While needlessly violent, I’m pretty sure this is an accurate representation of that one time the video’s creator dropped acid and got lost in an A&B Sound.
(from Devour, via someone on Facebook)
So it’s not really a short film; deal with it.
It’s something everyone says they’ve done, though I suspect very few actually have: play Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” synced up to the original Wizard of Oz. Personally, I never had the time (or inclination) to figure out exactly when to start playing the album. And, really, I wasn’t all that interested.
Bryan Pugh has done all the work for me us, allowing us the opportunity to experience what so many people have raved about…the Dark Side of Oz.
The Dark Side of Oz from Bryan Pugh on Vimeo.
Besides, it’s a long weekend. Surely you’ll have time to watch it, right?
Jan 202011
Little baby Rosie is on her way to becoming a famous musician. And she didn’t even wake up!
(via)
I’ve seen this sort of thing in person and have always marvelled how sign language, when set to music, becomes visually musical itself.
Dec 122010
With less than two weeks before Christmas, I guess I can begin to uncouple myself from the deeply ingrained grinchiness and provide you with some Holiday cheer.
North Point Community Church has an iBand — that is, a band that plays music using “i” tools. And it’s pretty cool, too.
Check it out:
This is Drew, who raps under the name CRUDBUMP, apparently, but who is also the mad genius behind Toothpaste for Dinner, one of my all-time favourite web comics. He is also the man who used a neti pot, but didn’t use warm salty water. You may recall the hilarious video.
He also sells T-shirts and they are mad hilarious, and they help support his site.
Nov 302010
What if it had been Disney that had scooped up the Harry Potter property in its infancy? What would have become of these dark “kids” movies (the latest of which I have not yet seen)?
Perhaps something like this?
Perhaps not.
(Found posted by a friend on Facebook. It’s like I don’t even try anymore…)
Nov 212010
So, I was preparing a blog post and was going to comment on how the subject of this pending post was like John Henry, and Amy didn’t know who I was talking about. So I typed it into Google to see how I could educate her, in song, and the first result was this.
I’m still not sure that she knows who John Henry was, but damn, that’s some killer blues. I had to share.
Also, Amy, I left that Wikipedia link for you 
May 312010
I love books. And I have a thing about librarians, too.
You know what I’m talking about: the tied back hair, the glasses, the stern looks… I need a minute here. While I pull myself together, check out this video (thanks to Christopher Moore for the heads up. Yes, THAT Christopher Moore):
Yes, they are all real librarians (or librarians in training). The entire video is made up of the faculty and students from the University of Washington’s Information School.
I think it works as a student recruitment tool. Example: “They would be my professors? They’re awesome!”
Apr 092010
This video which has, at the time of this posting, received almost 2 million views, is absolutely unbelievable.
Lin Yu Chun, a contestant on Super Star Avenue, Taiwan’s version of American Idol, is obviously a fan of Whitney Houston. And although I’m not a huge fan of the song, the skill with which this kid mimics Houston borders on the eerie…
(Any comments comparing him to Susan Boyle will be shunned.)
Jan 212010
Why haven’t I seen this before now? Was it that I just missed the memo? I spend enough time online that I should have seen it.
In case you missed it too, here it is:
Dec 222009
Just watch. Merry Ho-Ho.
Nov 242009
For the past several months, new Muppets videos have been appearing online, usually focusing on a single character or two — such as Beaker’s “Ode to Joy” video (awesome) and some clips of Stadler and Waldorf watching online videos (also awesome).
Now, however, the Muppets have reached a new level of awesomeness and have included all sorts of characters that are often overlooked. I’m thinking of the B-listers such as Lew Zealand and Beauregard.
So it really makes me happy to introduce to you… the amazing, the incredible, the incomparable Bohemian Rhapsody! Yaaaaaaaaaaay!
Nov 222009
Parenting isn’t easy. I’ll just put that out there and leave it at that. This post isn’t going to be about arguing with emotionally retarded teenagers or dealing with overtired 9 year olds who are all hopped up on sugar. Nor is it about those moments where they make you proud with their achievements or watching them grow into their own people or about the miracle of life or unconditional love or any of that touchy-feely crap I don’t have the stomach for.
This post is about those moments where something small happens and you go “Wow. I made that.”
Case in point: my youngest, 9 years old, was kicking around the house this morning singing a snippet of a song I’d never heard before. As he usually sings 80′s pop and rock (really), I thought maybe it was a song for a school event or something. Thus, as a good father, I ignored it until he asked if he could go on YouTube. Sure, I said, because that’s how I roll.
A few minutes later he calls me in and says, “Look. I found that song.”
“What song?”
“Dad. The one I was singing.”
And be damned if he doesn’t like good music. Maybe I’m behind the times on hearing this song, but that’s not the point. The song could be 20 years old and I’d still be impressed — he’s found a song he likes and I like, as well. Maybe this is about him becoming his own person after all.
Like I said, a little thing. But I said “wow.”
The song, by the way, is Fireflies by Owl City: