Mel, The Mighty Boosh
First order of business: Mel Gibson has totally lost it. Not cool.
Second order of business: My friend Damon from the amazing band The Eternals* passed along some links to the BBC show The Mighty Boosh. The clip is funny, but I don't know a lot about the show, as I don't live in the UK.
So today's question is: What is the deal with The Mighty Booosh?
And these links are in honor of the occasion of meeting my chubby baby niece (left) for the first time: Google Search Results for Crying Babies and an article in which photographer Jill Greenberg defends her series of photographs in which she made babies cry.
The article's highlight–"Kid models aren't very expensive—not as expensive as monkeys, for example."
*and just a touch more about the Eternals. Their label is having a 50% off sale on all their CDs for a limited time. Go and kick the tires of an Eternals CD for bargain basement prices. Or, I just ordered a bunch of their remix CD High Anxiety, and the first, oh, five people who email me (joe DOT garden at gmail dot com) will receive a free copy if they PROMISE to pass it along to someone who might like it if they themselves do not.
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Second order of business: My friend Damon from the amazing band The Eternals* passed along some links to the BBC show The Mighty Boosh. The clip is funny, but I don't know a lot about the show, as I don't live in the UK.
So today's question is: What is the deal with The Mighty Booosh?
And these links are in honor of the occasion of meeting my chubby baby niece (left) for the first time: Google Search Results for Crying Babies and an article in which photographer Jill Greenberg defends her series of photographs in which she made babies cry. The article's highlight–"Kid models aren't very expensive—not as expensive as monkeys, for example."
*and just a touch more about the Eternals. Their label is having a 50% off sale on all their CDs for a limited time. Go and kick the tires of an Eternals CD for bargain basement prices. Or, I just ordered a bunch of their remix CD High Anxiety, and the first, oh, five people who email me (joe DOT garden at gmail dot com) will receive a free copy if they PROMISE to pass it along to someone who might like it if they themselves do not.
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posted by VoteJoe at Saturday, July 29, 2006
8 Comments:
I've seen a few episodes of The Mighty Boosh. It can be very funny but most of the time it's just annoying.
It has a pretty sizable cult following over here.
I personally love the mighty boosh. It's your basic british absurdness taken to new levels. They have a song in every episode and use LOTS of props. I highly recomend it to everyone I know. Isohunt has quite a few torrents.
That is one awesome baby, for the outfit alone. Though something about excessive DK merch in general always feels sort of wrong.
Thanks for the Boosh tips.
As for the baby, she was indeed awesome. She had some cradle cap, but I was able to forestall some crying by rapping "Baby Got Back" to her. Next is myintroduction brother's newborn. I'm a big fan of OPB*.
I know where you're coming from about the excessive DK merch. However, after the whole ugly lawsuit when the remaining members of the band had to sue Jello to get the money they were rightfully owed, I just figured that Alternative Tentacles was just another corporation, Dead Kennedys were a brand name and Jello was a self-righteous hypocritical CEO with a really nasally voice. I still like "Government Flu" a lot.
*Other People's Babies
hi - first time reader, long-time commenter. you know, i've been making people cry for years -- i just never thought to take pictures of it!! so I want to thank you, joe, and tsoya, for allowing me to see a future for myself where before i only saw the opposite of a future.
If you don't mind taking a quick break from using MY FORUM to plug your friends' bands... and your stupid "baby," I would like to come out against babies and small children wearing "cool" clothes.
What's more confusing is small children wearing slutty clothes- or, rather, clothes that would be slutty were they not small children.
I'm not sure anyone really knows what's really going on there anymore, but I think there's more to the DK story than that, like that one of the things claimed in the lawsuit was that he was at fault for not doing a number of ridiculous things, like actively promoting their back catalog. Neither side really came out looking too good. Either way, Jello's voice is hard to listen to. I'm generally all for sarcasm, but he needs to learn how to talk normally sometimes. I just found a pretty awesome video of the DKs from 1983, and he sounds exactly the same, even though he's physically unrecognizable.
Jesse,
I apologize for possible forum abuse. I will defend myself by saying that the band is one I genuinely believe in, and not just a "friend's band." Believe me, I have endured enough "friend's bands" to choose recommendations wisely. As for the baby clothes, I don't disagree. I think it makes babies look like accessories.
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