Of all the weird Japanese stuff you've seen on the web, Inochi is wrongest.
TRICK-OR-TREAT WITH MEAT
Two million cows have their heads sawn off on one morning in Bangladesh every year. The streets of Dhaka City very literally run red with blood to mark the annual Festival of Sacrifice, Eid-ul-Azha. What happens is this: well-to-do families get butchers to bring a cow over to the house and they slaughter it. The animal in its entirity is sliced up immediately. The best beef is kept by the owner, a few steaks are gifted to relatives, and the third-rate cuts are distributed among the poor, who queue up outside rich people's houses and hold out plastic bags into which they're tossed a handful of offal. It's like Trick-or-Treat with meat!
Cattle market in the morning.
Qurbani butchers sharpening their knives
GRUESOME: This video shows the slaughter of cows and gives a good indication of the sheer volume of blood on the streets of Dhaka that day.
Gallons of blood gush out, so they usually do it on the pavement or the driveway so it can be sprayed off into the road.
You'd be surprised how much of the cow will be consumed.
Here's a queue of poor people outside a rich person's house.
This act of the rich giving to the poor is supposed to help the development of cordiality between these polarized income groups. But the whole thing has become another way by which wealthy families can show off their riches, competing over who can slaughter the biggest, most amount of cows.
As many city-dwellers return to their rural villages during Eid-ul-Azha, Dhaka becomes a ghost town. Rainy, hot and Monsoon humid.
On empty streets the occasional people you'll see are beggars carrying sack-fulls of fat and entrails, which they steal from each other and fight over. I remember the city looking like genocide had taken place and flesh-eating zombies had taken over.
These photos were taken by my dad (pictured here) on Eid-ul-Azha in Dhaka on July 2, 1990.
WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS FOOTBALL TEAM
The most dangerous football team to ever tred on a pitch were Colombia's national side of the early 90s. Armed-to-the-teeth with slinky skills, they had jheri-curls and blonde afros, partied with Pablo Escobar and married porn stars. Collectively, these players got arrested for shooting off machine guns, imprisoned for kidnapping, banned for testing positive for cocaine, extradited on narco-trafficking and money laundering charges, and then had plastic surgery on their face, live on Colombian reality TV.
Aside from what they did in their private lives, on the field, in 1993/94, the team was on firey form. In that particular season, these bandidos were the most daring, most exotic, most explosive crop of football talent on earth.
Love the audio on this clip.
After demolishing Argentina 5-0 in Buenos Aires and qualifying undefeated from the South American group stages of the World Cup, people like me and Pele tipped them to do very well in the competition.
In goal was Rene Higuita, nicknamed "El Loco", The Crazy One. He invented the Scorpion Kick.
The
baddest
move
in
football.
Higuita was known for taking insane risks and coming out of the goalkeeper's area - which made him prone to howling errors, like when Cameroonian Roger Milla made him look a fool in 1990 World Cup Finals.
Higuita was imprisoned in 1993 after getting involved in a drug cartel kidnapping during which he received $64,000 for acting as a go-between for the drug barons Pablo Escobar and Carlos Molina.
His playing career ended after he tested positive for cocaine while at an Ecuadorian club. Higuita then participated in a Colombian reality TV program show where he had cosmetic surgery on air. Currently, he's hoping to go into management or politics.
My favourite football player when I was a kid was the Colombian captain marvel Carlos Valderrama, nicknamed "El Pibe" or "The Kid". Here's The Kid with his kid.
He had this lazily deceptive style, where he'd play lots of short, simple passes then suddenly snap a killer ball in behind the opposition's defence.
Everyone wanted to get to know El Pibe.
Carlos bro-ing out with Diego.
An amazing, 22-foot-tall bronze statue of Carlos Valderrama was been erected in his hometown of Santa Marta.
Known as "The Octopus" for his long-limbed, bendy and unpredictable style, Faustino Asprilla was world-class striker.
He also posed naked in magazines and married a porn star. He has a big penis, as you can see.
Asprilla loves guns and gets into trouble for stuff like shooting his horse dead, threatening his teammates with a pistol during training, and carrying weapons around in his car.
A box-to-box powerhouse, Freddy Rincon destroyed the midfield and also liked to get forward and score goals. In 2007, he came under criminal investigation in Colombia and Panama, accused of collaboration with cocaine kingpin Pablo Rayo Montaño and suspicion of money laundering. He is currently in Brazil awaiting extradition.
Unfortunately this Colombian dream team FLOPPED at the 1994 World Cup. Shamefully, they even got beat by the USA. Colombian drug gangs were so pissed off that they killed one of the players. Witness said the killer shouted "Gooooooooooooool!" (mimicking Latin American TV commentators) for each of the 12 bullets fired into his body.
That's what it was like playing for the most dangerous team in the world.
KIDS SMOKE THE DARNDEST THINGS
2 year old kid partying it up in China. Can't embed this unfortunately so get clicking.
Try this direct link:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjcyOTU5NTI=.html
THINK COOL, THINK HULK
When I get a little hot under the collar, I turn to AIRCONOMANIA!!! to cool me down. Thanks Hulk Hogan.
PEDICURE PARMESAN
Helpfully, the new Ped Egg now grates 200% more foot! All that excess was weighing me down. Is anyone else astonished at the sheer mass of dead skin that one person produces? A family of five would be carrying out binliners of the stuff. Don't know about you, but I actually like eating dead skin. I nibble it off from around my fingernails. I secretly pick and chew my scabs. I'm pretty sure that pasta and lashings of pedicure parmesan would taste yum.
ERM... ARE YOU JOKING ME?
This guy has achieved the impossible and mastered the forgotten art of jumping on eggs without breaking them. Always prepared, he wears special shorts in case there's an accident.
EASY LISTENING MUZAK
Every night since 1963, at around 00:45hrs, the song "Sailing By" is played on BBC Radio 4 to preceed the late Shipping Forecast. Its tune is repetitive, assisting in its role of serving as a signal for sailors tuning in to be able to easily identify the radio station. Jarvis Cocker chose it as one of his Desert Island Discs, saying for many years he had used it "as an aid to restful sleep".
On this clip, "Sailing By" is followed by another British easy listening classic that was played on Ceefax all the time. These are both much better than the "chillout beats" they now play on Sky Plus when you select channels.
On this clip, "Sailing By" is followed by another British easy listening classic that was played on Ceefax all the time. These are both much better than the "chillout beats" they now play on Sky Plus when you select channels.
LOOK HERE WHAT I GOT
"We got our doughnut, we got our burger, we got our egg, we gotta couple of pieces of bacon ... We're gonna have our sweet AND our savoury."
WAY BEFORE THE INTERNET & YOUTUBE, THERE WAS PUBLIC ACCESS CABLE TV
Check out these vintage clips from the 1980s alternative music video show, Back Porch Video. Premiering January 28, 1984, this pioneering program was crewed and hosted by high-school students from Detroit.
Why I love Black Flag
"Public Enemy" by Public Enemy (NOT Chuck D's)
"I Don't Care About You" by Fear
Why I love Black Flag
"Public Enemy" by Public Enemy (NOT Chuck D's)
"I Don't Care About You" by Fear
MARK GORMLEY
I think I might be a little late on discovering the radness of Mark Gormley, but I don't care because this man's talent is timeless.
I first came across him when I saw his "Without You" video, probably the best music promo since the legendary Jan Terri. It takes a minute to kick in, but once it does, it does forever.
Here's an in-depth interview with Mark. So good. Bless you YouTube.
I first came across him when I saw his "Without You" video, probably the best music promo since the legendary Jan Terri. It takes a minute to kick in, but once it does, it does forever.
Here's an in-depth interview with Mark. So good. Bless you YouTube.
SCARY HOME MOVIES
"Where I used to work, we would transfer peoples old 8mm home movies to VHS tape, and then slap on a music bed. Well, with this one, we had just gotten in a new classical music CD, and didn’t listen to it all the way through before we put it on the tape. Well, this is the music that accidentally got put on these poor people’s home movies."
SUPER BROKER SHUFFLE
"Hey you guys, why don't we liven up our corporate promo video by doing a rap version of it?"
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