21st century Wedding Anniversary Gifts

This post I consider in high form of minutiae worship, as it was inspired not from an article, but from the comment thread of an article.

This article from Boing Boing included an entrertaining discussion in the comment thread on a re-vamped list of wedding anniversary gifts for the 21st century. I've compiled and edited the list, as well as inserted a few new ones of my own-

1st Anniversary - His/Hers Identity Theft
2nd Anniversary - His/Hers RIAA Lawsuit
3rd Anniversary - His/Hers Tasers/Tasering
4th Anniversary - His/Hers Foreclosures
5th Anniversary - His/Hers No-Fly Lists
6th Anniversary - His/Hers Dickcopters
7th Anniversary - Addition To House To Include A Protest Zone
8th Anniversary - Visit From The Technoviking
9th Anniversary - His/Hers New Orleans Refugee (2008 model, not 2005)
10th Anniversary - His/Hers Rubber Bigfoot

Chiptunes And Legwarmers (Part 3) Now With Sweatbands!

Some live footage of Happysucky... Four words- Eight-Bit Blitzkrieg Bop

Chip is the new punk.

Chiptunes And Legwarmers (Part 2)

Best Fwends - Skate Or Live

Ok, there's no legwarmers in this video, but toe socks work just as well. I first saw these guys @ Awthumfetht 2006, and they blew my mind. I've hit up just about every show they've played since.

I remember a house party I was at with them, the cats from Happysucky, Ben Assacre, and a host of other miscreants where we were all trying to top each other on how versed we were with Hall And Oates's lyrics... then the party got busted by the cops and was relocated to the Metro Station.

Below I've included a British commercial that Bacardi paid them $10,000 for... they have a pretty funny blog on their Myspace page laying out in spreadsheet form what they blew the money on.

Good times.

Chiptunes And Legwarmers (Part 1)

Computadora Feliz - Happy Computer(C64 SID Mashup Remix)

I've been joking since Awthumfetht 2006 that all it takes to make me happy these days is chiptunes and legwarmers.

Leave it to this plucky German band to create what amounts to practically a fetish video made specifically for me =)

Oh and check out the parentheticals on this track -

C64.
SID.
Mashup.

Aw, yeah.

Amiga Longplay - Apidya

And when I say long-play... I mean LONG-PLAY. This video is about 45 minutes long.

It's a really great SHMUP, tho, with amazing music, gorgeous stages, and huge, mind-blowing bosses.

And the bonus stages are just nuts. The one at the 4 minute mark, where you are suddenly randomly capturing cherubs and avoiding demons, or at the 15 minute mark, where you traverse the guts of a fish, and then blast him once you come out the other end, and then at the 19 minute mark, where after blasting the giant maggots out of a dead rat you apparently decide to search through it's guts as well... wait, the boss of stage 3-2 is an inexplicable face at the bottom of a Pepsi can?

If you've never seen or heard of this game, I'd reccomend jumping straight to the middle of the video, where you fight the giant doll.

And then the music for the next stage, which could easily have been an Information Society B-Side.

Crazy, crazy game.