Passive-aggressive attention whoring, now in the temperate desert of the Okanagan where moisturizer is much more important
So OK GO put out a second video for their single “This Too Shall Pass”, this time of a Rube Goldberg machine running for the duration of the song, synced with the music, and filmed in one take:
(I blogged about their first video to the song two weeks ago).
Between this sort of stuff and Mythbusters [...]
But then OK Go releases a new album and another fun choreographed video, this time with marching band:
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
If you can recall, these guys got internet famous in 2006 with music videos of them dancing in a backyard, and again on treadmills. Their new album, [...]
I pulled an all-nighter last night, for work. It’s pretty rare for me these days, since as I get older, the more it really fucking sucks to recover from it. I think it’s been years since I stopped working when it got light outside.
Disregarding eating, going to the bathroom, and commuting, I was working [...]
Living in a new town much different than and far away from my friends, and working for a company that is a complete 180 from what I’m used to, is continuing to be difficult. Now that it’s not summer anymore, the near-constant sun isn’t enough to keep up my spirits; and I’ve come to realize [...]
My friend Thompson is in the band Splitting Adam, maybe best known for their song in the EA game “Need for Speed – Undercover”. They’re about to release their first full-length album, and here’s a look at its intense CD packaging:
I find this kind of cool, because in my life CDs have become rather archaic; [...]
I just realized it’s been well over a week since I saw any of my friends and I’m jonesing for my own personality to come out (unlike the quiet, shy, polite me that New Job is currently seeing). I miss my friends. I like you so much more now that you’re not available.
Here’s a video [...]
When my father drove me up to Kelowna a few weeks ago he brought along some CDs in his car that he thought I’d like to listen to on the road. One just happened to be a greatest hits compilation of Simon & Garfunkel (well, just the second CD, because Dad is about as organized [...]
I was recently asked at the end of an interview what music I listened to (this was in regards to the very-strange-in-an-IT-worker music degree I have). I was asked this after I was dismissed for not being a jazz fan (in retrospect I wish I’d asked the guy which sub-genre he was referring to and [...]
Everyone seems to be blogging about or Facebook-posting about or twittering about Susan Boyle, the middle-aged Scottish chick who sang “I Dreamed a Dream” (snore) on Britain’s Got Talent. It’s so old a story, even my dad’s heard about it, because he brought it up today when I was visiting.
Fine, hurray, dowdy old lady looks [...]
Here’s something I read a week ago that has haunted me since and I wish I’d never read it: Beyoncé’s new single spells economic doom. I wonder if she feels responsible?
The idea is that (supposedly) whenever there’s been an economic downturn, it’s been preceded by a No. 1 song on the charts that has low [...]