People to Laugh At :: Video Game Freak-Out Roomate

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We've all had one, the roommate who is so involved in video games that he feels the need to freak out every time he gets killed/loses.  He then proceeds to justify the loss out loud even though no one cares.  Feel free to share this video with that person in a subtle attempt to regain your sanity.  Well, it'll be subtle until they read the previous sentence.

Breast Milk Ice-Cream?!

TheHuffingtonPost.com- Human breast milk might not sound delicious, but the "treat" went on sale Friday, according toBBC, and it wasn't come cheap. Click here for full story.

Disgusting! $23 a serving is ridiculous.  Get the price below $10 and we'll talk.   

Sunrise Earth :: Best Morning Show Ever?

Tahiti in the dead of Winter?  Yes, Please. Sunrise Earth airs on the HD Theater Channel (HDT on the guide).  HD Cameras capture the sunrise and natural sounds from scenic locales around the world. Most of the time it's an hour, but some locations get a half hour.  Either way, it's a better start to your day then listening to local traffic and weather.  Check your local listings (or buy your favorite spots on Blu-Ray!).  

Oscar Preview with "Iron" Mike Tyson

© Funnyordie.com

SI Swimsuit Model Kate Upton Candid Pic is Better than Entire SI Issue

Kate Upton (left) and her hot Friend. I remember [Entourage's] Turtle explaining that "hotties roll in packs, baby!" and this pic would certainly ascertain that notion. 

And because there is a fairly large contingent of Female readers who have been complaining, here you go:

European bitch Futbol'r Christiano Ronaldo

Have a great weekend.

Cheers!

Vivrant Thing :: Q-Tip

In Honor of the Pics Above

Real Men of Leisure :: Frank Costanza

Frank Costanza is an accomplished man of leisure.  He's an inventor of cutting-edge menswear and holidays, speaks Korean, and has one of the most individual senses of style I've ever seen.  Bravo Frank, this is your life:

Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller) is Priceless in these outtakes

The Legendary Story of Festivus (for the rest of us)

This is Frank Costanza...

The Bro (or is it Manzier?)

Del Boca Vista?!

He Speaks Korean!

Frank the Philospher.

Guys and Girls, Check back around 4 O'Clock to have you eye's come out of your sockets...

Charlie Sheen is a Winner, Damn It!

Charlie Sheen called into Alex Jone's radio show yesterday to explain how awesome his life is.  The rant contained the following gems:

• "I'm so tired of pretending like my life isn't just perfect and just winning every second, and I'm not just perfect and bi**hing and just delivering the goods at every frickin' turn. Look what I'm dealing with, man. I'm dealing with fools and trolls. I'm dealing with soft targets, and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee … they lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say, 'I can't process it.' Well, no, and you never will! Stop trying! Just sit back and enjoy the show."
• "I have cleansed myself. I closed my eyes and in a nanosecond, I cured myself... It's the work of sissies. The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math … another one of their mottoes is 'Don't be special, be one of us.' Newsflash: I am special, and I will never be one of you! I have a disease? Bulls**t! I cured it with my brain, with my mind. I cured it, I'm done … you don't look like you're having a lot of fun. I'm gonna hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here but I sure like the view, Alex!"
• "I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time — and this includes naps — I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground."

More, including his "Giving Tree" and Beachhead death card mashup tattoo, his new "Major League" movie, trashing of the executive producer of "Two and a Half Men," his secret and silent soldiers, loving and hating with violence, etc.  To hear all the audio, click here.

©HuffingtonPost

Drink it for Thirsty Thursday :: Rusty Nail

Another Old-School Drink that packs a punch.  It also keeps you warm this time of year.  

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Scotch
• 1/2 oz Drambuie
• 1 twist of Lemon peel

Mixing instructions:Pour the Scotch and Drambuie into an old-fashioned glass almost filled with ice cubes. Stir well. Garnish with the lemon twist.

Concrete Jungle :: Bob Marley and the Wailers (1973)

A steel fist in a velvet glove, you can witness the brilliance @ 1:15-1:30 and 2:03-2:35.  Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer compliment Bob Marley so well.  They all had successful solo careers, but the sound of them combined makes it sound so easy. Like yesterday's video of Miles and 'Trane showing us the peak of jazz, this is the peak of reggae music.

Banksy Going Ballistic in LA Before Oscar Sunday

 This was on the side of the Pacific Coast Highway

And I hate Perez Hilton, but somehow he's the only one with a big pic of the new piece. It's Obama and it's funny as hell, click here for it.  I would've loved to post it, but that damn Banksy is just so elusive.  Does anybody really think he'll show up at the Oscars? The academy already told him he cannot come icognito.

-Thanks to Sara from LA for the tip! If you have something you want to share with the like-minded people of The Leisure Study, email me by clicking here.

Seriously, the Knicks? Slow down folks.

So EPSN tweets this after the Knicks debut game with Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups.  The Knicks barely beat a scrappy Milwaukee team.  Anyways, here's what ESPN deemed Carmelo and Chauncey's best plays:

Simply stunning.  Did I mention I hate this time of the year sports-wise?

P.s. Milwaukee should change it's name from the Bucks to the Beasts.  Or Beast Lights!

So What (Live) :: Miles Davis & John Coltrane

Probably the two greatest Jazz musicians ever, in their prime, playing an unbelievable song, live, together.  Think about that. Some people will get it, some people won't.  But for the ones who do, I'm proud to share this video performance with you.  Hope it helps you get over the hump.

Jeopardy's Ken Jennings and Watson have NOTHING on this Girl

Nice save, sweetheart.  Did that movie come out in the 70's? 

Kardashians: $65 Million Family of Freaks

Remember this next time you see Kim's painted-on face and airbrushing. Why do people find her hot? I don't get it. The only thing that's worse is that she made her family $65-million dollars by getting pissed on by Moesha's brother, on the internet.  

Stay Classy.  

National Margarita Day :: Skinny Girl Margarita

Not just for girls, this is actually how I think people should drink margaritas.  Sour mix sucks and makes your stomach feel awful the next day.  Get shitty in style with these bad boys. Couple rules: ALWAYS make/order these in a "rocks" glass fully filled with ice, the mix is made for it. Secondly, use PREMIUM WHITE Tequila (i.e. Patron Silver).  Lastly, fresh lime juice from wedges.  No Roses's Lime Juice.  All these things make a BIG difference.  If you want to step it up even more, use this instead of ice cubes. Don't ever, and I mean EVER, buy the Pre-Mix "Skinny Girl Margarita" bottle in stores.  My girl friends told me it's terribly sugary and sour, which is what we're trying to avoid.  

Ingredients:

• 2.5 ounces (2.5 count) of Premium White Tequila 
• Juice of 4-5 Lime Wedges (No Rose's Lime Juice) Squeeze them well
• 1 ounce of Cointreu, Grand Marnier, or (personally) Patron Citronge 

Find a skinny girl and get leisurely.  Cheers!

Facebook Break-Up Notifier :: Creeper Alert!

You have a crush on someone, but they're in a relationship.  Facebook notifies you when they break-up.  Way to go, Zuckerberg.  Just taking the Creeper game up to a whole new level.  Next thing you know, they'll be merging with Ashley Madison.  This is the world we live in...unfortunately.  

Get this for your Smart Phone :: Pandora Radio

I've been a Sirius Satellite Radio customer for over 5 years (Mostly for Howard Stern).  But since the merger with XM, the programming has gone downhill.  I'm probably canceling my service soon.  That's why I endorse Pandora Radio.  Pandora lets you create a radio station[s] based on a genre, song, or artist.  Pandora then builds you a station, and you can further customize it by approving or disapproving its song choices. It's music you WANT to listen to, for FREE.  Listen either at home or, with the smart phone app, bring it in your car [or headphones if you ride public].  You can even send your station to friends or make it public for everyone to enjoy.  

Banksy Strikes Again!

"Mallet Girl" was spotted in West Hollywood and "Dog Wizz"on Little Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills yesterday.  

In case you are behind on my recent obsession with this guy.  Click here.

Carmelo Anthony Finally Traded to Knicks

At least I didn't have to listen to Chris Brussard say, "La-BRAHHNE" for 6 months while this nonsense went on.  Anyone who remotely follows the NBA knew this was going to happen since the start of the season.  Carmelo is from the Bronx, grew up a Knicks fan in the projects, and was in the final year of his contract will all the leverage.  Now can we just fast forward to the part where the Celtics play the Lakers again in the Finals for 7 games?  


p.s. I hate this time of the year sports-wise

Curtis Mayfield getting the Hip-Hop Treatment

"The Makings of You" - Curtis Mayfield (1972)


"The Joy" - DJ Pete Rock, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Charlie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield, & Kid Cudi (2010)

I love the original, but I like what Pete Rock did with the beat and Jay-Z's & Kanye's verses are very smooth.  Bottom line is a great song can make a good sample.  It's too bad too many artists abuse it, and not to the listener's benefit. 

Celebrity Mug Shots :: Presidential Laughs

Middle-School Bad Ass Woody Harrelson

Super Creep Larry King

Anti-Semite and "Sugar-Tits" Lover Mel Gibson

"Cocaine is a Hell of a Drug" James Brown

Heather Locklear knows James speaks the truth

Would have been better if he made the Home Alone Face! Macauly Culkin

The Legend (I thought this was his Headshot) Charlie Sheen

Living up to his Name!  Rip Torn

Don't give yourself GHB, kids. Nick Nolte

Seriously, one of the coolest guys of all time, staying cool:  Steve McQueen

If You like Movies, Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

©GQ

I try not to post links to entire articles, but this one is written too well to ignore.  Click here for full article.

It basically chronicles how bad Hollywood executives are at grading and approving projects.  The proof?  It depicts, in detail, how Inception (INCEPTION!!!!) almost wasn't made and how many insiders believed it was a favor to Chris Nolan so that he would write/direct The Dark Knight 3.  Read how it went down:

And now the twist: The studios are trying very hard not to notice its success, or to care. Before anybody saw the movie, the buzz within the industry was: It's just a favor Warner Bros. is doing for Nolan because the studio needs him to make Batman 3. After it started to screen, the party line changed: It's too smart for the room, too smart for the summer, too smart for the audience. Just before it opened, it shifted again: Nolan is only a brand-name director to Web geeks, and his drawing power is being wildly overestimated. After it grossed $62 million on its first weekend, the word was: Yeah, that's pretty good, but it just means all the Nolan groupies came out early—now watch it drop like a stone.

And here was the buzz three months later, after Inception became the only release of 2010 to log eleven consecutive weeks in the top ten: Huh. Well, you never know.

"Huh. Well, you never know" is an admission that, put simply, things have never been worse.

It has always been disheartening when good movies flop; it gives endless comfort to those who would rather not have to try to make them and can happily take cover behind a shield labeled "The people have spoken." But it's really bad news when the industry essentially rejects a success, when a movie that should have spawned two dozen taste-based gambles on passion projects is instead greeted as an unanswerable anomaly. That kind of thinking is why Hollywood studio filmmaking, as 2010 came to its end, was at an all-time low—by which I don't mean that there are fewer really good movies than ever before (last year had its share, and so will 2011) but that it has never been harder for an intelligent, moderately budgeted, original movie aimed at adults to get onto movie screens nationwide. "It's true at every studio," says producer Dan Jinks, whose credits include the Oscar winners American Beauty and Milk. "Everyone has cut back on not just 'Oscar-worthy' movies, but on dramas, period. Caution has made them pull away. It's infected the entire business." ©GQ

Wow. Can't wait for gems like "Stretch Armstrong" to come out. How do you make an hour and a half long movie about a toy? That never spoke?! WTF?!

Bad Idea: Celebrities Playing Sports

I don't know what's funnier, the shot or Beiber bouncing off Common (:07)?

This is why celebrities should not play sports in public.  Nice shot Beebs. Seriously, wtf was that?  Shooting from the chest? The one-leg-flying-out on the release? No wonder middle school girls love him.  They shoot a basketball the same way.  Someone show this kid The Legend:

Predict the victory, leave the jacket on, hold up the #1 because you know it's going in.

Weekend Drink :: The Old Fashioned

Another great way to enjoy Whiskey this Winter.  Just make sure you visit an establishment that makes them the right way:

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Blended whiskey
• 1 cube Sugar
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• 1 slice Orange
• 1 Maraschino cherry

Mixing Instructions: Muddle the orange, sugar, bitters and water in an old-fashioned glass until the sugar is almost dissolved. Fill the glass with ice and add blended whiskey. Garnish with a marachino cherry and/or orange slice.

Sip, enjoy, and make a joke referring to South Park and Randy Marsh.

Creme Fraiche
Tags: SOUTH
PARKRandy Marsh,Sharon Marsh,more...

Never Get Fired!

Instead of…./ Say This…..
You don’t know what the fuck you’re doing= I think you could use more training
She’s a ball busting bitch                                  =    She’s an aggressive go-getter.
When the fuck do you expect me to do this?         =Perhaps I can work late.
No fucking way                                                    = I’m certain that isn’t feasible.
You got to be shitting me!                                 = Really?
Tell someone who gives a shit                = Perhaps you should check with…
It’s not my fucking problem                              = I wasn’t involved in the project.
What the fuck?                                                 = That’s interesting.
The shit won’t work                           = I’m not sure this can be implemented.
Why the fuck didn’t you tell me sooner          = I’ll try to schedule that.
He’s got his head up his ass                       = He’s not familiar with the issues.
Eat shit and die                                               = Excuse me, sir?
Kiss my ass                                                    = So you weren’t happy with it?
Fuck it, I’m on salary                                   = I’m a bit overloaded at the moment
Shove it up your ass                                         = I don’t think you understand
This job sucks                                                    = I love a challenge
Who the fuck died and made you boss?       = You want me to take care of that?
He’s a prick                                                      = He’s somewhat insensitive.

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

Real Men of Leisure :: Ty Webb

Every Friday I'll be featuring a new "Man of Leisure".  Someone all the Leisurlilites should look up to. It would be a disservice to all mankind if we didn't start at the top.  Ty Webb is leisure. Part Entrepreneur/ Mostly Philospher, Ty owns two lumberyards (even though he doesn't know where they are), gives away checks of $75,000 to random people, invented the Tuna Colada, owns a home with a pool and a pond, and plays golf more than anything else - BLINDFOLDED.  Nananananananana.   Some inspirational quotes from the one and only Mr. Webb:

"You don't have to go to college. This isn't Russia. Is this Russia? This isn't Russia."

 "What brings you to this nape of the woods, neck of the wape; How come you're here?" 

"Don't be obsessed with your desires Danny. The Zen philosopher Basha once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.' He was a funny guy". 

 "You're rather attractive for a beautiful girl with a great body." 

"I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball." 

"I was born to love you / I was born to lick your face / I was born to rub you / but you were born to rub me first /... What do you say we take this out on the patio? "  

"Your uncle molests collies."

"Remember Danny, two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left." 

 

Better Drinking: Ditch the Rocks, Get on the Ball

Like your booze "on the rocks"?  Muji, a Japanese company whose products are as atheistically pleasing as they are functional, has changed the drinking game.  Japanese bars already use the "Ice Ball" as opposed to cubes, because it keeps your top-shelf booze colder, longer, without diluting the flavor like melting cubes.  But you don't have to turn Japanese (again) to enjoy this ingenious invention.  Click here and you can have it home. Just remember to tell your friends where you found out about it ;)

Cheers!

Bill Cunningham: New York - Trailer.

Bill Cunningham is like the Godfather of blogging. He's the original street fashion photographer for the New York Times, paving the way for not only street-shooting, fashion photography, but blogging too. I could care less about the fashion designers in the movie, I'm more interested in the life of an aging photojournalist, who doesn't appear fashionable, documenting fashion as it evolves.  It's an interesting dichotomy.

The Legendary: A Film About The Roots

I love live music.  I love jazz.  I like Hip-Hop.  When you put them together, you get the greatest live hip-hop act around.  Enjoy this short film that documents The Roots during their Hennessey Artistry Tour.  It's the ultimate (ult-ult-imate!).

Start Playing "Words with Friends"

Not just for the iPhone anymore!  Words With Friends is now available on all Android platforms.  It's scrabble on your smartphone.  You can play against random people or against your friends.  The phone notifies you when it's your turn, but their is no time limit.  It's seriously addictive.  It will start debates and possibly fighting.  It will prove who is smart among your friends.  You've been warned.  

Listen/Buy/Steal this Album: Talking Heads, "Remain in Light"

When I say "Album" I mean it.  This sonically diverse gem is good right from the first track.  But these three songs definitely make it worth it:

Born Under Punches

Cross-Eyed and Painless

Once in a Lifetime

Lunchtime Laugh: Kinison

Language may be NSFW

Kinison is amazing.  This is early in his career, but his ability to change gears and dominate the crowd was clearly evident.  Just an unbelievably funny 6 minutes.  

There's Only One You

"Style is the ability to build a look around one detail." - Karl E. Guerre, Swagger360

One of the Best Songs Written About New York City

"Without Passion, There is no life" - Elton John

Watch This Now: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

Jean-Michel Basquiat is an incredible artist with an even more fascinating life and story.  The Radiant Child uses archived footage of Basquiat along with interviews conducted by his friend, and director, Tamra Davies to explain his virtuosity despite his unorthodox introduction to the art world. It's amazing.  Whatever you do, do NOT watch the bullshit hollywood hack-job Basquiat that came out in '96

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child  Trailer

Insa and Banksy wouldn't be who they are without the one and only Basquiat.

Smoking Costing People Jobs?

New York Times- Smokers now face another risk from their habit: it could cost them a shot at a job. More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants, saying they want to increase worker productivity, reduce health care costs and encourage healthier living. The policies reflect a frustration that softer efforts — like banning smoking on company grounds, offering cessation programs and increasing health care premiums for smokers — have not been powerful-enough incentives to quit. The new rules essentially treat cigarettes like an illegal narcotic. Applications now explicitly warn of “tobacco-free hiring,” job seekers must submit to urine tests for nicotine and new employees caught smoking face termination. Click for full article.


I guess because it's the medical field this might almost make sense.  I remember leaving a hospital and seeing a nurse, on her break, ripping a cigarette and laughing at the irony.  But, if you go to school and graduate with a degree in medicine and still feel OK about smoking, then why shouldn't you be able to get the job you want?  Seems like it'll start with the hospital staffs and then branch out to other job sectors, where the employers will start claiming that employees are wasting too much time taking breaks outside.  To which I say, if you let them smoke at their desks/offices, they wouldn't need to be wasting time out of the office.  You can't have it both ways.  The country allows the sale and taxation of a highly-addictive, legal drug, but soon, it might cost people a job?  What sense does that make?   


Throw your thoughts in the comment section, or email and I'll argue with you. 

I'm hip to your act, Kim Kardashian!

"We figured it out- Kim Kardashian always dresses sexily to make the audience forget to wonder why she was even at the [insert irrelevant-to-Kim's-Career award show here] in the first place." 

-Complex.com

Amen! and thank you for that sentence, Complex.  In case you're new to my kconfusion with the Kardashians, click here or here.   

Actually, this is at the Grammys.  She was there for Ray J! Move along people, nothing to see here.  

Charlie Sheen is Awesome!

Part 1

"I said, 'Stay away from the crack!' which I think is pretty good advice. Unless you can manage it socially, Dan!  If you can manage it socially, go for it.  But not a lot of people can, ya know?" -Charlie Sheen on The Dan Patrick Show yesterday

Part 2

Deadline.com- Charlie Sheen made another bizarre public statement this morning, this time on live radio. The Two and a Half Men star, who is undergoing rehab treatment at home, called into the Dan Patrick Show to complain that CBS andMen producer Warner Bros. TV would not allow him to return to work despite, according to him, being ready to do so. "They said 'You get ready and we'll get ready'," he said in the 30-minute interview. "I got ready and went back and nobody was there ... I don't know what to tell ya," Sheen said, adding that he lost his voice banging on the show's stage doors. He stressed that the show's hiatus has been "forced". He cracked that "at this pace", Men will return to production in "August 2014". Full Article

I respect Charlie Sheen in the sense that he doesn't hide who he is.  And why should he?  He's the highest paid actor, on the the network's most successful show, for acting like himself.  And it's funny as hell!  But when he continues to be himself after the cameras stop rolling, then it's a problem.  If he shows up to work on time and does the job you pay him to do under contract, isn't it impossible to reprimand him?  That's why I love the fact that even though he's in the middle of so much controversy, he's still knows that the whole situation is comical and he's in the driver's seat with the network.  That's why he can go on national radio and blast his employers.  


P.s. what are the odds that at the end of this season, when they wrap-up taping, Charlie goes on a bender?  2-1? 5-2?

Valentine's Day Drink: The Goodnight Kiss

Better than Boon's Farm

Stop by the liquor store on your way home from work and impress her with this, before someone else does!  It's champagne and it's red, she'll like it.  Trust me, I'm a bartender.

Ingredients:

• 4 oz Champagne
• 1 splash Campari
• 1 cube Sugar
• 1 drop Angostura bitters

Mixing instructions:

Put one drop of Angostura Bitters on a sugar cube and drop in flute. Add champagne and a splash of Campari.  Garnish with a Cherry or Sliced Strawberry.  

You can also make this "up" [in a martini glass], just add a little more Champagne and Campari.  In exchange, it will add a little more fun to your night.  

How to Win Her Heart on Valentine's Day

Take a page out of Royal's Playbook and play it cool, Coltrane.

©The Royal Tenenbaums

Happy Valentine's Day to All

Hope everyone had a great weekend!  I laughed a lot.  I give all the credit to my friends, many of whom were in town for the weekend.  They're a great reminder that solid friendship is priceless.

I'm talking about those people who like you for you, plain and simple, and vice versa.  The people that you want to get in touch with when you have free time and who call you (not text or email, but call) when they have a moment as well.  With all the technology out there helping us to communicate, it's a shame people seem to be getting worse at it.

On a related note, I watched The Social Network this weekend, and can't get over how some people can go through life without genuine human interaction.  Of course I'd love to be a billionaire, who wouldn't? But, I truly don't value money more than my close friends, because no amount of scratch can substitute for the fun I've had with them.  What good is something if you can't share it?

You're out with your friends, loving life, doing whatever it is you do.  There's a moment somewhere in the night where you don't say anything, but you just look around and think, "This is awesome".  Then you catch one of your friends in the same moment, with the same look, probably thinking the same thing.  And you just grin at each other and nod.  You can't buy that.

I want to wish a very Happy Valentine's Day to all my friends.  Thanks for the laughs and good times, and here's to many more!

Cheers.

feel free to share this with your friends/valentines to let them know you're thinking of 'em