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More dog vs. balloon love

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 6:48 am

The balloon-popping dog I posted about the other day was just featured on the Tonight Show…and he took out 50 balloons in just 30 seconds. Awesome! Look at him go!

Amazing Dog Blows Up Baloons !!!! – For more funny movies, click here


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United State of Pop 2008

Posted by Pete Berg on Sunday, December 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

DJ Earworm made a mash-up of the Top 25 Billboard hits of 2008, and it’s pretty awesome. The full track list is below. Sweet!

Tracklist:

Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain – Low
Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
Alicia Keys – No One
Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major – Lollipop
Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic – Apologize
Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown – No Air
Sara Bareilles – Love Song
Usher Featuring Young Jeezy – Love in This Club
Chris Brown – With You
Chris Brown – Forever
Ray J & Yung Berg – Sexy Can I
Rihanna – Take a Bow
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Katy Perry – I Kissed a Girl
T.I. – Whatever You Like
Rihanna – Disturbia
Rihanna – Don’t Stop the Music
Natasha Bedingfield – Pocketful of Sunshine
Chris Brown Featuring T-Pain – Kiss Kiss
Ne-Yo – Closer
Colbie Caillat – Bubbly
Mariah Carey – Touch My Body
Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake – 4 Minutes
Pink – So What
Finger Eleven – Paralyzer


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Slow Motion Cow Licking

Posted by Pete Berg on Sunday, December 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Stare a licking cow in the face at 300 frames per second.


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Pete Berg’s Top Ten Songs of 2008

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, December 27th, 2008 at 11:39 am

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!

10. Vampire Weekend – M79

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.

9. Tim Fite – Big Mistake

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.

8. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal

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.

7. Eddie Vedder – Rise (from Into The Wild)

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.

6. Estelle – American Boy (feat. Kanye West)

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.

5. Olympic Theme Song – “Beijing Huan Ying Ni” (Beijing Welcomes You)

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.

4. M.I.A. – Paper Planes

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.

3. The Mountain Goats – Sax Rohmer #1

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.

2. Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up

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.

1. MGMT – Time to Pretend

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.

Honorable Mentions:

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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Fan-Made Thundercats Trailer- Starring Brad Pitt and Hugh Jackman

Posted by Nate Brown on Monday, December 22nd, 2008 at 3:25 pm

Totally kicks ass… I would so go see this movie.


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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey trailer

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, December 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 am

Plot summary: “Bill and Ted are killed by their evil robot doubles, sent from the future by the megalomaniacal DiNomolos. In order to save the babes and win the San Dimas Battle of the Bands, they must escape from Hell, challenge the Grim Reaper, meet God, and defeat the evil Bill and Ted.”


Category: Awesome, Comedy, Trailers, TV & Film, Vintage	1 Comment »

Epic kazoocappella version of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

This guy is incredible, and he deserves a special award just for using the term “kazoocappella.”


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Slinky Cat

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 8:21 am

Cat slinks its way down the stairs. This video was huge a month ago, but I was living under a rock.


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Pizza Delivery Fail

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 11:47 pm


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The Science of Binge Drinking

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

Why drinking 12 beers a night is the perfect diet plan.


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Christian the Lion

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Happy reunion with a long-lost pet. This video was huge about a year ago, but I thought I’d post it again.

Christian the Lion


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14 seconds of Andy Rooney getting his hair brushed while listening to Michael Jackson’s “Pretty Young Thing”

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

I don’t know why I find this so funny, but I hope you agree.


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James Martin’s Extraordinary Calculation

Posted by Pete Berg on Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 11:45 am

James Martin plays with some big numbers. And call me a nerd, but I think this is one of the coolest concepts for a game show ever.


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James Randi OBLITERATES self professed “psychic” on TV

Posted by Pete Berg on Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 8:21 am

One of the few intelligent daytime talkshows ever recorded.


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40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am


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