My son is nearing the age when I will have to address the “where do babies come from?” question. Luckily, I no longer have to sweat this encounter as the kind folks at MTV (Europe I assume) have supplied me with a simple visual aid as an answer:
I believe, at least for those not from around Denver, this is a pretty new discovery - at least it was for me. Anyway, I like this song from a hip-hop band called Flobots. Now, just liking a song isn’t enough of a reason for me to post about it. The reason for this post is this: have you ever heard a song that you thought was more ripe for parody? I mean, this songs practically begs that Weird Al Yankovic does a cover of it.
The video and song below are not official versions. According to the YouTube page I got this from, “The video was made in 2006 to the first version of the song. A friend of the band, Iyabo made the video as her final project at film school at New York University. The band just signed with Universal Republic Records (yea!) and will most likely be releasing a newer music video for the song sometime soon.”
The video:
For more info on the band, check out www.Flobots.com or www.myspace.com/Flobots
#1: stuck on elevator for 40 hours
#2:
Story
For item number 2, I am
a.) glad the doctors weren’t ridiculing me
b.) glad there isn’t a video of me on YouTube getting ridiculed by doctors (video has been removed)
c.) glad I didn’t wake up with a body spray canister jammed inside my rectum
Jason Beghe, somewhat famous actor, departs Scientology and is talking about it… story as reported on Fox.com here. What’s extra interesting about this is that the Youtube video referenced in the story has already been taken down… in less than one day.
What power do the Xenu faithful have? If you notice, Scientology contains all the letters in the word ‘google’. Of course, it is missing one ‘g’, but I say close enough… add it to the “Mysteries of the Unknown”:
I’d like to write about the very hot topic that is the “Ben Stein: No Intelligence Allowed” movie, but as I have not seen it yet, and I do not want to base any of my opinions on the many different articles I have read about it from the two major sides of the issue (Darwinists/Evolutionists vs. Intelligent Design/Creationists), I have decided to only comment on the trailers I have seen.
As such, my comment is this: Ben Stein is such a pompous, self-important and egotistical tool.
As I won’t fund this film by paying to see it, my review of it will have to wait until a free version circulates the web or at least until I get it via my Blockbuster.com account.
Just got back from 5-day/4-night Las Vegas trip, and without a doubt, the highlight of the trip was seeing Cirque du Soleil’s KA at the MGM. I have seen three other Cirque shows in person, and I have seen another handful of them on A&E or Bravo. Every performance has been amazing… the traveling shows less so in comparison to the shows with permanent stages (though even the traveling shows blow away any other street, stunt or performance acts I have seen).
So, with a strong background in what to expect and with very high expectations of seeing something great, I was still completely blown away by KA. It was literally a jaw-dropping performance [and the people from Literally, A Web Blog have nothing to mock me here in that at one point I noticed I was sitting there with my jaw dropped, in a mesmerized stupor, not quite believing what I was seeing].
I won’t even attempt to describe the show as I don’t believe it is even possible to actually convey what takes place on stage in a meaningful manner. I searched the web looking for some good video to post of the show, but nothing I found did the show justice either. The small videos don’t capture just how epic the show is. However, this news piece by CNN gives you a nice peek into what the show is about and some really good background on how the show operates from a technical perspective.
Lastly, I am in no way connected to KA, the Cirque, the MGM or any of the performers/crew of the show. This review, or whatever this post is, is purely a result of me wanting to share with the world something I found so spectacular.
[However, if anyone from the Cirque wants to send me to other shows so I can review them, I will gladly participate - feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience… in fact, I have plans for this weekend, but I can move things around if need be.]
I’m guessing this isn’t a true real time continuous shot, but nonetheless, it is still pretty awesome:
Is this ugly, obtrusive, unnecessary? According to these people, the unmitigated answer is NO! In fact, they say it is “Enjoyable from any angle.”
Click image to see video.
If you read through their selling points of this new medium, they don’t even mention all the bonus press you will receive from the photos and TV coverage when the media cover the story when some poor kid gets his shoelaces caught in the escalator resulting in his legs being shredded. The tight shot of the puddle of blood covering your product placement or logo is sure to get a tight shot.
