in praise of weird al (and youtube)
weird al interviews celine dion and pays homage to bob dylan. i love when he tells dion that they’re all out of drinks. (links to lots of other “interviews” from the celine dion one. )
does anyone know where these originally aired? anyway: please link to your favourite stuff on youtube so i can waste even more of my time.
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August 24th, 2006 at 12:02 pm |
I could watch Borat all day long.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:42 pm |
Coop has posted a big batch of 70s glam-rock vids here:
http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/
And if you scroll a bit lower than that he’s got three clips from the original Pee-Wee Herman Show at they Roxy.
August 24th, 2006 at 5:46 pm |
why don’t you kids get off the internet and go play outside? It’s a beautiful day!
August 24th, 2006 at 5:52 pm |
It’s raining Spam and eggs up here in Minnesota, mom.
August 24th, 2006 at 6:14 pm |
What’s the URL for goplayoutside?
August 24th, 2006 at 6:21 pm |
Wow–at that positiveape site Mark posted there is an amazing video by a group called OK GO–scroll down a little to the weird guys on treadmills….
August 24th, 2006 at 6:45 pm |
Yeah, one of the members of the band was on The Colbert Report last night. They produce these videos on their own dime and have been working with the same choreographer on a number of projects. Pretty cool.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:07 pm |
i didn’t know borat before waching this video. i am now a fan and forever will be!
August 25th, 2006 at 8:31 am |
For Mark.
August 26th, 2006 at 12:43 pm |
Here’s a blog of horror films - particularly Asian horror film releases.
http://blackholereviews.blogspot.com/
I guess the OK GO video is all right, they’re a major label band using indie label methods to get noticed. I didn’t care for their first album a few years ago and kind of forgot about them. Music videos in general seem comnpletely pointless to me - I don’t know what possible use or funtion they play, though in this band’s case, it got them noticed where their label was useless in doing so. There’s some recent records out that I like; I’m not being a complete bitter “Back-in-my-day-music-was-good” crank. Mike Patton’s Peeping Tom record has some good stuff on it. Psapp might be quite good; not sure yet. I like Rose Melberg’s solo album - she used to be in Tiger Trap. Paul Weller’s new double live album is surprisingly quite good too. New record by Old Crow Medicine Show I’ve not heard yet, but it’ll probably be great, and they’re a band worth cataching live.
August 29th, 2006 at 9:54 am |
Gio–
Coming soon to a theatre near you.
August 29th, 2006 at 10:22 pm |
Holy cats. Earth people of the 1970s were fantastic.
August 29th, 2006 at 10:32 pm |
i like when after the 4th replay the announcer notes, “powers’ jump was unsuccessful”. oops, spoiler!
August 30th, 2006 at 7:11 am |
nikki,
thanks for the heads up!!! somehow, i doubt this will come anywhere near me, but one can hope and pray.
August 30th, 2006 at 9:05 am |
Gio, Borat will most definitely make it to Dade County. Newsweek recently picked it as one of the must-see films for fall, and it is certainly receiving a national release.
September 21st, 2006 at 11:48 am |
For those with a fast connection and a love of odd movie music: I’ve been finding some excellent music blogs lately: Apparently there’s a kind of code of honor where if one blog posts a link to a soundtrack, then it’s off limits to other blogs. And the blog that DID post the link may pull it down after a few days for bandwidth or legal reasons. On the plus side it means a lot of these blogs are digging deep into obscure Italian, French and Japanese soundtracks. On the bad side, you have to search many different blogs to find something specific, and even then the link may be expired.
Still, here are two that I’ve just been bowled over by, the music is so damn cool:
http://7blacknotes.blogspot.com/
http://1sound.blogspot.com/
September 21st, 2006 at 11:02 pm |
is this musical honor code only for soundtracks? bizarre, hey?
October 12th, 2006 at 10:35 pm |
Not youtube, but doing the rounds in a similar fashion, is this video link:
http://wallstfolly.typepad.com/wallstfolly/2006/10/alexey_vayner_n.html
It is apparently part of the (genuine) resume and application of a Yale student for a job in the financial sector. No doubt this will soon become a required part of any job application. I am very glad that I got a job before the online video age.
October 25th, 2006 at 5:14 pm |
I’ve no idea where this belongs. Probably nowhere, but it has a vague claim to be about movies, though it is more about tenure:
http://mcsweeneys.net/2006/10/10bryan.html
May 9th, 2007 at 11:26 am |
This has had a hypnotizing effect on me for the last few days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MYVv4tgQc
May 9th, 2007 at 6:32 pm |
Excellent song. What do you make of the ending?
May 10th, 2007 at 9:08 am |
I don’t know, unless ‘kill’ is being used in the sense of ‘knock ‘em dead.’
May 10th, 2007 at 11:50 am |
i’m more worried about the fact that he thinks that jim morrison’s name should not be taken in vain.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:35 am |
Someone is very excited about getting tenure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKW3DzcUEOI
June 4th, 2008 at 3:02 pm |
This version was inevitable. Vulgar, but pretty damn funny.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm |
Every chicken dance compiled into one video.
Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?
September 11th, 2008 at 1:24 pm |
In case you have any questions about Marxist concepts (and who among us does not?) I recommend this collection of YouTube videos by a former student of mine. I taught him some Marxist theory, but he now appears to understand it better than I do, and he certainly explains it better. http://www.youtube.com/user/brendanmcooney
For a weak link to film, see his “The Matrix and the Machines” video.