One of the latest viral sensations is the known as “Trololo guy,” which I posted here on Pie Heaven a few weeks ago. Well, someone tracked down the Soviet singer 44 years later…his name is Eduard Khil and this was his signature song, and apparently a big hit in the USSR back in the ’60s.
The song’s translated title is “I’m very glad, because I’m going back home” and, according to Khil, is “in fact about an American who returns home through the prairies, and his beloved Mary waits for him at home and knits a woolen sock for him.”
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Thank you, India. This is “The Diamond Maruti Car Circus in Delhi … These death defying bad boys drive a wonky Nissan all over your foolish health & safety regulation.”
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About a year ago, Microsoft came out with this software that take a capella vocal tracks and matches them up with “appropriate” and “fitting” instrumental back-up stock music that it automatically generates. The problem is, Songsmith usually gets the songs hilariously wrong, and just loves to bend genres. It’s like a new form of absurdist art.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy this conga version of Queen’s hard rocking hit, “We Will Rock You.”
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It is OUT OF CONTROL. The song is “Telephone,” which as you probably know is a pretty normal pop/dance club hit with admittedly stupid lyrics. But this music video does not reflect those lyrics at all. It’s straight up Tarantino. GaGa can do no wrong! (Thanks, Jeff)
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If he can do it, then why can’t all these conservatives?
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“The day Worthing sea-front was invaded by infinite teddy-bears.” (Thanks Jim.)
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One of my favorite websites is Old Jews Telling Jokes, which is exactly what it sounds like. The folks who run the site were so kind as to compile their ten favorite jokes from last year into one convenient little player, and I’m sure you’ll love it as much as I did! (It looks like just one video here, but the player will automatically load up the next video when the first one finishes.)
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It’s just one guy! One guy!
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Researchers pour a concrete mold of an ant colony then dig it up- holy hell is this cool.
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Poor guy. Brain damage. :(
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Some street buskers gathered a crowd of New Yorkers to join them in “Hey Jude.” I love it when things like this happen!
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Pretty much the greatest web video of all time, Adventure Time has been picked up as a series by Cartoon Network! All I can say is….Algebraic!!! Adventure Time starts in April, and here’s the trailer for the new bizarro surrealist kids’ show:
But who can forget about the original?? I have high hopes for the series, but there is no way this will ever, ever be topped:
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One of the best songs of last year (if not THE best) was Lisztomania by Phoenix. The song inspired a bunch of fun music videos of people dancing and being really, really happy…starting with a mashup of the John Hughes brat pack, and then spreading to hipsters in Brooklyn and San Francisco. I know these videos are a little bit old now, but they are all awesome and really will lift your spirits.
ALSO…The PS22 chorus did a totally tubular cover of Lisztomania which you have got to check out:
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From the youtube description:
Produced in five days, with $20. Featured on CBC News February 2009: http://www.cbc.ca/bc/weblog/bobnixon/… Winner of a $30 gift card at the UBC Totem Park residence “film festival” 2009
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