The Dark Knight 1966 Style

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Wow.

Just when you thought old internet memes couldn't get any better:

Via YesButNoButYes.

Get the hell out of our store, please!

I always have to hunt for this when I want it, so I'm putting it here. I can never find it on YouTube, but Google Video previals!

Fair and Handsome

This is kind of messed up. Its actually a cream to make your skin lighter. I know it has a lot to do with the caste system that's existed in India for so long (the ligher-skinned people from the north were usually part of the higher castes), but it still weirds me out a bit. Mostly 'cause they make the one guy feel bad for being darker skinned.

Way to go, Riker

And this is why you shouldn't sit on computers:

Amen Brother

So there's a classic breakbeat that we all know whether we realize it or not. It has inundated popular music in such a way that we take it as natural, and don't think about where it came from. As with most of culture, we borrow so heavily from what we know of the past that we don't realize where it came from and what we're actually creating, vs what we're borrowing.

Amen brother is a classic example of this. As this fellow puts it, It has entered "the collective audio unconcious":

Its a bit long, clocking in around 18 minutes, but well worth a listen (there's not actually a lot going on visually in this video).

More about it on the Wikiedia article on Amen Brother.

Dance music!

So I just added Boing Boing to my RSS reader. I've read bits of it in the past, but never committed. And in the first 10 minutes, it turned up this gem:

Infectious dance music mashed up with footage of an old revival meeting? Seriously, how can you go wrong?

Its a band called Familjen and I think I found a new musical obsession.

Electro always reminds me of Shawn of the Dead.

Via Boing Boing.

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

HOLY POOP.

More about Crystal Skulls here

and here:

via Geek Monthly

Batman!

Everyone who knows me knows how excited I am about this:

The trailer is just okay, but I am more and more excited about the movie every time I think about it. Batman Begins was so well done. It made a blockbuster comic book movie while still getting pretty close to the tone (if not the look, or even really the plot) of one of the classic stories (in this case, the Frank Miller-penned Year One) of that character.

I'm also excited to see the joker done right. Tim Burton's 1989 Batman was good, and Jack Nicholson was great in it, but I think Dark Knight is going to better capture the insanity that really characterizes the Joker in the comics. Or at least I hope.

For how much I love Batman, I'm not that big a fan of the 1960s Adam West TV series. For a lot of people the campyness of it is what makes the show, but I just can't dig it. Then again, I don't like a lot of the older print comics (okay, pretty much all of the '30s-'60s) of Batman either.

In any case, if you've ever wondered what that TV show would have been like had they approached it seriously, without all the camp, the answer is pretty damn good:

Via Geek Monthly.

Holy sweet goddamn.

Its too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?

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Super-Size Me (With Whiskey!)

Sheer hilarity.

Ghost Ride It Video

So I wrote about this last month. Apparently, that was them filming part of the music video. The video? For a different mix of the song, but holy crap, they ghost ride ECTO-1. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?

Paula Abdul

Is she drunk? Dave thinks she might be receiving cunnilingus below the level of the camera. I figure that might explain the gyrations and lack of focus, but it doesn't account for the slurred speach. Unless I've been doing something wrong all this time.

Via Stereogum.

GHOST RIDE IT

I read this article on Pitchfork today. I was actually kind of surprised - not only that a "Crunk Hits" album existed, but that THEY'RE UP TO VOLUME THREE.

So I was talking about it at work, and one of the guys hadn't heard of Hyphy. I don't really know that much about it, but I told him what I could, and we turned to Wikipedia. The discussion turned to Ghost Riding, which he insists isn't a new phenomenon. Apparently when he was growing up, they used to do a lot of these same car tricks that you see in Hyphy, only they used to do it to be assholes. He's from west Michigan, so what can you do?

Anyhow, the Wikipedia article on Ghost Riding links to this YouTube video:

Holy crap is that amazing or what? Video download (LINK REMOVED), in case you just GOTTA have it for your very own.

Also - there's a whole nother verse - listen on Mistah FAB's MySpace, and again, if you must: mp3 download.

ALSO: Bonus points for sampling the Ghostbusters theme.

Have a very Jack Bauer Christmas

I personally was hoping that Santa would have to take the little girl out. Or that her present was a bomb. Or plutonium. I guess Santa isn't as ruthless as Jack. Few are.

The new season of 24 begins January 14.

Via The Best of YouTube.

Packing and Tetris

This was totally me and my dad this last weekend when we moved my sister out of her apartment.

Via YesButNoButYes.

Hey Ya! Charlie Brown

So we all remember Outkast's Hey Ya! from a couple of years ago. And we all remember Charlie Brown. The following is what happens when two guys edit them together in one of the greatest feats of time-remapping and editing I've seen in an amateur video.

Via YesButNoButYes.

EDIT: And guess what's on TV tonight?

Bovalve

My friend Nate is taking a class on experimental interface design. He opted to build an electonic music controller of his own design. The result was the Bovalve. Its an experimental physical interface for a synthesizer, so I'm not sure how playable and practical it is yet, but is super-cool none the less.

According to Nate, the Bovalve combines

[quote]
"the concept of pitch from a trumpet, and the expression of a violin bow, and (you) get this: four fingers, a squeeze control, and two thumbs to change (the) sounds."
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Lookit:

Lasse Gjertsen and musical video editing

So some people might remember him from Hyperactive (which is kind of annoying, really), but Lasse Gjertsen is pretty awesome if only for this video( which you should watch at least past the halfway point to get the full effect):

HOLY CRAP AWESOME, NO?

Also:

And Deadly Media:

I spend way too much time on YouTube at work.

Via Music Thing.