Adventures in freakdom.
Time to take a break from all the damn house entries.
It’s no secret that one of my favorite sites online is YouTube, and I think it’s time for another entry devoted to the things I’ve seen recently. You can find all sorts of videos on YouTube — funny, sad, political, outrageous, and just about any music video you can imagine. Matter of fact, a music video was the genesis of this entry.
The other day, I was sitting on the couch, working a dookie puzzle. Robyn and her mother were out shopping or something, and I was taking the reprieve to catch up on my laziness. The TV was tuned to FUSE, the more or less alternative music channel, and as I filled in numbers I became aware that I really really liked the song that was playing.
Hmmm, I thought. That guy would look like the lead singer for My Chemical Romance, except he’s blonde and the MCR guy has gothy black emo hair. Besides, I hate MCR and I’d have to kill myself, or at least cut my arms if I liked one of their songs.
I think we all know where this is going, don’t we?
Sure enough, the song ended, and it was the latest from My Chemical Romance, titled Welcome to the Black Parade. Wow, I love this song, even though it kind of embarrasses me to admit it. Here’s the video. Make sure you give it until at least 1:45 for the music to really kick in. His mannerisms remind me of Freddie Mercury in this video.
Robyn has offered me a Hot Topic gift certificate for Christmas because I like this song so much
Ever since Weird Al’s video for White and Nerdy was released a couple of months ago, I’ve been waiting for his next one. I love me some Al, and his parodies are phenomenal. My hope is that he’ll do a video for Canadian Idiot, which is a parody of Green Day’s American Idiot, only funny.
While checking YouTube yesterday, I came across the video below. Someone took one of his older polka medleys (Polka Party from Running with Scissors, if memory serves) and made a video using clips of the original artists’ videos.
And it’s excellent.
Polka Party
If you don’t know who Team Hoyt is, it’s high time you learned. The video below features them, and shows the phenomenal devotion a father has to his disabled son.
Team Hoyt
Everyone loves the clips from America’s Funniest Home Videos, especially when people are falling down.
Am I right, or am I right?
I can’t dance
Pastor Ted Haggard is all over the news this week. If you don’t know who he is, he was the president of the 30,000,000-member-strong National Association of Evangelicals. A regular visitor to the White House, he built his own church from meeting in the basement of his home to a 14,000 member megachurch, preaching on Biblical principles like how evil homosexuality is. An abomination, and all that.
Turns out he’s been paying visits to a gay male escort and was removed as Pastor and President last week for “sexual immorality.”
Whoops.
Do as I say, please, not as I do.
Below is Pastor Ted, telling us about homosexuality. Perhaps he should preach on hypocrisy next time he’s allowed in a pulpit. His situation is especially sad because his belief set won’t allow him to accept how he was born, and he’ll spend countless hours and dollars trying to overcome the “sin” of his homosexuality.
From the forthcoming documentary “Jesus Camp”.
And, using the homosexuality theme as a segue, we move to a clip from the in-theater movie Borat.
I’m torn. Ninety-five percent of the Borat clips I’ve seen fail to elicit even the slightest smile from me. And people just rave about how funny the movie is. It makes me wonder if there’s something wrong with me. I understand why people think they’re funny, but they’re just not my brand of humor. Most of them just strike me as stupid.
Then, a bootleg clip like the one below comes along and makes me laugh so hard I worry about losing consciousness. I think I’ll give the movie a try when it comes out on DVD, and see what I think.
Warning: this clip (just look at the picture) is for adults, and is not suitable for work.
The fight
One of my favorite musicals of all time is Evita. And I don’t mean that Madonna / Antonio movie crap, either. I mean the Broadway version, with real singers. The original stage production from the late 70’s featured Mandy Patinkin (” ‘Allo. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!”), Bob Gunton (the warden from Shawshank), and Patti LuPone (the mom from Life Goes On).
If you’ve only seen the Madonna / Antonio version of Evita, watch this clip of the original cast from the 1980 Tony Awards and see what you’ve been missing. Madonna wishes she had a tenth the talent that Patti LuPone does.
Boy, that made me sound gay.
Simply stellar
No mention of Broadway would be complete without something from Jesus Christ Superstar. Here’s What’s the Buzz / Strange Thing, Mystifying from the 2000 incarnation of the show. The Judas in this version (starting at 2:30) is perfect, because he has the ultimate smart-ass face.
Mary Magdelene is very easy on the eyes.
Jesus is just a whiny little bitch, as always.
Finally, on the Broadway thing, I can’t not put this, because it’s about the best song ever written for a musical, sung by the perfect singer.
Michael Ball - Love Changes Everything
In case you missed the Country Music Awards, as I did, you missed Faith Hill demonstrating a complete lack of class when she didn’t win an award. Watch her, on the left in the middle.
Very tacky.
She’s taking a page from the John Kerry playbook now, and claiming it was just a botched joke. Her fans might buy it, but I don’t.
No class.
I’ve mentioned my love of the group Keane before, but I don’t know that I’ve linked to any of their videos. This is from their last album, and is one of my favorite songs by them. Would that I could sing half as well as this guy.
Everybody’s Changing
There’s a new phantom in town.
So what’s your favorite YouTube video?
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I was a fan, but man that was classless. I haven’t found a copy of the clip mentioned here yet, but I checked it on my Tivo and it appears just as they said it does.
I saw Borat over the weekend … and I have a totally opposite take than most of the reviews I’ve read. I actually thought the fake interviews and encounters were pretty funny for the most part (loved the subway scene, as well as the driver’s ed and the rodeo), but I was really put off by the nude wrestling scene. It was grotesque and went on forever and I don’t know, I guess I’m just not entertained by quasi-porn. Or grossly fat men. The only funny part of that scene was the exaggeratedly large black spot they used to cover Borat’s “privates.”
I love Evita! Always have - I have the Patti Puone soundtrack, as well as the Madonna, and I like them both. I have seen the play onstage, but unfortunately not with Patti Lupone, who I think is an amazing singer/actress. I liked the Modaonna/Bandaras film, too, though.
You-Tube? LOVE IT! Have you seen “Shoes?” (Liam show)That’s my current favorite -have watched it way too many times. “I’m gonna betch-slap ya!” “Those shoes are M-I-N-E, betch!”
Also “Dance of a Thousand Hands” is on You-Tube. It’s pretty amazing.
I *love* Weird Al’s polkas. My favorite one is the grunge polka (I can’t remember if that’s the actual name of the song or not, but it’s absolutely awesome).
I don’t get the Borat thing either. I’ve only seen the clips on TV, not the movie, but I think he, um, kinda sucks.
So, you are embarrassed to admit you like a My Chemical Romance song, but not that you recognize the lead singer (even with different colored hair)? Hmmmmm….
re: Team Hoyt
I hadn’t heard of or seen before.
Am sobbing loudly now.
Thanks for that (truly).
Sure puts a perspective on life, eh?
Billy Joel…..Piano Man and We Didn’t Start the Fire! Excellent.
Debbie (in CT) - I only recognize him because they played that damn Helena song about eleventy billion times back when it was popular.
ok, i swear i’m not emo, but i have to say that i LOVE mcr. don’t judge them by the overplayed singles. their last album was amazing. this new album, which “welcome to the black parade” is off of, tells a story, about “the patient,” who is played by lukas haas in the video (because he really scared them in a movie he was in when he was younger; side note: lukas haas is amazing in ‘brick’, check it out) , who dies. the entire album chronicles his life and death.
ok /emo
Am I seeing things, or does that appear to be a cigarette in the guys right hand the last few seconds of Pastor Ted in “forthcoming documentary Jesus Camp?” (Or better yet…a dubee?)
I took Faith Hill’s response to C.U. winning the female singer award as a joke. She isn’t the first to pretend to be upset.
Steve Martin’s done it at the Oscar’s.
Regis Philban and the View gals has been doing it for yrs on the daytime Emmy awards.
Mandy Patinkin, is one of my favorites of all time! I have never seen this video, it was so spectacular!
I LOVE BORAT, HILARIOUS. SAW IT SUNDAY AND THE THEATRE WAS PACKED AND WE WERE ALL LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY, ESPECIALLY AT THE SCENE YOU’VE GOT SHOWING HERE. LEFT MY HUSBAND FEELING A BIT … UMMM… CREEPED OUT, I THINK?
cooool videos!
Thanks for Team Hoyt. I am sitting here bawling and wanting to go to school and get my boys out of class just to hug them. Of course this would scar them for life…. That would make it fun!
I am partial to the Trunk Monkeys.
Faith was so NOT joking……….
You Tube: An Indian version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Diet Coke, right out the nose. Painful, but worth it…
Thanks for the 4 minute and 13 second cry!! I have followed the Team Holt story now for a while but the video just reminds me that nothing is ever impossible.
Thanks,
Teresa