Warning there is quite a bit of swearing in the clip below. Watch it with headphones on if you're at work, or watch it at home. It is however well worth watching if only to see the most frustrating game of Super Mario Brothers ever. The levels that he's playing are clearly user created so it's some kind of ROM, a copy of the game played not on a Nintendo but on his computer.
Also is he trying to sound like Christopher Walken or is that just how he always sounds?
And when I saw it's not safe for work, I mean there's loads of swearing. Don't get fired on my account. Just go home, fire up your own computer and enjoy.
Why is electro-pop so ripe for parody? Is it because most of it's meaningless anyway? Either way I'm really looking forward to Incredibad by The Lonely Island in February.
I've been enjoying the French Canadian band Karkwa the last few days. Their new album was picked as the best French language album of the year by the iTunes store in Canada, so I picked it up. I always feel like I should own and listen to more French music, but it's hard to know what's good. The risk of buying the French equivalent of a Celine Dion album is very real.
The 1950s' must have been a wonderful time, with handy public service videos like this one to help kids make decisions about what sort of post-secondary education they should take. I actually saw this as part of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 VHS video that Aaron Peck and I rented from Silver Screen Video back when I was in high school. If only I'd taken its advice. Damn my liberal arts education.
I'm excited for the soon to be released film Frost | Nixon, which dramatizes the famous interview between the British journalist and former President Richard Nixon. Though the original interview is hours upon hours long, there's a few great clips of it up on YouTube that are worth taking a look at though now you have to pick through various trailers and features for the movie to find them.
Nathan showed me this clip on YouTube the other day. Originally broadcast on October 8th, 1967 the clip shows Cookie Monster eating a talking bit of machinery. It shows the wonderfully weird early years of Sesame Street, a weirdness that was channeled into The Muppet Show, as well as just how much of an attention span we've lost since then. I can't imagine a kids show putting a four minute clip on like this today.
This kind of feels like the culmination of everything the internet has been working towards since Day 1. Thanks to Wil Wheaton for the original find [ww]
I was thinking about the video I posted awhile ago of Louis CK talking about the technological advances we all take for granted [jks] when I realized that I'd once made an entire video on my old cell phone. That's right my old cell phone. My first cell phone made telephone calls, and if you threw it at a raccoon hard enough could probably stun a raccoon but that's about it.
It's been a bad year for Arsenal this season, and so I turn to the past and hide myself away in nostalgia. This Dennis Bergkamp goal against Newcastle United is one of the reasons I love Arsenal, and one of the reasons that Bergkamp remains my favorite Gunner.
I was talking to someone the other day about our favorite Muppets, and his was one of the Fraggles [wp]. I'm sorry but Fraggles are not Muppets. Sure they were created by Jim Henson, but that doesn't make them Muppets. Not to get all Mr. Continuity here, but the Fraggle's world and the world of the Muppets are separate and have never crossed over, unlike the Muppets and Sesame Street.
i love the Talking Heads, and one of their best songs is "Once In A Lifetime". The first time I heard the song however was not as sung by David Byrne and group but rather one Kermit the Frog as part of the relaunched Muppet Show. The show didn't really last, but the cover of the song by Kermitt was one of the great moments in Muppets history. I was reminded of this last night when Lydia revealled that she had never seen any of the Muppet movies, and only seemed familiar with TheMuppet Babies cartoon.
What the heck? At the very least The Muppet Movie is now on our list of things we've got to watch to get her up to speed. The girl has never even seen Jaws.
i must admit I rarely watch Saturday Night Live these days and have not regularly since the mid-1990s. Most of the time when someone starts talking about a funny sketch they saw on the show I... wait what am I talking about when's the last time that happened? Probably the early 90s'. Well at least until the arrival of Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, and SNL's wonderful Tina Fey acted spoof on her.
Take a look at these two clips, one is Fey and one is Palin. Which is more uncomfortable? I think that Fey as Palin probably would do a better job as Vice-President than Palin as Palin. The thing is I almost want John McCain to win just so we can keep getting regular Tina Fey guest spots as the new Vice-President on SNL.
You looking at blog post number 1,000 here at my personal site. I've been doing this a long time, and not always as actively as I'd have liked but I finally made it to the four digit numbers. If posts were money I'd be a thousand-aire.
Which is why I had hoped to have something more to post for you than some more footage of my trip to the Sub Pop 20th Birthday bash in Seattle. However I just finished working a twelve hour shift today, and I just realized that during this swing of shifts I'm working twelve days in a row. So you're going to have to get what you take.
Or something.
I did see the new Batman movie. Post about that soon I'm sure. Until then though enjoy the Flight of the Conchords.
I went to Matt and Oana's place tonight as they resurrected their (nearly) weekly movie night. Or if they did not resurrect it, then I've been able to finally make amends for whatever social mistakes I might have made the last time I was at their movie night, and got another invite. The last time I was there we watched Raiders of the Lost Ark, and this time it was The Vice Guide to Travel which was a compilation of short travel films by Vice Magazine featuring the sort of trips you'd never take to the places that no sane person would ever go.
Getting to their place was a bit of adventure [mbv], but thanks to Twitter I managed to find my way. You might have seen my Tweets asking for help on my blog here. I got lost and not having Matt and Oana's phone number, nor Ryan Cousineau's [wc] who was also going to be at the party, I had to Twitter from my phone asking for help. A few minutes later a stranger called me and using Google Maps we managed to find my way there.
So Mark Hamilton, thanks for the help.
Above is one of the bonus features on the DVD, which shows David Cross (Mr. Show, Arrested Development) exploring China. My favourite point of the video is when he's trying to buy bootleg DVDs of his shows and his travelling companion claims that Cross was in Scary Movie 3, to which Cross indignantly replied "Scary Movie 2".
As you might have notice I've been playing around with Flickr's new video feature. Some people, such as Matthew Good [fkr], have been using it to do short form videos and screen casts. That's something I might do in the future, but for now with a few exceptions I'm more interested in using it to do video photos.
Limited to 90 seconds I'm finding it better to capture motion and sound on a subject that I'd normally take a photo of. For example Winger above. The Vancouver Whitecaps mascot would make a good photo, but a very short video of him trying to rally the crowd behind the home team captures it a bit better. Similarly the video of the steaming noodles two entries below [jks] makes for a much more interesting video, as the bonito evaporates, than it does a still shot. That's not to say some short videos won't be something that I'll do, it's just that right now I'm digging the video still shot idea.
Recent Comments