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Keith Moon Parties Today’s Rockers Under The Table

jerwin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:02:18 +0000

Keith Moon (with giant electric toothbrush in underwear?) and friends backstage

By coincidence, yesterday’s MTV Video Music Awards fell on the 30th anniversary of the death of Keith Moon, the legendary drummer for The Who who was known for pounding skins (kick, snare, tom), drinking champagne and cognac for breakfast, and pounding skins (the two-legged variety).

With host Russell Brand doing his (lame) blissed-out British rocker routine, it got us thinking'could today’s musicians hang with the Notorious M.O.O.N.? See how they measure up to his bad habits below.

QUESTIONABLE “HUMOR”

If there’s one current “musician” who could give Keith a run for his money, it would be Amy Winehouse. But while Ms. Rehab has a cracked out video of her singing a song called “Blacks, Pakis, gooks, and nips,” Moon (above, left) used to get his jollies dressing up like an Adolf Hitler puppet. Since Keith’s hideously poor taste is done with a smirk (as opposed to a drool), he takes Round One.

Advantage: Moon

BAD DRIVING

These days, everyone from Nick Carter to Eve has picked up a DUI charge. But as far as we know, even DMX hasn’t driven a Bentley into a hotel swimming pool, as Keith did on his 21st birthday in 1967.

Advantage: Moon

PASSING OUT ONSTAGE

Keith was running unopposed in this category until Jodeci’s JoJo ~~fell out drunk~~ had an epileptic seizure during the group’s reunion tour this summer. But whereas Jo was able to walk off stage under his own power, Keith had to be carried out by roadies after nosediving into his snare for the second time at a 1973 concert. He also scores bonus points because his band continued to play the rest of the show with some dude from the audience.

Advantage: Moon

LIQUID BREAKFAST

While trying to give up drinking in the mid-’70s, Moon consulted a doctor who told him that his daily breakfast'biscuits and gravy, along with a bottle of Dom Perignon, Courvoisier, and a couple downers'would make it a little difficult for him to easily segue into sober life. On the other hand, so-called “hard-living” Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee recently announced he’s going vegetarian. For a bitch.

Advantage: Moon

UNTIMELY DEATH

Sure, there are plenty of rockers (and even a few rappers) who’ve died of overdoses, but it’s important to note that Keith died not of booze or recreational drugs, but from an overdose of a pill he was given to help him stop drinking. There’s a lesson there kiddies.

Advantage: Moon

Coffin Couches Are To Die For

bfred — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:11:47 +0000

When we first heard that someone was recycling coffins to make couches, we were a little worried. How can they recycle something that in buried 6 feet under with a dead body in it? Well, apparently these are coffins that were used for display purposes in funeral homes, but were not used for burial due to “slight cosmetic inconsistencies.” Since law prohibits the reselling of coffins to the public, the good folks at Coffin Couches put them to good use.

Okay, so we felt pretty good about the recycling thing after hearing that, but then the Coffin Couches homepage hits us with this nugget:

“If you notice (although it may be too small) the six cast iron heavy duty legs are embossed with the universal biohazard insignia. The reason we utilized this sign was because safety was our utmost concern. If you are not aware, once a human body is placed in a coffin it is considered biohazard tissue. The legs have the embossed insignia for precautionary reasons in the event body fluids are exchanged on these coffins.”

Wow. So if you don’t mind a little residual bodily fluid on your furniture, these $4,500 couches are definitely unique. Our favorite is the “Dodger Blue” (pictured above), but check out the rest of the Coffin Couches after the jump.

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Hollywood Bear From Semi-Pro Kills His Trainer

bfred — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:09:24 +0000

It's not uncommon for Hollywood luminaries to turn on the people who made them. Tom Cruise famously fired his agents a couple of years back, and Orson Welles was long rumored to dredge his leading ladies in buttermilk and breadcrumbs, then deep-fry them for a tasty snack. But it's been a long time since someone let fame get to their head like Rocky, the grizzly bear from Semi-Pro, who killed his trainer yesterday in California with a bite to the neck.

Rocky, who another trainer had recently dubbed “the best working bear in the business” (not counting Kevin Smith, we're sure), was subdued with pepper spray and contained. His fate now rests in the hands of the San Bernardino County Animal Care and Control Program. After the jump, you can see poor bloodthirsty Rocky in happier times, wrestling Will Ferrell and plotting his ursine revolt in a training video.

[Associated Press]

Go Green After Death With The Ecopod Coffin

bfred — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:10:48 +0000

Earth Day is all about preserving life, but that doesn’t mean being environmentally responsible stops when you kick the bucket. In fact, almost 90% of coffins used in burials are made of chipboard covered with a laminate, which leaks formaldehyde and glue into the groundwater and omits poisonous gases into the air. That means there’s a whole gang of well-meaning hippies who spend their whole lives recycling, driving electric cars and caressing endangered species, only to give Mother Earth a big posthumous middle finger.

The Ecopod is an excellent alternative, since it’s made out of 100% recycled paper and is completely biodegradable. It comes in four colors with a variety of designs (see a gallery below) and they cost about $1500 to $1900, depending on which you order. It does look a bit like an alien cocoon, but that’s a plus if you ask us.

Related: Quiz: How Green Are You?

[TechDigest]