Sunday, July 27, 2008

This is Sparta!

I love the infobahn trashy ways! Sparta 300 were a crazy bunch. To paste their angry face on today's junk images is hillarious.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Famous people who were homeless

Halle Berry In an interview with magazine,US Weekly,Berry stated that she had stayed in a shelter for a time. * Jim Carrey Actor,writer,producer and comedian lived out of a VW van in various locations across Canada with older brother John Carrey, older sister and parents. * Charlie Chaplin Lived on the streets of London during his childhood after his father died and his mother, Hannah suffered a mental breakdown. Themes in his films in later years would re-visit the scenes of his childhood deprivation in Lambeth. * Kurt Cobain Lead vocalist of the band "Nirvana" camped under a bridge in Aberdeen, USA and slept in a cardboard box on the porch of a drummer friend; hallway floor of an apartment building, hospital waiting room and old couch in a garage. * Daniel Craig Actor; James Bond in the 007 movies, is reported as having slept on a park bench in London while a struggling actor. (source: Daily Mail newspaper, October 14, 2005). * Ella Fitzgerald Ella spent years as a struggling, homeless teenager before she was discovered in a singing competition. At one point, she worked as a lookout at a bordello. She was taken into custody and sent to a reform school. Eventually she escaped from the reformatory, and became homeless. * David Letterman Emmy Award-winning television writer, comedian, author and talk-show host of the television talk-show Late Show with David Letterman spent time living out of his Chevy pickup truck while struggling to establish his career. * William Shatner After the cancellation of the television series Star Trek, in which he starred, he travelled the east coast of the U.S. sleeping in a camper with his dog, a Doberman pinscher. "I now had three children and an ex-wife to support and I was just about broke." * Martin Sheen Emmy Award-winning actor,director and producer; slept in New York City subway while a young struggling actor.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Beatles for free, mais oui



Calling McCartney an "international Anglo-Saxon idol" is too much! In an open letter, Quebec City painter and sculptor Luc Archambault informs McCartney that he should learn some French songs before coming to perform as part of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebrations.

All that bickering reminds me that Canadian natives have to choose between phlegmagtic wit or buffonic repartee from members of the founding nations.