I loved this video essay, exploring a not-great movie’s self-awareness and the way it subversively advertises the blockbusters that paved the way for it. (Narrator Tyler Smith co-hosts two podcasts I also love, Battleship Pretension and More Than One Lesson.)
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Don’t You (Forget About Me) – A Tribute to 80’s Teen Movies. (via). So many formative feelings here.
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Alton Ellis – What Does It Take To Win Your Love. Those rhythm and lead guitar lines are dope. That riff you recognize is Harvey Fuqua’s work, later immortalized by Kenny G.
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Paul F. Tompkins – The perfect beer. It really is great to be an adult.
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A Drummer Showing Up At The Wrong Gig. Haha. This drummer is ridiculous. (via)
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Larry Bird: Greatest Passer of All Time. And part two. (via) A lot of these passes don’t seem strictly necessary to me, but 1) I’m not Larry Bird and 2) if you can, why not?
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Tim & Eric, Paul Rudd’s Computer. I love Paul Rudd. (via)
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Bing Crosby sings “Moonlight Becomes You” from the Road to Morocco.
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A History of the Sky. A grid of 126 time-lapse movies, each showing the sky on a different day. (via)
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Brian Eno – Another Green world – Arena 2010 Documentary Part 1/6. Just aired a few months ago on BBC Four. (via)
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“Well in those days the internet was in black and white. It was only on for three hours a day. We used to get all dressed up in our Sunday best to log onto it. We’d log onto letsbuyit.com and order a gas mask and a pound of tripe. Then when we’d finished with the computer we’d switch it off and we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem.”
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3-legged bear walking on two legs. Fast-forward to 0:55 or so. It’s amazing when you can feel your brain seeing something new and adjusting what it knows to be true.
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A Case of the Mondays. Jonathan Baker (@mondaynight) makes the case for Monday Night Brewery at IgniteATL.
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Kseniya Simonova – Sand Animation on Ukraine’s Got Talent. (via vqr).
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Art Tatum goofs around with Dvorak’s Humoresque No. 7 in G flat major. Here’s a more traditional version. (via @danlevitin)
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Pachelbel Rant, about being bored out of your mind on cello + the chord progression showing up everywhere.
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William Shatner reads Palin’s speech as poetry (via @davehyndman):
And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature’s finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?
And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future.
See also the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and the Clinton/Lewinsky Poetry Under Oath.
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Mark Larson 