6 March 2009 | 1:58 PM
I’m sorry, I’ll have to cook up something more erudite to say about this video later, after I stop giggling like a thirteen year-old:
Oh wait, that’s right – I probably won’t stop giggling like a thirteen year-old.
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25 February 2009 | 1:50 PM
In today’s media-obsessed culture, sometimes we lose focus of how hilarious and immediate the medium can be. One of the purest forms of this immediacy can be seen during game breaks at sporting events all over the land, when average Joes and Janes get their brief fifteen minutes seconds of fame by mugging for the Jumbotron camera. In that spirit, I give you the imaginative interpretive dance of one enterprising Boston Celtics fan:
While it very well might be staged (for another view of the dance, click here), it’s clear that very few of his fellow spectators were in on it. To me, this is the stuff of legend.
Beat LA!
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16 February 2009 | 11:18 PM
Goodness, just look at this delicious adorable little fellow!
Couldn’t you just eat him right up? Wait….I don’t know – what did you think I meant?
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9 February 2009 | 11:10 PM
I have to think that if the stoned post-dental kid from last week had been raised by Sean Connery and Liberace, he’d turn out something like this wee lad:
What’s sad is I think I wore the same suit to my Bar Mitzvah. Even sadder is that his Hebrew is clearly better than mine.
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6 February 2009 | 11:02 PM
My own limitations as a songwriter aside, the fact is writing pop music should be pretty easy. I mean, there are but a few dozen possible chords strung out across a finite audible octave range – I’m sure some brainy mathematician could come up with a surprisingly small exponential number representing all possible combination of those chords at various meters and…..oh man, I almost just put myself to sleep there for a second. Anyway, the supergroup Axis of Awesome didn’t need any calculus to figure this shit out. Instead, they just took one song – in this case, Journey’s epic power-ballad “Don’t Stop Believing” – and merely documented how its four-chord intro has permeated almost every corner of modern pop music. Check it:
Uncanny, no? You know I did an experiment like this once, too: as it turns out, if you listen closely, every Morrissey song sounds like cats fucking. What are the chances?
[Via Cityrag]
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4 February 2009 | 10:05 PM
This video of some poor, adorable lad name David coming out of a dental anesthesia-induced stupor hits a bit close to home, as I’m pretty sure I this is exactly how I must have seemed to the poor taxi driver who ferried me home last night:
Of course it’s easy to laugh since it’s not my kid, freaked out of his gourd. Then again, you have to admire this dad’s pluck, being sharp enough to capture the moment on video expressly so he could post it on the web for posterity and all.
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1 February 2009 | 10:09 PM
I’ve got to admit that this clever little Oscars-themed YouTube game is pretty entertaining:
I was able to get to level 23 without having to just blindly guess, which either means I have a keen eye for detail or I have far too much free time. Either way, it’s well done.
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30 January 2009 | 2:20 PM
Officially, the iconic metal band Metallica has been dead to me for ten years as a result of their decision to treat their fans as thieves. Unofficially, though, this video made my day:
Now when someone comes out with a ukulele version of “Master of Puppets”, I’ll be really impressed. Oh wait, it’s already been done. Anyway, Metallica’s still dead to me, but I take solace in the fact that things like this probably make Lars Ulrich’s blood pressure rise by fifty points.
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12 January 2009 | 9:41 AM
Of all the things which appeared on the inter-webs last year, my favorite by far (and it wasn’t even close) was David Lee Roth’s isolated vocal track from Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With The Devil”. Well, it took almost a year, but someone has deconstructed that bit of awesomeness even further, turning it into a Flash-based soundboard of epic proportions.
I used to think that the greatest pleasure this track had to offer came from randomly coming across it when listening to my music library on shuffle. Boy, was I ever wrong.
And yes, I’m working on putting these on my phone as ringtones.
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2 January 2009 | 11:07 PM
Even though I’d previously decided that Rocketboom was dead to me after what Andrew Baron did to Amanda Congdon, I have to admit that I’ve gotten lost tonight inside their excellent Know Your Meme series. Even web junkies like me can have trouble keeping our Star Wars Kids and our Dramatic Chimpmunks staight, so it’s helpful to have these wonderful dissections of the interweb’s sweet, sweet nectar so we can can delve deeper into why we’re such a society of gawkers. Here’s one of my personal favorites, the sad-but-true story behind the epic bit of awesomeness that is “boom goes the dynamite“.
It does make me wonder, though, if applying scientific rigor to such cultural spasms is really telling us something about ourselves, or just an exercise in making us feel like we’re not blowing so much time on the web.
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