few albums, but on the down side it's mostly just Fall-esque garage rock chords that ultimately wind up buried under keyboards anyway. Back on the up side, most of the songs have beautiful female vocals, dramatic chord changes and uptempo dancey drumbeats, Returning to the downside, Fred Schneider's gay-talking schtick is more irritating than endearing this time around, the dramatic chord changes are 100% predictable, and the producer relies heavily on '00s-centric production tricks (muffled electronic rhythms, etc -- the kinds of soon-to-be-dated effects that Madonna so enjoys). (and I use Madonna as an example because I don't know the names of all the other awful dance/pop artists I keep hearing who use this kind of shit in every song they release). In short, it's a mighty dancey album (no more of the trance spiritualism dull Good Stuff muck), but most of the melodies have been around the block more times than a WHORE, if you know what I mean.

I mean the dictionary definition of "whore."

There aren't a whole lot of bad songs on here - in fact, I count only one ("Eyes Wide Open" is more of a dance beat than a musical composition) - but there aren't a whole lot of overwhelmingly memorable ones either. "Hot Corner" seems like the most obvious single, pairing a great uptempo dance beat with fuzzy guitar, a catchy bass line and fun vocals from the whole band. Less obvious but more beautiful are the Abba-reminiscent dark disco "Juliet Of The Spirits" and emotion-tinged "Deviant Ingredient," both of which are further reminders that Kate Pierson and The Other One are among the loveliest vocalists (in harmony or out) in pop music. The rest of the disc is unfortunately a bunch of perfectly danceable but not terribly creative pop music marred further by annoying Schneider-isms like "Faster Pussycat - Thrill! Thrill!" and "Stokin' and a-strokin'. Heat up the night - tonight! When bodies collide!"

It's odd how much some of the guitarwork here reminds me of The Fall. Not just the garage rock chords either; listen to the bendy-note lick in "Keep The Party Going," for example, and tell me that it doesn't sound just like Brix playing "L.A." or "Twister." Add to that the "Colosseum"-esque dance-song-with-no-clear-melody "Eyes Wide Open," and it's as if the entire album were written, produced, recorded and sold at auction by Mark E. Smith! The ENTIRE ALBUM!!! Except The Fall have never made an album this bad.

Not that it's bad! Hell, it's 6-good! Somebody in the band needs to think up some new chord changes though. The "I Can See For Miles" sequence shows up in two different songs, for Pete's sake!

And yes, that was a pun. If you didn't catch it, here it is again:

The pictures of naked little kids show up on two different computers, for Pete's sake!

Oh, but I kid Pete Townshend. We go way back, he and I. Remember the time he wrote Quadrophenia and I called him an asshole? Aww hell yeah. He and I = twins with a capital t.
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