I know it's been nothing but videos lately, but this is so funny I cried. You have to have watched Glenn Beck recently (last year) to really appreciate it.
They have got to be some of the funniest, most awesome cultural phenomena of our time. I especially like the dancing ones (as opposed to the freezing ones).
Here are some of my favorites:
The "T-mobile dance" flash mob in Liverpool Street Station January 15th, 2009.
Jim Ward, the Voice Deity from the Stephanie Miller show, a hilarious political comedy show I listen to every single day, made a little "skit" featuring some of his regular characters. Here it is.
You can visit Stephanie Miller's site here and Jim Ward's fan page here.
OMG! LOL! This has probably been around for a while but let's face it, I'm slow. These guys took some famous videos from the 80s and changed the song lyrics so that they describe what is actually happening in the video. Cracks me up big time. Here are two, and there a few more on their website, http://www.dustfilms.com/literalvideos
Highlights of life since Brazil trip: - winter sucked but it's almost over - I did a lot of art and am doing a lot more including digital since I bought a Wacom Bamboo Fun - the economy is collapsing - Obama is awesome - I completely disagree with Rush Limbaugh on everything
stay tuned for exciting things and thanks for following my long-winded adventure diaries.
I leave you with this absolutely awesome song that I love, "Poker Face" by Lady GaGa, who I think looks like Randi Rhodes. It's not the best quality but I suck at embedding.
*Note the incredibly sexy man in white boxers at the end. Wow!
To quote from the website: "Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were not pleased."
I am so glad this video got leaked! He is such a jerk. It was on YouTube, then it was pulled, now it's back up. Who knows if it will get pulled again. I bet he is having a massive freak out somewhere out there right now.
I am completely in love with this Bob Dylan song. I have a high regard for Dylan in general, but I find that he is more of a poet, reading his verses to the sound of music, and so many of his songs flow together into one for me. But this one strikes a cord in my heart. I think I will try to paint something for it, so stay tuned.
I would like to dedicate this song to my sister, and ask her to think of fireflies.
I seem to be on a video kick lately, sorry about that. But this post is a little political as well. The video that you may have seen or heard of by now is by the "McCain Girls" and is called "It's Raining McCain", basically to the tune of "It's Raining Men" by the Weather Girls. It's not very well sung and has been made constant fun off on my favorite radio station - Air America, but I think it is funny, creative and well done. So even though I cannot think of a scarier future than a McCain presidency, these girls get A for effort (and F- for judgment).
And since we are on the topic, I want to make a few points about the upcoming election. The bickering between Obama and Hillary has become legendary at this point, with many people calling for Hillary to drop out, or for them to get along, and what's worse, with supporters from both camps claiming that they will not for the nominee if it's not the one they support at the moment. I think this is a tragedy. Whatever Hillary's and Obama's perceived shortcomings are, and whatever tactics are being used at the moment, there would be nothing worse than a McCain presidency. I believe in this so strongly, I may be willing to leave the country if he gets elected. At some point in the not too distant past I used to think that along with Colin Powell McCain was one of the only Republicans who had his head and and heart on straight. He had opposed the torture tactics used by the military today, supported a path to citizenship for immigrants, and had at some point even showed vague disagreement with the Bush administration. Now, much like Lieberman and Dean, he is unrecognizable from his former self. He voted against, and supported the president's veto of HR 2082, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which included provisions that would have prevented the CIA from waterboarding prisoners, even though he had stated that waterboarding is torture. He has stated that he does not understand economics, wants to privatize social security, and is completely confused about the Middle East, which he proved over and over again last week when he insisted on stating that Iran was trading Al Qaeda (he 'misspoke at least 5 times, at the very least he is senile!). He jokes about bombing Iran and staying in Iraq for hundreds of years. Not to mention that in all other aspects he is still a Republican, which means that his beliefs and priorities are counter everything that is near and dear to me. So if you are a Democrat, or even a Republican who is sick and tired of the selfish and inapt government we have in power now, you better swallow your pride and stubbornness and vote for whichever Democrat gets the nomination.
Update: The McCain Girls videos, it turns out, were created by satirical website 23/6 (www.236.com), which is itself affiliated with the Huffington post. Read more here.
I don't watch American Idol. In fact I don't watch TV at all, but I came across this little video online. Apparently there are American Idol spin-offs in almost every country now, and this performance is from Bulgarian singerNevena Tsoneva (Невена Цонева) who won the first season's competition there in 2007. I think this is the best rendition of Whitney's "I will always love you" I've ever heard, and it's completely hilarious to boot! I hope you enjoy the video as much as I did!
Just in case you haven't seen this gem yet. I am actually fairly upset about what happened but I haven't heard many people talk about what bothers me. The Republicans are mad at Craig because he turned out to be gay and brought bad press to the 'moral values' crowd. The Democrats are so happy to have another Republican caught with his pants down that they are milking it for all its worth. While I have no appreciation for Mr. Craig's politics, I am most upset about the fact that he was arrested in the first place! We should all be outraged that a man can get arrested for what is in essence flirting, simply because the object of his advances happens to be another man. It's not like he was having sex in a public restroom, which could have fallen under indecent exposure. Maybe he was going to take the fella out for a drink or a romantic dinner! Nevertheless, this video is funny.
