Happy Easter!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
FOX ATTACKS: Obama Pt. 2
One of Robert Greenwald's better and more effective efforts at Brave New Films. His latest web video is documenting the Obama smear campaign on FOX news and the trail a media virus takes once it's planted.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The Brazen Heads - Who's Yer Paddy
The Brazen Heads - Who's Yer Paddy
If anybody has been wondering where I have been lately this is why. I just finished the second music video for my Celtic rock band The Brazen Heads
Friday, February 29, 2008
Music: The Brazen Heads - One Eyed Reilly
The Brazen Heads are a Phoenix based Celtic rock band with a surprisingly hard driving sound for a band with no electric guitar in 99% of their work. This is primarily because of the amazing drum and vocal stylings of Roy Plisko (who also writes the blog descriptions) The other guys do stuff too though: Liam Mackey sits in front with a guitar, tells dirty jokes and sings most of the songs, Tim Sadow has this long, hairy, stick thing that he strokes a little instrument with, Mark Lanus plays with just about anything he gets his hands on and bass player James Cowley has really cool hair.
This is the first music video released from their new album Who's Yer Paddy.
For more information go to www.thebrazenheads.com and feel free to drop us a message on our band forums too.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Dilbert Kickin It Old School
Recently on the Dilbert Blog [1/29/08], Scott Adams mused about the seeming randomness of the lyrics of popular songs. He challenged his readers to submit random lyrics of their own that could be combined into a song.
Lots of people submitted their random lyrics, and German band RIVO DREI put the best ones together, added music, and created a surprisingly great little song. Then one of the readers took it an extra step and made a music video using nothing but images from the Internet. You might be surprised how well it came out:
This is also a good example of how most music company executives wouldn't know what a good song was if it came up and chomped them in the arse. ;)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Video Activism: Mark Fiore - The Spies Who Love You
Sometimes you need to talk to people like they are idiots before they finally get it. Hopefully this will do it. Mark Fiore does lots of animation work which can be found at his website. In this video he explains the absurdity of the FISA law, AKA "The Protect America Act" that is being rammed through congress with absolutely no public support. In fact, much public sentiment has been "are you F'n kidding me??" The Senate has already passed the bill giving Telecoms immunity for past lawbreaking. The US Supreme court has recently refused to hear a case challenging the legality of the issue. All that is left now is the house of representatives. They have stood up to Bush a little at this point by refusing to pass the law immediately as he demanded. It looks pretty likely, however, that they will eventually pass it.
Welcome to America where our government teams up with mega corporations to break the law and then passes a new law to let them all get away with it retroactively.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Politics - Less Jobs More Wars - No You Can't
The never ending imitations of the original Obama/Black Eyed Peas political mashup continue with this dark entry: NO YOU CAN'T.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Blast from the Past: Zappa on Crossfire in 1986
It's interesting when you find old videos from 20+ years online ago that show extreme relevancy today, or at the very least show the viewer how someone's words were way ahead of their time, even prophetic.
Frank Zappa talking about the government regulating and censoring music lyrics (in the age of Tipper Gore's P.M.R.C. - Parent's Music Resource Center) on CNN's Crossfire from 1986 is indeed one of those moments in time that are worth re-watching today.
Sitting on the right with Robert Novak, Zappa makes some eloquent arguments against censorship in the era of Ronald Reagan. What strange bedfellows Zappa and Novak make, especially given Novak's role in outing CIA operative Valerie Plame 20 years later.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Politics - Andy Cobb - john.he.is
This is a halarious spoof of the Obama "Yes We Can" video that uses a similar treatment of John McCain's Words.
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Verhoeven Interviews
This is an interview I did with director Paul Verhoeven that was picked up for YouTube's Film & Animation "Spotlight" this week. I'm particularly proud of this interview.
Paul Verhoeven, the director of Robocop, Total Recall and the critically-acclaimed Black Book talks about his life as a filmmaker. A rare and candid look inside the mind of one of Hollywood's great directors.
Embedded playlist with all 5 clips below.
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