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oh my god, I AM OLD

whitney — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:00:42 +0000

remember the nirvana baby? here he is, all growed up, with a big boy penis:

via buzzfeed

skee-lo

whitney — Sun, 02 May 2010 05:32:29 +0000

an old friend from 1995:

we are the world—they are japan

whitney — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:36:08 +0000

this was filmed in the bizarro parallel world where i killed myself at age 5:

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: japan, you are so fucked up sometimes.

i can make your bedrock

whitney — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:12:54 +0000

let’s forget for a second all the absurdities and impossibilities of New Money’s single “Bed Rock” (seriously, call you mr. flinstone in bed? pussy on your sideburns, for real? fly away as red bulls how??) but despite myself i love this song and have been known to make my car rock with it.

go on, turn it up. you’re wearing headphones anyway.

new music from MGMT!

whitney — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:41:43 +0000

somebody done leaked MGMT’s sophomore album, Congratulations, all over the internet weeks before its April 13 release, and to show they’re good sports, MGMT has now made the album available for streaming on their website. But great sports with brains would have just made it available for download.

new lady gaga video!

whitney — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:53:11 +0000

“Telephone” featuring Beyoncé off the album The Fame Monster.

the costuming is phenomenal but on the whole i think the video comes off as a hokey cross between Thelma and Louise, any Tarantino film and a commercial break. the video is driven almost entirely by product placements, featuring everything from chanel to coke to plentyoffish.com (??!) to polaroid to mayonnaise (???!!!), and that’s only a fraction of them. and when i don’t feel like it’s trying to sell me something, i feel like it’s just trying so hard to shock me. obviously lady gaga built her career on shocking, but she’s more compelling as a vague concept than as a specific character.

Murder, She Podcasted

whitney — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:05:19 +0000

do not delay in checking out the hot new episode on Murder, She Podcasted. like murder? like angela lansbury? like music? then you will love Episode 91, “The Sins of Cabot Cove.”

be sure to check out all the other episodes too. each podcast corresponds to a different episode of the 80s show Murder, She Wrote and the playlists are so beautifully curated. it’s what we at action potential are writing the Great American Blog to!

tik tok and star wars: together at last

whitney — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:32:59 +0000

from the second i heard the autotune in ke$ha’s pop hit, i knew it was just a matter of time til it was set to the obligatory star wars theme.

just KNEW it.

via thedailywhat

little lady gaga

whitney — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:37:50 +0000

in brazil, this 8-year-old kid actually exists. what’s scarier is the existence of her parents who encourage her to wear black lipstick and dance and sing poorly to lady gaga’s songs about debilitating obsessions. at one point, the parents must have even suggested that the kid crawl sexily around on the floor. very classy.

at the same time, i love a world where this kid exists, so long as she remains in another hemisphere.

via thedailywhat

“we only smash stuff outside.”

whitney — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:12:31 +0000

ahh, the immortal words of a snot-nosed hipster on the wrong side of the law. there is very little funnier than watching vapid hipsters try to sound not-stupid in a courtroom. it’s like watching a walrus try to drive a car, only funnier. here, kate levitt of teeth mountain and jonathan coward of shams battle it out over three smashed broken tvs and a dead cat, a casualty supposedly quickly buried in a shoe box by a drunk levitt. witness the judicial system at work while shedding a tear for our future.

in all of this, i have to wonder, is this is a prank, some brilliant publicity stunt, a rip on the modern justice system, a rip on daytime television masquerading as the modern justice system?? because if it is i wholeheartedly love these people now. the world just got a lot brighter since entertaining the idea that maybe these dumb kids aren’t so dumb after all.