Going canadian, eh?

On a video I was watching on youtube making fun of canadians, someone posted this comment...

"Oh, you were making fun of Canadians? I couldn't hear you over my heath-care benefits."

The secret guide to men

I found it, yes IT. THE way to strike up conversations with cute boys. IT is mentioning your enjoyment of the band "TV on the Radio." Guaranteed success. I also scored 4 free MP3 albums in the process.

Ok Go, how I love thee

OK Go has always had good concepts for videos, in my opinion. Sure, they became popular with their dancing on treadmills video, but before that they had "OK Go in the backyard dancing" for the song "A Million Ways." Then they had the motion camera for "Do What you want" which was cool looking but I can see how it might get sickening after a while. Then they had WTF, with the trail affect, which they utilized very well.

Now, the Notre Dame marching band. When I first heard the idea for the video, "we're making a vid with the marching band" I thought "well, sounds pretty boring" but then I thought they would use the band for formations and such, and it would be kind of cool, but still nothing I hadn't seen before. But they finally put up the video, and I have to say it surpassed my expectations. Pretty cool.

And the song is awesome, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY


Man, I want to go to their concert(s) in France and England. Why must they be on a Tuesday, huh? Can't you be on a friday? a saturday, perhaps? Anything but a tuesday.

Flour is a bit old-fashioned

I was watching Jimmy Fallon last night (a rerun), and besides the amazing reveal from Ian Somerhalder (BOONE IS BACK), I thought this particular joke about flour was funny.

He apparently does a segment where he writes thank you notes to either people or inanimate objects to make a joke. My favorite was this:

"Thank you, flour, for keeping the paper sack container business alive. Don't wanna change your packaging, huh? Gonna keep it in a sack? Whenever I buy you, I feel like I'm Charles Ingalls buying something from Olson's Store on credit."

Next time, Jimmy, it's Olson's Mercantile.

Realization

I just made a discovery while visiting the Skins e4 website (a british tv show and channel). There was an ad for Dove deodorant, but it was spray on.

And I realized: Europeans use spray deodorant! And Americans use stick deodorant! Seriously, how many Americans do you know have spray deodorant?


I thought it was interesting.



sadly, that's all I have to say on my 100th post.

Mashup suggestion

Someone needs to make a fantastic mashuup of "Eminence front" by the Who and "19-200 remix" by Gorillaz.

DJs, get on that.

If anyone knows of this in existence, please tell me. This is meant for music history.

But I DID find what I was looking for!

When I was in Spain, I heard several times the song "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" by the band U2...only it was in Spanish.

I looked online a hundred times for this version of Bono singing Spanish to no avail.

Then I searched today, and found the exact translation of the title (TODAVIA NO ENCONTRE LO QUE ESTOY BUSCANDO) and alas! I found it on Youtube.

I first heard it on the busride to Barcelona, and I was humming along until I realized the lyrics were in Spanish. I really wanted that version.

Well, I thought it was U2 performing it on the bus radio, but it was actually a band called "Airbag" that covered it. But, it was a noisy bus and the instrumental aspect of the song sounded the same, so SUE me if I thought the following was performed by U2.





Ahh. I am SO glad I FINALLY FOUND THISSSS!

Spinnin' Discs

I came across the existence of DJ Hero via the Bleepbloopblog www.bleepbloopblog.tumblr.com . I am a huge fan of Jeff Rubin from CollegeHumor, and thus a huge fan of this videogame blog (it's one word now, he said it!).

I went a-searchin' online since I knew a complete song listing was available for Rock Bandhttp://www.rockband.com/music/songs .

I came across this: http://www.djhero.com/music , where you can listen to all of the mixes from the new game.
All I have to say is: GENIUS.

Beck's "loser" and Eminem's "My Name is" is a good one, as well as the mix of Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" and Jackson 5's "I Want You Back."

And, always a fan of HOVA, Jay-Z's "IZZO" and Jackson 5's "I want you back" (which Jay already sampled in his song) is great, too.
Enjoy.