OK Love
So this isn’t my favorite OK Go video, but the song is a major earworm.
I absolutely love the line, “how marvelous just to be anything.”
OK Bye
Learning About Letters (and being terrified of the letter “V”)
I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about this before, but we had this on VHS when I was a kid and it’s still in my head somewhere.
Comments:
- The hair on that lilac Muppet at 1:51 always made me super happy. It looks like such a nice texture.
- “‘C’ is for Cookie” is a banger.
- The deadpan delivery of “Harry the Horse” at 9:05 is great.
- In Bert’s defense, “linoleum” is a pretty awesome word.
- That story for “V” (19:50) terrified me as a kid. I’d leave the room every time, haha.
- That segment from 21:09-22:38 was always one of my favorite parts.
Woo!
Final
I’ve only seen the first three Final Destination movies, but apparently there’s a new one coming out in May. Maybe I’ll watch the remaining ones I haven’t seen yet in order to get sufficiently terrified of everything in the world and then watch the new one at some point.
Sorry, WHAT
This is like five different levels of nightmare fuel.
No seriously…this is something you’d see coming at you in an actual nightmare. It’s like those nightmares where something bad is coming toward you and you can’t get out of the way fast enough
Like…it is uncannily horrific looking. Is that just me? Am I unreasonably unsettled by this?
Yikes.
Another space thing, sorry not sorry
As I’ve said before (including in yesterdays’ blog, haha), I really like things that give us an idea of scale, especially when it’s a scale that’s really hard for humans to comprehend.
So here’s a model of the Solar System, where the coolest thing is the very clever inclusion of the closest star (apart from, of course, the sun):
Have I Posted This Before?
I don’t think I have. I had the intention to at some point, but I don’t think I ever did.
So here it is.
A simulation, obviously, but it gives you a sense of scale and space and I love stuff that gives us a good sense of scale and space, don’t you? It’s terrifying and beautiful and amazing all at the same time.
I feel like PISS
Therefore, let’s do a Picnicface appreciation post, ‘cause their videos always make me happy and trigger all sorts of nostalgia.
The absolute classic. MENERGY.
“When god gives you lemons, you FIND A NEW GOD!”
“Football is a sport…”
“DON’TYOUFUCKINGLOOKATME!”
“PEGASI! PEGASI!!!”
MORE SYNTHONY SORRY NOT SORRY
I absolutely adore orchestral covers of songs, especially electronic/dance songs. This group is like my dream group. I’d love to see them in person.
MOON FAMILY!
So Saturn already held the record in the Solar System for the most moons at 146, but a set of 128 new satellites discovered by a team of astronomers back in 2023 have officially been classified as moons! Saturn now has 274 recognized moons, which is pretty insane. Most of these new moons are extremely small, but still.
Also, I’m just going to leave this here.
(Yes, it’s a SolarBalls episode; yes, I’m still wildly obsessed; yes, it’s relevant because SolarBalls Saturn would probably lose his mind over an additional 128 new moon names to memorize.)
Edit: in searching for a relevant article to this story, I found this NASA article from 1995 talking about the discovery of two to four new Saturnian moon candidates. Back then, the total confirmed number of moons was only 18. Pretty wild!
HELP
I have had this song:
Plus its derivative YouTube Poop version:
Mashed up and stuck in my head ALL FREAKING DAY.
Especially the lines “I don’t even KNEEEEE” and “no you didn’t have to POOP!”
2012 was certainly a…thing.
BABAAAAAAAR!
Nate and I watched Beauty and the Beast tonight. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve seen that movie, but all the tavern scenes (among other things) have been permanently replaced with this freaking classic YouTube Poop:
I know I’ve shared this on here before, but that “he was in here tonight, raving” and “woah, slow down, Maurice!” (2:14) is still absolutely hilarious and I was trying not to laugh as we watched the associated segments of the actual movie.
Thank you, internet, you have broken me.
One Ham, No Hams. Steamed Clams? Steamed Hams!
Oh my god, PLEASE tell me this isn’t AI-generated.
I love this meme. I will forever love this meme in all its formats.
Edit: dude who uploaded this has an explicit “no AI” policy on his channel. A+ work.
Edit again: LIKE 70% OF HIS VIDS ARE ABOUT THIS MEME OH MY GODDDDDD
Spherical
In honor of the planetary alignment taking place this month, The Sphere in Las Vegas is putting on a little show of the planets.
I love that Uranus is rotating on its side.
Also, The Sphere is like the most futuristic thing that has been constructed in the past like 20 years.
Just OK Go
Just another mind-boggling OK Go video, no big deal.
Oh Pixar, what the hell is this?
This art style makes me want to claw my eyes out. Luca had it, Turning Red had it, Soul…I think had it?
(I know nothing about Soul.)
That freaking generic bean mouth thing…I hate it. They did normal faces in Inside Out and Inside Out 2…why devolve like this?
UGH.
Book Review: Angels in America (Kushner)
Have I read this before: We read the first part (“Millennium Approaches”) back in one of those theatre classes I took during my first semester at U of I. So…2006?*
Review: This is a hard play to read, and I mean that in a good way. It’s hard to read for two reasons. First, it’s a very…physical play. There’s a lot of stuff going on with the Angel specifically, but it sounds like set pieces have to move quite a bit and there are quite a few split scenes, where there are two scenes going on at the same time on stage and the dialogue is mixed between the two. I suspect quite a bit is lost in reading this play rather than seeing it because of these aspects. Second, it’s hard to read because of the subject matter. I can’t imagine the fear that individuals diagnosed with AIDS in the 80s must have felt, not to mention the stigma. Both of these aspects of the AIDS crisis are explored in detail in the play and it’s very tough to get through in some places. But that’s what makes it so good.
Favorite Part: I love the amount of humor in this play. The main subject is, of course, very heavy and serious, but there is so much humor scattered through the dialogue that it really adds another level to everything.
Rating: 7/10
Edit: woah, did you know Andrew Garfield has a Tony, and it’s for his performance in this play? I had no idea he did Broadway. Shows what I know about actors.
Edit 2: Yeah, no wonder he won a Tony. This is amazing.
*God I’m OLD
Woah
This is a really good cover of Foster the People’s Pumped Up Kicks. I think it’s better than the original, actually.
Interesting.
Depressing, but interesting.
The only time I really have to read is when I’m using the treadmill (walking, not running, haha), but I can get through a short book within a single walk (about four hours) and bigger books within, say, three or four walks.
I like to read and I can read for long periods of time, but I’ve never really considered myself an “avid reader” mainly because it’s not my go-to activity if there’s something else I can do. Does that make me a bad person?
More SolarBalls. SORRY NOT SORRY
They’ve released the Planet X Arc video, which, like the Moon Revolution Arc video, is a compilation of all the videos related to the Planet X story.
It’s three hours long.
This is, as most things are on my blog, mostly for my own reference, but if I’ve gotten any of you hooked on this series, here it is for you as well:
Edit: Okay, so I watched the whole thing while I was painting today (I take a long time to paint, haha) and this story is so much better compiled like this compared to all the little videos one by one. I originally considered the Moon Revolution arc better, but that’s because that story had just concluded by the time I discovered the series and by the time I got to those videos, they had already released the compilation. But I think I like this arc even more now that all the related vids are put together like this.
Red Light Green Light
I saw this vid a while back and really enjoyed it, and then it showed up on my main YouTube page again today. I thought I’d blogged about it but I don’t seem to find it anywhere in the archives, so here it is!
Like some people are saying in the comments, this guy would give great TED Talks.
SWAP
So I never watch SNL, but apparently there’s a tradition now of the Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che writing jokes for the other to read without having seen the joke beforehand. As you can imagine, they get each other pretty good:
This year’s Christmas joke swap was especially brutal, haha:
Civilization VII: Yes, You’ll Be Stuck in the Main Menu Because of the Music Again
So remember several weeks/months/whatever ago I mentioned that Christopher Tin, composer of “Baba Yetu” and the absolutely incredible “Sogno di Volare,” was returning to do the main theme music for the Civilization VII game?
Well, that theme has been released! Behold:
It’s not as good as “Sogno di Volare” (the main theme for Civ VI), but I like it. I think I like it more than “Baba Yetu.”
Edit from a week later: okay, nevermind, it’s really grown on me. I dig this big time.
POP IT
The DJ Earworm end-of-year mashup is here!
Eh. This really emphasizes how popular the “pop country” genre has been this year. Some songs of this genre have been good (Shaboozey’s cover/redo of Tipsy) and some have been insufferable. I hate that “I’d rather take my whiskey neeeeEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeeat!” song. I don’t even know which song that is, but I hate it.
(Edit: oh, It’s Hozier. That explains it then.)
2023’s was better. A little.
DaleRiver
So Nate has decided to subject himself to the utter madness that is post-season-1 Riverdale. I guess we watched through most of season 2 together before he bailed the first time (I, as you know, am a true Riverdale fan through and through and made it through the WHOLE GODDAMN SEVEN SEASONS OF MADNESS), but I guess my not-at-all-exaggerated descriptions of some of the later shenanigans won him over and we’re giving it a second shot.
(Nate, you have no idea what you’re doing. Turn back now.)
Anyway, since we’re diving back in, have some “Riverdale as vines” videos. I know I’ve posted the first one on here before, but there are more.
That Black Hood one at 0:26 is so accurate, hahaha. 3:04, too.
1:40, hahaha.
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