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Unrelated Videos: Why YouTube VEVO Channels Deliberately Flunk Marketing 101

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

If you listen to music on YouTube, no doubt you’ve heard of the “VEVO” channels used by the major record labels. However, if you listen to non-dance, non-soft-rock, or older music, you probably wonder why VEVO channels’ “Related Videos” are anything but related. You may put on some Alice in Chains or Nirvana, but be [...]

John Lennon Saying Something Unusual…

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

…given his support for communism: Overpopulation is a Myth (Yesterday would have been his 70th birthday. Via Lew Rockwell.)

This one’s for Gen Y

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Obsolete

Beatle Tribute Band “Fab Faux” Performs Abbey Road B-Side Live On Howard Stern (Sirius)

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

From Sirius/Howard Stern via Vimeo: This Fab Faux recording of most of side two of ‘Abbey Road’ is a live, in-the-studio performance for a two-camera video shoot. It was originally recorded for The Howard Stern Show and only the audio has been broadcast – until now. Howard and company were kind enough to let us [...]

Interesting statement on racism and political activism

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Angel Roberson of HipHopRepublican.com wrote a brief pro-GOP article called “Why Some Blacks Are Returning To Their GOP Roots”. Nothing special, in fact kinda misleading, as she conveniently left out the post-FDR switching of ideologies (a commenter noted this). However, Roberson left a comment on the article which interested me a lot: “One thing that [...]

Sometimes things are fun when you’re a kid, but somewhat disturbing when you get older…

Friday, April 16th, 2010

1978 cartoon version of “Puff the Magic Dragon”: (HINT: To watch the video at a larger size or a full screen, click “Google Video”->”Go to Google Video”) Puff the Magic Dragon “And by the way, where’s your fancy stuff?”

Lady Gaga = CIA Puppet?

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

A conspiracy theorist examines the symbolism in her videos, comparing them to Manchurian candidate triggers in 1960s CIA spook projects (as well as occult symbols present in secret societies). Project MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. The [...]

Dr-Evil-Like Volcano Lair For Sale

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Sited upon small volcanic cone in the high desert midway between Las Vegas & Los Angeles, this 60-acre retreat seems to cap the mountain top with its dome-like roof: Concrete and truss beams form its dome allowing the interior to embrace 360 degrees of stark, strong almost lunar landscape. Main house of two bedrooms, 2 [...]

A Truly Unique YouTube Video…

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

This video of Joan Baez’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” is played from a scratched 45, and the damage on the record gives it an AM radio sound at the same time! “Embedding disabled by request”, so click here to watch. It’s amazing!

The Man Who Changed The World

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

He taught our parents to question authority, he helped create the music we love, and before he died he predicted that computers would empower us and let us create our own reality. (Unfortunately it empowered the bad guys too.) And now his ashes orbit the earth. Here’s an awesome techno video made just before his [...]