Last Thursday I stayed home sick. And while I was laying in bed hoping for my cold to go away, I was chilling out listening to some music I hadn’t turned on in a while. One of those bands was T-Rex. In North America, we mainly know them for their “one hit wonder” Bang A Gong and their song Buick McKane, which was covered by Guns & Roses on their “The Spaghetti Incident?!” album.

Marc Bolan and T-rex were an extremely influential band from the glam rock era, really only second to David Bowie. They were catchy, just slightly aggressive enough to be dangerous and totally weird, especially lyrically. T-Rex had a massive influence on the first have of punk bands out of the UK, post-punk, new wave and the hair metal bands of the 80′s. They had hits on several of their records, but for my money, their best album was The Slider, which is chock full of bizarre lyrics, insanely catchy hooks all backed up by a massive string section. If you want to kick your Monday up a notch, throw on this little gem called Chariot Choogle.

James

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I have a massive comic-art-erection for this artist who goes by the name of DenisM79 (real name Denis Medri). He’s the dude that does the incredible Star Wars as an 80′s movie sketches and the Justice League on a western theme pieces as well. Now he’s really balling out with this super cool Batman in the 1950′s theme. It’s full of hot rods, pin ups and crazy, whacky characters. This also needs to happen.

First, check out this cool montage video of DenisM79′s work, then hit the jump for more great artwork and style.

Joker & Batman

Bane as Lucha Libre

Killer Croc as gangleader/street fighter

The Penguin

Bruce Wayne, running the family garage.

Catwoman

Yes, Catwoman

The Joker & Harley Quinn

The Riddler vs Nightwing

Robin

Two Face

James

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Wednesday. Always a good day.

Disney/StarWars hyrbid cosplay = awesome

Steampunk Vader-ess for the win

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So a Redditor by the name of Aussie50 threw some scrap into a front loading washer, turned on the camera, set it to high and stood back. This is what ensued. It’s almost scary in a strangely hilarious way.

James

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Half of me is bummed I didn’t go to Coachella. The other half is really happy I didn’t have to be surrounded by this. Still, 3 days in the Palm Desert would have been great.

James

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Meet Tom Bingham. Tom loves Star Wars. Tom also loves guitars. Tom has been combining his two passions for the past few years buy purchasing toys and guitar parts at car trunk and auction sales and carefully creating these masterpieces. The B and Y wing guitars are sweet, but the Millennium Falcon, often seen all over the internet, is still awesome.

James

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Here’s some new Public Enemy for y’all this morning. It’s a great way to get your Monday afternoon really rolling. It features Brother Ali and feels like it could be a new school track off of It Takes A Nation Of Millions. Public Enemy may not be the sound of the day, but they will always be cool.

Enjoy.

James

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So, this is a thing. Bathing Bad is from an organization in the UK called Firebox and I think it’s pretty freaking awesome. Of course it’s not real meth but the packaging and look is great.

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Back in the year 2001 I predicted that within 20 years there would be sex devices that would be plugged into a computer and we could engage in simulated sex with someone across the world wide web. People thought I was crazy, but low and behold, Durex drops the bomb today that they’re putting the finishing touches on special clothing that can vibrate via a phone app. That means that if your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/random stranger is far far away from you, you can kind of “do it” via technology.

More on this at Telegraph

James

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Well Spring is technically here so we can pretend that Summer is basically dry humping distance away. One of the best things about summer aside from weather, camping, patio beers, skateboarding, driving with the windows down, listening to music, barbequing, smoking cigars, wearing shorts and thundertorms are all the rad movies that drop over the spring and summer.

Today on The List, I’m going to run down 5 movies I’m pretty stoked about seeing.

5) Elysium

Matt Damon, kicking ass in a post-apocalyptic future. Jodie Foster. Dystopia vs Utopia. Sign me up.

4) The Wolverine

I’m pretty much the only man on earth who was a fan of the first Wolverine movie, but The Wolverine looks even better. I’m a fan of Wolverine’s comic book work in Japan and this film appears to be a good mix of cannon, story line and action.

3) The Lone Ranger

First of all, Johnny Depp COULD have been The Lone Ranger, but I’m pretty sure he decided it would be way more fun for him to be the wise cracking Tonto. I love the look and feel of this movie: a big budget action western, not hung up on period correctness. It’s been a long, long time since we’ve had a western like this and I can’t wait. Also: I’m thinking about dressing as the Lone Ranger all 10 days of Stampede.

2) The Place Beyond The Pines

Ryan Gosling seems like he’s every girls dream, but I also think he’s cool and kind of a bad ass. I’m really looking forward to his turn as a white trash dirtbike hero turned bankrobber turned loser in this film, mashed up against Ray Liotta and Bradley Cooper on the other side of things. It feels a lot like Drive, which I loved, but not as much as Gosling’s other movie…

1) Only God Forgives

Everything about this screams violent art house love fest. It reeks of sexuality, violence and the sort of brooding anti hero we’ve seen from Gosling in movies like Gangster Squad and Drive. It also has Drive’s director. Very, very stoked.

James

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