M&D 2013 Sabotage from Mike and Duane Show on Vimeo.
If you're caught up on The Walking Dead, you still won't be ready for the abundawundawesomeness of Jonathan Wong's video. He's masterfully edited together clips from The Walking Dead and set it to Adele's hit song "Skyfall", the theme from the latest James Bond movie.
If you only watch one YouTube video this week, watch this one. If you only watch ten, watch this one ten times!
AMC oughtta hire Jonathan, this vid is so dang cool!!
The following year, Gordon Lightfoot recorded what is almost certainly his best-known song. It's also one of my personal favorites, and when I found this on YouTube I had to post it here too.
Accompanied by video and photos from her construction on through her tragic end and beyond, here is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"...
You can read more about the Edmund Fitzgerald at its Wikipedia entry.
And some years ago, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the disater, I wrote a retrospective about the ship and its good crew.
Here's the music video...
So what is jem.lew: the love project, you ask? Here's the statement from Melissa and Jennifer's website:
The love project is a collaborative, charitable line from DC designers Jennifer Elizabeth Miller (The JEM Collection) and Melissa Lew; it will be officially launched at the exclusive Secret Room’s MTV Movie Award’s Gifting Suite at the end of May 2012. A percentage of each piece sold will be donated to various charities, such as Becky’s Fund, DC Central Kitchen, and Miriam’s Kitchen.Great work, ladies! And congrats on your work getting some high-profile notice :-)The love project is a line of eco-friendly, socially conscious jewelry made from bamboo (sustainable plant) and stainless steel (100% recyclable) and features the project’s 4 heart logo, each hand painted with a splash of color. Each eye-catching necklace comes with a 24″ stainless steel ball chain that can easily be resized by cutting excess chain with pliers/cutter. An informational card is also included with each piece and is printed on FSC-Certified paper stock with soy ink.
Take f'rinstance, "Red Solo Cup" by Toby Keith: a song that I did not know anything about the existence of until a few nights ago when Dad and I were driving back from dinner in Greensboro. I had to turn the volume up to make sure I was really hearing what I thought I was hearing. Before very long, Dad and I were both cracking up laughing!
Except now... this song is stuck in my brain and it refuses to leave!!
Maybe if I post the music video for it, that will help to exorcise this particular demon. So here it is: "Red Solo Cup"...
That was the first rap group that I actually found myself "liking" quite a bit.
In his memory, here is what I've always thought was one of the best music videos ever. From their album Ill Communication and directed by Spike Jonze, here in Yauch's memory is "Sabotage":
So I hit the link and watched it.
And this is only the second music video to ever make me cry. I'll let it be an exercise for the reader about what the first one was.
From the album Deeper Still and gorgeously directed by Mark Blitch, here is "Unborn Grace"...
Yes, I have posted this before. Since it's November again and we're looking at a lot more rain in the next few days, it seemed appropriate.
And also because this is one of the greatest songs in the history of anything, to say nothing about the masterpiece of its accompanying video.
In the meantime, this oughtta tide y'all over for the weekend. It's Queen's classic song "Bohemian Rhapsody"... covered by William Shatner!
Congrats Al! And the "Polka Face" video is hilarious!! :-)
Weird Al's latest album Alpocalypse streets tomorrow! Can. Not. Wait!
"FLASH! AHHH-AAAAAAAHHH...!!"
Well, at least we've been spared the hot hail so far.
I have a confession to make: Flash Gordon is on my short list of all-time favorite "guilty pleasure" movies. It's a film so exorbitantly bad that it's insanely good! But I doubt that Dino De Laurentiis ever intended this to be a "serious" movie anyway. It's just good clean tongue-in-cheek camp, made even more awesome with that classic soundtrack by Queen! I've also read that Max von Sydow considers this to be one of his favorite movies that he's worked on, because of all the outrageous costumes that he got to wear as Emperor Ming the Merciless.
(And c'mon, Sydow's Ming is one of the greatest film villains in the history of anything. You know it's true :-)
Here's hoping that all the stuff going on lately is just bad coincidence. I'd hate to think that Ming really is out there on Planet Mongo, waiting to see if anybody is noticing his handiwork :-P
Here, maybe this'll make up for it. My good friend and brother in Christ (not to mention fellow Star Wars ubergeek) Joshua Ausley shot, edited and produced this head-slammingly rockalicious music video for a band called Death Proof out of our very own Greensboro, North Carolina!
Behold the pure awesome that is "Rip It Up"!
And if you wanna know more about Death Proof then click on over to the band's Myspace page.
"Highway to Hell" performed with tambourine and accordion. Again I declare: truly we are living in the age of wonders!
Seriously though: what a fun cover! And these guys are obviously enjoying their work. Gotta smile about the whole thing :-)
Well done guys! All the more praiseworthy given your present location. I just hope that this won't become an issue when it gets to be time for your next evaluation :-P
