There's no such thing as a small part

You know those weird Japanese game shows that have made their way onto U.S. television? One cable channel, Spike TV (was TNN), for example, broadcasts a game show with satirical English dubbing that doesn't even claim to be a translation of what the hosts and contentants are actually saying. And it's funny in a sort of drunken-silly way.

Now there's a live-show version of this phenomenon. They're called the Tokyo Shock Boys, and they're touring Australia. (It's been a long time since I got any mocking references to Australians into my blog; this will have to do.)

Setting hair on fire, hammering sharp objects up noses, supergluing genitals to chairs, and sitting in drums of dry ice: these activities take a toll on the human body. Danna almost died from lack of oxygen doing the dry-ice stunt six months ago. "Yes, it can be bad, but we love to perform," says Danna's pink-haired partner, Nambu.

But who needs that sort of thing when we've got Courtney Love? The 39-year-old singer put in a hard night of fun, beginning with a guest shot on Letterman where she jumped on his desk and bared her breasts, then went to a club and brained a patron with a microphone stand, and ended up in jail. (Same picture here only much larger, and make sure you read the end of the story.)