Posts tagged awesome
Guest Blogger: Batman O’Nizzle
Aug 8th
Hi kids,
Batman here.
This morning, I went out for breakfast with the Blondetourage and drank lots and lots of coffee out of a sweet little cup.
I did not steal this cup.
I did not steal this cup.
I did not steal this cup.
Batman doesn’t steal restaurant china. Only hearts.
Post-caffeination, I met up with my friend Superman in the children’s clothing section at a Zellers in Collingwood.
It was Sunday and we didn’t feel like fighting crime, so we hit up Wakestock with some of our hot friends instead.
Little did I know that I’d meet a FRICKIN’ SHARK backstage.
I ate his gummy FACE OFF and it was DELICIOUS. Ha.
Batman = 1. Gummy Shark = 0.
I watched some sweet bands play on the mainstage, too…
Then I met a cute dog and took a picture with it – obvs.
I saw lots of great dogs, actually… and a snail too. WITH A SHELL.
But I’ll write more about that a different day.
Batman’s got to be at work for 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning – chilling at the Daily Planet with my boy Clark.
You know how I roll.
Love Always…
cows and cows and cows and CYRIAK HARRIS.
Aug 4th
Don’t watch this if you’re high. Seriously. A lot of kids freaked out on me after I posted this on Facebook.
Woah…Cyriak Harris just blew your FRICKING MIND!!!
I had to wiki this dude after stumbling upon his website. His awesome, awesome website. According to interweb authoritahs, Harris is a freelance animator guy from England known for his surreal short web animations.
“Cyriak displays a surreal and often disturbing animation style with a distinct British theme. Many of his animations are based on Z-List celebrities, television shows and his hometown of Brighton.”
Remind me never to go to Brighton… issss what I would say if I were a square, like yer MAHM (ayoooooh!).
If Brighton is anything like this, I’m going RIGHT MEOW and I’ll live there forever and ever amen like a character in some unfortunate hippy’s epic neverending acid trip.
meweirdyoulongtime.
Oooh oooooh – and guess who has the best freaky animated gif section on his website like, ever? It’s totally CYRIAK.
Allow me to share a few of my favourites – because blondespaz insomniacs shouldn’t have all the fun.
(warning: if you HAVE been smoking the drugs, you should probably navigate away from the page at this point, lest you trip the fachk out and make me feel bad for ruining your happy.)
How’s that for the morning awesome?
One more. This one’s even better than cows and cows and cows.
<3
How to trick people into thinking you’re good looking
Jul 19th
Dear Jenna Mourey,
I love you. Like, I love you – in the creepiest, most fan-girl obsessity way possible. This video rocked my Dollarama hallowe’en socks:
Never change.
Love,
Lauren O’Nizzle – a girl who sometimes tries to trick people into thinking she’s kind of good looking
Everything is (SO NOT) terrible
Jul 16th
I don’t know how to begin describing what I saw at the Drake Underground Monday night.
I seriously can’t think of an appropriate adjective.
“Weird” is too tame. “Awesome” is too lame. “Hilarious” is thrown around way too loosely in my everyday vocabulary to be used on something that literally made my face ache from laughing so hard for two hours straight. My cheeks are quivering just thinking about it.
I’m sure there’s a word somewhere within the English language to describe Everything is Terrible’s Quest for the Magick Crystal Tour… If not in English, then surely in Mandarin, and if not Mandarin, then SURELY in Newspeak. “doubleplusgood“, perhaps?
Whatever the most appropriate adjective is, it should most definitely be used with an emphatic “fucking” in front of it.
As promised, EIT’s new film (2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift) pretty much melted my face off just like everything else on their genius flucking website.
If you like post-postmodernist psychadellic pseudo-vintage pop culture remixes, or are a hypersatirical millenial neo-nerd who tries to use schmancy terms in big run-on sentences like me *BREATH*, you’ll love this film.
Also, if you have eyeballs you’ll love this film.
If you didn’t already know, Everything is Terrible = Seven internet monsters who scour the seven seas (but like, on land) for old VHS tapes with so-weird-it’s-pee-your-pants-hilarious stuff on them that isn’t actually supposed to be hilarious but IS hilarious – know what I mean?
Stuff like Educational Christian videos, Cat massage tutorials from the 80s, and the creepiest/BEST yoga workout video for children in the history of yoga, workout videos and children:
EIT takes said VHS tapes, digitize them and puts them online for you to watch at work while you’re supposed to be doing something less awesome.
THEN, they take these fabulous clips and re-mix them into insanely entertaining feature-length films like the one I saw on Monday night during their show at The Drake.
I think I fell legitimately in love with these monsters after seeing them do their thing in person – and by “do their thing” i mean dance around the room, make witty quips in funny voices and teach the audience about shade tippage.
Did I mention that they’re monsters from the internet? Monsters. From THE INTERNET.
(image by Ashley Macknica)
*sigh*
I used to think I was quirky and unique for loving weird shit like this. Not to sound like a hipster who gets all pissy when their favourite obscure underground band starts to get popular but like… well you know where I’m going with this.
To fetch my dinner from the microwave, that’s where – ’cause that little black tray of sodium saturated goodness certainly isn’t going to walk into my belly on its own, now is it?
yup.
Love always,
Lauren O’Gilgamesh.
The internet – making life easier since… whenever you started using the internet.
Jul 11th
There are a lot of nifty, web-based apps out there. It feels like I’m stumbling upon some useful new productivity tool or genius website like, erreday.
For people who bounce around frequently between work stations, cloud computing is totally the way to go – you don’t use up any disk space, file sharing is a breeze, you can access your data from anywhere and for the most part, it’s totally free. and y’all know how much I love me some F to the R to the E – E – E -E – E!
I tend to fall in love with things and rave about them for days to anyone who will listen until the novelty wears off, and then I go back to not-so-quietly using them to make my life easier and/or more awesome. Instead of doing that this week, I thought I’d blog about my new crush.
A little bit of Sunday night procrastination just lead me to postica, which is basically like, teh interweb’s answer to post-it notes – electrified on crack. Crack being “my computer”, of course.
(image credit : mashable, obvs)
I used to have a desktop program like this called “Stickies” on my old blueberry iMac and I just loved it to pieces. My only beef with this version is that the note colours are a bit muted – I’m a brights girl, myself. I do, however, love the convenience of a web-based virtual sticky-note board. I can’t believe I didn’t think to Google this little baby sooner!
Annnd speaking of Google, post-it notes, and LOVE – look what else I just stumbled upon:
8-bit post-it art! *fangirl scream*
If this doesn’t scream Lauren O’Neil to you then you probably haven’t met me before. Hi, I’m Lauren.
(image and sweet shades courtesy of Michael Nus)
uh… bye.
Just tremulaaate, trick and let me see what you got!
Jun 6th
Meet the male red eyed Panamanian tree frogs.
These manfrogs are territorial. These manfrogs are brave. These manfrogs are lean, green, pimping MACHINES and they want every other amphibian in the jungle to know about it.
So they drop it like it’s hot and shake what they mommas gave ‘em.
Check out this National Geographic footage of some red-eyed tree frogs in the rainforest “asserting their dominance”.
Scientists call it “tremulation”, but awesomologists (like the cats at neatorama) call it ‘booty shaking’.
Apparently, this is how said male tree frogs claim their ‘calling area’ territory – the space where they spend the night calling for female mates.
So, basically, these frogs are shaking their butts to tell the other dudefrogs that “FECK OFF – this is MY spot to cruise for ladyfrogs.”
Ironic, isn’t it? The same behaviour that male frogs use to assert their dominance over the lily-pad is so very similar to the behaviour that female humans use to assert their dominance over da club.
Somtimes, this rump shaking leads to wrestling in male tree frogs…
and in female humans:
OHSNAP!
I’m a bit of a pacifist, myself. Booty shaking shouldn’t be an act of war – it should be an act of loooove – friendship! HILAITY!
At least Dipsy and Laa-laa know what’s up:
<3 always,
Po'Nizzle
Lauren O’Nizzle = Your MMVA BFF
May 21st
C’est vrai, madames et monsieurs!
Yours truly has been asked to join MuchMusic’s digital correspondent team for the period up to and including the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards. Yup. I’m an ‘MMVA VVIP‘ – and it’s blowing my gourd beyond words.
If I knew what the physical embodiment of “pure, unbridled excitement” was, I’d photoshop a picture of my head onto its body right now.
You know what? I’m just going to get creative hurr and take a stab at it anyways:
Seems about right.
So, I’m obviously more than a little bit stoked about this – and with good reason. If you’ve ever met me, you know how OBSESSED I am with Canadian entertainment, pop culture, music, celebrities, award shows and the pretty outfits that said celebrities wear to said award shows.
To be one of only 6 Canadian bloggers with the exclusive privilege of bringing fans all the MMVA deets they can handle is just, well… like I said earlier – straight up gourd blowing.
Okay, so blah blah blah… you probably want to know what all of this biznass means for YOU, right?
Welllll if you just so happen to be a frequent visitor of laurenoutloud.com, a friend of mine on facebook, a follower on Twitter, a subscriber to my youtube channel, or even just some random who happens to stumble upon one of my video chats or something, it means that you’ll be getting a sneak peak at all things MMVA 2010.
Your girl will be bringing you all of the MuchMusicity deets before your friends can read about them in the newspaper or on TV (Unless of course your friends read my blog too… in which case you’ll just be able to discuss the deliciousness before the rest of the population together. HA!)
I’m talkin’ scoop from the scene, nominee updates, tips for scoring yourself a wrist-band to get into the show and, most importantly, up-to-the minute performer announcements straight from the Horse’s mouth! (Horse = MMVA producers… you know what I mean.)
And speaking of CELEBRITAWESOMENESS, in case you haven’t been keeping up with the MMVA blog (for shaaaame), the following performers have already been confirmed:
- Justin Bieber (He of the magical super-coif, trillions of perma-screaming tween fans, and a brand-new tatty. Southern Ontario, represent!)
- Katy Perry (eeee! I’m most excited about this one. As you may recall, I’m a bit of a Mrs. Brand superfan)
- Miley Cyrus (hostess with the mostess / queen of my Saturday morning television line-up)
- Adam Lambert (fingers crossed that the notoriously scandalous Mr. Lambert will do something totally outrageous at this year’s MMVAs. I have a good feeling about this
If you can’t push the envelope in Canada, then where?) - Ke$ha (Good feeling about this one too. I mean, homegirl has thrown up in Paris Hilton’s closet and once snuck into Prince’s house. I predict she’ll put on an entertaining performance, at the very least.)
- Marianas Trench (The Vancouver boys have walked the MMVA red carpet in previous years rocking a giant submarine sandwich and an entire freaking marching band. Can they outdo themselves in 2010? We shall see…)
- Down with Webster (k, scratch my previous comment about being most excited for Katy Perry. I’m actually more excited about seeing these guys. I’m a huge fan – and not just because they’re hot and from Toronto. I just love their style. You can find me blaring DWW out the windows of my car on the regular.)
More, you say? MOARRRRR?
How’s this for an inside look at the 2010 MMVAs:
Two of the 6 VVIPS (TBA) will be bringing you backstage interviews with performers and celebs over the course of the night.
All of the tweets, pics, blogposts, tumbls, and vids will broadcast on MuchMusic.com in real-time digital stream – and some of it will even be featured within the Live TV broadcast.
Nbd. *gourd blows*
There will be about a gabillion cool MMVA-related things taking place over the next month, so stay tuned aight?
And oh! Check it: I’ll be hosting live streaming video chats every Sunday night up until the day of the show.
Wanna pick my brain, tell me your winner predictions or just shoot the shizz with me about much you love the Biebs? (I just had a 20 minute conversation with my brother and his friend about Justin’s hair and tattoo. Yes, we’re all in our 20’s and no, sadly, I am not making this up for comedic effect.)
The first of these livechats will take place Next Sunday, May the 30th right hurr at 9:00pm.
I may or may not be joined by a special guest (or two).
Now, I must off into the sunshine go… for it is a beautiful day out there and I’ll be darned if I’m going to waste it cruising the internet indoors. I can cruise the internet on my phone instead while I walk around and work on my tan.
Now watch this sick MMVA promo with Miley & a bunch of sweet colourful tubey things, and then go outside and play a little bit, k?
Use those legs to keep ‘em limber, I always say…
<3,
Justine O’Bieber
