The Standing Room

From Wasilla to New York

Different trains, on the Bridge to Nowhere.

h/t DecSimp (someone NEEDS to perform this)

For Your Consideration

na - cho -qatsi (from the Hopi language). n. 1. Nacho life. 2. Life eating nachos. 3. Life eating crispy tortilla chips smothered in cheese. 4. A way of life that celebrates the consumption of nachos.

h/t M Keiser

Overheard in LA: Why yes, I do believe that's irony

A Maestro: Is Meredith Monk...

...Alanis Morissette's mom?

Blixa says, "If you build it...

...it will collapse."

Blixa Bargeld, leader of the industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, is featured in a series of ridiculously funny ads for Hornbach, Germany's DIY Home Depot equivalent, by doing dramatic readings from their catalog. Watch them in order, and repeatedly—es gibt immer was zu laugh at!

Flash video: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Via Velvet Rope. Danke sehr to Fräulein M-—Jippi ja ja, jippi jippi je.

Funniest Album Cover of the Year!

Too many levels of humor here... I'll let them it speak for itself.

Embarrassing Mix-ups of the Day

One.

It suddenly occurred to me this morning that Will Oldham and Todd Oldham...

...are two different people.

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Two.

When I first saw this headline...

...I thought it was about Tara.

Performance Anxiety: Cabrillo v. Cuchi

This difficult choice between two concerts, both exciting and new, has been plaguing me all week: Would I drive down to Santa Cruz to the Cabrillo Festival, to hear Tehillim and the Philip Glass Piano Concerto?

Or go to Herbst to see CHARO? (¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡!!!!!!!!)

You can probably guess which one won. Gotta go! They're expecting me—cuchi cuchi!

Overheard in San Francisco: Record Store Revisit

Brian Shields at KRON-4's new blog, The Bay Area Is Talking, was kind enough to link to my post about Joseph Zitt's adventures working in one of San Francisco's major record stores. Joseph and I also traded a couple anecdotes about Asian tourists (how could he possibly know that "Ariribee" meant Avril Lavigne?), but my favorite is:

Your story [about Japanese girls screaming Shanneru! Shanneru!] reminds me of a customer that I had a few weeks ago who was looking for "Ammery." As it happens, there was a new hit release by an R&B artist, Amerie, which I quickly got for her.

The customer handed the CD back to me, and said, "This no Ammery. Ammery, she white and she old."

At that point, the light dawned, and I got her the Anne Murray album she wanted.

[CONTENT DELETED]TSR Wears 2 Dork Hats Simultaneously

See comments below for background on why Boosey & Hawkes asked me to take down this post.

The sad part is, it seems to have escaped their attention that I genuinely enjoyed the ringtones after I started looking at the site. Ah well.

TSR on Boing Boing

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More interesting condom ad graphics

Boing Boing reader M. C- adds,

You may also be interested in my favorite brand of Taiwanese condom, O'Mr. Skin Chapeau, with a charming illustration of a coupla swingin' 8 yr olds on the package.

Previously on Boing Boing: Japanese condom packaging art.

Note: Not "Mr. Skin O'Chapeau," or even "Mr. O'Skin-Chapeau," but "O'Mister Skin Chapeau." Chapeau! A French-Irish tickler... How fashionable.