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)

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?

Little baby Rosie is on her way to becoming a famous musician. And she didn’t even wake up!

(via)

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.

Awwww … so there’s a guy whose girlfriend just moved across the country. He misses her. What does he do? He secretly wrote her a song and, with his roommates, made a video to go along with it. He hopes that through people passing it along organically — virally — it will eventually reach her. He’s not going to show it to her himself.

I’m doing my part.

(via Gizmodo)

Perhaps something like this?

Perhaps not.

(Found posted by a friend on Facebook.  It’s like I don’t even try anymore…)

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

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!”

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.)

In case you missed it too, here it is:

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!

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: