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Today is the (holy shit) eleven-year anniversary of Lunch Money...

Today is the (holy shit) eleven-year anniversary of Lunch Money Criminals’ first gig. We played at an all-girls high school for performing arts (not our strangest gig) and playing there became a yearly tradition for us until my eventual move to Santa Monica in 2008 forced an unfortunate hiatus upon us.

The band is made up of Tommy, David (my two older brothers), and me on bass and dancing. We still have beers and play together around Christmastime every year and recorded rough tracks for five or six new songs that will likely never get finished.

You can download all of our recorded music for free right here and keep alternative-piano-Jersey-folk-rock alive for a little bit longer.

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thebrockway:

laughterkey:

sebsational:

unforgettabledetritus:

iena:

talesfromthecrypt:

alexandra-ewing:

kiss-distinctly-american:

jhrmn:

morefunthanbeingsad:

hatfights:

I found this wall of Indonesian bumper stickers via Kevin Church’s twitter (@Kevin_Church) and this, no joke, is art. I can’t stop looking at it. 

there are some incredible slogans on display here

if you don’t heart jiggy-jig i don’t know what to tell you

I can’t decide if I want Get Your Cunt Out or Fuck Me I’m Princess more. Wait nevermind. I want UTERUS!

I was so sure Grumpy But Gorgeous was going to be my new tumblr url but somebody’s already got it. :(

100% FUCK OFF

No one wants “Beau fucked a donkey”?

OK, dudes, I guess that’s more “get a dog up ya” and “suck a butt” for me.

I really like “I root fat chicks” but I think the juxtaposition of:

Up the bum no baby’s
Seize the moment
Beau fucked a donkey

Is really what draws the eye here.

I can’t stop staring at I WILL SHIT IN YOUR MOUTH.

GET YA CUNT OUT

A new single by Drake. 

Get Ya Cunt Out is actually Mumford and Sons, Brockway.

I've just watched the Welcome Back, Potter series and I gotta say the way you became a cartoonish character and conveyed complex emotions in a silly setting was beyond awesome. How'd you get into character for this role?

Thank you very much! I wish I could take credit for the character, but honestly three people are much more responsible for Donnie than I am. Michael wrote a very clear and realized character; all of the heavy-lifting was done because he’d already come up with the character, everything was on the page already. Abe, our director, gave me lots of room to play and knew when to tell me to tone it down (spoiler: never).

The other unsung hero for me was Alex Simone, our wonderful costume designer. We shot episode three on the first day of shooting and when Alex put me in that outfit, with the yellow jacket, purple shirt, sunglasses and ridiculous amount of chains, most of my character work was already done for me, because that’s such a clear LOOK. Most of the time whenever I’m pretending to act I just feel like “Oh, it’s me, Daniel, but in a different shirt, or hat.” Alex’s costume was such a definite choice that it was easy to slide into that character.

Literally the only thing I did for the character was a dumb voice, tongue stuff, and a whole lot of dancing before each take. Whenever we were about to shoot, I would dance as hard and as idiotically as I could, because I wanted Donnie to move in a way that was altogether looser and freer than I personally move.

Any way watch the show and tell Alex what a great job she did with the costumes. And hire her!

Yo DOB, why you so crazy cool, dude?

Funny you should mention that, because *stress-farts forever*

Wait, you're leaving Cracked? Why?

No no, probably never! I just meant that the only reason I’d stop doing OPCD is if I was fired or quit. There’s no reason to think either will happen in the immediate future, so I will continue to them for a while.

The tongue thing you do in Welcome Back, Potter is fucking hilarious. Gorgeous.

At almost any given time in that show, I’m either doing a tongue trick or air-humping something. Really tested the boundaries of my tongue capabilities on this shoot. I don’t want to brag, but Kary Stoll found my tongue stuff to be “very gross.”

Are you planning any more episodes of Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder? It's my favourite online show that is that show.

Thanks! One per month from now until I leave Cracked.

Do you prefer Dan or Daniel?

Daniel! But I’m always too shy to correct people so no one calls me Daniel except my family and like four people I grew up with. It’s fine.

I really liked Rom[.]com. Do you think it'll come back?

We’ll see! I sure would like it to. That decision will be made by people who aren’t me. If it doesn’t get picked up, I’ll write a NEW show for Cracked, so my dumb ideas will always have a home.

On Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"

On Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'":

alisonagosti:

I have been inside the West Hollywood Ralph’s on Sunset more times than I can count, never at a reasonable time, never for anything good. A late night in 2010, I remember very clearly. I had ended things with my boyfriend for the hundredth time with a hundred more “this is it I swear to God I’m…

I heart Alison Agosti all day.