NSFW - Musically-deficient dark humor

With absolutely no apologies whatsoever to Wanda in 5 South.




Hannibal Buress, y'all. If you don't know about him, get on that. He not only wrote for 30 Rock, but also appeared on a few episodes. This routine is pretty good, but the rest of the show is tremendous.

My New Bedlam bro Will was talking about a Chappelle Show skit, but I thought he was talking about this.

Kyle Kinane's another name you should know. Here's his latest show in its entirety. It's about forty minutes long, but that's likely not the longest time you're going to be spending on this blog today. This takes a little while to really get going, but at least stay long enough for the pancakes.




It took me a while to really warm to Louis CK, but he's well worth checking into. I don't think he's the second coming of George Carlin, exactly, but he's damn close. This next clip comes from his Beacon Theater show.






Billy Bob Neck has some cogent points to make about Gomer Pyle, but for my money he's never been more on the nose than with this scathing critique on the very real dangers posed by FIFA.

NSFW - MY SUMMER VACATION

A warning before beginning: this factual post is going to document some heavy, largely tragic topics – suicide attempts, frank anatomical descriptions, psych-ward life and pitch-black morbid humor – you know, laugh-riot feel-good stuff like that. If you're prone to being triggered by reading about such things, proceed with caution – or don't read at all.

I've renamed all the players and institutions in this drama. If you recognize yourself and wish to be identified by your real name (what the fuck's the matter with you, anyway?!), let me know and I'll make the necessary changes (no, really –what the fuck's the matter with you?!), but otherwise, I've chosen to err on the side of pseudonymity. And while I'm being ridiculously open and honest about what I put myself through, I'm not going to betray the trust of the friends I met in 5 South. Their stories are their own, and frankly, those tales are none of your fucking business.

Also, there are going to be lots of parenthetical asides in this post, but rather than use parentheses...

...they're going to be formatted like this.

The long tragicomedy begins after the break.

Considering I've got more than 500 playlists in iTunes...

...one might ask if I put any thought into crafting a soundtrack for my last days.

Shore did!

Stumbling
 Katie Lee - The Will To Fail
 Nobuo Uematsu - You Can Hear The Cry Of The Planet
 Big Mama Thornton - Life Goes On
 Bonnie Raitt - Guilty
 The Doors - A Feast Of Friends
 Fury in the Slaughterhouse - Every Generation's Got Its Own Disease
 The Bonzo Dog Band - Straight From My Heart
 Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
 Charlie Musselwhite - Everybody Loves Me
 Ween - Sorry Charlie
 Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology
 Mojave 3 - When You're Drifting
 Webb Wilder - Original Mixed-Up Kid
 The Jayhawks - Blue
 Tom Petty - Saving Grace
 Phil Ochs - Gas Station Women
 Mojo Nixon - Promised Land Tonight
 Faith No More - I Started A Joke
 De La Soul - Fallin'
 Gnarls Barkley - A Little Better
 Baby Huey - Hard Times
 Netherfriends - Full of It (remix)
 N.A.S.A. - Way Down

Collapse
 Beck - Goin' Nowhere Fast
 Pearls Before Swine - I Shall Be Released
 Nina Nastasia - Wakes
 Alice In Chains - Rotten Apple
 Cocorosie - Werewolf
 Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace
 John Prine - Rocky Mountain Time
 Kinky Friedman - God Bless John Wayne
 Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary
 Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Kiss The Sky
 Deep Puddle Dynamics - The Candle
 Flotation Toy Warning - Donald Pleasance
 Kanye West - Runaway
 Pink Floyd - Childhood's End
 The Builders And The Butchers - Short Way Home
 Tom Waits - Lucky Day
 Jose Gonzalez - Down The Line
 Cults - Most Wanted
 The Greenhornes - There Is An End

Going
 Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
 Neil Hamburger - Thinkin' It Over
 Barnes & Barnes - When You Die
 Kinky Friedman - Hobo's Lullaby
 Ween - Wash Me Down
 The Angels Of Light - My Suicide
 The Kleptones - Exit
 Gravediggaz - 1-800 Suicide
 Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts
 Insane Clown Posse - Suicide Hotline

Gone
 Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye
 The Monkees - Porpoise Song
 Alice In Chains - Don't Follow
 The Builders and the Butchers - All Away
 Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf Version)
 Supergrass - Time to Go
 Pere Ubu - Goodbye
 The Kleptones - Last Words (A Tribute)
 R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know

Well, that was pretty damn heavy...

...so here are some tunes to help chill us all out.

Give and Take

As has happened so often before, there's more taking than giving, for which I apologize.