Q: We Are The Physics? A: No.

Boy I sure love the band We Are The Physics.  Their debut “We Are The Physics Are OK at Music” gets alot of play around here, much to the delight of my wife and childrens.

One time, one summer, they were getting rid of shirts for post price only and I sent them Two Dollars and they sent one and it never got here.  Then they were all like, “sorry.”  Then after the eighteenth email, they stopped taking my calls.

Cut to today (that’s right, I’m Joe Hollywood so I can talk like that), they get these great new shirts in stock that they will only be selling at shows.  Shows that will not be in the greater NY area because apparantly they can travel to Russia like they’re rich and fancy but cannot grace teh America with their brand of Atomic Age New Wave leaving Man or Astroman? to maintain their monopoly now that they killed Servotron with their bear hands.

Now I love shirts only available at performances on account of them being rare and more important, but I was unable to be a big enough person not to blog the shit out of this shirt shit.  But fact is, if you want something done poorly, you have to do it yourself.

And so I did.  I did something else…myself.

Physics? NO!

Physics? NO!

ALSO AVAILABLE IN BLACK!

PHYSICS? NO, DAMMIT!!!!!

Swanson Uniform Shirt

This will be no fun at all.  From last night’s Parks & Recreation

Swanson Uniform Shirt

ARE YOU TOUGH AS NAILS?

Would you rather sleep on a bed of pine needles than a mattress? Do you find video games pointless, and shopping malls stupid? Do you march to the beat of your own drummer? Did you make the drum yourself?

If so, you might just have what it takes to be a Swanson; Pawnee’s most hardcore outdoor club starts today. Boys and girls welcome.

Swanson

Available here at the LOL shop.

Additionally, I currently offer some other TV/Film parody shirts in the Entertainment Parody Category.   My Jaleeb Caru is Dead Category features a bunch of shirts that range from the silly to the absurd.

New Breaking Bad Shirt: Bee Barrel

Another new one that I put off because I thought someone did it already.

S4E10: Salud (Barrel of Bees Shirt)

When being tested by the Cartel, Jessie’s steps up the tough guy and continues to prove that he’s truly comfortable with who he is, “the bad guy.”  When challenged to make a portion of the “cook” that’s usually already there Jesse confides in Gustavo saying, “Look, I get my phenylacetic acid from the barrel with the bee on it. That’s how I do it.”  He then makes the Cartel chemists do it for him after calling them “asshole.”

Can Of Bees

Available here at the LOL shop.

Additionally, I currently offer some other TV/Film parody shirts in the Entertainment Parody Category.   My Jaleeb Caru is Dead Category features a bunch of shirts that range from the silly to the absurd.

New Breaking Bad Shirt: Box Cutter!!!!

Here’s a new shirt that I like to call “Big Gus, What’s the Fuss?” after a non-horror Troma Movie.

S4E1: Box Cutter (Gustavo Fring Utility Knife)
Available in both Light and Dark Shirt Colors.

Box Cutter Artwork

I think I’m mostly proud of the utility knife artwork that was composed by Jerome G., artist to the stars.

Box Cutter Light

Must love Gustavo.  A tremendous character and while the peaceful, quiet and kind smart guy who’s also a badass Baracus isn’t new, rarely is he so well written and acted.

Spoiler Alert?

Additionally, I currently offer some other TV/Film parody shirts in the…wait for iiiiittttt……Entertainment Parody Category.   My Jaleeb Caru is Dead Category features a bunch of shirts that range from the silly to the absurd.

Me thinks I’ve just been dumped via text!!!

Not sure who it is though.  It’s certainly not my wife, she adores me.

Today I received some messages from a number I don’t know, these are their words…

3:02 – “the fact that u can throw this whole thing out the window repeatedly is backseat [sic] is something”

3:05 – “pls ignore message…not important…have a nice life”

3:23 – “sorry bout that…those previous messages were unnecessary…this cannot be repaired…it is tossed aside to [sic] easily…time to move on for good..”

MY REPLY: 3:52 – “FINE THEN!!!  See if I care, I’ll tell the world about u still being a nasty ass bed-wetter and how I did your dad that day when you was ballin’ anyways.  C’est la vie, ya prick!”

Making friends IS easy!

2002 Ween Pizza Hut Jingles

So, most of you clever and worldly JCiD readers probably know about this but I was thinking about it today and laughing out loud. Basically, Pizza Hut had some agency attempting to come up with hip ads for the pizza they made with all the cheese in the crust (WTHF?). Anyway, they tried to be cool and hired Ween.

So Dean Ween and Jean Ween created a total of six after repeated rejections. I believe this was their 5th…

Dean and Jean Ween being Mean?

[Sorry, I have to put a "new window" link for copyright stuffs]

Where’d the Cheese Go?

Then on the final submission (and I’m not 100% sure this is true, but I’m not the effing news) they submitted this one…

Where’d The Cheese Go? Rev6 (NSFW)

8 years later and it still makes me crack up.

VIDEO: 1911 Fire via 1962 La Jette and 2010 Alice Donut

I’ve been obsessed with the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire since I was about 14 (23 years ago) and I’ve always wanted to make an experimental film about it. In college I was going to but I opted for something far less meaningful as I couldn’t and still can’t tackle any serious subject matter in any medium including talking.

I’ve seen Chris Marker’s French post-nuclear war, La Jetée tons of times. It is made (almost) entirely of static still images using almost all hard cuts with a few dissolves and voice overs in French with some muttering in German. In the last week I watched it seven times in two sessions (it’s only a half hour, but still, I was obsessing on it and thinking about it alot). I’ve been watching it lately on IFC in “HD” but it’s viewable on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvTYd4XnEc.

I’ve been wanting to make a video for Cavalry from Alice Donut’s 10 Glorious Animals since the great album first came out. I was initially going to use footage from Medic (a 1954 NBC show starring Richard Boone) but found the footage to not fit my vision. Also, it would have taken a long time and I don’t have the luxury of doing videos that take long to create for fun. So I gave up on it.

Yesterday, I decided to combine the three in a historically partially accurate story of the Fire, in an imperfect homage to La Jette set to the somewhat relevant tune.

After hour and hour of hard labor, this is what came out.

This is not an officially sanctioned Alice Donut video and I own no rights to it, though the photos are public domain. The song is actually called Cavalry, but I thought a French title slate was necessary as the parody was unclear due to the quality of the photos, the quality of the edit and the lack of narration.

blur Racing: Power-up Shirts

So the game blur comes out tomorrow (5/25/10) on the PS3, XBOX 360 and PC. Having played the beta a decent amount, I can say that it is a very fun racing game that covers alot of the stuff that makes arcade racing fun rather than frustrating.

However, it does allow enough customization and require enough skill to make it worth playing over and over. Therefor, everyone should play it and beat me at it (as I know you will). Like Mario Kart, it uses power-ups for fun and fighting.

Now available in the Entertainment / Parody section of my shop. I’ve got some shirts sporting the power-ups.

blur: Power-up Shirts

Here’s a closer shot of the Nitro Power-up T. You can customize the color of the shirt, but I’m not sure how great that would turn out. I’ll make the Shield and Bolt if there’s any interest.

NITRO

I know I’m all over the Shunt because that’s the only one I know how to use. I stink.

Euro Oval Stickers & The Decline of Civilization

WTHF?

Back in ’69 most European license plates looked the same.  So in an effort to distinguish it was required that you apply a sticker with your country code of origin.

Legit Ovals

Later it became cool to put stickers of places your ancestors are from that you’ve never been to because many could only identify with their heritage as they lacked any personality of note.

Identity Ovals

Then it was quiet and suddenly, out of the silence came a shitload of stupid novelty oval stickers that were basically the equivalent of Calvin peeing on something only less funny and more low brow than a “no fat chicks” sticker (which lacks the subtlety of the “free mustache rides t-shirt).  Many even had pictures, can you believe it?  Even worse, plenty were showcasing agendas.

Absurd Ovals

Today, we’ve risen above the bad taste and simply have stickers that are so personalized that they’re unidentifyable.  Is that a football team, a tv show or an internet meme that’s over my head?

WTHF Ovals

Oh it’s your alma mater? Well sir, they owe you an education because you are clearly a dipshit!

98% of Facebook Users Don’t Want to be at Work Today

This shocking information comes via a recent study by the statistic minded, statistic gatherers and compilers of the top secret organization known as the CENSUS BUREAU (yes, like the furniture, I didn’t believe it either until I found they have a website proving they’re a legitimate organization).

Unlike the image that we all share of happy workers, working hard today like the ones below in the multiculturally diverse, business looking stock photo; FaceBook users are actually more likely to be wearing a frown than an unnatural smile and breakaway Dockers while standing in a triangular flight formation.

THIS IMAGE IS A LIE!

The remaining 2% of FaceBook users may or may not be happy to be working today.  It’s difficult to tell as they are currently posting the food they are, or plan on eating, the bowel movement they recently parted with, the Cuban gangster they just killed or something political that they cut and pasted from a junk email from their cousin’s idiot girlfriend who they pretend to like.

An inside source, Susie “Lolcat” Lewis who wishes to remain unanimous “friended” a Census employee named Margaret Hughes and was surprised to discover that even her “friend” was occasionally unhappy to be at work today.  However, since Margaret Hughes (the data entry clerk on the fourth floor and who consumes a Cathy mug of cheap bourbon three times a working day) continuously rejects our friend request; we have yet to confirm this allegation.

Further studies suggest that even some non-FaceBook users are unhappy to be at work today. However, this could not be confirmed as they had no way of communicating this information with that kid from grammar school that they never spoke to because she smelled like cheeses, or anyone for that matter, as most businesses have now adopted the “No Sharpies in the Bathroom Stall” policy engineered by Sony.

Businesses around the globe struggle to find the source of this problem that has grown exponentially at almost the exact same rate as the popularity of social networking, yet they have made no progress today.  However according to most business leaders’s status updates, they have made great progress in getting new animals in their farm.

A side study also discovered that 100% of all white people thought the person in the front of the above photo was “that boss lady from Law & Order; the good one, not the overrated one for perverts to get their jollies to.”

The writer of this article wishes to remain anonymous as any of his FaceBook friends would be well aware of the fact that he didn’t feel like being at work on the day he wrote this article, which coincidentally was today.  Also, this article sounded funnier in his head when he couldn’t sleep last night and now he thinks The Onion probably did it three years ago with better grammar and  funny.

Another 2 Left 4 Dead 2 Shirts: Roller Coaster and Face Mask Warning

The game Left for Dead 2 is just ripe with content so I’ve been forced by the powers that force me to make some more L4D2 stuffs.

Now available in the Entertainment / Parody section of my shop. I’ve got another warning sign and the logo, retro style, for the greatest roller coaster in the universes; Dark Carnival’s The Screaming Oak.

Face Masks Save Lives Left 4 Dead 2 Signage Shirt

Roller Coasters Save Lives Left 4 Dead 2 Signage Shirt

More to come.  This game bleeds goodness.

A New Left 4 Dead 2 Inspired T Shirt To Help Prepare for 11/22/09!

After playing the AMAZING demo for the sequel to Left 4 Dead (one of the finest games I’ve ever played from one of the greatest gaming companies around, VALVe) I had no choice but to drum this one up. It’s one of MANY great signs and touches that really give the game an immersive, yet cinematic feel.  Now available in the Entertainment / Parody section of my shop.

Clean Hands Save Lives Left 4 Dead 2 Signage ShirtClean Hands Save Lives Left 4 Dead 2 Signage Shirt

I’m currently working on two other homage shirts that I plan to complete prior to the launch of the game and I have quite a few ideas for future ones. The world they’ve created just has so much to it that there’s an endless supply of fun shirt ideas.

New House M.D.’s Rehab Facility Shirt

In anticipation of the upcoming and awesome looking new season of House M.D. (medical doctor in laymen’s terms), I’ve whipped up a shirt with the front door sign from where he’ll be spending time terrorizing everyone as he detoxes from over 5 seasons of pain killer abuse.   Should be a laugh riot.

The T-Shirt – Available in My Shop in the Entertainment Parody Section

House Asylum Shirt

The Original from the new Extended Teaser

House Asylum Original

“Our favorite cantankerous, cane wielding, pill popping, super-fancy diagnostician has landed himself in rehab at the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. Celebrate his attempt at sobriety or express your sympathy for the staff with their entrance sign on your body.”

My Top 5 Favorite De Niro Quotes

1. Mean Streets – “…yeah. No. No, Joey Scallops is Joey Clams.  He’s the one with testicles for hands.”

2. Taxi Driver – “I think someone should just take this city and just… just flush it down the fuckin’ toilet; meat-a-ball testicles and all.”

3. The Deer Hunter – “Hey, watch out, Axel. We’ll be calling him old fireballs after tonight on account of his sexy testicles and how they burn the tongue.”

4. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – “I keep my promises.  They’re right here with my testicles.  This way they stay warm”

5. Meet the Parents – “I have nipples on my testicles, Greg, could you milk them?”

Check out my luv/hat tattooed testicles!

Honorable mention: As Louis Cyphre (don’t wanna spoil the movie, but get it?) in Angel Heart, De Niro slowly peels and eats testicles in an attempt to disturb and whet the appetite of Mickey Rourke’s Harry Angel.

If I were a Doctor…

I would probably wear my stethoscope everywhere, just so people knew I was legit. I’d likely even wear it when I had to go to the doctor, just to let him know I’m a patient AND a peer and that he could shove his diploma up his ass.

However, if in a restaurant and faced with a chocking victim I would merely point at the “save a chocking fucker” sign. Everything everyone needs to know is neatly illustrated by the same people who bring you Airplane Emergency Fucker trifold, laminated pamphlets.

After all, I’m a doctor and I don’t have time for this bullshit!

New Breaking Bad Shirts

Here are a few parody shirts I made based on the wonderful AMC television show Breaking Bad.  If you are interested in purchasing them please click the name of the shirt or the image and you will be directed to the Entertainment Parody product page on my shop.

Heisenberg

Get Your's Today!

Influenced by the “pseudonym” of overqualified chemistry teacher, crystal meth manufacturer and current lung cancer / gang bang survivor Walter Hartwell White (played by Bryan Cranston) in the AMC series Breaking Bad, the legend of Heisenberg strikes fear into the hearts of many manly men.

Better Call Saul

Get Yours Today!

Saul Goodman as seen in Breaking Bad on AMC (and played by Bob Odenkirk) is quite possibly the world’s greatest attorney of all time. Though his real name is McGill, he uses another name to sound more Jewish because, you know, “it’s all good man.”

Additionally, I currently offer shirts based on Heroes, Castle, Jaws and The Watchmen in the Entertainment Parody Category.   My Jaleeb Caru is Dead Category features a bunch of shirts that range from the silly to the absurd.


Seeking Refreshing Treats? Try This!

On a hot summer day, nothing cools you down like a delicious motorsicle. Blue is my favorite and I don’t even care if my lips look like a dead guy for a few days after (I don’t wash much).

Mmmmm....Mmmmmm....Motorsicle goes VROOOM!

But don’t be like Jaleeb Caru kids; eat it fast before it melts all over your Sunday dress or you’ll be sorry!

BTW, that ding dong in the Iced Cream truck from last week didn’t have any left (well, he had a few red ones but they taste like shit).