I’m sure you’ve seen them around the internet, on message boards, in the comments of Fark articles, and especially in MySpace comments. They’re called LOLCats, and it’s an internet cliche/fad that involves taking a picture of a pet (usually cats) in a funny or suggestive pose, and putting really weird obscure quotes on the picture. The requirements are that the type must be in huge IMPACT font with white text and a thick black outline around the letters, and that you be as grammatically incorrect as possible.
I’m not quite sure where the phenomenon got started, but I’m addicted. It’s not just the cute pictures of kitties, it’s the bizarre sayings they put on top. The fad got so big that someone even created a site just for the topic: ICanHasCheeseburger.com.
The site allows you to upload your own pictures of cats and other animals, and allows you to insert the text on the website itself. Once the picture is submitted, it will go through an approval process from the moderators (named Tofu and Cheese), and then is placed on a voting queue. The highest voted pictures make it to the front page for the whole world to see.
I’m often embarrassed when someone from work catches me looking at the site. It’s so utterly ridiculous, but I can’t get enough of it. As you can see from the picture at the top, I’ve made my own LOLCat picture.
To see more LOLCats, go to ICanHasCheeseburger.com, and for more of my own LOLCats creations, see them after the jump:
Through the magic of KSYM 90.1 in San Antonio, I have discovered many, many new favorite bands. Among the list of amazing new artists growing in my music library you’ll find the newest addition: Pink Martini.
What sounds like the name of a really weird drink is a really unique collection of musicians who land somewhere between “a 1930’s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brasilian marching street band, and Japanese film noir.” (from their last.fm profile)
Founded in 1994 by Harvard grad and classically trained pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale in Portland, Oregon, the 12-piece Pink Martini mainly plays fundraisers for good causes like civil rights and public broadcasting, among many others.
The video above is the title track of their most recent album Hey Eugene! and is possibly their best song to date, or in any case the song most likely to break them in to mainstream music. The song, as described by vocalist and songwriter China Forbes, is about a guy she met at a party, made out with, gave her phone number to, and he never called her. So she wrote this song about him.
You’ll love it by the end of the first verse, I promise.
Via David Wain’s MySpace page, solid news has finally been broken concerning the classic MTV Sketch Comedy Show, The State, coming to DVD.
The State was a comedy show that ran in the mid-90’s featuring Reno 911’s Thomas Lennon, Ben Garrant, Kerry Kenney-Silver, Ed and I Love The 90s Michael Ian Black, and several other comedians featured in hundreds of projects since The State went off the air after two seasons.
The set will feature 5 DVD’s with every episode of the first season, and also includes never-before-seen sketches and plenty of DVD Commentary from the improv troupe. No release date has been set as of yet, only the ubiquitous “Coming Soon to DVD.”
Oh, and I’m Doug, and I’m outta heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere.
Source: David Wain’s MySpace Blog
The amazingly underrated FX sitcom Always Sunny In Philadelphia returns for a third season on September 13, 2007 with the full cast including Danny DeVito, who joined in the second season as the father of two (or is it three?) of the characters.
Enough simply cannot be said about how hilarious this show actually is. The show plays out like Seinfeld on crack–lots of funny interactions between characters doing horrendous things to each other with no remorse. Every character is almost close to being a sociopath, completely devoid of human feeling and compassion for those around them, including each other.
FX is currently re-running the first and second season at random times, and you can pick up the first season on DVD right now, and a combination of Season 1 & 2 on DVD on September 4, 2007.
Source: TV Squad
This is Esmee Denters, 18 year old YouTube phenomenon from Holland, singing “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield. Normally a YouTube cover from someone I’ve never heard of doesn’t phase me very much, but this girls voice is really something else. She weighs like 2 pounds and has a voice that will knock. you. down.
What’s really special about little Esmee is the fact that through YouTube she actually scored a contract as the first signed artist with Tennman Records, Justin Timberlake’s new record company. She’s working on her first album right now, but don’t expect to hear anything from her until next year as she just got signed in June; maybe a first single by the holidays. In any case remember her name, I doubt it’ll be the last time you hear it.
For an extra special bit of goodness, near end of the video Natasha Bedingfield herself pops in and harmonizes for Esmee and helps her finish her own song.
After the jump is another YouTube video of hers, this time with her covering Alicia Keyes’ “How Come You Don’t Call Me”. Enjoy!
