Words fail me. When I saw this South Park clip featuring R Kelly originally I had no idea that it wasn’t parody, it was just accurate reportage.

I refuse to post this in the Music category, so it remains posted in Indefinable Craziness, because that’s what it is.

I realise this is pretty old, and most of you may have heard of it due to the fact that it is unintentionally hilarious, but for those of you who have missed out I present chapter one of R Kelly’s ‘rap-opera’ or ‘hip-hopera’ - “TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET“.

No, really.

I may have mentioned previously that I’m a fan of William Burroughs. Here’s some Burroughs bizarreness to brighten up your day. Ah Pook, written and narrated by Burroughs himself and directed by Philip Hunt.

Watch Ah Pook in high quality on Philip Hunt’s site Studio AKA, or if you’re really lazy it’s embedded below in the usual YouTube low quality.

The soundtrack you will hear on the animation originally featured on ‘Dead City Radio‘, which was produced by Hal Willner (he recently put together Came So Far For Beauty - the Leonard Cohen Tribute concert) and Nelson Lyon, and the music on the album was by John Cale, Donald Fagen, Lenny Pickett, Chris Stein, and Sonic Youth. I don’t know who exactly plays on this track, but that sure sounds John Cale-ish to me.

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.� - Oscar Wilde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QDx2ez6eMM

Breaking news: Bif will no longer be involved or contributing to the site. The break is not acrimonious, and there’s no storm in a blog-cup to reveal, there will not be endless blog posts about why Bif is leaving us with angry comments and everybody getting their 2cents in etc.

Bif just isn’t that happy with the direction the site is going in right now, and doesn’t feel motivated to contribute to this format.

Which is fair enough. This does mean that the cartoons are now officially on hold for the time being - possibly forever.

We will, as if just to prove the break is on good terms, be releasing a final cartoon soon as a last farewell.

I hope I haven’t misrepresented Bif here on anything, and I hope we will continue to discuss projects together despite his leaving the site - so with any luck you will hear of him if not from him from time to time.

The site will continue, and it will continue to develop, so please bear with us and continue to check in to see what’s going on.

Help the the biggest citizens action against global warming!

The “Alliance pour la Planète” (national group of Global Warming foundations) is launching a message to all the citizens. 5 minutes for the planet : all people shut down your lights, television… on February the 1st between 19h55 and 20h00.

The aim isn’t to win 5 minutes of energy only on this day, but to alert citizens, medias and politicians about the Global Warning (which is also the aim of Global Warming Awareness2007 SEO contest), and urgent need to act.

5 minutes to help the planet is nothing for you, it costs nothing, and it will prove to the future president of France that Global Warming is an important topic.

Why February the 1st ? A new report from a group of specialists on Global Warming will be released this day. This event will take place in France (edit: but why not make it international right?): that’s why you must be involved in it to show how the Global Warming alert is important!

If we are all involved in this event, it will have a real impact on medias and politicians, and we are less than three months from the presidential elections. Please talk about this message on your web sites and newsletters

Remember, its GMT + 1 over there.

Here’s the official website, but it seems to be down at the moment:
http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/
Cheers,

Daniel