Hoodoo Saturday = Movie Time.

Rather than blog on a rainy, bleak Saturday during which the microwave blew up and a planter was smashed, I chose to spend the day getting deep into the heretofore unknown world of Lord Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder - courtesy of Netflix:

This is a clip from the 1981 TV miniseries, not the 2008 film. I'm wondering if Richard Grant based his character from Withnail and I at least partially on Andrews' portrayal of Sebastian?

There Is Nothing For You Out There.

Amanda Palmer instigated a minor twitter phenom as the many and varied Losers Of Friday Night On Their Computers answered her hash tag tribal call. Spontaneously issuing a collaborative list of demands including government-issue, members-only kimonos and etched martini glasses, #LOFNOTC  peaked briefly @ #1 in trending topics before settling into a strong and steady #2 position for the duration of the evening. 

In good capitalist form, the t-shirt has already gone live.

AFP raises glass

Her fairly spectacular closing toast sequence (in bottom up tweet order):

• http://twitpic.com/59pl5 - and with that, ladies and gentlemen....i take one final twitpic for you. good night, and good luck.
  
• HIP HIP!!!! #LOFNOTC!!!!!
  
• LONG LIVE THE LOSERS OF FRIDAY NIGHT ON THEIR COMPUTERS!!!!!! HIP HIP!!!! #LOFNOTC!!!!!
  
•  and when they do, we will welcome them with the warm, non-partisan, loving arms of #LOFNOTC. my comrades!!! i say to you:
  
• ....to all assembled!! i say: every night is friday night!!! every poor sod out on the eurotrash dance floor must come home at some point!!
  
•  ....we must embrace them, we must love them, accept them, we must hold back their hair when they vomit in our toilets later tonight... 

  
•  ...we secretly accomplish incredible things using the power of the internetz. they are none the wiser. we cannot blame them...
  
• ...leaving us to do what we do best: hide. and twitter. as they cavort in their bars and clubs and see their star treks and jonas brothers...

  
  




  
• ...the jeers and the barely-stifled laughs as our so-called friends pack into revved up convertibles, headed for friday nights of vice...

  
  




  
• dear friends, new and old. many of us are gathered here tonight because for too long, we have felt the shame. we all know it...

  
• we're at #2, but that's where we belong, poetically. now. time for our toast. (clears throat). #LOFNOTC glasses HIGH!!!!!!
  


  

Well Done.  

Mine That Bird Wins 2009 Kentucky Derby 50-1

Everyone loves a longshot, including me. Look at that last stretch starting @ 1:40.

Imogen Heap: Broadcasting Live From Maui

Late in the night after alerting twitterers, Imogen Heap plays live over Ustream:

Tweets Heap: 

Well that was different! I'm going to do one every day while I'm here. They'll get better. It feels strange you listening in to my nonsense. I want to catch the sunset on the west side tomorrow... will do one mid afternoon here. So, let's say, piano session no.2 at 2am GMT? 

She'll be here all week, folks. 

Steve Aoki In The Sahara Tent @ Coachella

Steve Aoki @ Coachella last weekend. 

(I'm guessing the continuous white noise from the eagle cam will only add to the atomosphere, but you can always scroll down and pause it.)

Full first 10 minutes of show here. Last 10 with the Bloody Beetroots here.  Aoki and Bloody Beetroots MP3s here.

Eagle Cams on Catalina Island

[Note: If you see snow or a black screeen, you do not need a newer version of a plug-in, you just need to wait until daylight hours Pacific Standard Time. The Eagle cams shut down around sunset. And you now need to hit play to start the live streaming.]

One nest on the West End:

And another nest by the Two Harbors area of the island:

And Some Celebs Roll Their Own Twitter

Like Dave Navarro, male cougar and nascent pornographer formerly of Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who posts this worthy snap of himself getting inked:

Dave tweets on Mar 24: Best thing for a Vicodin withdrawal... Season 1 of Flight of The Conchords.  

Which allusion on a weekend is reason enough to post their Bowie Song: