i guess today i post only cat videos.

not much to see here.

One thing I love/hate about pronography is when I recognize a specific piece of clothing that an actor is wearing. On one hand it's fun to be all, "OMG! I HAVE THAT SAAAAME CORSET!" BUt it does still kinda bust the sureal/otherworldly/just plain unnatural nature of pornography.

I thought in spirit of the holiday, I would post some food porn instead of.. you know... regular porn... so yeah. Enjoy

I know it's no longer hip to rag on hipsters, as it's all been said before.. but I dunno, I'm kinda starting to worry about them. their seeming new accessory of misery is starting to become sincerely troubling. And it just seems that sincerity in the face of hipsterdom, may just mean the end of this meaningless counter-culture.

Not so much that I'm worried about that as much as I'm just feeling terrible for these people. I men hipsters are people too, guys.

the daptone gold compilation came out today and instead of highlighting the great stuff that DID make it onto the comp, i'm gonna toss out this great cover by sharon jones of maybe the best (only?) psych country song ever.





thanks to me doing this post, i discovered that the song was originally by jerry lee lewis and not kenny rogers, but thankfully it got passed on to the chicken man.

i can go on and on about how 24 hour news channels have turned the public discourse into the mental equavalent of an arizona parking lot (think minivans and tumbleweeds), but if it wasn't for news programs looking to fill space, would we hear about this sort of thing? has this happened before? my mind's telling me "maybe."

black dynamite is looking to be one of the best movies of the year sight unseen. awesome magazine/record label/online music distributor wax poetics has released both the soundtrack and the score, both of which look to be well worth your time.

we posted this somewhere in the past, but here it is again, cause it's awesome.


you guys remember when michael jai white was spawn? how about when he was the bad guy in exit wounds? it's kinda scary how i totally didn't need to use imdb to know that stuff.

ZITA EDIT: We gonna watch this soon, right dood?

being the visual fiend that I am, looking at hundereds of photographs a day, many of which are erotica- you become very.. numb, and wind up with no concept of what you like anymore. But I am in eroto-photographic-love with these two photographs.



My reasons for the first is obvious, but I think my attraction to the second stems from this fascination with the femme fatale when I was a child. It was mostly that I loved how powerful these women were, but also their detachment from their lovers... though I'm sure that second part fully developed after I found out that I was completely the opposite with men, and would get binded to them at the drop of a... anyway yeah. I just wanted to share those two photos.

Kuz they be sweet.

take a steamy shit on this utterly unnecessary movie (above).



(re)watch this fascinating documentary (also, above).



marvel at the existence of this book (still... um... above)?

wait... this really exists? joe pesci has an entire album in his character from my cousin vinny? really for real really?

i can't wait to see this movie. i watched the OG (see the trailer way down at the bottom) a couple months ago and thought it was fucked up, but in such a great way.



while there doesn't seem to be a whole lot in common between the two films other than a crazy dope addicted cop going crazy, i can totally get why abel ferrara would take issue with the situation, but hoping all the people behind the movie are in the same streetcar, and it blows up seems a bit much. the best thing to come out of this other than the actual film itself seems to be the responses from the characteristically cray herzog.

from an interview with the defamer:

Speaking of which, the original film's director, Abel Ferrara, has vowed to fight this project, and —

Wonderful, yes! Let him fight! He thinks I'm doing a remake.

Have you talked to him?

No. I have no idea who Abel Ferrara is. But let him fight the windmills, like Don Quixote.

Have you heard his comments at all? He says he hopes "these people die in Hell."

That's beautiful!

Do you relate to that passion?

No, because it's like theater thunder. It's like being backstage in the 19th century, with the machines that make thunder. It has nothing do with with his film. But let him rave and rant; it's good music in the background.

You did a remake before with Nosferatu, but —

It was not so much a remake as an homage to Murnau. But I don't feel like doing an homage to Abel Ferrara because I don't know what he did — I've never seen a film by him. I have no idea who he is. Is he Italian? Is he French? Who is he?

(/interview thing)

here's the trailer for the original movie that just happens to have been reissued on dvd recently.



wait a second... you don't think that abel ferrara might have something to gain by stirring the pot and reminding people that the new herzog thing, while not a remake/sequel/reimagining in almost every possible sense of the word(s), has roots in his not exactly wildly popluar or well known film do you...

oh yeah, the poster at the top of the post is from a contest that aint it cool news was sponsoring. swing over there to check out some other cool looks.

So I know this news is old news from, but seriously Sasha Grey just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and it's fuckin rad.

She recently wrote for Newsweek about political sex scandals,

"Instead of making a 21st-century apology, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford decided to take it “old school,” comparing his extramarital affairs to that of King David. Why not just say you find Pinocchio’s story interesting? Or, let’s see—Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, John Ensign would have also worked! That would have been a surprising admission in an age where extramarital affairs no longer seem to grab our attention. Americans act so shocked when they hear about politicians, celebrities, and athletes having affairs, but I have to believe that many women who are married to men with power are aware of affairs, and accept it. Don’t ask, don’t tell; as long as they receive something in exchange from their husband—whether that exchange be children, money, material items, or sex. We create our own morals. It’s once the affair goes public that morals change. The wife feels shame and humiliation because of public awareness, yet felt no desire to speak out prior. She allowed this affair to go on, or allowed herself to stay in the relationship. She probably was more ashamed that her husband was such a moron, and thought he could get away with flying to Argentina on a commercial flight and claim he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. We live in one of the most liberated countries in the world, yet we are still conflicted with Bible Belt-infused guilt. Consensual sexual preferences shouldn’t govern our politics, media, or way of life. Ideally, we should all openly have something extra on the side."

I love these..erm... production shots, where a bunch of ladies are listening intently, so that they can do their jobs correctly, a very mundane type of subject to photograph, but it's still in this hypersexual setting, so it always just comes out looking just a bit adorably absurd.

So I know that there is a big complaint out there about people making flickr accounts so they can parade their narcissism all over the interwebz, but sometimes it turns into really beautiful things... for example Black Knickers UK

Chris love christmas

the picklesdickles edan echo party love train continues on its regularly scheduled, uh... schedule.

now that she's being honest with people, i can finally have a shred of respect for the woman. way to go oprah for really grilling fmr governor palin.

star trek scenes as artsy fart paintings!?

awww man. if only i hadn't bought so many criterion dvds...

you kind of have to balance out the stupid with the smart, and after that flairs video, i have to reach very deep into the bag of nerd tricks and retrieve this specially fitted pair of smarty pants for all you eggheads out there. make sure your pocket protectors are in place, cause news that this exists is gonna be drool inducing.

vice did a cool 25 minute thing about the singularity a while back, but their embedding is all fucked up, so you gotta sit though a bunch of vodka and video game ads to check it out. i know right, how not-actually-that terrible.

so, the new(ish?) video from flairs, a band i've never heard of before today, is incredible. some guy made a comment somewhere thinks it might be "a little heavy on the rape side," and while i'm not disinclined to agree (double negative says whutt?), so was oscar winning film boys don't cry.

thanks to mcrezin for the tip off.

so, we're sitting here in our apartment and we realized we need some picklesdickles merch. that's the whole point of having a blog, right? so you can make weird crap emblazoned with the weird name of the weird place where like 8 people see your weird crap.

we have a few ideas we're kicking around, but we're setting up a design competition. like most things pertaining to this site, this whole thing is not only half-assed, but also (also) half-cocked. i would love to offer something extravagant as a prize, but as it stands, i think what we decide to be the best, and the worst, will be made into shirts/mugs/thongs/whatever other crap we end up making. also, we will buy you a hotdog. and a doughnut.

you following this? if you want us to make your design into something tangible, either make us cry tears of joy over your fine drawings/photoshoppery/photographyery, or send us an entry that makes us absolutely regret dreaming this contest up.

we finally set up our very own email address to field something like this, so send all of your entries (jpegs/tiffs/psds/whatevers) to:

picklesdickles [at] geeeeeeeeemail [dot] commmmmmmmmmmmmmm

once we have enough to actually make an interesting horse race, we'll get this thing going.

EDIT: the above shirt is stupid and not associated with this site in any way. ours will be a hundred billion times better.

just saying, criterion dvds are half off over at barnes and noble until... they're not?

i scored the above image from the auteur's fake criterion thread which is loaded with crazy graphical design nerds posting up some sweet movie boners.

not that the man show was the citizen kane of comedy or anything, but i love how the "pure objectivity" of wikipedia can totally deflate the humor of whatever you want to throw at it.

"Frequent parody of NBA star Karl Malone performed by Kimmel, who was made up to appear black, muscular, and bearded, as well as shot from below to appear taller. Kimmel's character gave the impression that he was mentally retarded and frequently spoke in the third-person."

and what the fuck people, here's some loverly ladies bouncin on them trampoleens...



cause it's wednesday i guess... or whatever and stuff...

there are some things that exist in the world that just knowing they exist makes the world a better place. wfmu, "Where Downtown Art Skronk and Appalachian Meat Murder Ballads Acquire Brill Building Panache," is one such thing.

other than (maybe) three other people in my circle of friends, i have yet to meet anyone else who's totally down with this radio station as much as i am, so i'm not gonna put a hard sell on anyone other than to say that for the next 24 hours (starting tonight at 7pm) they're looking for donations to help fund some crazy big expansion stuff they've had in the works for a while.

please please please swing over to their site and roll through the archives etc for the avant-nerdy goodness. i got hooked through the incredible blog they run and the stunt-radio of seven second delay, and just kept going from there. toes will be curled and hair will be blown back by the sheer tonnage of awesome they're able to churn out.

***also, nobody beats these guys by way of insanely cool marathon premiums. hit up tom scharplings the best show for a shirt drawn special by the one and only michael kupperman of snake n bacon and tales to thrizzle fame.

downtown soulville with mr. fine wine, marty mcsorley, sound and safe with trent, nickle and dime radio with $mall ¢hange... check it out and get back to me.



how can you see a radio station with a show titled "inflatable squirrel carcass" and not think to yourself "i need to support this."

a friend turned me on to doug benson's i love movies podcast.

here's the pitch: doug gets absurdly stoned (he being the guy behind super high me) with dozens of people who are professionally funny, and then they all talk about movies for a half an hour. david cross, patton oswalt, paul scheer, sarah silverman, bob odenkirk, paul f. tompkins, the guy from mtv's singled out...

what are you waiting for? this shit is freeeeeeeeeee!

when paul f. tompkins and sean cullen launch into joe jackson, i fist punched the air. there are good things in this world, and then there are GOOD THINGS! make the right choice people. partake of the comic wonder.

Some dood on ok cupid sent me a message and the only thing it contained was a link to this vid.



Yes, Master_Nauplius, this is exactly want gets you into my pants.

the story of dock ellis is one of the greatest in baseball as far as i'm concerned. throwing a no-hitter = way to go! throwing a no-hitter while tripping your face off = HOLY SHIT!!

the dudes over at no mas who put this on have always been pretty interesting to this non-sports fan. their design work really hits on the narratives underlying the sports history they highlight. of course, the shirt i'm jonesing for is the bobby fischer one, cause i'm a HUGE nerd. also, i'm way too poor to drop a hundo on the ali bathrobe.



and big ups to james blagdon who rocked the art for the above video. i found out about dide through a cool story about the history of recreational drugs and sports that he illustrated for frank 151 a ways back.

And my space heater ist kaput...

hey! look! it's what the monopoly movie's gonna be about! thanks ain't it cool news for letting me know that a terrible idea in theory is going to be one in execution too!

"I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they're playing the game and there’s this big fight. And he’s holding a Chance card and after they’ve left he says, ‘Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card,’ and he throws it down. He falls asleep and then he wakes up in the morning and he’s holding the Chance card, and he thinks, ‘That’s odd.’"

"He’s all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He’s confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, ‘That’s OK.’ And she gives him change in Monopoly money. He walks outside and he’s in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he’s just come out of a Chance Shop. As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monopoly. He has to defeat them. It tries to incorporate all the iconic imageries -- a sports car pulls up, there's someone on a horse, someone pushing a wheelbarrow -- and rich Uncle Pennybags, you're going to see him as the maître d' at the restaurant and he's the buggy driver and the local eccentric and the doorman at the opera. There's all these sight gags."

further evidence that holly wood is < self-satisfied chuckle > BANKRUPT!

i'd been meaning to watch man bites dog for a long time now, and finally got around to it. i didn;t know much about the premise other than "black comedy in which a documentary crew follows serial killer" which had me hooked. the movie ended up being really great and it's a huge bummer that it seems to be the beginning and end of these guys film career.

criterion put out the dvd, which means copious amounts of extra features, one of which was their fantastic short film that really shows the breadth of range they were capable of. it's a real shame that in this painfully short little blog post i'm able to present the entirety of a group of promising artists' career, but i guess that's how it goes.



according to imdb, "a 'c4' is a document in belgium which you receive from your employer to end your contract, for example after you were fired. (the common term "getting a c4" is synonymous with being fired.) you need this document to apply for unemployment benefits."

edan. edan. edan. been waiting on a new album form this guy for a while now, and the one he's cobbled together/produced/performed on sounds like it's loaded with potential.



the lowdown from stones throw: "Edan was given access to the Traffic Ent. Group's back catalog of old school rap - labels like Magic Records, Chocolate Star, P&P among others - and asked to create something new out of it, whatever he wanted. What began as a simple mixtape, two years later turned into a 30-min record of dance, rap and punk, utilizing everything from turntables, tape echo, guitar, moog and maybe even kazoos."



as an added bonus, the first (only?) 1000 lps come with a unique hand made cover from edan himself (see above examples). head over to stones throw for the goods.

if you need any further convincing, head over to nickle and dime radio with $mall ¢hange, where edan played the whole thing. try before you buy i say. the timing is a bit off, so rewind a ways from where it's marked, or listen to the whole show from front to back cause it's awesome through and through, not just the edan bit.

don't forget, this is the guy who can lecture/mc about hip-hop history while cutting his own records! i advocate copping the lp 'fore they're all gone.

This is what we look like.

as anyone who regularly reads the pickles dickles knows, i've ridden extra hard for the most recent dirty projectors album bitte orca. definitely in my top 5 albums of the year, hands down.

well, today the pfork posted up this really great soul-dripping cover of the first single form the DP album by beyonce's little sister solange, who has apparently snipped off her long locks and is trying out some lady gaga sort of style revamp since the above picture was snapped.

solange: stillness is the move


i really dig it. the vocals are pretty on point with the ones from the original (below) but the subtle production tweaks flesh it out for the slight genre shift.

the new flaming lips video reminds me of the ryan mcginley gobbledigook video from a year ago. if NME were to step up their embed code game, i would be able to do more than link to it, but c'est la vie.



between this and the girls video i posted below, is getting naked and acting the fool with your good buddies gonna be the new hip thing? holler at me, peoples cause i'm always down for some naked bike riding in the woods.

and just for good measure, here's a video from just a little while back.


The Flaming Lips "I Can Be A Frog"

The Flaming Lips | MySpace Video

i've been listening to the band girls a lot lately. they have a really great video for their song lust for life (directed by these dudes), which i was originally hoping to be an iggy cover, but instead got something way more awesome.

i think we can all agree that the super awesome fully nekkid version is of course quadruple times more perfect.

i watched this way cool documentary the other day and now my list of "movies i NEED to watch" has tripled, with the man from hong kong sitting pretty at the very top of my list. highly recommended.



if anyone knows how to score a viewing of this (fuck a torrent) for less than the almost two hundo that the vhs is going for on amazon, i'll gladly buy the beer.

something about vintage porn mag titles and typefaces makes me very very happy.

hit up amazon for a FREE philip glass sampler from orange mountain music. lots of good stuff on there, mostly from his film scoring work. beautiful work on candyman, PG.

and if this is your sort of thing, definitely check out the somewhat recent documentary on the man:



and i haven't forgotten that this is sesame street week across the nation. been loving those awesome google logos.

happy friday everyone!

i stumbled upon this via dj ayres over at the ttlab blog, and it's blinding brilliance demanded a posting over here. dj numark, who you'll know from jurassic 5, simultaneously showing and proving.

dj numark live set at the do over


true story: i sat near dude while he ate a salad before a j5 show in charlotte one time.

no idea why, but i'm totally feelin a double feature of gangsta rap mockumentaries tonight. fear of a black hat, followed up with cb4. might get a sack of biscuits to make it all official like.

having been pretty underwhelmed by tideland, i've bene holding off on this whole dr. parnassus thing, but having seen the trailer, i'm really looking forward to checking this thing out. it's dripping some epic baron munchausen vibes, in a really really good way.

did i miss yet another awesome t-shirt design from tee-fury?

halloween's over for '09, but extremely bad movies live forever. there's a new documentary coming out about troll 2 titled best worst movie, and i'm gonna do my best to get it here for a screening or something. not every bad movie can be as ridiculously bad as this (IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT TROLLS!!!) and have an interesting back-story behind it.

Best Worst Movie Trailer from Best Worst Movie on Vimeo.

manos: the hands of fate comes close and even has a mildly intriguing behind-the-scenes narrative, but without the MST3K running commentary it's excruciatingly painful to watch, unlike troll 2 which i will only slightly ironically ride for till the day i die.

Star Wars: Uncut Trailer from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

what an astoundingly perfect application of crowdsourced content. can't wait to see how this star wars: uncut thing looks once it's all wrapped up.

for most people the morning after halloween is the perfect time to shower away all the fake blood clotting in your hair, sleep off a hangover and watch donnie darko. for me i had to watch it at the video rental spot cause no one reminded me about daylight savings time (thanks a lot, people i thought were my friends) and i suddenly had an hour to kill before the 10:30am staff meeting(!?).

the worst part was that during the walking into school scene the damn disc skipped.

and yeah, i posted this a few months ago, but it's borked for whatever reason and it's still awesome. so there.