We’re playing Russian roulette. The revolver has six chambers, all empty. I put bullets in two adjacent chambers, spin the cylinder, hold the gun to my head, and pull the trigger. It clicks. Now it’s your turn. Before pulling the trigger, you can choose to spin the cylinder again or leave it as it is. Which is better?
David Lee Roth is so shitfaced his eyes are going in different directions.
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
David Lee Roth, Sean Penn and the Beastie Boys
10,000 Singers - Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement (“Ode to Joy”) (Osaka-jō Hall, 2011)
What it says on the tin. Ten-thousand (non-professional) Japanese singers, wailing the shit out of some Ludwig Van.
Pretty amazing.
Sanity Break: 10,000 member choir sings Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
In this video from Osaka, Japan, a 10,000 member amateur choir performs the “Ode to Joy” section of Beethoven’s Symphony Number Nine. The concert is an annual event, but this year’s performance — recorded in late December 2011 — was dedicated to the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Jump straight to 06:40 if you just want the money shot. But, don’t miss out on some of the wide, crowd shots. It’s shivery.
Joy, beautiful spark of the gods
Daughter of Elysium,
We enter, drunk with fire,
Heavenly one, your sanctuary!
This morning a woman refused to move her lunch and laptop of the seat next to her on the bus.
So I thought I’d be super helpful.
I picked them up for her, and plopped them right on her lap.
I then pulled out my hand sanitizer and mumbled about not wanting to catch any bitch germs.
I feel vaguely victorious.
SodaStream “Fizzy Meditations” (by Ted) — A response to the AeroPress video from yesterday.
Maria Bamford - Paula Deen (Stand Up Comedy) (by TheLaughFactory)
