The Gathering of the Juggalos

Jesus Christ. Juggalos are fans of the Insane Clown Posse, so apparently they are people who have never heard good music- or even most bad music, since most music I would consider unlistenable is a million times better than anything to ever come from the Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, Zwiggy Zwill, Squeezy G, etc. Anyway, these people gather together in the woods once a year (a week the rest of the world knows as "the week without Subway sandwich artists") and they do this...



So they're a "family" or whatever, which is sort of believable since there seems to be some inbreeding going on here, and I'll admit it seems positive and it would be kind of cool to see Gwar and Ice Cube- but keep in mind all of these people are going to leave their Mom's couch for a week and fly out to wherever this is and camp out in the woods to listen to the FUCKING INSANE CLOWN POSSE (it's like when Muslim's visit the holy land- their words, not mine).

Anyway, this has been going on for ten years, and last year "performance artist" Andrew WK went and represented. I'm not a fan of the guy's music, but I am a fan of the guy (note to self: Andrew WK-related post sometime soon) and so here's what he did when standing in front of a group of (apparently deaf) kids wearing clown make-up...



Keep in mind, the people booing Andrew WK, are the same people who had no problem sitting through a performance from Afro-Man... So, needless to say, if we have to pick sides in this argument, we're going with Andrew WK all the way- you're free to pick your own side, but... seriously?

Dan

Marriage: The Surrealist Version

The surreal proposal:



The surreal wedding:



The surreal divorce:



Ta-da!

Dan

Dash Snow Tribute Project

So Dash Snow is dead. We're thinking of a tribute- but we're going to need some money... we're going to need enough money to buy a few of his pieces of art, the jizz ones. Because then (and this is where the tribute comes in) we are going to ejaculate on them.

Take that for what you will... But if anyone wants to donate (money, not semen), let us know...

What? Too Soon? Yeah, kind of, but that's the point- this wouldn't be funny (as if it is now) in two years when the fickle art world has picked someone new to "love/hate". Like Jimmy Jim Bill Steve, who cuts off his own weiner then paints with the blood from his severed member until he passes out and dies.* He'll be great.

Dan

* Not a real person, but don't let that stop anyone out there from starting a Wikipedia page for him.

Best Movie Ever?

Yeah. Best. Movie. Ever.



If any of our readers were planning on making movies, you might as well kill yourself because you're never going to make anything as great as Hot Tub Time Machine.
Seriously.

Dan

A Blog Not About Lady Gaga...

People keep wanting us to talk about Lady Gaga- and here's the thing. We don't wanna.

Yeah she wears weird outfits and puts on a crazy show. That's cool, we like that- we like that she's having fun with fashion to the point that she's mocking it and making the audience wonder what the point of it all is. But... first and foremost she's a musician- and her music is awful. Just terrible, worthless crap.

I doubt there will be a popular song worse than "Pokerface" this year- and I hate popular music so I think it's all terrible, but there is something especially scornful about the song's bland forgettable, verse and it's over-simplified chorus. "Pa-pa-pa". It's the sort of song a child would write- if a child were stupid.

So, you're not going to see any Lady Gaga on this blog, until:

A. She abandons music and admits that she is a performance artist above all else.
B. She writes music that isn't awful.

And, Gagadamnit! Can we stop throwing around the word "genius" everytime someone manages to write a pop song?

Dan

Best Story Ever?

Yeah, best story ever.



I mean granted I've heard variations on this story (except instead of an monkey, they thought it was an elf, and instead of in a bar, they put the kid in the closet... for some reason). Anyway, slow news day- surrealism wise.

Dan

THIS GUY! Will Save us All!

Earlier (like, months earlier, back when we were productive bloggers) we lamented about David Blaine squandering his super-powers, choosing to pee on himself instead of saving kids from Niagra Falls.

But forget about David Blaine, we're over him ever since we saw this video at VideoGum. This guy can save us all.

And, yeah, I know, this isn't really surrealism-related, I just wanted an excuse to post back to that David Blaine post, because I thought it was funny...

Dan

SURREALISM AROUND THE WORLD: FRANCE

Well, on this Bastille Day, God bless the French for keeping at it and trying to be Surreal, even if the results (as catalogued by this series) are somewhat mixed.

As a treat for Charles De Gaulle's birthday today, we're giving our loyal reader this video of French prankster Remi Gaillard recreating the opening scenes of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN...and, by extension, D-Day...on Normandy beach as (some nude) sunbathers and one very humourless golfer look on in confusion and irritation.



And finally, we leave you with this: C'est la fin des haricot verts.

La Marseillaise!

Vince out.

Dash Snow, R.I.P.

Gawker is reporting that our one-time rival Dash Snow has passed away from a heroine overdose. I think they summed it up best:

Whether you liked his art or not, you have to admire the fact that he was a unique dude. R.I.P.

Dan

Surreal Storytelling...

So, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... that's surreal, right? It's got to be, because why else would we be compelled to post this video of Mary Louise Parker, in her underwear, reading from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

What's that you say? Because of the "Mary Louise Parker in her underwear part?" Hey, listen buddy, I don't know what kind of blog you think we run here- but if we were only interested in posting videos of women in their underwear, this blog would be a whole lot easier to write- Not that we're above posting videos of women in their underwear (see below), they just have to be doing something surreal... but not, like, freaky or weird or anything...

So, anyway here's something:




Dan

Watch it While You Can!

We got a note from YouTube.

danandvince,

Something Something Something...

YouTube

I don't know what it said actually, I deleted it. Anyway, long story short, our video 'Touch My Body (dnv Vidya Remix)' might not be on there forever. So, kids, watch it while you can...



Dan

Another Weird Guest for Letterman...

So we've talked about David Letterman's 'misfortune' when it comes to surreal guests. But something really surreal happened last night. Sasha Baron Cohen went on- as himself.



Traditionally, this wouldn't be weird, like if Jack Hanna or Rosie Perez did it (way to pick examples, Dan) but Cohen will traditionally stay in character when promoting a movie, like he did on Conan a while back:



Cohen is funny, and his characters are funny, and so his appearances in character are usually also funny- however, the whole going-on-a-talk-show-in-character thing kind of rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's because Andy Kaufman did it well, or because Andy Dick does it so poorly. Either way I just don't like the concept of going on a talk-show in character, even though I normally like seeing Cohen do it. (I hate the concept of the piece, but like the art itself, similar to Britney Spears' 'Toxic') So seeing the artist instead of the character was actually nice, especially when Cohen is one of the most interesting artists working in Hollywood today.

Third most interesting, after us.

Anyway, poor Dave- the dude can not catch a break!

Dan

Unintentional Surrealism in Book Form

Damn! Blogging... I remember this. This was fun.

Anyway, we've been away from the blog for a while, but we're still us, we're still living the la vida surreal- just not as much, and we haven't really been about to talk about it. At least not here, on this blog.

Anyway, enough about us- let's talk about this book, Moon People- because damn this book looks awesome!

Here's an excerpt:


I am so happy this book exists. So ridiculously happy. I just ordered a copy, I'll keep you posted on the awesome-ness that is inside!

Dan

[h/t Buzzfeed]

ART WE LIKE: Regina Spektor Surrealist Videos

ART WE LIKE is a sometimes column where we, Dan and Vince, present art that doesn't suck.

To our knoweldge, only one such video exists, and that's this one. But it effectively riffs on Escher, Magritte, and probably some others, but I honestly only watched the first minute-thirty before I thought "Crap, I should blog this. This is cool." I'll watch the rest in a second.

Maybe you've heard of Regina Spektor, maybe not. We really hadn't, but apparently she made some waves with her last album because it was pop...but it wasn't. Which may be appropriately Surreal, and we shall investigate.

It has also come to my attention that Regina Spektor is friends with Amanda Palmer, who I maintain I do not have a crush on. And not only because Neil Gaiman is cooler than me and already dating her.

Vince out.