12 posts tagged “video”

And his snarky rhetorialness towards idiot pageant girls is perfection:

So...almost 2 months ago now I posted about the awesomeness that is my current favorite summer jam, "Sushi" by Kyle Andrews.  Well Kyle Andrews is slowly creeping up on my awesome radar a bit more with his RAD fuckin' video for Sushi...using YouTube videos as a mosaic.  It's sort of hard to explain so I'll steal the description from the video:

The video's official release date was April 21, 2009. It took our team over 1 month to privately annotate the videos before publishing it publicly!

The YouTube Mosaic Music Video is a digital piece of art that was made from 1.4 million tiles, and thousands of unique YouTube video stills. It is an original, interactive video of it's kind, and maxs out YouTube's annotation editor.

This shit is my JAM & I'm not even ashamed anymore I'm going to just own it.

Children + Drugs = Hilarious.

Dear Britney,
Can I call you that--Britney?  Do you prefer Ms. Spears?  Maybe just Brit-Brit or B?  Well, B, listen.  You know by now that I have an unhealthy guilty obsession with your don't-call-it-a-comeback single.  At various times throughout my day, you can hear me either humming the song and bouncing around my copy-machine (unfortunately I don't have your moves when it comes to the copier.  Also, my co-workers just wouldn't appreciate it), or repeating "womanizer womanizer womanizer womanizer" over and over and (you guessed it) over again while writing stuff about old people.  Now, I know that you've had quite a "Circus" (see what I did there?  Album title tie-in!  I'm so genius) of a life this past...oh...3 or so years (debatable), and I'm sure you've had quite a time with your new medication, new weave, and adjusting to Daddy Spears' watchful eye 24/7, so you might not totally be back "in" the game and all, but, I have a few bones to pick with you about this:

B, you're not fooling anyone here.  You KNOW you can't make an egg, especially a square one...at least not without one of those molds.

I mean, maybe I'm way off base here (and missing my old, cracked-out, white-trash Brit), I mean...this could be a real possibility.  Don't get me wrong, hooray life-altering, getting your kids back, etc...but I can't help it.  I miss THIS Britney:


And the reason this all wraps up and works together is because I think that you can see hints of old Britney in this video, hindered by however many milligrams of Lithium they've got you on now.
Three Things:
-Copy Machine Crotch Shot
-Random, Excessive, Aggressive Hair/head Flips
-The One-Off Booby Shimmy

...The latter two are totally hot mess Britney trying--way too hard--to be sexy.  It's just not matching up to this image you're trying to re-cultivate here.  This ain't you, B!  Be all that you can be, B!  And all that you are and all that makes you you, is hot-mess Britney!  So swing that hair, shimmy your boobies!  Do it to it, you do you, guuuuuurl!  Oh, and the first one is really just a nod to all the times you went sans-panties out in life in general.  Cute, really.  I'm not sure the director realized JUST HOW telling these little details were.  Now go back and watch the video again--you'll totally see what I mean.  She has a look on her face that screams "AM I SEXY AGAIN YET?  AM I?  *hair flip*  WOMANIZER WOMANIZER OH!  HOW ABOUT NOW?  *hair flip*  *hair flip*  YEAH?  MAYBE?!*hair flip*"  You know I'm right.

I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE, HOT MESSNEY...COME BACK TO ME.  You're a lot more fun to gawk at.  Don't get me wrong, your song is still good--in that so-bad-its-good-way--but I would like it a lot more if you were a bit more tragic.  But I suppose you're a real person and not a plaything.  You're not a girl, not yet a woman, but somehow a lady.  Or you're trying.  Whatever.  Maybe try to like...a lesser degree?  Or call Adnan!  That's definitely a romance worth a ROUND TWO!

Holla Atcha GURL,
Alicia

The new Moby song is pretty dec (pronounced: deese/read: decent).  I can see this being in a slo-mo scene of the following:
a.) teen/dance party scene on a tv show
b.) placed just-so in a risque Grey's Anatomy scene, or
c.) at every single house party in Greenpoint/Williamsburg in Brooklyn on Friday.

c-c-c-c-check it out, below:  it is so good.

Former Bush Secretary of State, Republican General Colin Powell has a good head on his shoulders.  He is one of the few (in my oh-so humble opinion) truly MAVERICKY Republicans in a very long time.  He's a centrist and a progressive, and educated.  And for that I have a lot of respect for him.  His endorsement of Barack Obama today on "Meet The Press" further proves this.

Thank you, Colin Powell, for being the true maverick of the Republican Party.  And looking outside of the lens of the old cronies that run it.

When I was a small child, roughin' it in the suburbs of Connecticut, I had two true loves: cats and Ace of Base.  While I lost my "cat in a Jack-o-Lantern" earrings somewhere after the 6th grade (as well as my love of cats after my own Misty's fatal garage door emergency pull-cord incident - long story), I secretly always held a place in my heart for AoB.  My next-door-neighbor and I used to literally rock the fuck out (as much as 9 year olds could, well, rock out) when not playing "school bus" on our bikes, to Ace of Base.  We even planned having a concert that involved dancing, side-ponytails, glitter, and probably belly-shirts.  Definitely belly-shirts.  I was definitely one of those kids (surprised?) that when I heard an Ace of Base jam on the radio, I immediately screeched for a hault of the changing-of-the-channel, and prompty wailed my heart out.  I also had that shit on TAPE, motherfuckers.  (Take that, children of the nineties!)

So you have no idea what sort of weird-inner-glee slash nervous-energy I have about this news item I heard about: ACE OF BASE IS REUNITING AND GOING ON A WORLD TOUR.

I'm fairly certain that there is nothing that the Swedes can't do, don't get me wrong.  But I am terrified that this is the start of a downward spiral of BAD 80s/90s groups attempting comebacks, desperate for the spotlight.  Venga Boys?  Whigfield?  Anyone?  (And yes, I'm looking at you, too, Los Del Rio!)  I mean, I could really go on and on, perhaps venturing into most of the artists featured on the Best of Dance Hits Super Mix Volume One...but I'm fairly certain that the title itself explains my point.  Also, a pause for the following review:

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Great Dance CD - a real keeper, July 2, 2000

By	Dance music lover (Bird Rock, Basseterre Saint Kitts and Nevis) - See all my reviews

My co-workers are so fed up of me and my dance cds, because my desk drawer is filled with them. Now they ahve more reason to be peeved with me because I literally play this thing for the full 8 hours I'm at work. People will ask me if I'm not tired of listening to the same thing over and over but never have I had a collection of dance tracks like this one that have me clicking repeat on my cd player. This CD is so awesome. The songs blend perfectly into one another and the choices for the cd wer phenomenal...I couldn't have picked them better myself...BUY IT, BUY IT BUY IT. I wasn't disappointed and you won't be either

I CLEARLY want to work with THIS GUY (girl?  but really, this person is clearly THAT GUY.)

In any event, the idea of an Ace of Base reunion is awesome in a novelty sense, though I'm not sure if I can really fully evoke my 9-year-old self without embarrassing myself and several family members--so, I might just be one of those fools that says "AWESOME" from afar.

In Memoriam:

...this is a video that even The Hoff would be jealous of.
(and because I can't resist):

Anyone that knows me knows that I have an issue.  That being quoting Old Gregg all the livelong day.  If you don't know who/what Old Gregg is--you are truly living a life half-full.  Old Gregg sorta embodies my senior year of college.  And maybe me.  It's awkward yet endearing yet creepy yet hilarious yet artistically inclined.  And I mean, really, is there a better description of the person currently writing this diatribe?  I think not.  So, just to cheer up everyone, put a little pep in their step, and remind them to never play Love Games...I present to you the FULL version of "Old Gregg" from the Mighty Boosh show on BBC3.  If you're interested, I'll put the full episode of the show (Old Gregg is merely a character in a barrage of geniuicity).  It basically like "Flight of The Concords" on magical, mystical LSD-laced adventures.

Who knew, right?  I mean this is Robyn.  Like, mid-ninties, "Show Me Love"-Robyn.  I think someone moved her to Brooklyn, gave her a neon-colored keffiyeh, a beat machine, and told her to listen to Santogold.  And THIS is what happened.  It's insane and nonsensical...and oddly I cant...stop...watching?  It's so good.  But...I mean...it's ROBYN!

Behold the newly-released video (official; not like the other various viral videos she created for the track...not sure why, to be honest) for the song "Cobrastyle."  It's white! It's COLORFUL!  It's a STATEMENT PIECE!  ROBYN!

Really, I just love her new take on the Flock Of Seagulls hairdo.  It's totes fetch.