What's New With Mick

Tag: youtube

  • Vital Statistics

    Aches & pains: swollen left elbow, sore right shoulder, sore lower back

    Current reading: Stack Overflow

    Recent listening: Waking Up with Sam Harris, The Accidental Tech Podcast, Radiolab, This American Life, WTF with Marc Maron

    Recent viewing: Saturday Night Live, The Looming Tower, The Last Man on Earth, Scandal, Billions, Homeland, Lost in Space, Transparent, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Wakefield, Black Panther, The Slo Mo Show

    Recent playing: starman

    Recently accomplished: Took Butters to the vet, 30 miles a week riding, bought and returned rain jacket, bought new sandals, removed cherry tree

    Imperative To Do: 100 miles/week riding, Dad’s Day at Depauw, plant grass in bare spots, revisit financial aid for 2018, compost, fix desk speakers

  • Cee-Lo Green and the Horse He Rode in On

    Remember Gnarls Barkley‘s first single in the summer of 2006? “Crazy” was the first single to chart in the UK based purely on online sales. Now one half of that duo, Cee-Lo Green, has released an equally enchanting single called “Fuck You” off his upcoming album, The Lady Killer. Here’s the first video for the song:

    If you love the song as much as I do, you won’t mind hearing it a second time (in a different video):
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  • Another New Music Video from OK Go

    Another brilliant one-shot video from OK Go. For some reason, YouTube is allowing the embedding option for this, the second version for “This Too Shall Pass.”

  • Best Wheelbarrow Race Ever

    The awesome happens at the 14 second mark but watch the whole thing for context:

  • I Gotta Feeling

    Canadian university students look like they had fun making this one-take video where everyone lip synchs to a Black Eyed Peas video (via Crooks and Liars).

  • Best Tornado Footage I’ve Ever Seen

    Shot near Austin, MN on June 17, 2009.

  • Super Mario Bros on the bass

  • Bobby McFerrin


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  • Misheard Lyrics

    I recently discovered a new phenomena (at least new to me) on YouTube called “misheard lyrics.” The idea is to take a song where the lyrics are indistinguishable and caption it with incorrect (and presumably humorous) lyrics. Because it’s a video format, it is also necessary to add visual elements which also help convey the incorrect lyrics. Here’s a classic example:

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  • Small Town Iowa

    Any towns you know?

    Thanks to Deanna for showing this to me.