Tuesday, January 10, 2006

pancake mountain

Pancake Mountain
Anti-Flag - Police State In The USA from Die For Your Government


let's set some things straight - i don't live in D.C., i don't have cable, i am not a parent. but i do have what has been referred to as an "excellent sense of humor". as long as i'm setting the aforementioned record straight - thats mostly because i make the best fart noises with my palm in my armpit. it is also true that i have an "excellent sense of chlamydia", but who over the age of 12 doesn't these days?

to illustrate my point - the one about an excellent sense of humor - when Bernard asked me if i did stand-up when i was buying a bike from him a few days back, i didn't blink. i just added him to my brimming legion of adoring fans and told him to sign up for my newsletter. i realized as i left that "do you do stand-up" is just bernards way of saying "you seem to have urinated in your pants"

that realization has little or no connection to my subsequent realization that the Washington DC based cable access show Pancake Mountain is genius. the kind of genius that i thought could only be achieved with my old college friends after a delirious night of binge drinking and copious amounts of weed. Pancake Mountain it's what i would do if i lived i n DC, was into puppetry, broadcast technology, and alternative/punk music. fortunately for the children of DC, i'm only into that last one. I like to think of the show as evidence to what people who lack a coherent thought process are capable of. don't fuck with us. we'll bust cable access on you and free-style-blog all up side your nut. while that's a little shy of taking over the world and running your life, it means we'll influence your children, and that should frighten you. Ah... that seems to segue nicely into presenting some actual facts (gasp!) ...

Pan Mo is a kids show on DC cable access that performs hysterically wacky skits and gets bitchen bands to play live and is generally very, very juvenile. the best thing about kids is that being juvenile is what they're SUPPOSED to be at that age, and it's a good influence on non-kids - because the alternative is to become your parents. unless of course your folks were new age hippies who did lots of regression exercises and acted like chimps on mescaline three times a week. in that case you should be a CPA and do tax returns for the people who run things like Pancake Mountain.

So what does Anti-Flag have to do with all of this? well, nothing at the time of the recording of Die For Your Government. except that the Pancake Mountain theme song is performed by AF.

you can watch a bunch of clips and even buy DVD's for just a few bucks through the website.
pick them up for all the kids you know.

do the kids a favor - Buy Pancake Mountain