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By Kate Perry
For The Maine Campus
Liquid Generation is a lunatic funhouse, a bunny-slippered kick in the teeth and a shot of vodka with a napalm chaser.
In other words, it’s a damn fun Web site.
Liquid Generation offers a crude and quirky electronic smorgasbord of animated shorts, interactive games, horoscopes, videos, quizzes and links to some of the most outrageous Web sites on the net. It takes a few minutes to load the items, and you have to return to the main menu after each selection has played through, but your patience will be paid back tenfold.
Among the prime selections, site-goers can check out satirical short films, like “The Powderpuff Boys,” or even play a few rounds of “The Crying Game” (“Guess which chick has a little something extra!”). “The How To.” menu can show you how to “Love Your Guitar,” “Be a Boy Band,” “Karate Like It’s 1999″ or “Dance With Your Celebrity CutOut.” Click on “Celebrity Karaoke” to hear Ben Affleck, Courtney Love and Mariah Carey sing truly twisted ditties about their personal lives.
For the girls, the “Gloss” section offers bitingly funny horoscopes, StyleCheck interviews with (surprise!) stylists and a Sex Quiz that ranks how skanky you are. A typical question asks, “You are out with you beau and want to leave. You.a) whisper sweet nothings in his ear until he gets the hint, b) tell him discreetly that you want to leave or c) take your panties off in the ladies room and hand them to him.”
Combining entertainment with usefulness, the Web surfing guide at the top of the screen offers links to hundreds of Web sites relating to fashion, games, movies, tech, music, sex, and drugs. There’s even a section called After Hours, which hooks you up with beer reviews, club guides and hot party spots for Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, London and Miami.
One of the most warped features is an interactive short called “Interview with Osama bin Laden.” Unlike those other bin Laden broadcasts, at any point during this one you may punch the guy in the face with brass knuckles, lob a brick at him, club him upside the head with a baseball bat or jam sticks of dynamite into his ears.
Then, since you missed most of it because you were beating the hell out of him, I recommend that you go back and listen to the dialogue. It’s worth it. Bin Laden’s explanations for the attacks (the “total world domination” of David Hasselhoff) and his list of demands (including a guest spot on Ally McBeal as “her sexy foreign love interest,” a signed baseball from all of the Backstreet Boys and his adoption of Haley Joel Osment because “he is a very, very cute boy”) are hilarious.
Probably the most unique segment of the Web guide is the “Underground” links listings. Here, you can find everything from body art (tattoos, piercing, brandings) to oddball groups (Trekkies, nudists, pimps) to conspiracy sites (Roswell, UFOs, the government). Can’t find any sites on Yahoo! directories dedicated to ugly people, outlaws or cannibalism? This section’s got you covered.
A brief and very funny description accompanies each site along with a suggestion for its useful purpose. They’re well selected; all the links I clicked on were easy to use and overflowing with information.
At www.LiquidGeneration.com the Internet is at its best: informative and irreverent, accessible and wild. Not a bad generation to be a part of.
