Jeff Vader - lego brilliance

I'm sorry I know this has been around for an age but I am so in need of giggles I have to share:

What are you doing here, there and everywhere: A Doctor Who compendium

Brilliant tip off from the comments over at Medium Rob's place (ta Electric Dragon) to direct me to this brilliant bit of YouTube editorial genius pulling together variations on this phrase from the full decades of Doctor Who.

Fantastic!

Misty's Big Adventure: Serious Thing

MBA are fun, frothy, and smart. Like a more pop version of Einsturzende Neubauten.

Anyway, you can catch their video/song of 'Serious Thing' here on YouTube.

I never thought I'd publicly like a MIKA song...

... but I've watched this so many times now its kinda got stuck in my head!

Apart from a somewhat abrupt jump at the start from dialogue to song, the editing in terms of matching lyrics to the scenes just hits me in the gut.

Of course thinking about it, I'm a sucker for ballads and this has strings that come in and underpin the song. That's pretty much a fix for me.

In the Bleak Midwinter

Found this amusing little animation.



Here's the straight url, if you're that kinda YouTuber.

Einsturzende-fest

Seems I am following the household trend in posting that previous video post of Salamandrina (note: my first embedded YouTube clip!).

You can check out more EN here and here courtesy of his Cloudiness!

By the way, I love the programme's side tag for the Blume video: "special goth"... I love it almost as much as Blixa Bargeld's incredible cheekbones.

Salamandrina

Of course you should really check out the album version on double CD version of Tabula Rasa. It's also available on the Strategies Against Architecture III collection (available for streaming here), but this will do in the meantime.

Here are the awesome Einsturzende Neubauten doing a live version of a very special track, Salamandrina.

Whedon on equality

Via She-Who-Reads, go take a look at this clip from the Equality Now ceremony. The wonderful Joss Whedon is introduced by Meryl Streep and then goes on to give the most incredible, witty and incisive speech about equality.

Damn. I really want to rewatch Serenity and Buffy right now...