WunderTütenFabrik— The most unsatisfying video in the world

---o0o---

Dancing With Carrots

You have to wait until about a minute in before the carrots make their appearance.  The video has over 2 million views on YouTube.  

---o0o---

The golden-throated hobo, Ted Williams, of Columbus, Ohio

By Jack Brummet, Social Mores Editor

This is a very sweet story, mainly because it looks like he's getting a second chance...all of a sudden this video is all over the internets, and maybe, as a result, Ted Williams will get a shot at a new life.  I hope so.  What a voice!

---o0o---

Five great Gary Busey video moments

---o0o---

Video: The Milo Petersen trio live at Jack Straw Studios

A recording of the Milo Petersen Trio at Jack Straw Studios in Seattle, WA 9/20/08.

I've known Milo ,a/k/a Chris, since we were one year old--our parents were friends, and we were sometimes babysat together way back when. His band, The Jazz Disciples, released a CD "Visiting Dignitaries" a few years ago. It even includes a great tune he wrote for me and Keelin ("The Good") that clocks in at eleven minutes. He performed the song at our wedding, with Loch Clark (trumpet), Doug Ostgaard (sax), Cheryl Hardwick (piano), and--I think?--Moise Lucas on drums. I can't remember who played the bass.

Milo Petersen - Guitar
Chuck Kistler - Bass
Brad Boal - Drums
Doug Haire - Production
Brad Boal - Video Edit
Sonarchy Radio is a Jack Straw Production



---o0o---

Video of the drunkest guy ever attempting to buy even more beer

It looks like they probably didn’t sell him the beer. I wonder if he hopped in his car after this?



---o0o---

Auto-tune the news, co-starring the ex Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin

I love these guys. It's not such a preposterous prospect to think that in the not so distant future, all news will be auto-tuned. It just might help TV prevent the decimation that has engulfed their print brethren. . .

The Two Bobs from Office Space Interview Sarah Palin

---o0o---

Some videos by and around The Monkees

Someone on YouTube used Maya or another animation tool to create a short movie based on The Monkee's spoken word piece, Zilch.



The song Words, from an episode (The Monkey's Paw) of their TV show:



A Little Bit me, A Little Bit You (from another episode):



Finally (there would be more, but not a lot of videos are out there..surprising, since The Monkees performed songs on their show every week), here is a Slideo of Jimi Hendrix and The Monkees. Yes, on one tour, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for The Monkees.


---o0o---

The luckiest man alive - Cem Tokac, the incredible survivor

Turkish truck driver Cem Tokac somehow survived this unbelievable accident with only a few bruises. In the first part of the video, notice his hat being blown away. Jump to 0:20 in to see a closer view of this incredibly lucky guy. He should probably propose to Catherine Zeta Jones, throw mondo cash into the stock market, or get into a high stakes poker game real soon...if luck really does run in streaks. . .


---o0o---

Kutiman's Mother Of All Funk Chords: the best mash-up this year (so far)

This is a wonderful assemblage, where Kutiman assembles/mashes up clips of many people's solo instrumental videos from You Tube. And it ends up as a mostly coherent funk song. I don't know how many solo performances were concatenated to make the video...but it looks like 16 or so. . .anyhow, a definite must-see. . .

Cheers to you! Your very own cheers, encouragement, and applause soundtrack

From the Failblog, a Seattle blog related to the LOL Cats phenomenon. . .Cheers to you! Check out their commercial, below...



---o0o---

Journey's Don't Stop Believing (with lyrics)

When I wrote about The Sopranos recently, it made me wonder about Journey, a band I'd never listened to other than incidentally. Here are two YouTube videos of Don't Stop Believing, one a song and lyric slide show, and another, live version. . .

Journey performing the tune live:

---o0o---

Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. . .unless they are nudged along by Walt Disney

The notion that Lemmings commit mass suicide became a full-blown urban legend in 1958, following a Disney documentary “White Wilderness,” that contains a lot of faked footage.

Instead of filming an actual migration, the movie team transported a few dozen lemmings to a riverbank in Alberta, Canada (not far from Vancouver, where I am writing this), which is not even coastal, and therefore not even part of the lemmings' range.

The Disney filmmakers then tossed the rodents off a cliff into the river. In the documentary, the river becomes "the sea." The cameras rolled as the lemmings drowned, and thus was born the longstanding urban legend. See a YouTube clip from the movie here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZlr5Gf9yY

Despite faking the documentary, Disney won the Oscar that year for Best Documentary. Do they have to give it back?



---o0o---

Video: Be a game tester!

And now, cut to the commercial...


---o0o---

Adolph Hitler sings the theme from an American TV program (YouTube)

---o0o---

Weezer video Pork and Beans references YouTube memes/viral videos

Karate Monkey-- Video of martial art Chimp in action

So Grandma's Boy wasn't that far off. You apparently can teach a monkey karate. Or Tai Kwan Do. Or Judo. Ok, it's not a monkey, it's a chimpanzee. Monkeys have tails.



---o0o---

Long video of some good moments from the film Idiocracy

Here are some YouTube video clips from one of my favorite movies of the last couple of years: Idiocracy.



---o0o---

The India Traffic cam video

I have to thank Dean Ericksen's blog for posting this one. At first, it looked like, yeah, an Asian city's traffic cam. As I watched it twice, I realized, no, what this is is a schematic animation of my brain in action. This is exactly what it feels like--for better or worse--in my head.


---o0o---