Month of April, 2008

I Wish I Can Remember My Dreams

But I doubt they'd go quite like this:

Okay, y'know the Adam West Batman TV show? Well, I dreamed that my roomies and I somehow found out that they'd tried to make a 'Justice League' spinoff, but only ever filmed the pilot, which never even aired. So we were scouring this enormous warehouse of unaired pilots for 60's TV shows, and finally found it! And all the actors were middle-aged and dumpy, and all the costumes were brightly-coloured and kinda stupid, and everybody was deadpanning, and it was great.

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Music Fusion

I had come across this video of a hip-hop and violin combination and thought it was good enough to merit some props. The guy on the violin is rather good, if a bit harsh on the violin. I'm not a huge fan of hip-hop, but it sounded good to my ears:

Unfortunately for him, though, I can't say he's exactly mind-blowing. Not when he had to compete with these four lovely and extremely talented ladies for that title in the world of music fusion:

The group is Bond, and the song they played there is "Duel". Probably the best sample of classical strings and pop music fusion that I've ever heard. If you want to see talent, you should see them cover "Korobushka":

It's not difficult to believe that there's an equivalent in other fields of music to Dragonforce, but thanks to the internet, I am able to witness it.

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Rick at the Mets

Well the New York Mets baseball team organization had a fan vote for a "sing-a-long" song to play in the 8th inning of every home game for the team's last season in Shea Stadium. Well, it looked like a few people on Digg had an idea as the vote included a "write-in" slot in addition to several already picked songs.

The result?

Seems like it was successful.

I wonder if the Mets organization is aware of the rickroll phenomenom?

UPDATE: Huh, looks like the original video was taken down by request of MLB. Got a different one up, but that might be taken down eventually too. In anycase, here's a video by someone recording at the game:

I'm not sure if the crowd is booing the song or not...

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