Just a day after I read about this though I stumbled across this incredibly entertaining image:

Apparantly it is the cover of “porn on tape” – an audio pornograpic novel. My buddy Wolfgang found it in his friend’s record collection. The German title means “The chastity belt”, and it sounds like a great book!

This morning Roxanne, one of my students at INSEEC in London, showed me this poster from a DDB Paris campaign for Live Poker. She said she had to laugh and think of me when she saw it. But why, but why?!?!

This may be one of the most hilarious ads I have seen in a very long time. 10 out of 10!

Lots of things can be crowdfunded. It is all just a matter of whether or not you and your network cares enough about you and/or the thing you want to dish out a buck or two (or even more). Now, there is a lot of things I would like funding for, but this is definitely on my list, and maybe I have quite good chances to get money for it, as I am not the only one who cares about it. (Only question is, do others care about me having one…)

So, here it goes: I want a DeLorean time machine, from one of  my all-time favourite movies Back to the Future. And apparantly there is a guy building them! Check this out:

I would like you to seriously consider dishing out money for this. Think about it. For a little while. Get back to me if you want. I am considering crowdfunding this. Will let you know if I actually get around to doing it. Or if I put efforts into crowdfunding something more worthwhile, though I seriously don’t know what that could possibly be!

P.S.: Found this video on the ever entertaining YesButNoButYes. Great Scott!

O for awesome! Found on the hilarious YesButNoButYes site.

However, I want to share this with you. Last Saturday I was out and about my beautiful home town of Brighton, and I saw (and immediately had to acquire) this awesome journal.

Here’s a picture of the cover.

And here’s a picture of the inside (note that the Comments Section is disabled. Hehehehehe.)

Love this journal. Haven’t used it yet, but surely will start any day now. Go get it for old school blogging i.e. diary writing on – shock horror – paper, without – double shock horror – anyone else reading or commenting it. Wow!

Coming out October 2nd in the US, this is compulsory viewing for the readers of this blog. Though I think that Michael Moore doesn’t convey as much information and background in his docos as the guys behind the fantastic The Corporation, or Enron, he does a very good job at making a point to a wider audience (which normally might not think about these things quite so much), and a good one at that. Go see this movie!

Truth is, I don’t own a Dirndl – yet! I am gonna buy one with my friend Eva in August, because having been an ex-pat for over 5 years now I really need one. I do sing, and I’d like to say quite well (at least when I and everybody around me are drunk), but not that randomly, and certainly not in a yodelling fashion (though I would love to be able to do that). And: before I moved to New Zealand, I had never, ever seen the Sound of Music before. Shocking, I know! Especially as a media theorist/activist I feel it is my obligation to watch, deconstruct and churn out what it means to people on an individual level and on a shared consciousness level with all sorts of products of popular culture.

Well, I finally did watch it 3 years ago. And something never quite sat right with me. Why on earth is that movie so popular? Ok, Julie Andrews twirling is beautiful. I knew the songs by heart after just seeing this thing once. For a movie geek like me: first big scale aerial shot at the beginning of the movie: that is pretty awesome. As movie goers, we do have a good excuse to watch it: wholesome family-ness resisting evil Nazis. But it is a pile of crap, really.

Now, Matthew just sent me this video, and this guy is totally onto something here. It pretty much sums up the underlying awefulness and twistedness of the visual messages in The Sound of Music. Watch it, remember the movie, and go “aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!”

Watch this beautiful Disaster Porn 2012 extravaganza. If that doesn’t sell you on going and seeing it, I don’t know what will. November 13th! Marked in my calendar.