Sarah Palin's rambling interview with Katie Couric accompanied by a piano is genius. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nlwwFZdXck]
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Law student (Notorious B.O.A.L.T?) at UC Berkeley Law raps about CivPro (Language NSFW). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBTba2J6OKI]
This part made me laugh:
Your girl is an 8a, short and plain But that bitch is a ten when she’s giving me brain She bolted out of ASP, demanding relief But first I made her taste my jurisdictional reach
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Snoop and the Dogg Pound freestyle while Dre plays the piano. Classical gangstas. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb0MtwQqAj0]
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It appears Britney is back in a big way with this new music video. This song will definitely have the girls slapping the floor at the clubs. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMt_vW8NWSk]
Good to have you back, Brit. We took you for granted before. Now lets all agree that you will stay out of the crazy zone. It wasn't a good look for you.
1. Juxtaposition of Obama and McCain supporters. 2. Rednecks for Obama. Seriously.
3. Are you hot or not? Probably not. Except for your mom. Hi-ho!
4. Apple invites media to notebook event on the 14th of October. Looks like MRod will be blogging from a new Apple laptop by the end of October!
5. I'm definitely going to Banksy's new "pet store."
7. Zipper pond.
9. Bill Clinton and Halle Berry's respective Esquire covers juxtaposed. I prefer Halle's.
10. Halo 3: Recon announced. Sticky plasma grenade goodness!
11. Good advice about music being played while you're having sex.
12. MI6 spy's cover slips off during TV interview. Spy FAIL.
This is an updated version of the popular song Take on Me by A-Ha which replaces the original lyrics with ones describing literally what is occurring in the music video. You just have to watch it to see, but I got a kick out of it. It's a best of the week for me. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ]
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The blistering video of Korean Jeong-Hyum Lim casually ripping through Johann Pachelbel's Canon with his electric guitar is the stuff of YouTube legend (+48 million views) and spawned an online meme as well as a cottage industry of copycats and imitators, including Weezer who paid homage to it in the opening scene of the music video to their song Pork and Beans. He is now in New Zealand in school studying computer science, but he met with David Farrier of TV3 for this interview: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-80uzb24pfs]
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1. Leo DiCaprio avoids the reality TV cameras of The Hills. 2. What awaits at the bottom of the Dow Jones Industrial Average trend? DRAGONS.
3. Giant distorted working iPod.
4. New York Magazine "diary" of a single college girl in the City has to be fake.
5. YouTube ups the size limit of uploads from 100 MB to 1 GB. Awesome, now I can watch Chronicles of Riddick in just four parts instead of twelve. [Thanks Nick!]
6. Visual comparison of failed $700 billion bailout with other federal funding.
7. McCain campaign owns the URL voteforthemilf.com. Hah.
8. Great pizza ad.
9. Photo stitching with the iPhone.
10. Where's the freakin' press conference? "Since she was selected, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has held more press conferences with American reporters than she has."
11. This cupcake looks so dang delicious that when I first saw it I said that I wanted to make sweet love to it. Except I expressed this sentiment much more crudely.
And lastly:
Ashley was right when she said to watch the last 10 seconds of this music video from the Fall Out Boys. It's great. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z1wyXxmnEw]
I'm not the biggest fan of this band, but for a pop music video it has a humorous political subtext that's topical, and I especially love the band's needling of the buskers who operate on the street corners of Manhattan. I guess I still haven't gotten over those jackasses who dance in Grand Central after they called me Jackie Chan.
Justin Ouellette, founder of the now defunct music playlist sharing site Muxtape, explains the circumstances surrounding the closing of this popular website.
The meeting alternated between an intense grilling from the legal side (“you are a willful infringer and we are mere hours from shutting you down”) and an awkward discussion with the business side (“assuming we don’t shut you down, how do you see us working together?”). I asked for two weeks to make a proposal, they gave me two days.
To not sound like a cliche, but I really did discover a lot of new bands and music by just randomly exploring different "muxtapes" people created. I'm sensitive to the legal issues, but the mainstream music industry really needs to understand that whatever short-term loss they may experience from sites like Muxtape they will be paid back with long-term net gain of new fans.
(Formerly "News I Find Interesting") Here's a round up of recent items and links I found interesting but not necessarily worthy of a full entry of its own.
1. The woman who splits her time between London and New York, enjoys the official title of Lady, made over $100 million before marrying into the powerful Rothschild family announced she is endorsing McCain in part because she says Barack Obama is "an elitist." Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, you are no Lady. You are a silly hypocrite. [Thanks N]
2. Author Tom Wolfe who coined the phrase "Masters of the Universe" writes that they're still doing alive and well: they've just moved from Wall Street to Greenwich, Connecticut.
3. Apparently genius actor Michael Cera's mom is a MILF.
4. Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl cover Leather and Lace.
5. Future wifey Milla Jovovich @ Paris Fashion Week.
6. In one day homeless Robert Evans is struck by a car in a hit and run. On his way back from the hospital, he gets hit by a train. And survives.
7. Shaky sneak peek at the upcoming macbook pro?
8. McCain has to retract Palin's statements.
9. SNL nails Palin again in their spoof of her nonsensical interview with Katie Couric.
10. Cardboard duvet set.
11. Cool band performance on the fire escape.
12. Gorilla throws up.
13. Alan Fishman, CEO of the now defunct Washington Mutual was on the job for only 17 days before JP Morgan Chase purchased it. For his efforts, Fishman is entitled to $19.1 million in compensation. You do the math.
13. Dumb IT questions.
14. 10 ways Rock Band 2 will change the world. LOL. Funny article. [Thanks Moye!]
15. Jimmy Carter's fisticuffs comments on the exit of Thabo Mbeki.
16. Judge a book by its cover.
17. Russian and US naval forces go after pirates off the coast of Somalia after they jacked tanks.
18. Cool coffee advertisement.
19. The most interesting boring photos of Flickr.
20. Ah, Ricky Gervais, you disappoint me.
21. STR82NL. Haha.
22. Walking-Chewing Gum diagram.
23. I'm totally on board with group B.
Artist Ryan Cashman created this neat film of a green LED alien playing the piano in San Diego. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/1185346]
If you're wondering how on earth this was produced, Cashman explains:
I wrote the music and recorded it first. The frames were photographed with a Canon Rebel using 20-30 second exposure time. I used a small green LED keychain light to draw each frame. Once all the positions were photographed they were strung together and synchronized to the music in After Effects.
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In exchange for pledging and promising to vote in this year's presidential election on November 4, Wilco is giving away a free download of "I Shall be Released," a song originally written by Bob Dylan. Wilco is one of my favorite bands and I'm really stoked to see them getting involved in the year's crucial elections in this manner. Click here to pledge and download.
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As N put it, this disc jockey who continues to stay on air while a fire is breaking out in the studio "is either the coolest, calmest radio host ever or the dumbest." I say a little bit of both. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_KOK0wLmdA]
At the first sign of smoke I personally would have started running.
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The search engines MSN, Google, and Yahoo! go head to head and rap battle for supremacy. This is what Eminem gave birth to: Guys in blue tights and on Segways rapping about search results. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w688s-AURE]
What would SouljaBoy say about this I wonder?
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