I am sure everyone will have seen this in the next 24 hours, but oh man, this is so brilliant.  An Iraqi journalist threw two well hurled shoes at George Bush, but Bush ducked them both.  He was so quick on his feet.  This is why I am glad we elected Obama president.  He is even more mobile than Bush is.  I am not sure McCain could have ducked those shoes.  What is also amazing to watch is how slowly the Secret Service reacts to this.  Anyway, this is just fucking amazing.  “All I can report is that it is a size 10.” should be in every famous quote book from here until the end of history.  Thanks Nick for the link.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLds-TZMGw[/youtube]

…but you are bringing me down.

It’s not easy being green.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE51nUR_bVc[/youtube]

So okay, this is super weird. I am a really big fan of this site 23/6.com. They are an off shoot of Huff Po. It is satirical political blog that I found because some comedians I used to see all the time did videos for it. Eugene Mirman does political coverage, John Benjamin does fake Swift Boat ads and John Glaser… well John Glaser is just a weird, weird man. They also have animated Get Your War On comics which are pretty mind blowing. Oh and Bobby Tisdale and Joe Mandy do videos too… Lots of East Village regulars…

Anyway after the election I sort of steered clear of politics in general. This week I drove from Richmond to DC and back listening to right wing talk radio the whole way for some reason so I am back into it a bit. I guess I need to give a fuck who the Secretary of Commerce is all of a sudden. I guess that is the price you pay when your team wins. I know who the back up left guard is for the Miami Dolphins, I guess I should be able to defend the questionable choice of retaining Robert Gates as Secretary Of Defense some how…

Okay, the point is I checked 23/6 for the first time in a few weeks and I was catching up on videos and I saw this video where you had to guess if a person was a pornstar or a Democrat based only on a close up picture of a mustache. I have to tell you I was not doing well. In fact I got everyone wrong until I noticed a specific mustache… “That’s Ron Jeremy!” I exclaimed to no one in particular. I was right, but when they pulled back and showed the full photo I realized why I recognized it. I took the photo! It was pretty amazing, although it is on his Wikipedia page, so I guess that is where they got it. They didn’t credit me though, and I was in a strangely litigious mood (I am in the process of taking someone to small claims court) and I emailed them to complain about this. They were very cool about it, apologized and added my credit to the video.

Now admittedly this blog is long and rambling, but we are finally getting to the pay off, the money shot as Mr. Jeremy might say. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you… Democrat Or Pornstar: Mustache Edition!

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After the man talk update from yesterday I was reminded of some old video I have. I was working at a toy store and a Ben and Jerry’s during the summer between me dropping out of Penn State and transferring to Virginia Commonwealth University.  I had recently started this site and I was trying to make a Driven By Boredom movie in the vein of CKY or something stupid like that.  I kept filming my friends doing dumb ass shit.  I have a lot of that footage, but a lot of it is just horrible, and a lot of it is stuff I shouldn’t put up and a lot of it I am just to lazy to edit.

One of the things I tried to do is arrange a fist fight, but not any fist fight, a fist fight in robot costumes.  There was this kid Ian and he was a rad dude, but he was always talking shit like he was the worlds greatest fighter.  I think we had found someone to fight him but at the last minute he chickened out.   So I got all these people from Ben and Jerry’s to make these robot costumes, and found some kid who said he would fight Ian.  He sort of was under the assumption that he was just going to get the fuck beat out of him, but he was okay with that.  There was so much hype over this fight and on the day of everyone came down to the ally behind Ben and Jerry’s and we got ready to rumble.  I was working at the toy store during the best time for the fight, so I stole some toy swords and ran over during my lunch break.  We were all ready to go, but after a few punches all the costumes were off and Ian had his cartilage plug ripped out of his ear.  He immediately quit because he didn’t want the other side to get ripped out.  It was insanely disappointing; the whole thing only lasted three minutes.  Unfortunately, I taped over two of those minutes so in the video is only the first round.  If it makes you feel any better I taped over it with topless girls, but whatever, I digress.

So after that everyone was really pissed off, so I said I would take all comers.  I had just cut my hair into a mullet, and I didn’t want my work clothes fucked up, so I stripped down to my boxers and fought this really cool girl named Ana.  I am not sure why she said yes, but we went at it until her skirt started falling off, so I then gave her my pants.  Being as she was a female and half my size I clearly did not fight her for real, but I did throw a couple of half speed punches at her head.  It was pretty amusing.  In the end I was victorious, and the world lived happily ever after.

Oh, and then she hit me with a shovel.

Please, relive the summer of 2001 with me, it was a glorious time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7svxctsS4nQ[/youtube]

Due to crippling depression stemming from the New England Patriots beating my Miami Dolphins I have not had it in me to update.  I must offer my apologies for that, and tell you that blogs will be coming soon.  I will be back in VA for a few days and I am sure I will have some time to get some oh-so-fun blogs up.  In the mean time, here is a video of Sean Connery talking about slapping women and my favorite scene in any James Bond movie ever, which the finding of led to finding the completely insane Connery interview.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynoiBF7OjkI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXkbJwrN38&feature=related[/youtube]

Back in September at Jessie Lee’s birthday I shot this little video of ShiraGirl whilst I was photographing them. It is their song Anthem and Devyn Simone of Real World Brooklyn was singing on the track.  I sort of forgot to post this video way back then but I am having some computer issues and I needed to get some update up while I am trying to figure out how to get my Miami photos online.  So yeah, enjoy this little video.   I have 4 photo updates and a bunch of little videos I could post in the near future.  Hopefully I will get some of that stuff done this weekend.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRUIkBPH8U[/youtube]

I am still in the process of editing photos from my Miami trip. I have not had a lot of time to do anything but I had a bunch of videos I wanted to blog about so I am going to put them all in one post even though they have nothing to do with each other other than the director is a friend of mine.

1. Girl Talk Interview by Joe Carabeo

The first time I saw Girl Talk he played right before the Gaskets, the band I used to manage. The next time he played before us in Richmond. The next time we played before him. He started getting bigger and bigger and we didn’t. I would have killed for them to have played this show that Joe taped as part of his RVA House Show series. I have seen Girl Talk like 4 times, 3 times with the Gaskets, but never with more than 100 people. This weekend at Terminal 5 will blow that away.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j023164gBJ0[/youtube]

2. We Are The Champions – Vadim Newquist

Vadim was alerted to a party in the street shortly after my man Barack won the election. He grabbed his camera and went out in to the streets. He edited his one camera shot into an amazingly cohesive documentation of the pure joy that New York felt when Obama won the election. I have seen a number of things that Vadim has done, including a video about me, and this is by far the best. I am breaking my temporary ban on politics to post it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DklLzilyUng&&fmt=18[/youtube]

3. Nassau Chainsaw Video – Doug Sakmann

You guys probably saw the Nassau Chainsaw photos the other week. They were insane as you know. Doug directed their video for Behind Enemy Lines. It is extremely fucked up. Lots of hooks and fire and violence. Not safe for work, but not in a sexy way. Holy fuck.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p57UHlzOzeg[/youtube]

Today will probably be my last Barack Obama updates for a while. I could not be happier about this election, as you all should know by now. But the work is done. He won and after I donate some money to Martin in the Georgia senate run off I will take a break from politics. I don’t know what I am going to do with all that extra time, but now that he is in office, the only thing left to do is get on his case and make sure he fulfills his promises. We need a stronger economy, health care, and to get the fuck out of Iraq. I will be exciting to see what happens. If nothing else I can say that I am truly proud of this country for the first time in a long time. I feel like waving a flag.

This Onion video is way too real for me to handle, but I am sure if you have had any conversations with me over the last year, you are probably really glad that I am going to have to come up with something new to talk about for a while.

Plus my brother is in it at the 1:06 mark.

Halloween used to be my favorite holiday.  I loved the whole week.  I love photographing the horrible costumes.  The thing is this year I am sick and there is no party that I am super excited to go to.  I didn’t do anything this week and while I am feeling a lot better, I just don’t really want to do anything.  I didn’t even get any paid work this year which was my number one reason I gave to one of my closest friends for skipping her wedding tomorrow. I couldn’t afford it.  But I didn’t get any real jobs, I missed work today anyway, and I am going to be a short drive away Sunday to work on the Obama campaign…  So fuck.  I am an asshole.  At least I got her a used knock off George Forman grill.  Although it is pretty gross.  Also, I didn’t get a costume.  I sort of wanted to go as sexy Sarah Palin, but I guess everyone else will have to do that instead.  I have a cow costume, a wet suit, an Obama mask, a John Kerry mask, a luchador wrestling mask, a silver tuxedo with tails, and a whoopie cushion costume.  I am not sure what to do with all that.  But I think maybe the cow costume paired with a fur coat would make for a pretty good hip hop cow.  I need to come up with some cow related rap pun.  Maybe MC Udders will have to do.Anyway, since I am sick I am just going to leave you with the really amazing Halloween update I did last year and a few trailers for some of my favorite scary movies.

A Few Of My Favorite Things: Things Zombies Do

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2WvVGr9PkU[/youtube]
Wild Zero

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6RBy56Rodk[/youtube]
Salo – 120 Days Of Sodom

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5JfIxtTS3c[/youtube]
The Butcher

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcqscKtxSB8[/youtube]
Bad Taste

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbWGigOfmGU[/youtube]
I Spit On Your Grave