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Broadway Calls - Call It Off

I made this video a while ago while I was learning how to use some software for work. I dug it up today and decided to post it.

In case you didn’t know, Broadway Calls is probably one of the best bands in the world to sing along to. Making Broadway Calls karaoke just makes sense. They are also one of my all-time favorite bands. There are few live shows that I’ve been to that can even come close to theirs. I’ve had Broadway Calls benders where I listened to nothing but “Call The Medic” for months at a time. I once spontaneously drove eight hours through the night so I could see them play the next day.

Please post comments regarding any sweet karaoke parties that may feature this song.

If I saw this coming at me in the darkness of night (or even in broad daylight) I would be utterly terrified. If I didn’t know better I would say this was a demon machine sent from hell. This is the creepiest thing I’ve seen since the Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth. It looks as if the lower-halves of two people have been attached to a machine and somehow the legs have retained life and are forced to stumble around together. There’s also something sinister and malevolent about it. Maybe it’s the fear of the unknown. I mean, this is incredibly new to me. It could also be that it moves in such a human way.

All my fears aside, this is absolutely incredible. BigDog is the creation of Boston Dynamics, a company that developed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The BigDog project is funded by the U.S. Military in the hopes of creating an all-terrain gear transporter. (Lerner 2008)

It’s awesome how quickly robotic technology is developing and I mean awesome in the sense that BigDog inspires fear. One person commented on BigDog by saying “I almost feel bad when they hit it to demonstrate how it regains balance on its own.” Robots don’t need our sympathy. That’s how it begins, “Aw, poor robot”. That’s just one card they’ll have to use against us in the take-over. Watch out.

1. Lerner, Preston 2008. Robotic Dog of War. CNN International. http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/03/08/army.robot.dog/ (accessed March 17, 2008).

This sketch is heartbreaking in the middle. I don’t know what else to say. This is one of those days when Jake and Amir are just too rad to even talk about. Sorry. Watch this and appreciate the music in it.

Amir’s Birthday

I wasn’t planning on writing another Internet Video post today, but when something of this caliber comes along there isn’t really a lot of choice involved. This video is a recording of a song by Irving Fields. Fields has been writing songs for over eighty years and he has been pretty successful. Some of his songs have even been covered by Dinah Shore.

In proving that no one is too old for the internet, Fields wrote a song about an internet phenomena that has truly inspired him: Youtube.com.



Youtube.com
You’ll find the whole world for what you’re looking for
Youtube.com
It’s a blessing for mankind that’s for sure

Everything and anything is on the Youtube
And it’s easy as a piece of pie
Just press the button on the Youtube
It’ll tell you where, when, and why

Youtube.com
You’ll find the whole world for what you’re looking for
Youtube.com
It’s a blessing for mankind that’s for sure

The Youtube’s got the world in your eyes
It’s a wonder of the world today
It should win the all-time Pulitzer Prize
It should have an international holiday

Youtube.com
You’ll find the whole world for what you’re looking for
Youtube.com
It’s a blessing for mankind that’s for sure

Youtube, Metube, Hetube, Shetube
The whole world’s lookin’ at the Youtube. Yeah!

Youtube!

He’s pretty charismatic fellow. I wouldn’t mind hanging out with him. Amazing song and a legit guy. Thumbs up.

I just found this video today and it blew my mind. I think this would be tricky to play on a regular instrument, but on glasses?! That’s incredible. The glass harmonica is really amazing. All of the glasses are either of differenet sizes or filled with different amounts of water, thus producing different tones.  The sound is the result of the friction of a wet finger being rubbed along the edge. Apparently, this instrument has been around since the Renaissance.

Anyway, check out this performance.

I’ve learned that there was a rumor back in the Eighteenth century that claimed that the instrument caused both musicians and listeners to become insane. I’ll keep you updated as to whether or not I lose my mind as a result of this.

It’s been a long time since I first saw this video but I still love it. Playing drums on a keyboard!?!?!?! Ludicrous! Preposterous!

This was humorously inspiring to me. First off, this guy’s voice is awesome and strangely calming. I don’t know why. Secondly, the act of playing a “rock and roll rhythm” on a keyboard is just absurdly hilarious. Additionally, the amazing performance does nothing but add points.

After watching this video repeatedly, I did the only thing that a rational person could do: I made a song out of it. Here is my tribute to “Asian Guy Plays Drums On A Keyboard” entitled “Now, Everybody Love”.

This is the the first of what is sure to be a long series of posts about Jake and Amir. Jake and Amir, are (somewhat) fictional characters who star in a series of internet video skits on both JakeAndAmir.com and CollegeHumor.

Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, both of whom actually work at CollegeHumor in New York, have had their workplace relationship evolve from the normal nine-to-five into a situational comedy in which they are almost constantly in character. Their relationship is pretty hilarious. Amir, who is shown to be socially awkward, uncoordinated, and slightly obsessive, looks up to his cool, hip, and confident co-worker, Jake. The two are friends, but due to Amir’s strange and often embarrassing behavior, Jake usually denies that they are. Amir’s idolization of Jake and his deep desire for Jake’s approval can make their skits either funny or adorably sad.

I think that this video, entitled “My Boy”, exemplifies their relationship pretty well. Poor Amir wishes that things were a certain way and, come to think of it, actually seems to believe that they are. Reality is a little different.  

My Boy (HD) from Amir on Vimeo, so ace!

I just found out that CollegeHumor is making a third Internet Commenter video. If you haven’t seen the first two the premise is this: what if people actually interacted with each other in the same way that they do on internet message boards and comment threads? I for one, think it’s absolutely hilarious.

Both previous installments (”Internet Commenter Business Meeting” and “Internet Commenter Retirement Party“) were hilariously amazing and I think the upcoming “Internet Commenter Funeral” will be just as awesome. I can’t wait. I seriously wish I could make videos all day for a living like those guys do.