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062306: Here he goes again... There's no such thing as bad press.
Once upon a time there was a rap group called "2Live Crew". They released a cd called "As Nasty As They Want to Be" which wasn't very good at all. Every song dealt with sex, was lyrically obscene, and although humorous in a "Beavis and Butthead" was a very poor choice for the martyrdom it was to receive. Eventually, some Senator's wives got wind of the CD and called for a ban. This made the evening news and gave the 2Live Crew better advertising than any record label could afford. The 2Live Crew became a symbol for free speech and their CD sold in undeserving quantities. The 2Live Crew followed this up with a few less successful albums and are assumed to be in retirement counting their money.
There's no such thing as bad press.
Once upon
a time, a college student wanted to create a way to share his
mp3 collection with his friends. He developed a program which would
scan predetermined folders and report the contents back to a central
server. Anyone logged into this system could then search the server for
specific songs and download them directly from anyone connected to the
system. He called his invention "Napster". It soon spread through the
Internet underground. Record labels and Recording Industry Groups
eventually learned of this and set out to destroy it. Word of this
campaign against Napster made the evening news giving the application
more advertising than it could ever acquire on it's own. The number of
users multiplied by an order of magnitude within weeks. It was no
longer a tool of underground hackers. People of all ages and technical
experience we using Napster in quantities that no commercial service
has been able to duplicate.
There's no such thing as bad press.
Once upon a time, there was a peer to peer protocol called bittorrent. It allowed mass distribution of files requiring downloading users to also act as servers for other downloaders. This allowed mass downloading without accessing a central server and was able to distribute bandwidth in a way that commercial enterprises could only dream of. These downloads were initiated using small bookmark files. Many websites sprung up to track these files. One was the Pirate Bay. It's operators claimed that, because it only hosted the bookmark files and not the files that these bookmarks referenced, no laws were broken. Recently, due to pressure from American Industry Groups, and not the artists that these groups claim to represent, the Pirate Bay's offices in Sweden were raided and several servers were seized. This story was picked up by hundreds of Internet news sites. Three days later, they were back up and running. Shortly after their return, their servers crashed under the unprecedented load of incoming user requests. They have since upgraded and to this day are still serving torrent files in enormous quantities.
OK, sorry about that. That was just a little something I jotted down the other day and thought I'd share with my adoring readers. I think a few of you are adoring. Anyway...
To balance out the seriousness with a dose of goofiness, I bring you the 50 Worst Video Game Titles. I'm kind of upset that "Wargasm" is on the list. I kinda like it. I am very pleased with their number one choice. It happens to be one of my favorite uses of Engrish.
Now that I've amused you, it's time to disgust you. I once read a book by William Gibson called Neuromancer. It takes place in the future where, because of overpopulation, there is not enough land to raise cattle. Mass market meat is produced by growing it in vats. Well, it looks like this could happen in the next 10 years. Who knew stem cells could lead to cheeseburgers?
OK, I got crap to do...see 'ya.
060606: I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea,
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short...
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number, its number is Six hundred and sixty six.
Happy devil day everyone. Let's all celebrate a day that has no religious significance whatsoever and is only feared by those who manufacture their own superstitions based on some sort of uninformed numerology. Not that we should ever pass up an opportunity to have a party, like the good people in Hell, Michigan. To help celebrate, here's some mp3 downloads from the mp3 blog "Shoes Are for Work." Here's some feindish mp3 files more from "Funtime OK", and here's one last batch from "Who Needs Radio?"
Did anyone else watch the Sopranos Sunday night? It was the climactic season finale, and by climactic I mean anesthetizing. I really feel like someone owes me something for watching that steaming pile of crap. What has happened to that show? How do they manage to make organized crime so boring? I can't believe I missed Family Guy for that.
53106: Kill Your TV Hollywood is out of ideas. It's a running joke on fark.com, but it's as true as it ever was. The latest proof, a remake of "The Omen". Now, I'm not against all remakes. This one might actually be cool. However, there's no denying that Hollywood does way too much rummaging around in the attic for ideas. If it's not recycling movies, it's pillaging our childhood cartoons or current video games. Given this recycling mentality and the proliferation of unscripted "reality" shows, it makes me wonder if anyone writes original material anymore? My theory is that there is plenty of original material being written every day, but big budget producers only want mass-market, homogenized material to shove down our throats. Rather than take a chance with a new, original idea let's blow the dust off of this idea that made us so much money already. That's not art, that's marketing. Last I heard, movies are an art form not a widget to market. The great equalizer is here: The Internet. Computers are getting more powerful and broadband connections are getting faster. The framework is in place for free, original programming. Look at the podcasts and how they've exploded. Consumers are thirsty for original content and the internet is delivering. Personally, I can't wait for the big budget studios to go bust while thousands of independent artists make a comfortable living directly selling their work to their audience.
Sorry about that. I usually save my anti-corporate talk for Buy Nothing Day, but that subject just took over. I don't really remember what I was going to write about originally. I grew up in a time where movies were about a good story and well developed characters and where special effects were a spice used to add flavor to that core. Now it seems as if CGI studios come up with some new effect and the movie studios try to create a movie around it. That's not art, that's masturbation.
Sorry again. Okay, enough serious stuff. This weeks "What the heck is wrong with the Japanese Link" features the variety of ice cream flavors that can be found in Japan. Mmmmm, how about a nice, big hot-fudge sundae with ice cream containing chunks of horseflesh.
In other news, I finally got a chance to check out the new Ministry CD "Rio Grande Blood"
. Al
Jourgenson has gotten back to what he
does
best, Bush Bashing. If you liked Psalm
69, my personal
favorite,
you'll like this one. Musically it's very similar in that it
is
heavily guitar based. Unlike Psalm
69, we have more
than 1
song
slamming our current president. This whole album is pretty
much a
mockery of George W. and the current state of affairs in America.
Although I don't agree with all of the political statements,
this
album rocks hard.OK, that's it for now.
051806: I've had it with these Motherf*cking snakesE3 has come and gone. Sony sucked it, Nintendo kicked it (I am all over the Wii as soon as the lightsaber game is out), and Microsoft sat around counting their money. None of that really concerns me (so long as I get my money next Friday). I'm so behind of my PS2 games that I won't need a new console for years. The game I'm interested in is Spore.
Baby pictures? Evolutionist propaganda? Spore looks like it's going to be the ultimate in sim games. In short, you start off as a single celled organism and you end up as a fullt developed organism exploring the universe. From what I've read, the spore universe is populated by other players organisms - not in a MMORPG way but in a more autonomous way. My understanding is that you have to option of uploading your organism to a main server where it is made available to all installations of spore as a non-player character. I can imagine the water cooler talk already...
"Hey Bob, I ran into your organism last night. He put up a good fight , but in the end, I ate him. I really like what you've done with your flagellum!"
Say hello to my little poster. Eventually, you develop a civilization and explore space. Travel to new worlds and discover new species, kill them, eat them, befriend them, it's all up to you. How cool is that? Very. Hopefully, by the time it's released I'll have something powerful enough to actually play it.
While we're on the subject of games. Rumor has it, the coolest game ever may be getting a sequel: Rez.
You know those stupid motivational posters you see everywhere and they make you want to grab a baseball bat and an ice cream scoop and bash open people's heads and dish out their brains to feral dogs like some sort of David Lynch inspired Soup Kitchen? No? Maybe it's just me. Well, anyway, there's now a cool little web toy that will let you create your own. Check out the Motivator. The one on the left is my personal creation. Cool, huh? If that's not to your taste, perhaps you'd rather make your own roadside construction sign? No? Well obviously, you suck.
Motherf*cking Snakes? Read this. Does that look like the stupidest movie ever? It may be so bad, it's good.
050806: Johnny CakesWhat's better than a necklace of human ears? A suit made of babies, or at least baby dolls. Seriously, how creepy is this thing? It's like some really lame superhero. With the power of a thousand infants, it's Babyman!
Play-Doh is 50 years old. It's remained pretty much the same since it's creation, with the exception of adding coloring. Fortunately, there is a related advance in technology. Now you can smell like play-doh. Although, now that I think of it, this stuff is probably like crack to pedophiles. Never mind, don't buy it. I feel dirty, and not in a good way.
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OK, let's talk about games for a second. There's been a trend in videogames lately where any movie with an organized crime element gets made into a game. We've had The Godfather, we will soon have Scarface, and just announced last week were The Sopranos and Reservoir Dogs. Can't we be original again? Do we have to keep recycling franchises? I wonder if the Reservoir Dogs game will have a section where you have to get out of the diner without tipping. As far as a Sopranos game, I hope to god it's not based on this season. What could be more fun than a game full of mini-missions with Vito eating Johnny cakes and making out with his biker buddy?
Speaking of bad ideas, apparently there's talk of making a Jetson's movie. I'm sure the kids will love it, but what do kids know about the Jetsons? I'm sure there'll be a crappy CGI Astro and Rosie (will Oribty make an appearance?) and Will Farrel and Drew Barrymore will probably be George and Jane. Judy and Elroy? I have no idea, I'm not up on my current child/teenage stars. Danny Devito would have to be Spacely. Come to think of it, with that line up, it might be pretty ok. Let's just hope they don't cheese it up too much.
Speaking of movies, the original theatric releases of Star Wars, episodes 3-6 are finally being released on DVD. I hope all you nitpicking fanboys are happy now. Great, now I'll have another Star Wars Box Set. Maybe they'll release a box set of box sets, or maybe they'll release one of these box sets. Incidentally, if you do want to see a Wampa invasion of the Hoth base just play the "Hunting" mode of Star Wars Battlefront 2.
Lastly, while we're on the subject of imaginary movie releases, here's a list of ideas for Harry Potter Sequels. Personally, I like my idea: Harry Potter and the Secrets in Hermione's Sweater
050306: I am Ninja!I know, I'm the worst webmaster ever. I go for months between posts, totally neglecting the needs of my throngs of adoring fans. I am unworthy of your clickage and am humbled by your return.
Top Ten Reasons I Haven't Updated My Web Site in 2 Months:
- Busy watching Ask a Ninja. (Did you know there are midget ninjas? They're called Minjas.) Oh, have you seen the Ninja Devil Duck?
- I've been trying to recreate the "Mother Ship" Peanut Butter Cup at Pimp My Snack.com.
- Trying to make sense of these Japanese Torture Devices, I mean, Beauty Aids. Seriously, what's the deal with the Japanese? They occasionally crank out a gem like Katamari Damacy (which I am thoroughly addicted to), but they got a lot of freaky stuff over there.
- Redecorating my house in the new Casket theme. I guess you CAN take it with you. For the home office, I'm considering the Push Pin Lamp and the Bean Bag Swivel Chair.
- Reading about Centralia, PA (Which, apparently, the director of Silent Hill visited for inspiration.) at Damn Interesting.com.
- Watering and Cutting my Grass Armchair.
- Fuming over this whole Illegal Immigrant amnesty thing. These people are breaking our lawsand you want to just ignore it? OK, I want music piracy and speeding amnesty. No, wait, I want aggrevated assault on liberals amnesty. We have an immigration process in place. You either use it to get into our country legally, or you stay out. Yes, I've heard the arguments that American is nothing but immigrants, but they were LEGAL immigrants. Why should you be granted citizenship when your very presence in our country is a violation of our laws? Now I'm getting irritated. See? This is why I can't watch the news!
- Working on this new, spiffy CSS based design and learning the free, open source web design app Nvu. The ball of confusion is now table free! How web 2.0 of me, maybe I should learn some AJAX too.
- My pets have started a new diet where, in addition to their normal food, they eat large quantities of my free time.
- Buttafuco!
Lastly, if you miss the old Wallpaper section, I've recently started hosting my wallpaper on my flickr account. 021906: Things that make you go awwww..I meant to put this link up as a present to all the ladies on valentines day, but with my busy lifestyle it just didn't seem to happen. Anyway, here it is, it's my wife's current favorite website: Cute Overload. What will you find? Pictures of cute animals doing cute things, such as bunnies stealing cookies.
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Here in Pennsylvania, it's cold. Really freakin' cold. Like 9 degrees cold as I write this. Due to these conditions, I'm seriously considering purchasing 2 things. The first is the Selk'Bag. I don't know about you, but that looks really warm to me. Next, in these frigid temperatures, it's also important to protect your more sensitive areas. Maybe I should look into a willy warmer.
Next time you're painting a room, consider doing it with this 3d effect. How cool is that? It's very important to make your surroundings interesting. The creator of the LED Throwie would most likely agree with that statement. Be sure to check out the video.
Generation X'ers, remember this? Well, did you see the episode of Family Guy where they did this? By the way, I'm still looking for a video of "There's a Bird on Me". I have made some progress, I have recently found an mp3 of the song, but I still want a video.
It's been a while since I threw in something disturbing. I think we're about due. I guy I work with showed me this record setting dump. Wow, how could I start off with cute overload and end up with 26 foot long poop? (Link down at time of publication.)
020706:
I am Jack's ParodyRemember
the post with The
Shining as a Romantic Comedy? Well, now one of my
favorite movies is being remixed. Of course, I'm talking about Fight
Club as a Romantic Comedy. It seems a little stupid at first,
but stick
with it. It gets really good about half way through.Sorry about being so brief. I promise, I'll get you a big'ole post soon.
011806: ...so this is the new year?What a bold start to the new year, ignoring my web page for 2 weeks. I assure you I have good excuses for my absence, but you're not here to listen to my sob stories. You're here for that slightly sour nectar that flows so freely from this endangered flower. Well, enough of my yakin', what do you say? Let's boogie...
In addition to sexual reproduction, Chuck Norris can also lay eggs.
Chuck Norris. Buttkicking buddhist, Texas Ranger, however you know him there's plenty more to learn. For instance, Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves, the opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade, and my personal favorite: Crop circles are Chuck Norris' way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down. [links: chucknorrisfacts.com, random chuck norris fact generator ]
So, I'm listening to Coverville's podcast the other day when Cake's cover of "Manah Manah" comes on. I learned something that day. That catchy song we all sang as kids (and some of us still sing as adults, you know who you are!) originally came from the soundtrack of a Swedish softcore-porn film. You can read the whole lurid tale at Wikipedia. As disturbing as that is, I don't find it as disturbing as the fact that as a child I used to sing "..the chicks will cream for greased lightning." You'd think my parents would have intervened, though I don't think they knew what that meant either.
I love bacon. I have the bacon air freshener and, as of this Christmas, I now have bacon bandaids, but do we really need a Flickr Bacon Group? And speaking of things we really don't need, what's up with the artificial foreskin? That one should have been featured on Strange New Products, but I think it was even too weird for them.
Lastly, someone has finally answered the age old question, "What happens when you drop a 50 pound ball of Silly Putty from the top floor of a parking garage?" Not as bouncy as you'd think.
122105: Happy FestivusFestivus is coming! For the uninitiated all the information you could possibly need on Festivus can be found here and an orientation video can be found here.
I shall now air my grievances..
- To Apple, that replacement iPod sucked. All I wanted was a new battery and you send me a pod with a bad port! Not to mention your phone help (in India) sent me to the web page to fill out my own report. I just gave that chick all my info, can't she press a "submit" button?
- To Comcast, just what are you going to do with that extra 4 bucks a month that you couldn't do before? The dish is starting to look tasty.
- To the Adult Swim people, you get rid of Sealab 2021 and bring in crap like Squidbillies and 12 oz mouse? You could not suck harder!
- Post Cereals, the new Alphabits are crap on a cracker! If I want something healthy, I'll get that "Bran-Blowing-Out-Your-Butt" stuff, but don't take my frosted childhood and turn it into flavorless crap!
- To my employer, you suck and you know why.
- To the owners of G4 & Tech TV, what you're doing is shameful. We do not need another Spike. I can't wait until the internet makes cable tv obsolete and you're on the street with a "Will Work for Food" sign.
- To that guy in the truck that almost hit me in Moon. That light was red a good 5 seconds before you ran it. I hope a wild boar chews you genitals off.
- To all you liberals and atheists, it's CHRISTmas, deal with it. America guarantees freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.
- To all celebrities with political opinions, we don't care. Shut up.
- To oil companies, you don't know when to quit, do you? Well, fuel cells are coming and you are screwed.
- To George Lucas, you made a great movie (episode 3) and you end it with that cheesed up Frankenstein moment. Shame on you.
Next, goofy t-shirts. I've recently discovered Prankplace's t-shirt assortment. They're pretty good. But nothing compared to the classic, T-Shirt Hell. For some retro, we have T-Shirt Bitch. And, in no particular order, T-Shirts that Suck, Vulgaritees, Threadless, and Jinx.com, home of my favorite - The Music Pirate T-Shirt.
This thing is pretty cool. It will sing any given text using samples from existing songs. I remember radio stations having contests with this type of thing. If you could name all the samples you'd win a noogie or some crap. Anyway, here it is...
...and don't forget. It's peanut butter jelly time. (wtf?)
111705: Have a Surreal Day
Ifelt the urge to replace the Pulp Fiction poster in my cubicle, so I
decided to drag in the old digital camera and make something a little interesting. The result is the picture on the right, clickfor the
flickr set, or here
for the slideshow. If you would like to do something similar, here's the instructions.
1. Take a picture of the place where the poster will go with it's location empty.
2. Copy and paste the entire picture into the blank area.
3. Repeat until pixelated beyond recognition.
You can add little touches such as adding a drop shadow or warping the image so it looks more "paper like". I chose not to because I was on company time and wanted to finish within the 10 minute range.
In other news, my madmonk.music site has as many songs as it can hold. I'll post more when I find more FREE online storage.
111005: Nothing, Nada, Nil, the
NullsackIt's
time for my yearly sermon on rampant consumerism. I am by no means an
anti-capitalist. Capitalism works for the most part. Unfortunately, we
are at a point in time where it has swung too far in favor of big
companies. Just the fact that oil companies can preemptively increase
prices to compensate for losses that haven't happened yet speaks
volumes on how the market has swung in favor of big companies. Take a
look at Exxon's
earnings statement for the last quarter, Two natural
disasters and they still manage to make profits in numbers I can barely
comprehend. The point is, instead of treating the consumers as the
vital part of the equation that they are, we are now being treated like
cattle. Consumers and producers need each other. It is a symbiotic (not
parasitic) relationship. What is the answer? Consume less by producing
more.I'm not calling for any sort of boycott. Just take some of your power back. Consume less and produce more. Obviously, we can't refine our own oil, but we can all do something. Build furniture, write software, paint a picture, make music, publish a blog, produce a podcast, publish your own photography, or just bake some cookies. Do something that makes you a producer AND a consumer.
...and please, stay home on November 25th. I've had mall jobs on black Friday and trust me, you'll never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Yeah, sure you can get a toaster for $2, but do you really need another toaster?
110905:
Wall of Voodoo Leave
it to the freaky-deaky Dutch to take the decorative sensibilities of Ed
Gein and make a functional shopping aid for men. We men want
to buy
things for our women, especially things that can't be worn outside of
the house (nudge nudge, wink wink) but for biological reasons, the
mysteries of bra sizes escape us. Thanks to Dutch designer Wendy
Rameckers and her wall of breasts, we can now find the
correct size by
look and touch. God bless, wonderful work you're doing. Still, it's not
as weird as this eBay
item.In other news, I was trying to find out who does that "Walk up the side of the mountain" song in that one commercial and I found adtunes.com. Unlike songtitle.info and commercial breaks and beats, adtunes has ad related news and forums. There is no such thing as too much information, at least when it comes to music. BTW, the song is "Nature Anthem" by Granddaddy.
110105: Bread BasketI
know, it's the day AFTER halloween but I just saw this for the first
time. Some guy made a costume which turned him into an actual
working
Operation game. (via Boing
Boing via MAKE
blog) I gotta admit, although
it's the coolest idea I've seen in a long time, it looks really creepy
on the guy. I don't know if I'd even want to touch him with the tongs.While I'm ripping off Boing Boing's Halloween links, I might as well bring up the Nintendo Pumpkins. They're not really the scariest things in the world, but they definitely have an undeniable geek allure.
OK, one last halloween'esque link. A lot of people think the Archie comics are a relic from an earlier time. Well, they're actually alive and well and never really stopped publishing new material. I suppose, after all these years, it's about time they moved on from milkshakes and drive in movies and joined the modern world. Just in time for halloween, Betty has gone goth. Next week, the new metrosexual Jughead gets a Prince Albert. (Warning: wikipedia link contains a NSFW image) 102805: What I'm reading..I've been a big fan of Dave Feldman's books for a long time. Dave answers life's important questions like "How does aspirin find a headache?", "Do Penguins have knees?", and "When did wild poodles roam the earth?" I've also been a fan of Mark Leyner's quirky humor for a long time. When these two interests combined in the form of the book "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" , I had to have it.
Questions are grouped into chapters based on their category such as "bathroom", "medicine" or "sex" and each chapter is broken up by the occasional instant message log between Mark and the book's straight man, Billy Goldberg M.D. Each questions' answer takes no more than a page which places this book squarely in the "Bathroom Book" category.
In case your wondering, men have nipples as a leftover from the first 6 weeks in the womb where we all start off as females. I believe it was Gary Bucey who once said "All men are failed women." I guess nipples are our reminder of that.
If you are going to purchase any books mentioned in this article, please use the provided links to help support this site.
102105:
Games people play...Yet
another clone of the classic Circus
Atari has been produced. This
Japanese import features squirrels and pandas collecting fruit. Maybe
if they spent a little more time mating and a little less time
collecting fruit, they wouldn't be endangered. Anyway, check out Panda
Bounce.When you get tired of helping cute little animated characters, you can kill them in the first person shooter, Puki: The Swarm. (Thanks to Download Squad for the last 2 links.) Want to slay endless hordes of undead? Who doesn't? Play Deanimator.
Here's one from the archives, send your Halloween greetings with Bloody Finger Mail.
Lastly, here's one of the better flash games I've seen in a long time. It's from the same guy who brought us Alien Hominid and Chainsaw the Children. It's and old school, side scrolling fighter called Dad 'n Me.
101805: Tossing one off...
So
I read on Boing Boing
about this new thing called "Camera Tossing". Essentially, you set your
digital camera to leave the shutter open for a few seconds and toss it
in the air. In the right conditions, you get something similar to this.
Well, I decided to give it a try. Although what I did was really
"Camera Waving" and "Camera Spinning". I'm not really comfortable
tossing my digital camera. Anyway, I posted some of my favorites on
Flickr. Enjoy.
In other news the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella has hit version 2.0. The new version includes a very cool ROM browser. You can have your 3d, live rendered, photo-realistic games. I'll take Adventure.
101005: Live from work... So, it's Columbus day. The day we celebrate some Italian explorer found what a Viking explorer found 500 years earlier. Not to mention the whole "discovery" thing. The whole Columbus discovering thing is like me discovering my car has fog lights. They've always been there, I just never noticed them. Where's my holiday? Anyway, the point is that I have to work. My crappy company doesn't give us a day off. The way I see it, it's my right to cram as many personal projects as possible in today. You know, update the web page, burn some dvds, reply to some email, maybe even play some Doom. Yes, I still play doom. It's a lot cooler than it used to be thanks to jDoom and Doom Legacy.
Speaking of Doom, are you looking forward to the Doom movie? I'm not. Hollywood is officially out of ideas. There's a Doom movie, they're working on a Halo movie. I can't wait until Lode Runner, The Movie.
Did you hear about the snake that popped when he tried to eat an alligator? I guess that fight was a draw. However the Octopus vs Shark fight had a clear winner.
Lastly, the Smurfs have been bombed. I'll post a link to the video as soon as I find one. 100505: Live from Botswana...
Want
some real reality tv? National Geographic is currently running a 24
hour webcam at a watering hole in Botswana. If you ever wanted to see
real wild animals in their actual environment, here's
your chance. If your in the eastern US, like I am, the action
really picks up around 1:00 am....and speaking of animals, here's one from the "Still No Cure for Cancer" file. Scientists have taught dolphins to sing the theme from "Batman". Maybe their next project will be getting woodpeckers to do the drum solo from "Wipeout."
100305: It's all in the packaging.. So a bunch of professional movie editors get bored and come up with a contest. The goal: take an existing movie trailer and repackage it into a new genre. The video must remain unchanged, only the audio and titles can be altered. Here are the winners..
Titanic as a Horror Movie
West Side Story as a Zombie Movie
...and my favorite, The Shining as a Romantic Comedy.
Anyone who knows me knows I love me some cover songs, maybe a little too much. Especially when it comes to bands like Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies and the Legendary Richard Cheese. Speaking of the Cheese Man, he recently released his fourth album, Aperitif for Destruction (preview montage here).
Anyway, I've recently discovered 2 great sources for cover songs. The first is a podcast called "Coverville". If you haven't jumped on the podcast bandwagon yet, here's your first reason to do so. You can subscribe from the web site or via iTunes.
The next cover source, I discovered while browsing the Hype Machine (which has been really good lately). It's an mp3 blog called "Copy, Right?". I just discovered it about 10 minutes ago, so I can't tell you much more than that. Anyway, there you go. 092605: Bunnyrabbits, Satan, Cheese & Milk So I'm listening to WYEP the other night and I hear this song with a sample of a girl saying "Bunnyrabbiits, Satan, Cheese and Milk" over and over. Now, if you know me you know anything this odd is right up my alley. So, I get home and do some googling and find out the song is a home brew tune by Stark Effect. All their music can be found here for free. 092205: Avast Ye! I'm very disappointed that I totally forgot about Talk Like a Pirate Day this year. Here's some belated piratey goodness from the folks at Worth 1000. Are you aware of the fact that the decline of pirates can be directly linked to global warming? Help save our planet, become a pirate!
...older crap