This Gnarls Barkley cover of Radiohead’s “Reckoner” totally manages to make up for the fact that I didn’t really care for “The Odd Couple”.
Category Archives: Video
History Hacker
Ever since I’d heard about History Hacker, I’ve been geeked about it. Now, maker extraordinaire and super rad video blogger Bre Pettis, is getting a crack at the big leagues when his show airs on The History Channel this Friday at 8 PM.
The pilot involves Tesla and his back and forth feud with Edison and has a style that seems like it was made for the ritalin set. So if the promo video above looks interesting at all, consider adding it to your DVR and checking it out.
Minor Threat
Sir Ben Kingsley playing Ian MacKaye? Why the hell not?
Normally I’d say “that’s a stretch” — but the whole shaved head/fully bald thing actually sort of makes for inspired casting.
Dark Knight PSA: Herpes
If you only watch one video out of the Dark Knight PSA series on YouTube, make it this one.
Julia Nunes
For whatever reason, I’ve really been into Julia Nunes lately. Crystal introduced me to her mostly Uke oriented covers on YouTube a few months back and she ping ponged around in my brain until a week ago. While she does some solid originals, the standout tracks — for me at least — are her covers.
Since she doesn’t have any backup singers, she actually records herself singing vocal harmonies where necessary and cuts the videos together to achieve the desired effect. It’s pretty clever and makes me smile a whole bunch — so I’m hopeful that you’ll enjoy it too.
Macbook Air vs. Girl Talk
As far as I’m concerned, this video is absolute genius. Of course, I might be a bit partial due to the fact that I’m totally in love with the new Girl Talk album — but that’s really beside the point.
Vern Fonk
I find that one word sums these commercials up better than anything else: Shipoopi!
True Love Won’t Desert You
I just have to go on record and say that this shot for shot recreation of the video for Journey’s “Separate Ways” is seriously the best thing that I’ve seen all week. If you even sort of like Journey, you owe it to yourself to stop everything you’re doing and soak all of its majesty in right this second.
ZeFrank On Privacy
Man, it sure is good to have Ze back — even if he is only updating once a week while the WGA strike is going on.
Fonejacker
After watching something yesterday on YouTube — which ended up being pretty forgettable in the end — I managed to stumble onto Channel 4′s Fonejacker. As someone who grew up on stuff like The Jerky Boys, I ended up consuming every one of them I could get my grubby little mitts on. I think what I like about them more than anything else is that they’re updated to cover topics like 419 scammers, outsourced cold callers and voice activated help services. Seriously, if you watch nothing else on YouTube this week, at least give these a go.
P.S. There’s two more videos for your viewing pleasure after the jump.