After more than 30 years of civil war in Cambodia, a British artist teamed up with a small arms specialist to help deal with the thousands of weapons that were to be destroyed. The project they came up with, The Peace Art Project Cambodia, has been running since 2003 and focuses on turning the weapons into sculptures and furniture. Check out the pics here.
After one of my favorite regulars left Cracked, I went around looking for more content by that clown prince of crime, Wayne Gladstone. Lo, and I did find a thought-provoking article he did for The Morning News addressing "the question everyone wants to know, but nobody wants to ask: Why are Jews funny?" I must say, it's extremely well written. Anyone who is even mildly interested in the topic of American comedy should probably read this article.
And because you've come to expect more from me, have a parent directory filled with breakup songs. Because hey, you might need them someday.
I've been watching a lot of online comedy sketches, and I never get tired of these.
Also, I found Alestorm's newest album on Rapidshare (they're the Scottish Pirate Metal band, in case you forgot).
ALRIGHT! I just finished downloading about two hundred songs from these two directories, which boast over a dozen classical artists, including Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Schubert and my personal new favorite, Hector Berlioz (Or Georg Handel, if I'm feeling whimsical and pretentious). So that's the meat of the post; enjoy. In other news, STOVOKOR!
Stovokor is a death metal band with some righteous riffs. Their lead singer goes by the stage name of "plnluH HoD" (If you know where this is going, you should probably get out more). They sing exclusively in Klingon and refuse to make appearances out of costume. Yeah. If you like that, you may also enjoy the music of Alestorm, who are so awesome I can't even bring myself to write about them.
After a recent Cracked article, I decided to do some independent research and find some of the worst album covers I could. Luckily, the work was already done for me. FidTheKid over at RateYourMusic.com has a handy little collection of album covers that either try a little too hard, breach the understood limits of taste, or are just horrible in every conceivable way. Like, for example; I find the below to just be... bad. Just really, really bad.
And these next ones are confusing, but just ridiculous enough to work.
And these are just hilarious.
Okay, so I'd advise taking a look at TheOnlyThingToFearIsFearItself.Blogspot.com. It's an online compendium of YOUR irrational fears. You just send off a quick email and hey-hey, it's on the site. And the great thing is, it's been online all of a single day. So get cracking. You can get in on the ground floor of this new opportunity.
For those of you who enjoy reading about others' irrational fears a bit more, you could always try the site Unusual Phobias, which has a rather impressive listing. My favorite is probably the fear of being shot by a spider.
So I was watching Lethal Weapon, a movie that taught us, among other things, that you could shoot a car until it caught fire (if Gary Busey is driving, it just keeps going), white sneakers are a bold and dashing fashion accessory, and that you can just shake off a shotgun wound in seconds if you're wearing a vest. On the other end of the spectrum, it gave us such lines as "You're one psycho son of a bitch, but you're good," and the always appropriate "I'm too old for this shit". Anyway, I'm watching it and I see this fellow (the movie also teaches us that ethnic slurs are okay if the guy is evil).
I knew that I had seen him before, so I look him up. A cursory glance at his IMDb page reveals that he has been in dozens of films in the past thirty years. He's just one of those guys. However, there is a much deeper significance to his career. He's not just one of those guys, he's one of those guys that people (for some reason or another) just fall in love with. Hence the phenomenon of AlLeong.com. Seems to be a straightforward, if extensive, fansite. But no; there's a fanfic page and everything. I refuse to read it on principle, but you can be my guest and have at it. Enjoy people's weird fascinations.
P.S.: Fans of other guys known as "that guy" may enjoy Cracked's "20 Best 'That Guy's", featuring the likes of William Fichtner, Stephen Toblowsky, John Heard and my personal favorite, James Cromwell.
Above: James Cromwell, who you've seen in pretty much everything.
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