Guy makes music with 1000 pairs of jeans
Posted: November 13, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, fashion, music, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
I think this is the coolest jeans ad you will see all day. If you have seen a cooler jeans ad today, please share it with me, as I would like very much to see it.
It’s like Stomp but with one dude and 1000 pairs of pants.
The guy who is making this music on 1000 pairs of jeans is named Andrew Huang, and, as I just discovered, he will create songs based on people’s ideas. His YouTube channel songstowearpantsto is pretty funny. He also has very interesting eyebrows.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Mongolian throat singer performs supercool version of Waltzing Matilda
Posted: November 11, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »Tom Waits did a version of this song.
It’s Waltzing Matilda, performed by a Mongolian throat singer, though really, it should be called “overtone” singing, as throat singing applies to an Inuit form of singing, which is performed differently, while overtone singing is done in places all over Asia and Europe and has a broader range of styles.
This is crazy awesome, and now I really want to learn how to overtone sing. But I know that if I wait, like, an hour (please, who am I kidding? Seven minutes), the desire will pass and I’ll want a sandwich or something instead. Really, one should be content to watch this guy Bukhchuluun Ganburged singing for ABC National Radio. His website is Horsefiddle.com
New Die Antwoord video!
Posted: November 8, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture Leave a comment »Here is a new Die Antwoord video. It’s no Enter the Ninja but it could grow on me, maybe. Apparently, they’ve just split from their label Interscope and are releasing their next album independently. This is probably smart, since the hype pretty much poofed off into the ether somewhere between the Ninja video release, the world tour and the debut album drop.
The video is for the single “Fok Julle Naaiers,” and you should not watch if you’re freaked out by creepy crawly things. Yo-Landi told Boing Boing (via Spin) this track is special because “It features the first rap verse by the real DJ HI-TEK, our gay deejay, who haz just bust out da closet wif a muddafuckn vengeance!”
Seven-year-old axeperson nails GNR
Posted: October 19, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »When I was five or six years old, I was a really good reader. I was in this reading group called the “Six good readers” (at least I think I was six – it was senior kindergarten or grade one or something) and we used to go to the library to read as a group because the other kids in our class were dumber developing at their own pace. So, my point is that I was good at something too when I was little, OK?
Now let’s watch seven year old Zoe nail Sweet Child O’ Mine on guitar. (video is about a year old)
Aw Amy, marmoset there’d be days like this
Posted: July 25, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »Three days before she died, Amy Winehouse appeared on stage with her 15-year-old goddaughter Dionne Bromfield, at the iTunes festival in Camden. She didn’t do any singing, but she did dance along. Dionne was signed to Amy’s label Lioness and released her debut album Introducing Dionne Bromfield in 2009. After that, I needed a little cheering up. So, it’s the Marmoset song.
Like this:
Amy Winehouse BBC performance = awesome (so sad she’s dead)
Posted: July 25, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, music, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Ugh. Poor Amy Winehouse. (Found dead, 27, etc. etc. as you know by now). That girl never had a chance, having totally cemented her place in pop culture with the brilliant, tragic, defiance of the Back to Black album. I’m sure she felt that her credibility relied heavily on her consistency. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this over the past few years, and even tried writing about it three years ago in an article I’m too embarrassed to link to, because I didn’t do a very good job. Thankfully, my friend John Woods, of the Wetspots, summed it up pretty nicely when he posted on Facebook, “These poor fuckers who paint themselves into a corner by so brilliantly chronicling their badassery [... ] If you never had street cred you don’t have to keep proving it.”
YES. That’s what I was trying to say.
As Robert Cialdini discusses in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, humans are remarkably swayed by their desire to be/appear consistent.
Here’s a brilliant performance by Amy at the BBC. When she was good, she was very very good. (Found via dangerousminds.net)
Kittens on turntables
Posted: July 19, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff 1 Comment »Here are some kittens on turntables.
