The WTF Collective: MC Side-Tracked Easily, MC Insecure, MC Fatigued. Not the best rappers, but they've still got more rhymes than... um, something that rhymes a lot. (Jon Lajoie via Buzzfeed)
Watch 100 of YouTube’s most famous viral videos in just over three minutes. Are there 100? Dunno, I didn't keep track, but it would take you a lot longer to find and watch them all separately. I should know, seeing as how many of them I recognized. Consider it a time-wasting time saver. (Link via Presurfer)
Rainy day crafts with Douglas Coupland. "I know a lot of morning people and I know a lot of night people, but I have yet to meet a late afternoon person" (Link via @DougCoupland)
Poor Harry Potter, he just can't bring the hurt against Voldemort, even with his "Hagrid-sized balls."
I'm the darkest dark wizard in all of history I'll slay your ass out like Cedric Digory With a wave of my finger I'll put you on the floor You a punk ass little kid without Dumbledore I'm the best wizard rapper you ever will see You're a puny rich midget with a dead mommy
"He just kept talking in one long, incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt... It was really quite hypnotic."
Topless Robot posted this the other day as an example of why Star Trek: The Next Generation is actually inferior to the original series. I think it illustrates exactly the opposite. Jean-Luc Picard has got moves!
Dave Carroll of the Halifax band Sons of Maxwell had his guitar broken by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. They gave him the runaround and ignored him for nine months, so he wrote a hutin' song and put it up on YouTube, where it is now on its way to going viral. Beware of pissed of customers.
United, United, you broke my Taylor guitar United, United, some big help you are You broke it, you should fix it You're liable, just admit it I should have flown with someone else or gone by car ‘Cause United breaks guitars'
"I have something I want to tell you. I'm not like other guys." Truer words have never been spoke.
You know it's thriller, Lego thriller night. Tired of the Michael Jackson tributes and retrospectives? Too bad, I was away for the weekend and need to get it out of my system, mostly by posting this recreation of Thriller, entirely in Lego. I did an extensive five-minute search and couldn't find a less-blurry version, or the original creator for that matter. Stupid internet.
Of course Jacko's lasting legacy, at least for me, is introducing me to the world of pop culture parody, vias Weird Al Yankovic's Eat It.
Just eat it, eat it , eat it Get yourself an egg and beat it Have some more chicken, have some more pie It doesn't matter , it's broiled or fried Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it, ooh
Sez the artist: "It’s an example of transformative storytelling serving as a visual critique of Edward’s character and generally creepy behavior. Seen through Buffy’s eyes some of the more patriarchal gender roles and sexist Hollywood tropes embedded in the Twilight saga are exposed."
Yesterday, at the end of my street a group of good ol' boys called The Wild Turkeys set up with their washboard, bass, guitar and suitcase drum kit and just started letting loose. They are from Sault Ste Marie and on a tour out to the east coast and decided to make themselves a little gas money. Just one of those things I love about Toronto.
They performed for quite awhile, but I only recorded two songs. Of course I can't remember either song title, except that the one above is an original. Check them out if you can.
Beaker, the put upon assistant of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, really does take the most abuse of any Muppet. But this time he's going for the wind with his version of Ode To Joy, over at the Webby Awards. And you can't help him with your vote, because I don't read my subscriptions in a timely fashion! But this mayhem-filled video is still worth watching. Mee-mee-mee, Beaker, mee-mee-mee.
Update: It appears that Beaker does win on occasion, taking home a People's Voice award at the Webbys for Ode to Joy. As a reward for the people who voted, they have pulled the above video. One step forward, two steps back, Muppets crew.
Buffalo Bill and Catherine singing Put the Fucking Lotion in the Basket from Silence of the Lambs, as Lego characters. Doesn't get any weirder than that. I love pop culture. (Link via JazJaz)
Ok, I know pirates aren't the romantic, comedic, swashbuckling figures of books and pop culture. Yes, they are murderous, desperate, drug-addled fiends, just like the real pirates of old. So I can't help but echo the excitement Rayne, of Least I Could Do, over the reemergence of real-life, high-seas cutthroats.
I mean, come on, pirates! I totally wanted to be a pirate when I was a kid. Now that I've (purportedly) grown up, I'd rather be a space pirate, but I many have to pass that dream on to my son.
Of course maybe the media is oversimplifying the story — we do that, you know.
Hmm, the cartoon man may be right. How else to explain the serendipitous emergence of a Spike TV show about U.S. Navy pirate hunters? What an amazing coincidence!
But until we get that thoughtful documentary, I'll be following the pirates on Twitter and dreaming of treasure.
Some of these scenes are just like the others... Now what I've read on all the Digg comments (always a reliable, impartial, source of information), this is a technique often used in animation. Maybe so, but it's still a surprise when you see it side by side. (Link via Nick McGylnn)
Do you remember when you first learned that everyone poops? Spike Jonze wastes no time adapting another 10 page children's book into a film and LandlineTV manages to suck some of the pretension out of the upcoming Where The Wild Things Are movie.
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home. Today's strange mashup is Nirvana Vs The Beach Boys - Smells Like Sloop John B. The only time I've seen those two bands side by side is when my iPod is feeling mischievous. Still, it works and you have to wonder if Kurt Cobain and Brian Wilson might have been kindred spirits. (Link via The Drill Down)
Rap battles as competitive French beat poetry, filmed as classic European cinema: "I'm gonna force-feed you like a duck... and make foe gras out of your liver. Cluck, cluck, bang!... Say bonjour to your wife."
Turns out this French version of Eminem's 8 Mile is a viral campaign from Stella Artois that also parodies Die Hard (Dial Hard) and 24 (Vingt-Quatre Heures), but the product placement is so subtle it's blink and you'll miss it. Très magnifique! (Link via PopTube)
Alex Poutiainen is the filmmaking poster boy for the recession. For a mere $24 and six days of shooting he made a seven-minute, stop-motion zombie short called Zoo of the Dead. Twenty-four bucks! I've spent that much on popcorn at a movie. At that price he could make a full-length feature for $300. You couldn't film one second of the recently leaked X-Men Origins: Wolverine with that kind of budget.
Admittedly, it doesn't have the quirkiness of his previous work, Rise and Fall of Nazi Dinosaurs and the camera work started to make me nauseous, I can't wait to see what he does next.
A group of shepherds from Wales outfitted their flock with LED covered vests and head out to hills with their border collies to create some art and play a game of pong. Sweet, Extreme Shepherding! It goes to show that I'm not the only one skillful time-wasting abilities.
These shepherds have also managed to update their profession, which really hasn't had much representation in pop culture. Recently we've had the gay cowboy shepherds of Brokeback Mountain and The Good Shepherd, which was neither good nor had anything to do with shepherds. Here are three of the best shepherd moments:
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The interweb is an odd place. Yesterday I posted a video of Miss Piggy singing a very NSFW song. The day before that is was a video of a Beatles song mashed up with LCD Soundsystem's Daft Punk Is Playing At My House.
So what all of a sudden starts showing up on all my favourite sites? A mashup of Snow White singing Harder Better Faster Stronger by none other than Daft Punk. Weird.
Ok, I know pirates aren't the romantic, comedic, swashbuckling figures of books and pop culture. Yes, they are murderous, desperate, drug-addled fiends, just like the real pirates of old. So I can't help but echo the excitement Rayne, of Least I Could Do, over the reemergence of real-life, high-seas cutthroats.
