hurts so good
The world's greatest cover page is not the one in her compilation of contemporary bad crafts, Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF (based on the website of the same name). No, it's this list of audio files at writer-broadcaster-actor April Winchell's other amusing...way to waste a whole lot of time.
Every great Hollywood "Golden Throats" vanity album track, in-studio meltdown, bad corporate cheerleading jingle, foreign-language version of a hit song you've ever heard on a mix tape, Morning Zoo radio show, at some guy's apartment after the bars close--April Winchell has it covered. There are twenty terrible covers of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" alone (actually, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's version is pretty great). Ever heard Joe Pesci's cover of "Got To Get You Into My Life?" Richard Dawson's "Apples and Oranges?" As Sammy Davis, Jr. would say in his cover of "Shaft," it's bad-bad-bad-bad-bad-bad-bad! (Sadly, that's about the only terrible version of a great tune you can't find on the site.)
Winchell, the daughter of ventriloquist Paul Winchell, has been blogging some of the worst artisan wares from the indie-craft sales site Etsy (hence, Regretsy) since October 2009, attracting a chorus of regular commenters with remarks every bit as cutting as your good sewing scissors. There's at least one other site we know of that chronicles questionable crafts, but whether you're in the mood for bad arts-and-crafts or bad music, when it comes to so-bad-it's-good, April Winchell has written the book.
Above, bad embroidery as featured at Regretsy.com
