I’ve heard some good music at the Yacht Club in Iowa City and I’ve played some music there (I’ve heard and played some bad music there), but goddamnit, those gi-normous brick pillars have got to go. All you can see from nearly any angle in the venue is:

Hell, even if you manage to see around these chubby red brick towers, all you can see then is:

(Above: a band celebrates on stage at the Yacht Club)

Damn.

-MC SpankyMcGee

I was looking online on Ebay.com last spring for rims to put on the Pumpkin Carriage and found some obscene listings in the wheel department, so I took a screenshot and saved it. I’d like to point out that Soupy Trumpet is not in the business of passing on vulgar images or peddling pornography. Additionally Ebay has been known to do well at protecting people so by no means is this their fault. I would assume the auction lasted for hardly any time at all… maybe Ebay took down the auction or some lucky buyer got a great deal on a low cost / high quality product.

Anyway a find like this is worth passing on, but the full image is not edited and is considered NSFW… also it is not one of our jank photoshop entries either. The true comedy is in the pricing I think.

“Hot Blonde Posing For the Winner”

One of the icons of rap music, Pimp C aka Chad Butler of the Houston rap group Underground Kingz (UGK), passed away in his Los Angeles hotel room December 4, 2007. Up until this week it had been believed that he had solely passed away due to natural causes. The recently completed autopsy and toxicology report have changed the cause of death to “accident” due to findings of prescribed cough syrup containing promethazine and codeine.

Pimp C had a medical condition called sleep apnea which gives temporary lapses in breathing and the medicine he ingested reduced his breathing rate and the two proved to be fatal. Hall of Fame NFL football player Reggie White died back in 2004 as a result of his sleep apnea, unexpectedly dying in his sleep as well.

Ironically back in 2000 in Pimp C’s home town of Houston, famous pioneer disk jockey DJ Screw, died of an overdose of codeine and promethazine. In Houston the combination of those two drugs is called “lean” or “purple drank”. There is no reason to believe that Pimp C was using the drugs in anyway other than prescribed.

Pimp C and the other half of UGK, Bun B, have been considered trailblazers for the “Dirty South” Houston, Texas rap scene. Most of there albums only received moderate commercial success but have been regarded as classics. UGK may be most famous for their guest appearance on the Jay-Z track “Big Pimpin“. Awhile back, Pimp C was incarcerated for not completing community service in a previous aggravated assault charge. He served about four years of his eight year sentence and was released on parole. While he was locked up, Bun B started a huge grassroots movement called “Free Pimp C” that lead to merchandise being sold, alums being recorded, and websites being flooded with the slogan.

In August of 2007 UGK released a double album, possibly their last, called Underground Kings. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts and has sold over 500,000 albums already. The big hit single off of the album “International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You)” features Outkast.

Bonus Free Music Download:
Chamillionaire “Won’t Let You Down - Extended Texas Edition” (18mins)
featuring Bun B & Pimp C, Paul Wall, Scarface, Lil Flip, Z-Ro, Mike Jones, and more…

Additional Reading: KVUE.com Article

MC Spanky McGee pulls some sweet economic forecasts out of his arse.

The study found a willingness to spend freely by sad people occurs mainly when their sadness triggers greater “self-focus.” That response was measured by counting how frequently study participants used references to “I,” “me,” “my” and “myself” in writing an essay about how a sad situation such as the one portrayed in the video would affect them….

On average, the group watching the sad video offered to pay nearly four times as much for a sporty-looking, insulated water bottle than the group watching the nature video, according to the study by researchers from Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Pittsburgh universities.”

This is truly awesome. We will never hit an economic depression again. Here’s why.

Every time we hit a recession, all we have to do is look at some sad photos!

Stare at each photo for 1 minute.

Don’t you feel the urge, welling up, deep down?

You know you want to. Oooooh, it would feel so good, just like Christmas morning, when you’re wearing your onesies, and it’s so warm, and you know that stepmom Cathy just bought you Call of Duty 4 to get you on her good side….

You know you need to bust out the .

This is the way we keep the economy alive and well. We throw a pity party for ourselves, and POOF, we’re back on top. The money flows, Walmart stays fat and happy, and everyone wins. We don’t need no stinkin’ rebate from Congress…

I fucking love

Our technical team here at Soupy Trumpet has come up with a prototype controller for “Major League Eating: The Game.“

You plug it in to your XBOX 360, and start up the game. All you have to do is open your cavernous mouth (the one you use to spew so much bullshit in Halo 3 postgame lobbies), bite on the hot dog offered by the robotic arm, swallow, and repeat. You’ll be on your way to wearing husky pants in no time!!!

The RoboDog 7000 offers a broad hotdog tray, so that you won’t have to get up frequently to replenish your supply. We have installed the fastest available motors so that you can chomp the dogs at a championship rate. Your skill level will rocket to 50 quickly, or we’ll give your money back. (Or you can always hit a brick wall at level 37, start up a new account with your favorite little buddy and house everyone on the way back up the ladder) Take on Takeru Kobayashi from the comfort of your own home!!! You’ll never leave the house again! (You’ll be too big to get out!)

The wired version is pictured here (retail price: $18,899.00), but for $49.95 more, you can go wireless!!!

Don’t forget to download our Soupy Trumpet icon for your whole Major League Eating clan/team! You and your fellow douchebag teammates can all have the same icons. Intimidate your opponents with your good sense of color coordination and similar gamertags!!!!

(Right click icon below and click “Save icon to my XBOX 360 so that my fucking teammates and I can be unoriginal dolts and have matching icons.”)

Fuck.

-Spanks

This is another one of my favorite viral videos of all time.  I think it is for an insurance company commercial or something like that.  It’s basically a zoomed in interview of a lil’ lovable boy telling a story over a cheesy bed of music.  You can pause the video at any point and come up with an Olan Mills quality photo as this kid is just that cute.  A strange side note about this video is that most of the versions of this video on YouTube list “black kid” as one of the keywords or in the description… anyway enjoy.

Update: Apparently the commercial(s) are for Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield and there are more videos on YouTube including this awesome karate video and the not so good just as cute  vegetable commercial.

Christopher Walken is a favorite here, maybe more of an icon really. Just about all of the roles he has played has been cash for one reason or another. IGN wrote a piece on the different looks he has had over the years on film which had me thinking back to some of my favorites of him. Just the other day I suggested he take over as the new Freddy Krueger in the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Of course we completely dig the “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) skits including the infamous “more cowbell” sketch with Will Farrell and crew. Then him shoving a watch up his ass in Pulp Fiction as Captain Koons, Clem in Joe Dirt, Feng in Balls of Fury, Bobby Cahn in Wayne’s World 2, and the dad in Wedding Crashers all make us laugh.

He was in Tim Burton movies Batman Returns and Sleepy Hollow. He was in Quentin Tarantino’s True Romance. He was in a James Bond movie. He was in classics like The Deer Hunter and Annie Hall. He was in music videos for Madonna and Fat Boy Slim. He was creepy sitting on chairbacks in “The Prophecy” series too. If I have to settle on my favorite performance of his, it may have to be him as Frank White in the King of New York or as Carlo Bartolucci in Suicide Kings.

So many to choose from… oh and a shout out to the picture source: Battle Against Bald via Google search.

Two of our favorite things at Soupy Trumpet are finally coming together like butt cheeks - Professional Competitive Eating and Video Games. On Thursday video game publishing company Mastiff Games released a press release for an upcoming game called “Major League Eating: The Game”. Mastiff acquired the gaming rights for Major League Eating (MLE) and the International Federation of Competitive Eating (I.F.O.C.E.) but divulged very few details at the time of the release. It is described as being played similar to a fighting game with twelve different foods to compete in.

Here at the Trumpet we certainly expect hope that our very favorite presidential candidate professional eater, Takeru Kobayashi , is not only in the game but the inaugural cover athlete. I have taken the liberty of firing up photoshop and offering a rough demo of said cover. Additionally we expect to be able to play as all of the best eaters in the world including Grown Pumpkin, rookie of the year Joey Chestnut, Patrick Bertoletti, Timothy “Eater X” Janus, Sonya Thomas, Chip “Burger” Simpson, Hall Hunt, and all the rest.

We also really hope that the game is available on XBox 360 since that is the only system Spanky has, the Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) so far has been really only a Blu-Ray player, and the Nintendo wii is far to much work… however it may be a blast on the wii to digitally eat chicken wings. If they somehow figure out an apparatus that can attach to the wiimote that allows us to get husky while schooling fools as Kobayashi, then I will fully support the wii version and invite Big Headed Bro Taguchi over for some doubles when he is near the Pumpkin Patch.

There really is no reason for Soupy Trumpet NOT to be hired as a collective advisory board for this game as it is essentially being made for us. We need to get our agent on this stat.