Here’s a video of IrishBand, which is a total of about one second in length, from the show last weekend. Incidentally, I’m the guy on the right, with the bass and the black fedora with the peacock feather. Enjoy!
What can I say? I think it’s funny to post stuff like this. FYI, you can double-click on the video to make it play again and again and again. You know you want to.
I’ll be seeing Yann Tiersen in concert tonight. In fact, as soon as I finish posting this, I’m driving over to the venue. Yes, I’m planning to take pictures, and maybe a video or two.
I’m super excited about this. Asobi Seksu is the opening act.
GOOD TIMES.
I could watch this all day. This kid (even at the age of, what, eighteen months?) has the act down pat. He even knows how to use a microphone properly and time his arm movements with what he thinks he’s saying. Those are skills that have to be learned, and he’s quite the little orator.
I used to have a much bigger chip on my shoulder about religion than I do these days. I still kinda have one, which is why I find this video so utterly disturbing hilarious, but I’m much more tolerant of other peoples’ beliefs than I was when I was, say, twenty. Suffice it to say that it’s a colossally good thing (both for me and the entire world) that I didn’t have a blog back then, but then I don’t think anyone did at that time; not even Steve Jobs or Al Gore. Okay, maybe Al Gore did.
I think that might have been a digression just there.
The results are in, and it is, indeed, a digression.
I need to go put my laundry in the dryer now. Oh wait. . .another digression? Let’s find out, in the style of Family Feud. “Di-GRESSION? Survey SAYS. . .” [sign on board flips over, and bell rings] Ding ding ding ding ding ding! “Digression!”
Okay, I’m done.
How do you like the new blog theme, by the way? It’s very different, and distinctly less blue, than all the others I’ve used before. I wanted something a bit more cheerful. I’m still learning how to tweak it, and working out a few issues I’m having (for some reason, my blogroll is showing up duplicated!?), but I think it’s cool.  Hello, spring!
So there’s this whole series of videos on [read the following with a Cockney accent] TubeWhatBelongsToYou [okay, now you can go back to your normal voice] called Shreds, and the videos are pure genius. The person who makes them takes existing videos of a famous musician or band and they overdub the various instruments and vocals based on what’s happening on the screen, making it sound as crappy and as funny as possible.
Warning:Â the videos are highly addictive.
Here’s my personal favorite, which is a Kiss video from the 1970’s. The real song is “I Was Made For Loving You” (click here to watch the original, but definitely don’t until after you’ve watched the ‘shred’ video).
‘I can’t say philanto-papa. . .Pikachu!’
I could watch these all day, and I know I can, actually, because that’s what a good part of yesterday consisted of; that and then a longish recording session in the evening for IrishBand.
