Pop Cesspool

PERIPHERAL MATERIAL FOR 'THE TREE OF LIFE'

"The Tree Of Life" truly is what it is. But imagine if you cut this right into the middle of Terrence Malick's comsic-churn footage:

Like, with no explanation. Y'know, just Sting, hanging like a monkey, atop a rubbish pile:

INSTANT 'THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN' T-SHIRT

1. Search for Jesus and Mary on Google Images.

2. Crop any section of the results page into something handsome like this:

3. Make an iron-on! Super shoegazer!

IS WOODERSON A CHICK?

At the end of the video for Butch Walker and the Black Widows' "Synthesizers," the legendary Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey) slips into the ladies' room with a wink and a whiskey.

I think we all need to be open to alternative interpretations of why he's going in there.

ONE OF THE GREAT DROPS: DALEK, 'DISTORTED PROSE'

Almost precisely at the 0:34 mark, the neo-griot hops on a rocket engine, as if our own hip-hop planet was no longer worth inhabiting. Or maybe it was just for kicks. Boom-boom:

A FEARLESS PREDICTION ABOUT PENN STATE APPAREL

A potential side effect of The Scandal:

1. Sales of Penn State apparel might be down, but there are still millions of Penn State fans out there, and most of them own T-shirts, game shirts, hoodies, et cetera.

2. A significant number of Penn State fans will be inspired to ditch some of their apparel. Some will go in the trash, but much of it will be donated to charity.

3. When Americans donate clothes to charity, much of it makes its way to Africa.

4. If all of that is true, there will soon be a significant uptick in the number of PENN STATE and HAPPY VALLEY items being shipped to Africa.

5. Assuming that many of the recipients of these clothes might be unfamiliar with American institutions of higher learning — and the Sandusky scandal is probably not in the news in their countries — then the brand "Penn State" will have increased visibility (benignly) in the eyes of Africans.

6. If increased visibility = higher status, then it is highly possible that Penn State will see an increase in interest from African citizens in the coming years.

SEARCHING FOR 'GUITAR AMPS' ON GOOGLE IMAGES YIELDS VISUALLY SOOTHING RESULTS

Yeah, it's kinda nice:

A SECRETLY FUCKING AWESOME FANVID OF THEE OH SEES

Skip ahead to like 0:36, though, because the shaky-cam at the start is nauseating. After that, though, it's all molecules blazin' in the ether:

GRAPHIC: 'SCREAM' MASKS

 

You know it's true.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN. HERE'S A SOMEWHAT BATSHIT VIDEO OF THE LOCUST

THEY ARE MASKED MUSICIANS.