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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.)

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 [...]

Beet Impersonators (Doug’s “The Beets” With Real People)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

If you’re as old as me, you remember the 1990s Nickelodeon cartoon Doug. The children in the show listened to a music group “The Beets”, a hybrid of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Ramones, and The Clash. Here are some real people dressing up like The Beets and singing to their songs “I Need [...]

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 [...]

Possessed Halloween Candy

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Minister Kimberly Daniels wrote a column for CBN (pulled for obvious reasons, read it here) writing about Halloween: During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For [...]