Category Archives: Celebrity

U2charist: with Billy Corgan, choirboy

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That’s the truly awesome new U2/Green Day video for The Saints Are Coming. Watch it; it’s an eyeful, just as it should be. Strong medicine hurts going down.

And this is the story of how church services are using the music of the greatest band in the world to inspire a new generation of Christians.

A communion service based on the music of U2 has become the latest trend for a number of Episcopal churches across the U.S.

The U2Charist–named after the band and the Eucharist communion–weaves songs by the Irish rockers into a church service along with corresponding slides.

Reported by USA Today, the special service was the idea of the Reverend Paige Blair, an Episcopal priest in York Harbor, Maine, who held the first U2Charist at her church on July 31, 2005.

Kicking off with “Pride (In the Name Of Love),” the service also incorporates images from historical civil rights campaigners such as Ghandi, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks… a key part is an offering for Bono‘s campaign to eradicate extreme poverty and global AIDS.

On this, Blair added: “It’s a big reason that this has taken off as a movement. It’s what Bono and the band are passionate about.”

Take THAT, Rolling Stones!

YouTube kills Colbert Report, Daily Show, South Park: a nation mourns

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silence. Silence, you fools. They Killed KennyWho am I kidding? I live in CANADA and I’m mourning.

They killed Kenny.

It’s true. Newscloud (via Boingboing) reports that the worst has happened. Civilian observers in the war against big media report 15256 casualties as a result of Comedy Central’s strike against YouTube.

  • 2546 of the dead are Daily Shows
  • 2038 are Colbert Reports
  • and, in a stunning slaughter unmatched since Israel’s strike on Lebanon, a staggering 10672 of the losses came from the small community of South Park.

now, the report from the front lines:

…a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. If you visit YouTube, all Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips now show “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”

For a long time, Comedy Central has passively allowed the sharing of online clips of its shows—because let’s face it, it’s helped them generate the kind of water cooler talk that has made them a ton of money. 

Even Stevphens, we hardly knew ye. (oopsie, this one’s still kicking: watch it while you can)

oh my god they killed kenny! You BASTARDS!

Frisk Me Elmo, drug mule

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El 'mo, arrested 

Now, this just does not surprise us here at the ol’ raincoaster blog. As you may be aware, we’ve never hesistated to expose the truth about the house of sordid, bent, and blood-soaked cards that is the superstar known as Elmo.

No indeed: whether he’s making a top-rated (although willing to bottom on a slow night) gay sex tape, high-hatting his erstwhile castmates, or descending gleefully into the warm, greedy embrace of malevolent pagan cults, El ‘mo has been, for those in the know, a touchstone of Hollywood excess for more than a decade.

Now, however, his decadent lifestyle has finally come to a grand finale, full of words, and tickles, and signifying nothing. His career in a shambles, his comeback Fall Over Drunk Elmo doll a dud, and desperate to pay for a crippling substance abuse and alimony habit, El ‘mo has turned to two-bit drug-running.

The Smoking Gun is there.

OCTOBER 26–A Colorado drug operation hid large quantities of methamphetamine inside Elmo dolls, according to federal investigators who yesterday announced the indictment of 21 alleged members of the ring, which transported the drug from California…

When investigators opened up the plush doll’s skull, they discovered the drug stash inside wrapped in plastic (as seen in this evidence pic). While Elmo has never previously been linked to narcotics distribution or use, the Sesame Street character appears to have no teeth, which frequently is seen in heavy meth users.

El ‘mo, unable to make bail, is currently being held in Corcoran State Prison, where he takes perverse satisfaction in the fact that he occupies the cell vacated by Robert Downey Jr.

sentence me El 'mo!

Brian Atene, Bad Audition Boy and the reason YouTube exists

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Yep: to make sure we can never, ever live down our most embarassing moments. Here’s what Defamer has to say about this four minute and thirty-two second glimpse straight down the gaping, gibbering maw of Hell itself.

Please, Stanley Kubrick has cast weirder 

In 1984, or so the YouTube blurb legend goes, the late, great Stanley Kubrick “placed ads throughout the U.S. for young aspiring actors to send in audition tapes” for his upcoming project, Full Metal Jacket. Whether or not the director ever saw this submission–and we think the less we tell you about it the better–we cannot say.

I can say, though, and I say that if he had seen it, he’d have died right then and there.

Brace yourselves; he went to Juilliard. But then, so did Robin Williams, and I bet he’d make a more plausible Outsider.

There is also an hilarious new video which claims to be the 2006 Brian Atene, also addressing Mister Kubrick (Mister CUE-Brick!) and re-enacting a scene from Full Metal Jacket. It must be seen to be believed: Me so hoooooorny! Me love you longtime!

Michael J. Fox, come home!

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But the best headline of the day award has to go to Fark, which announced Bob Geldof‘s opening of a new stem cell research centre in Toronto with the words:

Tell me why I don’t like fundies.
Tell me why I don’t like fundies.

Geldof, self-deprecating about his scientific knowledge, said that staring at cells through a microscope, “you know absolutely that the secret of those desperately traitorous illnesses that so defeat us is in there. And these microscopes and these brilliant men and women are going to get at it.”

Among those brilliant men and women referred to by Geldof is Gordon Keller, who is coming home to Canada to head up the McEwen Centre after spending 16 years in the United States.

One of the world’s foremost stem cell researchers, the native of Melville, Sask., has spent the last seven years at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where his lab has performed groundbreaking research generating various types of cells from embryonic stem cells.

Well, if he’s as smart as he seems, Michael J. Fox has got to be double-thinking his decision to become an American citizen. Even Metrotown‘s gotta be looking pretty good to a nouveu Yank facing six-figure medical bills and the certainty that, should a cure for Parkinson’s emerge from the most promising area of research, it is already illegal in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Grave of Democracy.