A while back I wrote about how church announcements can be really boring. Here’s one church’s attempt to alleviate the announcement induced slumber.
I can’t decide whether or not this is funny or stupid.
Tag: youtube
Look at meme – Autotune
The Know Your Meme Team recruited Weird Al to explain the Autotune trend taking the world wide web by storm.
Good coverage: Sometimes cover songs are better than the original
I’m a sucker for badly sung covers of popular songs. I remember discovering Grum Lee’s now defunct website of purposefully bad acoustic covers sung with a French accent and thinking it was terrific. The site is dead – but Grum lives on, immortalised in YouTube…
Here he is singing a Dandy Warhols number.
The reason I post this is because I just watched this video Dave Miers posted today of a kid on a ukelele murdering the lyrics to that annoying Jason Mraz song.
Symphony and Motorola
Vodafone put together this cool little mobile phone orchestra.
It does remind me of that scene in Black Books where Bernard takes a wooden mallet to a mobile phone.
Football Hero
Tim posted this a while back. I’ve been meaning to use it as a YouTube Tuesday video ever since. It’s brilliant. Check it.
Recanting some more
Mumford and Sons caused me to recant my long held position on folk music – and it turns out they’ve undone another little piece of music snobbery.
Despite the liberal application of the “f” word in their current single – which probably turns off heaps of Christian listeners – it appears that the guys in the band are in fact Christians. And since their songs spend a fair bit of time dealing with Christian stuff I could begrudgingly define their music as Christian music. And we all know how I feel about that.
I looked it up online because I was pretty convinced based on some of the lyrics that the album Sigh No More is at the very least a musical documentation of someone’s dalliance with God, and Christian belief.
I’m intrigued by some of the lyrics from this album. Clearly they’re about a man struggling between the flesh and the spiritual. Here’s a post with a bit of an analysis of the lyrics, and here’s one from someone who couldn’t take all the Jesus talk…
Here are some of their lyrics.
Dust Bowl Dance
there will come a time when I will look in your eye
You will pray to the god that you’ve always denied
I’ll go out back and I’ll get my gun
I’ll say you haven’t met me, I am the only son.White Blank pages
Can you lie next to her
And give her your heart, your heart
As well as your body
And can you lie next to her
And confess your love, your love
As well as your folly
And can you kneel before the king
And say I’m clean, I’m cleanAwake My Soul
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your lifeAwake my soul, awake my soul
Awake my soul
You were made to meet your makerRoll Away Your Stone
You told me that I would find a hole
Within the fragile substance of my soul
And I have filled this void with things unreal
And all the while my character it steals
And here are some songs for your listening pleasure.
YouTube Tuesday: You may now update your status
Here’s an interesting way to begin married life.
Something there seems a little bit amiss. But you know, things aren’t real until they’re on Facebook.
Hooray for Music
While we’re on the subject of talented people I know – Todd the photographer used to be in a band with Phil the guitar player from Brisbane’s preeminent comedy band Hooray for Everything.
Here are some YouTube clips.
How the Internet was made
If I asked you which was older – YouTube or Facebook what would you answer?
I would have said YouTube. Hands down.
I just read this Six Revisions “History of the Internet” article. I find it hard to believe that YouTube launched in 2005. 2005 was my last year of uni. It doesn’t seem that long ago.
Facebook was launched for college students in America in 2004.
YouTube Tuesday: What if?
Do you ever engage your imagination in the pursuit of speculative scenarios.
How would the world be different if Hitler had won the war? What if Ghandi had lived? What if Hillary Clinton had won the US Presidential Election?
What if James Dean had lived?
Or better – what if George Lucas had directed Singing in the Rain…
What’s your favourite what if? Or, what’s the best YouTube video you’ve seen this week – post it in the comments.
Surviving the Zompocalypse Part 2
Here’s a nice vodcast on how to survive a zombie apocalypse…
And here’s a nice little webapp for calculating just when your city will be overrun by zombies. Based on modelling conducted in the District of Columbia…
