Carousel -- Week Ending 19th December 2008
[ 18 December 2008 ]
Don’t stop believin’. & honestly, I’ve thought about you every day since we met, 738 days and counting… Also, Sam Brown from Exploding Dog has a blog, did you know? I didn’t!
I love this Christmas mix, I Think The Cookies Are Done mixed by Millions Billions & Tendercakes. It should be longer! Jake says…
“This Christmas mix brought to you by Tendercakes and Millions Billions is the perfect way to celebrate if you want Christmas to sound like lazers and dance moves. And leave your red and green at home because this party is CMYK only.”
Also, Millions Billions is a dude. (New friend! High five! & a totally ace self-promoter.) I have listened to this mix so many goddamn times this week, it’s sickening. But I love it.
Flying Lotus essential mix, it’s a goodie.
P.O.S. has a new single, too.
Selected quotes from Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How The Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women by Courtney Martin.
Disney-inspired rings from Q-Pot! Aw, I like ‘em… They make me think of Nubby!
I was hoping you would notice.
Vanilla Ice. Latex stockings as high fashion accessory? A resounding YES.
Coco Chanel by Horst P. Horst.
Hand-lettered signs from the infamous jr__nal community.
I would like to officially introduce you to my fantastic friend Sammy’s brand new project, Haute Macabre. As you can guess from the title, it’s about high-end gawthick living. It’s for those of us who never really outgrew our goth sensibilities — the ones who idolised Wednesday Addams as an adolescent heroine, the ones who like things dark but don’t take it too seriously, the ones who can’t resist when fetishy fashion comes sashaying down the catwalk in Paris. To add to the dark, creepy pot, she has enlisted her friends Nixon Sixx, Zoetica Ebb (you know her!) &... me! I haven’t contributed to the project yet but I will, by golly I will, & baby, it’s a good one.
I like this mix: We Make It Good Mix Series Vol. 06 by DJ Blaqstarr. Thanks, Sam! xx
Ahem… The Vice Guide To Eating Pussy. NSFW! I have loved this article for years, especially the way it is written. “If you are dealing with a particularly saucy vixen she may want something in her bum.” Raunch!!! (“Raunch” can, from now on, only ever be written with three (3) exclamation points after it. Okay? Say it with me now… Raunch!!!)
Said The Gramophone is one of my new favourite music blogs.
Okay, so, I started reading Twilight last night & abandoned it after 4 chapters. Whoah. It is bad. I started talking about it on Twitter (it was a good time, you should have been there), & got a whole bunch of hilarious links sent in my direction. For example… Way funny. Ditto.
I love the Secret Society of List Addicts!
Last.fm’s Best Of 2008 is an awesome, real round-up of the year’s most popular (alternative) music.
Violet Blue interviews Andrew Blake, legendary erotic movie director.
The Back Alley Tabernacle interviews Zoetica Ebb, my favourite blue-haired lady. (Except it’s not blue right now. Sshhhhhh!) I like this bit best:
What is it about transformation that appeals to you? Hope and fluidity – the idea that nothing is final.
Pretty Much Amazing’s 212 Best Songs Of 2008. Oh YEAH.
Pictures from Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen’s book, Influence. (It’s really good, by the way.)
Shun the non-believer!
OMG so funny, & this is not safe for work!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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HA. I love that first video.
“Shuuuuunnnnn”
Spam sucks — Oops, didn’t know that! I’ve just changed a setting so that the emails don’t show. That should do the trick. Of course, it will make it harder for people to contact one another — so nothing is perfect…
Claire — Me too :D
Love that music video, so funny.
Have you seen Gunther’s “The Ding Dong Song”? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPrndu…
HAHAHAHHA i discovered the jizz in my pants video yesterday and have been singing it at inappropriate moments ever since =D
I love the vanilla ice editorial. I’ve been wanting a pair of white latex stockings for years now, but I’m pretty sure you need super-skinny pins to pull of totally white legs. Maybe pale blue?
Also, have you ever read Aubrey Beardsley’s ridiculous ‘Under The Hill’? It’s terrible, but there’s a hilarious, um, erotic … scene with a unicorn. A unicorn called Adolphe!?
Oh and I have to add, I can’t stand Twilight either! I only got through like a chapter, I couldn’t stand how badly it is written.
AND from what I’ve heard, the books don’t exactly add anything substantial to the womens rights movement….I mean way to educate hundreds of thousands of impressionable teenagers that women DON’T need a man to rescue them every 5 minutes….not!
Hahaha I saw that Unicorn video before… Those latex stockings are the hottest thing EVER.
Go inside the magical cave and wonders will appear!
xo
Oh, dear. I know you said you put the book down after four chapters, but still. I believe the contents of your mind may require a bottle of bleach and an exorcism.
what would life be without gala!
thank you for the andrew blake link! I love him! the first videos I have ever watched that got through to me! oh dayum!
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980j… – Validation needs to be on this list, best short film everrr. It made me glossy eyed!
First link has gotten Journey into my head now..awesome.
Hey Gala! Thanks for the heads-up on Twilight – I nearly bought it but I had heard it wasn’t well written – but I’ll still see the movie! I can’t not love Vampires.
I’ve really enjoyed reading the interviews with you too! Thanks!
oh i remember when people at school found out about charlie and the candy mountain haha endless quotes resulted! shun the non believer, shuuuunnnnnnnn. chaaarrrlieeeee! its a magical leopluradon!
exploding dog has a blog! wow that is exciting!! instant fan!
secret society of list addicts is awsome! i write so many lists its crazy. i have lists inside other lists. i have a list telling me to write other lists. my way of organisation :)
i’ve recently subscribed to notes from the universe and it is wonderful so i would like to thank you gala for introducing me to it.
Ah Gala to the rescue! I’m so freakin bored at work today. Thanks love.
Mmmm, I can’t wait to download that Flying Lotus mix – thanks sooo much for the link :)
“Pretend your tongue is the bad cop and the clit is the guy who killed your partner.”
Ahahaha…. GOOD ADVICE!!
:D :D Glad you like Charlie too. The second one is just as awesome pthhhhhthththffff
I took my little Miss 2 (3 next weekend) to The Teddy Bear factory yesterday to choose, funnily enough, a teddy bear.
We left with a unicorn.
I’m conviced she is chanelling her inner-Gala. ;)
Oh god that second video. The other day, my friends and I got drunk and watched it for like half an hour while making paper snowflake. Ugh their jizz-faces make me feel so uncomfortable, ha ha!
Also, latex stockings?! Yes please, in love forever! Additionally, I’m a creep because thigh-his always win over tights for that adorable roll of skin it makes at the top of the stocking.. You know?! There’s a Japanese term related to something similar called “zettai ryouki”, ha ha. Okay, done creeping.
Gaaaala, I read the entire Twilight series and hated all of it, but please don’t shun Harry Potter! It’s a really good book, with more realized characters and universes than Twilight. Plus—practically no romance! All action and friendship and magic. :D
Natalie — No, I’ve never read it. Erotic unicorns called Adolphe? Um… my mind is officially blown!
Claire — I’m totally with you, from the 4 chapters I read Bella seems completely gormless & I’m just NOT into it.
Jenn — I think you might be right. I may have to dig out some old Poppy Z. Brite books to cleanse myself!
@gcrush — Me too! I love Andrew Blake!
Matea — Aw, that is SO cute! Unicorn power!
jooordan! — Hahahah. I love it so much. Their faces make me feel really uncomfortable too, but I can’t stop laughing!
Thank you for hating Twilight, you kind of just made my day. Also, have you seen this lady? www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Because she is disappointed in non-Twilight fans. D8
Hey Gala! When are we gonna find out about the winners of your awesome giveaways? Let me know! Thanks!
:)
Sprinkle
Haha that has been mine and our exchange students huge joke all autumn. Everytime there is silent moment someone just start.. “Hey lets goes to the candy mountains!” xD
Yay! I’m one of the founding members of The Secret Society of List Addicts! Calling all Virgos and Compulsive List Makers!
Hiya Gala, Question for Kiwi fans which you may or not know the answer too lol :D
-Do you know when MKA’s book is coming out in NZ?
Argh Im afraid Twilight will be everything i feared it would be! (How the hell did it get so popular??)
The movie was good for one of those “i just cbf lets sit in the aircon” days. Hah. Look at all the pretty people…
Jizz In My Pants has been stuck in my head for aaages!!!!!
haha and charlie XD
Chaaaaarllieeeeeeeeee!!!!
Oh my, Gala, I’m so glad you hated Twilight… When you said you were buying it, I wanted to say something but er, didn’t want to start a bunfight on your comments page.
That series makes me incredibly angry and I’m horrified that legions of teenage girls are obsessing over it. Aside from it just being terrible writing, the sexual politics in that book are soooo NOT the type of thing teenage girls should be aspiring to. My best friend is writing her literature masters thesis on the series next year, should be much fun…
HAHAHA my friend sent jizz in my pants to me after i told him when he came back from bostoni would kiss him for every day he was gone.
i’m not sure what that means.
good?
or baD?
We in the 212, hope you know how we do!~ At least, I can only wish that were the reason Pretty Much Amazing chose that number, haha.
It’s great to see all the not-Twilight-fans come out of the iCiNG woodwork! I think we were all afraid because it was so popularly recommended to you… I promise I’ll speak up next time, okay?! (wink) Since sharing is how you end up with sweet things like the Secret Society of List Addicts, after all! It’s like 5ives, but AMPED WAY, WAY UP.
P.S. Dunno if you’ve seen this on Nubby’s site yet, but Cary Tennis’ advice to this girl who stopped going to work is one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever read… EVER.
Oh, Gala, thank god you hated Twilight. It’s godawful. Interestingly, however, I am just the fondest of the cast of the films. I interviewed Pattinson a while back and he was lovely.
Omg the twilight stuff sooo fucking funny.
Thank god you disliked Twilight, and that there are readers of yours who hate it as well. I was so worried when heaps of people started recommending Twilight as a book they love to you. =) The only thing that made it bearable for me was Cleolinda’s recaps on lj, found on the page below.
cleoland.pbwiki.com/Twilight#B…
I listen to “Jizz in my Pants” constantly. A definite mood lifter! Makes me love my iPod even more. Please tell me you didn’t just see Charlie the Unicorn for the first time? Oh deer. Its so wonderful.
awww, gala! you shouldn’t hate on twilight! I know lots of people don’t like it- that’t totally a-ok- but loads of your fans do…
on another, different topic- Charlie the Unicorn!!! YESSS!
much love- and happy holidays all!
- OMG ITS CHARLIE! [glee] ok, so I soooo suggested you see this a few posts back. IDK if u saw the comment but it makes me REEAALLLYYY happy that u saw the video. It’s a masterpiece.
- Guise to Eating Pussy….Raunch!!! I actually saw this in my younger years. I blame television and peers [ok not really, but i’m not taking responsibility for that one] But yes, it was my learning about sex phase in my teens. Where u go exploring? IDK but yeaaa…lol. I can fully appreciate it now..but then it was so awkward? Again, I blame my friends.
So many lovely things! Thank you :D.
btw, have you seen this short documentary on Karl Lagerfeld? It’s an oldie but a goodie! You can see it in parts on Youtube. And they show you the inside of his house :D. Part one is here:
au.youtube.com/watch?v=aTf_o1g…
Aw, I actually liked the Twilight series!! But then again, I’ll read anything (like the trashy gossip magazines we get at work..I have to do SOMETHING during the slow periods!)
(Ok, ok, don’t everybody hate on me cause I liked the Twilight series!)
And as for the first video…
WE’RE ON A BRIDGE CHARLIE!!!
God, I’ve been quoting that for AGES.
=D
Second to last Carousel of the year! Excitement!
sarah von — You’re doing a sweet job, I would love to contribute one day if you’ll have me!
Rachael — I have no idea, I’m sorry to say!
Caitlin Marie — I only just saw it! Shocking I know!
harley — Me too. I actually used to have it taped into a journal of mine, which I left on the bus, & when I called to get it back from the bus depot it came back WITH THOSE PAGES MISSING!!!!!!!!!! TRUE STORY!
Melinda — Oh wow, I’ve never seen that! I saw Lagerfeld Confidential at the movies & it was fantastic. Thank you for the link!
Jamie — We’re not hating on you, just on your taste! Haha, just kidding! I like bad stuff too. I mean, Bring It On is one of my favourite movies…
Squill — Whoah, I didn’t even realise! Pressure!
YOU FOUND CHARLIE! YAY! his world domination is almost complete!!! SHUN!!! =D
I got excited about Twilight. Stupid hype. I hated the books. Read this, it’s hilarious. www.cracked.com/article_16878_…
omg I stopped reading twilight after four chapters as well! I just found it to be so poorly written and generic. Like a year 10 english essay. Boourns!
Although in twilight’s defence…. Robert Pattinson. I rest my case.
Also, my friends and I now greet each other by walking into a room and saying “So, I was eating a grape and then I…” or generally just substituting the word “Jizz” into daily conversation:
Me: So what have you been up to lately?
Friend: Oh you know, jizz and that
Me: Jizzin’.
Friend: I jizz.
...It’s kind of our “marklar” (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=marklar)
Finally, list-making = love!
Ohman. I love Samberg so much. Also, a hilarious take on Twilight and specifically Edward is here: oxymoronassoc.livejournal.com/...
Oh my goodness YES!!
Finally somebody who isn’t obsessed with the Twilight saga! it’s so cliche, and badly written!
I can’t stand it, but i’m treated like an outcast for not having seen it pfft. haha.
Click ‘watch this movie’ at this link…http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/473402
it’s hilarious!
Have a great week! xx
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I liked Twilight. But the movie was beyond horrendous. Oh. My. God.
Haha. But I am most certainly NOT going to go all fangirl and list reasons why you should love it and change my email username to something with ‘Cullen’ in it. Pffft.
And yaaay! Charlie the Unicorn is the greatest video I have ever seen, in my opinion. Makes my day every time.
- HAHAHAHA! omg thas all kinds of awesome & not. Not because they were missing, awesome because…come on…thats hilarious! somebody got a little bit friskier that night & sumone was a lil bit happier & satisfied, I bet!
Charlie! Oh, the good ol days of food service and making Charlie The Unicorn impressions with Cas just to make the time go by faster. :)
This dissing on Twilight and the fans is kinda rude and goes against the happy Gala nature of this blog don’t y’all think? So it’s not your cup of tea. Big whoop. People have their own taste in fandomes.
Not gonna lie: Twilight is the worst written series I’ve finished. However, I read a thing on LJ about how people like it because they but themselves in Bella’s place. So it’s like Edward is perfect for THEM. I know that was why I loved it.
Oh my! You can’t have really just seen Charlie! Well, here’s the second one
www.filmcow.com/youtube
Oh my god, the Disney-inspired Alice in Wonderland ring! I don’t ever wear rings ever, but I must have it anyway!
And of course, lovin’ the latex.
But I actually don’t really agree with a lot of that Vice article. Maybe its just me personally, but I honestly don’t think the clit can take that much abuse without a hand shoving someone’s head far far away from that area. I don’t know; thoughts, opinions?
Gala, I think we could probably find a slot for you over at The Secret Society of List Addicts. Probably ;)
I’m afraid I love those Disney rings and those stockings! What about that purple dress in those pictures – to DIE for :)
I’m afraid I’m a Twilight fan but I do understand how people don’t like it and why they don’t like it but meh I loved it… Whatevs – each to their own I say, if we all loved/hated the same things the world would be a very very boring place…
Ahh your link loving entertains me on a dull eventful Friday so very much!
!!!!!!!
My sister & I fucking love Hot Rod, so the “jizz!...in my pants” video made my day.
& we also collectively think Andy Samburg is uber-hawt. I got a thing for those Jewish boyyyyyssssssss.
OMG. second twilight link had me laughing foreverrrrrr
my little sister has the books, but i haven’t been able to get past the summary on the back without cracking up. now i got the abridged plotline AND laughed for 15 minutes straight. :D
Another one of the List Addicts ladies here, thank you for featuring us amongst all these marvellous people! I’m sure I can speak for the others when I say we’d love for you to be involved! :)
That SNL video is pretty much the best thing ever. All of the SNL songs with Andy Samberg make my day (Dick in a Box and Lazy Sunday are favourites).
Oh, and PERFECT GIRLS, STARVING DAUGHTERS!! The author wrote an article for Bitch that I read and reread a billion times!!
My boyfriend sang Dick In A Box at my pseudo birthday karaoke & I swear he made my night.
I love this carousel.
I love you. You are well aware of that, but I had to say it again.
I’m a huge fan of twilight myself and also would have to agree with J that you shouldn’t be dissing something so badly that your readers might actually enjoy.
No..i’m not a 13 year old girl pining over a vampire love story, however the series was marketed and written for teenagers. “Young Adult Novel” duh.
Mandi — I’m not dissing my readers, I’m just saying I dislike the book. I was really disappointed by it which is why I mentioned it at all, I had such high hopes! There’s a lot of stuff for young adults that I really love, like Lemony Snicket & Francesca Lia Block. Plus, it’s like not having different taste makes you a bad person — I openly discuss how much I love TERRIBLE things like Bring It On, New York Minute, etc.!
I lovelovelove todays Carousel!
And I love that you think Twilight is horrible! I found the writing style very juvenile. I’m glad you voiced your opinion. People have different reading preferences so NO-ONE should judge people over their views of a book.
I figure it’s just a story and it’s not something to get emotionally attached to.
Hahah I love watching that Jizz in My Pants vid! So funny.
Personally I love Twilight… but you are not the only one to hate it. I guess you have to be 14 and hormonal to really get into it (sadly, this is me.)
Love the carousel, as always, and the rest of everything (woah, concise). Thanks for being awesome.
I read the whole Twilight series because I found it absolutely (unintentionally) hilarious.
The movie is a bit better than the books, though, and I actually enjoyed it a lot. This was probably because I loved most of the cast before they got signed to be in it anyway.
But I still burst into a fit of giggles when Edward said “YOU ARE MY LIFE NOW!!”. Oh dear.
Oh and by the way: By the fourth book, Bella gives birth to a mutant-spawn-of-satan!-type baby which results from her and Edward’s honeymoon (because premarital sex is evil!), and then Jacob, who spent most of the second and third books lusting after Bella, falls in love with the baby. Of course.
I wish I was joking, haha.
hey girl!
I work part time in a Latex boutique (http://www.atsukokudo.com – the best you can get!) can’t remember if I told you before… Its become so fashionable now we literally have hoards of stuff (particularly stockings) out on shoots to Vogues in all countries,,on one of my first days I had to polish up a stack to go out to Penelope Cruz for a shoot haha.
I just bought some black latex leggings and they’ve officially changed my life! them and the stockings are totally wearable, you must have some!
Loulou xo xo
I can’t beleive you didn’t know about Charlie already?!
There’s a number 2, I think it’s hilarious but many other disagree with me. “Zeeeeeeee….”
Gala, have you seen the Planet Unicorn cartoons on Youtube? Just the theme tune itself makes me laugh!
Oops! Gala, I think the image you linked about Twilight is not uploaded by the original artist. If you by any chance want the proper link (this way you can view the comic full-size too), I’d recommend going here to her deviantArt page. She made another hilarious Twightlight comic too.
For a combination of Twilight plus “Jizz in my pants” (I kid you not) go here.
AAAH! FINALLY ANOTHER GIRL WHO HATES TWILIGHT! it was seriously the most poorly written thing on the planet. i read it and immediately thought “this is not a novel… this is a movie script”.
hey there…sort of an internet dweeb and so couldn’t work out how to email you so thought I would just put the link here lwnski.com/tour_de_smooth/tds….
shameless promotion of my little brother’s xmas project but mainly wanted to let you know because I thought you would give you a giggle. Every year he makes a “praisin baby jesus” mix for family and friends..he is a graphic designer/ musician and this year he has teamed up with “DJ Russian Disco” to bring super smooth tunes (his words, not mine) to the masses..my brother is the one with the accordion.
i love that you’re into the exploding dog comics! i’ve loved them for years, they make me giggle & think at the same time. :) you’re too cute, gala!! keep on keepin’ on! happy friday, all you nonpareils! :)
I am SO glad you don’t like Twilight. Half my friends are obsessed with it- and Edward. I can’t stand it, OR the characters. Oooh, a broody vampire, excuse me while I swoon over the originality.
I got to see Courtney Martin speak several months back. That lady is a powerhouse.
this is a really great link about twilight io9.com/5096763/twilight i was crying from laughing so hard.
lol all my friends are way obsessed with it and i read all the books too. but i just think it’s awesomely bad… (read: i totally got sucked in and didn’t realize how ridiculous it was untill after i read all the books)
I describe “Twilight” as a three-legged dog: it’s lovable because of it’s faults… or some people just find it extremely irritating. That being said, I think three-legged dogs and “Twilight” are both endearing. To each their own.
I especially enjoy the fifth picture from the end of the Vanilla Ice shoot. That’s how I look when I’m falling and about to injure myself.
My roommate’s daughter quotes the Charlie the unicorn video constantly. We’ll be sitting around the table eating dinner and all of a sudden she’ll be like, “Charlie, let’s go to candy mountain!”
Thank God, Gala!! I thought I was the only one in the world who didn’t like Twilight. I like to think of it as bad pop music. The talent is missing, but it’s so darn catchy. Who knows why?
I have that top Horst image of Coco on my wall looking at me right now, it’s my favorite.
Haha, the ‘jizz in my pants’ thing is sososofunny xD
& I have to agree with you, I stole the last book (Breaking Dawn I think…) from my sisters shelf and giggled all night at the last few stupid chapters
x)
Not dissin’ anyone who likes it, though.
I heared from a friend that (in the book) Bella punches this guy who makes a move on her and breaks her hand and her dad LAUGHS!
I would get my dad to beat the hell outta that guy.
Or just do it myself.
The same thing happened to me when I tried to read Twilight! Everyone at work was raving about it, and though I was skeptical I decided to give it a go after a semester of heavy Hawthorne and Thoreau studying. Oh my goodness. I read it out loud to the boyfriend on a long car ride and we both had moments when we would look at each other, mouths agape. I won’t get into the feminist issues I have with it…the writing alone was bad enough!
This is a great article about the books: io9.com/5096310/twilights
Also, my boyfriend rewrote Charlie the Unicorn for his service fraternity to perform for a school event and it was amazing. “It’s a magical place of joy and joyness!” Love it.
Haha!
Ah, I’m a little late on this one, but
CHARRRRLLIIIIEEEE! Come to Candy Mountain, Charlieee!
Hehe…it’s right up there with “OMG, Shoes” and “Beached as, bro!” _
Ah. The wonders of the interwebs will never cease :D
Okay it’s soooo weird you posted these two videos in this order, because last week my cousin came to my house and told me I needed to watch two youtube videos, then proceeded to show me those two in that same order. So it’s a bit trippy that you’ve done the exact same just now. Strange!!
i saw these and thought of you!
www.girlprops.com/RetailScienc…
Gala! Thank you so much for the link to the quotes from ‘Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters’. I ventured to the library on Saturday and was able to get the first edition. It’s been a fantastic read so far:)
im quite surprised you didnt like twilight, because im interested in alot of the same things as you and just thought you would like it. But ahh well
I personally LOVE the books and the film :)
Cool links and vids! thanks for sharing.