Geekiest stunt ever…and it has an EPIC ninja vs. pirate battle at the end with a twist ending.
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Cute! And this has some of the greatest user comments in YouTube history. (See below.)
Some user comments about this video:
“the cutest thine EVER!!!! I wanna cryyyyyyyyyyyyy” – kalamena25
“This video is THE SHITZZZ!!! I luv dis video, man it is so DAM CUTE!!! Shouts outs to all the kittens filmed in this video, I LUV IT!!!” – viksterz
“Don’t you just love how near the start the kitten on the left gets totally distracted by an itch and just has to scratch it. Great choice of music too. I bet that in an hour or so those little kittens were curled up together counting Z’s. “ – kingdaniel69
“lol! its like gosh you fatass get out of the box! “ – BittersweetSymphony
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Everyone else in eternity is making year end music lists, so I thought I’d make my own. Because I’m douchey like that. These are my personal top ten songs of 2008. I’m not saying that they’re THE BEST, they’re just my favorites. And half of them weren’t even really released this year, but it was what I listened to for the last twelve months. I also included some honorable mentions at the bottom. Enjoy!
Vampire Weekend has been releasing singles for damn near forever, but they finally dropped their full length debut album this year. M79 is an amazing song, and my favorite from Vampire Weekend. I really love the violin.
Tim Fite released an awesome album in 2008, and this song really resonated with me. Since I made a lot of big mistakes. And this made me feel better about it. (Thanks for the mix, Rachel!)
This video is a fan animation to the song.
The Fleet Foxes broke out this year, and “White Winter Hymnal” is a unique and haunting song. Plus the foxes have the coolest beards and lumberjack shirts ever. I’m jealous.
Into The Wild was the best movie of 2007, but I didn’t get the soundtrack until 2008. Eddie Vedder created a masterpiece that I couldn’t stop listening to. And this song is the one that really gets to me. When I listen to this, hitchhiking around the world makes perfect sense.
I actually prefer the Hood Internet remix vs the Ting Tings, “Shut Up, American Boy” to the original, but Estelle and Kanye West’s American Boy is super catchy and one of the year’s best pop tracks.
As an Olympics attendee, “Beijing Welcomes You” holds a special place in my heart. It is ridiculously cheesy, has amazing (translated) lyrics. It was also pretty much the only song I heard for about two weeks when the world convened in China for the Olympic Games. It was EVERYWHERE.
I first heard Paper Planes in a dance club in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve, 2007. This song that helped me ring in 2008 became, without a doubt, the definitive dance / club song of the year. It is completely badass, has great lyrics, and really never gets old.
Bonus: Check out the Survivor: Leo Carrillo trailer edited by Brad Milison to Paper Planes. This is from a Survivor event I ran in Malibu in April for Reality Rush Adventures. No funny business.
The Mountain Goats are my favorite band of all time — you can tell if you look at my Last.fm play charts — and this was my most played song of the year. TMG released their album Heretic Pride at the beginning of ’08, and I listened to it a zillion times. In fact, my Facebook “Religion” status has been set to “Heretic Pride” ever since I got this album. Sax Rohmer #1 (and the music video that goes with it) are friggin amazing, and defined the first few months of 2008 for me.
WARNING: IF YOU CLICK PLAY ON THAT VIDEO, YOU WILL TOTALLY RICKROLL YOURSELF. (AND I BET YOU’LL DO IT ANYWAY.)
Rickrolling BLEW UP in 2008, was totally awesome, and then became mainstream and officially died. But for the first few months of ’08, there was nothing better than tricking people into listening to Rick Astley’s #1 hit from 1988.
My friends and I rickrolled karaoke bars, the Big Bear ski resort, Scientology, the internet at large, and each other. And it was amazing while it lasted.
Time to Pretend is epic. When I heard this song, I think I made my decision to live fast and die young. Frankly, its lyrics outline a way of life. It was the song that played in my head as I spent 5 months backpacking through Asia…and, I’ll be honest, it was one of my reasons for going in the first place.
True, it’s not a 2008 song. “Time To Pretend” was originally released on a 2005 EP by MGMT, and re-issued on their 2007 album Oracular Spectacular in 2007. I even listened to it quite a bit in 2007…but in 2008 it became my favorite song. And that’s why it’s my #1 pick.
Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor – Best electronic track of ’08.
The Mountain Goats – Commandante – My second most played song of the year, though it was originally released in 2002. The lyrics still run through my head several dozen times a day. (It’s a pretty obscure song with no video, so this links to a crappy video of a 2007 live performance of it with slightly modified lyrics. But you get the idea.)
Lazytown REMIX feat. Lil’ Jon – Cooking By The Book – Amazing mashup that only the Internet could create.
Loudon Wainwright III – Grey in LA – Good for those days in LA when everything’s not perfect.
Kanye West – Love Lockdown – A lot of people dissed Kanye’s latest album, but this song is amazingly catchy. I usually don’t dig made-to-be-sold Billboard hits, this is the latest in a long line of gold released by Kanye West.
Uniting Nations – Ai No Corrida – Dance pop hit made famous by a YouTube video of a Star Wars stormtrooper dancing in Tokyo. I rocked out to this song pretty hard at the beginning of ’08, then found myself in Shibuya, Tokyo a few months later, replicating it.
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Dog steals a bone from a grocery store, and it gets a package on the nightly newscast. This, my friends, is why I love local news.
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Harder, faster, stronger, drunker.
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Guy (?) is quite perturbed by cockroaches. Stay tuned for the HUGE FREAKOUT around 2:15.
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Volume I and II: This time it’s personal.
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I really can’t believe how many Japanese videos there are of animals doing situps on YouTube.
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How cute!
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Brother Theodore was quite a character. I first heard of him on a short lived TV show called Disinfo Nation, where he would deliver insane, vaguely prophetic and absolutely hilarious ranting monologues, in a thick German accent and looking about a bird’s chirp away from that great Zusammenkunft in the sky. An internet search led me to more clips of his ‘stand-up tragedy’, as he called it – dozens of TV appearances throughout the 80’s and 90’s. The man is a riot, he once even got deported from Switzerland for chess hustling. I didn’t even know you could DO that!
Here are two of my favorite clips from Disinfo Nation. Do yourself a favor and search for some of his videos, they’re all gut-busters.
‘That’s the Artist in me’
‘Hemorrhoids & Asteroids’
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Yay consumerism!
And despite how awesome some of those reactions were, they will NEVER top this classic (N64 kid!):
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YEESH.
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Preposterous.
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“God is dead. Hail Satan. Charlie Brown must die.” — Linus
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