Spintown News: Happy Halloween everyone. Not everything is Halloween themed today, but I did find a few spooky videos for today. The "Best Of The Rest" section is all Halloween themed today. Enjoy, and don't eat too much candy.
Thriller Dan Talevski didn't just cover the Michael Jackson classic, he recreated the music video.
Headless Horseman The PS22 Chorus sang the perfect Bing Crosby cover for tonight.
The Other Sister - Inappropriate Soundtrack I actually liked this movie, but I don't remember laughing this hard at it.
Skywalking The long awaited L.B. Rayne music video is finally here.
Come In Matt Rach just made a video for one of his original songs.
Halloween Lights This is an old viral video, but I like it, and it's the perfect time to revisit it.
Spintown News: I had seen previews of the new TV show "The League", but I hadn't planned on watching it even though I'm into fantasy football. When I saw that Jon Lajoie was going to be in it, I changed my mind about watching.
If you don't watch "So You Think You Can Dance", you should. The season 6 competition just got started so it's not too late to start this season. I do have a complaint about this weeks show I want to get off my chest though. It's a joke that you put Russell Ferguson in the bottom 2 this week, but that's not my biggest complaint. After watching Ariana DeBose this week, I know she deserved to be in the bottom 2. But you have 1 female dancer who was injured, and couldn't dance. So why on earth send someone home who at least performed? It's a big flaw in your show to allow stuff like that to happen. If you don't dance, you shouldn't be allowed to move on to the next round. Noelle Marsh is a fine dancer, and I hate to see anyone lose because of an injury, but it isn't right to allow someone else to go home when she did NOTHING.
2 Girls 1 Gabe This is something I threw together from an old project I did with Kim Tran & Sheila Pacariem. Gabe Bondoc uploaded half of a duet, and asked for fans to upload the other half as a video response. Well I looked through all the responses & decided to ask Kim & Sheila to record another video each. Only this time they did it without background noise or music so I could have them sing with Gabe on YouTube Doubler. (MORE INFO) If I had better software I could have done a much better job with this video. If the audio is a little wonky, it's because it's been converted a couple times, and of course YouTube isn't audio friendly.
The Return Of Gary Brolsma The Numa Numa guy is now conducting marching bands?
Greatest Mascot Dance of All Time I don't think the video lives up to it's title, but it's definately funny.
For Orchestra #15 This time Walt Ribeiro takes on the song "Kids" by MGMT.
YouTrax TV: Episode 27 I give YouTrax a hard time when I don't like the guest for the show. However I think I'm pretty fair about giving them props when they do get some talent on the show. This show features Holly Kirby, and it didn't take long for me to fall for her music.
Spintown News: I finally finished PFL#22. I've got the music for PFL#23 already, but I need to finish another project first. Pretty soon you'll be seeing some exclusive interviews here at Spintown. When that's done, I'll finish PFL#23 before I do another series of interviews.
Pain For Laughs 22 A musical compilation of various painful web moments. This is the second video in the series to use all original music, that was made just for the use in this video. Please check out Reh Dogg on YouTube, it was really cool of him to write me a song. Especially since I put off making this video for so long, and missed various deadlines. JonesBerg was kind enough to do a cover of the "Pain For Laughs" theme at the beginning, so check them out to. This video has been featured on popular sites like Phun, Gorilla Mask & With Leather. You can find this video at other sites as well: YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace, Blip, Daily Motion, Live Video, Veoh, Viddler, Seven Load, College Humor & Vimeo.
Chap-Hop History "The first installment of Chap-Hop superstar Mr.B the Gentleman Rhymer's 'Histories' series. The history of hip-hop. In five minutes. On the banjolele."
Terminator 2 Rap Why watch the movie when you can get a lyrical breakdown like this?
Whatcha Say If you're really talented, you don't need a band or back up singers. Just ask Jason Derulo.
Pulp Fiction Audio Mix If you liked the movie "Pulp Fiction", you'll love this music video.
Breakup Alphacat just uploaded a parody of a Mario song featuring Lisa Lavie.
There's a batch of new songs posted over at Song Fight, and the winner of the last fight was announced. I picked Christopher Cogott as my favorite, but he came in 2nd place by just 1 vote. The winning team (Berkeley Social Scene) wrote a fine song, so congratulations on the victory. My picks for the current round are below.
Spintown News: Over at "Too Much Awesome" Russ Rogers decided to hold a YouTube Open Stage for TMA members. So any TMA member could make a video, upload it (or have Russ upload it), and enter the open stage. There were some requirements such as: the video needed to be less than 4 minutes, and you had to follow the Open Stage theme (which was LOVE). Other then that you could have made a funny skit, wrote a song, or made any other love themed video. The first 4 features today are the entries from the first TMA Open Stage. If you don't know what TMA is, here's a summary from the site.
"Too Much Awesome is an online meeting place for 'New Model' artists and fans to connect. All of the artists here are involved with their fans on a continuous basis. What do we mean? TMA happenings include a forum, live chats with artists, a podcast every week with some awesome special guests, and the occasional freebie from one of our artists."
If you're interested in joining TMA, we would be glad to have you. You don't have to be an artist, the site is for fans as well. If you are a song writer or performer it's a great place to meet others with similar interest, and get advice.
Love Is Untrue Bobby Matheson decided to make his very first VideoSong for the TMA Open Stage. He did a great job, you wouldn't have thought it was his first time.
She's A Communist Russ is the man that got this ball rolling, so of course he entered a video. Extremely funny song.
Cambot's Lament This was written by Inverse Clown, aka SAMMY KABLAM, over at TMA. Another funny idea for a song.
Cold Sunny Day Ian "2 Shades" Johnson just created a new account on YouTube. So go over & subscribe soon, so you can say you were one of first people to discover him.
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar (live) Russ Rogers tweeted this today, so thank you Russ. It's Felicia Day, Paul & Storm, Molly Lewis, Jeff Lewis & Sandeep Parikh perfoming live at w00tstock on Oct. 21.
Come Sail Away The PS22 Chorus recently uploaded a great Styx cover.
Notorious Tank Engine The Notorious B.I.G. & Miley Cyrus mashup was better, but this Thomas The Tank Engine mashup is good as well.
Liam Kyle Sullivan made me pee myself just a little with this music video.
I Cried At Where The Wild Things Are "Where The Wild Things Are" inspired Peter Coffin to rap.
You Gotta Love This City You gotta love this music video for being such an epic fail.
Lashes To Riches This is Jonathan Mann's entry into the Lash Allure MD contest. I normally don't like the contest videos much, but this one was funny.
At The Codfish Ball Slow day, so I'm throwing in a clip of a movie I watched yesterday. This is a great Shirley Temple number from the 1936 movie "Captain January". If you didn't recognize him, that's Buddy Ebsen (Jed from the "Beverly Hillbillies") dancing & singing with her.
Pomplamoose just uploaded a new VideoSong featuring Ryan Lerman.
Ghostbusters Multi-Track This song is so fun it would be hard to mess up. This guy made a great video for his entertaining cover.
MC Trebek Remix Trebek could give Jay-Z a run for his money...who knew?
Balloon Boy: A Short Song Hank Green decided to write a diddy about Falcon.
I Like Fat Girls Saw this video after some YouTuber tried to "friend" me. I denied since I didn't know the person, but checked out this channel. Across From Marty...try again after a few more gems like this.
The Maria Bamford Show Unfortunately I think this is the only musical episode, but hopefully she'll do more.
Sophie Merry (BandyToaster on YouTube) is the girl who created Groovy Dancing Girl. Looks like she's branching out, and trying new things with this new lip dub video.
The "Ring Them Bells" challenge over at Song Fight has been decided, and the winner was MC Milk-Plus. I really enjoyed his entry, and he deserves to win. I had it ranked as my 3rd favorite song below Berkeley Social Scene & Ross Durand, but all 3 of those entries where good. I've picked my favorite songs from the current round (Monkeys On My Back) below.
Voted For: (Right Click "Save As" on the artist's name for a MP3 of their entry.)
Hair Metal Fat Girls Song Besides being funny, it's a good reminder that "80's fashion" is an oxymoron.
Love In The Club This Rock-afire Explosion video was done by Chris Thrash.
Mikey Rocks This is some pretty good choreo by Thina.
Child Soldier To Rapper "Emmanuel Jal is no ordinary hip-hop star. Take a few seconds to listen to his rhymes and they tell an incredible story of hope, of escaping his fate as a child soldier in his home of war-torn Sudan and using music to spread peace."
Best Friend It's been awhile since Abby Simons sat down and sang an original song for us.
Spintown News: The big news since I last posted is that Michael Jackson's song "This Is It" was released online. CLICK HERE to give it a listen. I'll admit that I teared up a little as I listened.
YouTube was buggy all day for me, so I didn't find much to blog about. My channel might be a little buggy because I just switched it over to the new format. So I don't know how long my channel will be buggy. I'm including some of my favorite musical moments from TV & film since I'm short on the normal content today. I would like to mention that the "Best Of The Rest" section is extremely good today.
This Is It There will probably be a lot of "This Is It" covers to come out during the next month or 2. This is the first one I found, and ScribbleTunes does a nice job.
Make 'em Laugh "In this Gene Kelly TV Special, Donald O'Connor performs a version of his famous "Make 'em Laugh" dance number from 1952's "Singin' In The Rain". The only thing is, it's a different song! (This time called, "Smile, Darn You, Smile"). Also featured is Hal Smith (later "Otis the drunk" from The Andy Griffith Show). First broadcast October 16, 1960."
Lullaby (Rock-a-bye baby) This is classic Virginia O'Brien from the Marx Brothers movie "The Big Store". She was famous for keeping that blank frozen face while the most incredible sounding voice belted out. Miss Frozen Face could melt my heart anytime she wanted.
Spintown News: I was recently supposed to interview Peter Oakley (better known as geriatric1927) for this blog. He agreed to the interview, and everything was set. When I e-mailed him the questions though, he sent back a response saying the questions were too controversial. I didn't really ask anything controversial, and kept it very clean because I figured he's not the typical YouTuber. I'm guessing he visited the blog, and found stuff here that he thought was controversial. He's probably not into the booty shakin'. :p I just wanted to clear this up since I already mentioned I'd be interviewing him. I thought he would be a good guest since he's one of the first major YouTube celebs, and he's part of The Zimmers. I've got no hard feelings toward him. He's a good guy, and I wouldn't want him to do anything he's not comfortable with. This did throw me for a little bit of a loop though. At this point it looks like Sasha Young (better known as kyaaakya) will be my first guest now. It might end up being someone else, because I've got a few people that have agreed to be interviewed. It'll depend on who gets what to me first, when the Title Screen for the video gets finished, and a couple other things. The interview series is still going to happen, despite the minor set back. There's plenty of people from TMA I'll get to eventually as well. For the most part the interviews will be short, and not taken very seriously.
On The Ground Sunday is almost always the worst day for finding videos. That's why I typically post the leftovers I didn't have room for Tuesday-Sunday on Monday. Here's Andy Samberg in one of his latest SNL Digital Shorts, featuring Ryan Reynolds & Elijah Wood.
I Threw It On The Ground Toby Turner did a parody of the above Andy Samberg video, and it features the Mystery Guitar Man.
Annoying Instrument Orchestra "Several years ago NPR broadcast a segment polling people about which musical instruments they thought were the most annoying. Among the instruments highest on the list were bagpipes, accordion and banjo, and others included were drum, fiddle and whistle." Yoshimi Masuo happened to know people who played a lot of those instruments, and she happened to like the music. So the Annoying Instrument Orchestra was born.
Electric Cowboy This is one of those music videos that's so bad, it's almost good. Venus Jetsetter is a heck of a name as well.
Gatsby Trooper Looks like the Tokyo Stormtrooper has been working on his moves.
Amazing Booty It's a booty....and it's amazing....do I really need to say anything else?
Spintown News: Michael Buckley from "What The Buck" on YouTube recently started promoting YouTubers who he thinks should have more subscribers. The first week he did this SARA PARSONS was featured in his video. Sara happens to be a member of Too Much Awesome (link in sidebar). The second week he did this Mike Lombardo was featured in his video. Mike happens to be a founder of TMA. So hopefully all you TMA members will send in a submission to be featured on "What The Buck", and maybe TMA can get a member featured for 3 weeks in a row. Getting featured will get you a couple thousand new subscribers, so it's not like you won't get anything in return if you're selected. Details on how to submit a video can be found in the video descriptions of the videos I just linked to.
If you're not a TMA member you should consider signing up. Not only can you keep up to date with cool musicians, but you can actually chat with them. There's also a TMA podcast, messageboard and I'm hoping a TMA YouTube channel in the future. Mike Lombardo will be performing an online only concert this Thursday, October 15th at 9:00 PM US EST. You can watch it at UStream.
Roll Your Dice Tay Zonday uploaded a new music video.
Love Is A Battlefield: Literal Video Version This isn't one of favorite Literal Video's, but it's still funny.
This Pole Dancer Is Amazing Except she may want to work on the dismount a little more.
Piano Stairs This is a cool experiment, but if they really wanted to make more people take the stairs, they would just make the escalator go extremely slow.
Kid Shreds On Accordion It doesn't matter how good you get kid, the chicks will never dig accordion.
Tick Toc YouTuber 'brittanyleeann04' is jamming with her band Six Volt.
Spintown News: If you want Len Peralta to turn you into a cartoon, then you should check out FlipFace. I recently did, and love mine. CLICK HERE to get your own. The Truth About Toad For the latest WITH LYRICS video, brentalfloss took on a Mario Brothers 2 theme.
Pop Waffle Music Video Erika Brooks Adickman collabed with David Seger to make this cool music video.
Know Your Meme: Where The Hell Is Matt One of my favorite internet dancers gets the Know Your Meme treatment.
Felix Cane This girl from the California Pole Dance Championship is amazing.
Roy G Biv I really like the fact that They Might Be Giants is doing all these edutainment music videos.
Spintown News: Russ Rogers from (Too Much Awesome) is starting a "YouTube Open Stage" for TMA members. Some details are below, but for more details CLICK HERE.
"Open to any TMA Members. Videos should be no more than 4 minutes long. Artists can only submit ONE video per open stage, but you are allowed to collab and appear in other people's videos if you want. Videos need to be new, recorded between now and the due date, Midnight October 18, 2009. This first open stage will have a theme of "LOVE"! You can use an old song, new song or even a cover song, but the video needs to not have been posted before. You can even do a skit, dance, sketch or animation. This is an OPEN Stage! Include "TMA" or "TMA OpenStage" in the title of your video."
Franz Tranz The latest FAROFF mashup features: Franz Ferdinand vs Stealers Wheel vs Nirvana vs Michael Jackson vs Def Cut. You can get a free MP3 of the track HERE.
Juggle & Beatbox This is David Poznanter featuring Danny Cavero auditioning for "American's Got Talent".
The Freshman 15 This is a parody of the only Verve Pipe song I can ever remember hearing. I can definately relate to this parody though.
Men And Women Bo Burnham sings a new song at a College Humor Live show.
Walk My Way Brett Randell recently sent me a message wanting me to check out his videos. I'm glad I took the time to watch a few. Here's Brett performing with Veronika Jokel, and it's a song he wrote with Danielle Ingerman.
Has Gonads It seems like Peter Coffin has a new parody music video coming out at least every other week. This one is a Lady GaGa parody of "Bad Romance".
This is a great mashup by Ricardo Autobahn using various moments in film.
Get Out Of My Head Here's the latest Miley Cyrus inspired song from Dave Days.
Nerdfighteria Island Hank Green sings a song written by Alan Lastufka & Monica of 'shortsisters756'. Tom Milsom also lends Hank a hand in performing the song.
Day O moymoypalaboy took on a Harry Belafonte song for their latest lip sync.
This music video was made by "The Station" on YouTube. Besides a lot of people normally on "The Station" it also features iJustine, HotForWords, LisaLavie, TimothyDeLaGhetto & alphacat. CLICK HERE for an alternate cut of this Akon parody.
WTF Collective Jon Lajoie decided to take on multiple roles in his latest rap video.
You'll Look Like Poo The Venetian Princess took on a Miley Cyrus song for her latest parody.
Red Flags Dan Rodriguez featured Spricket24 in his new music video.
Throw Me Away Sara Parsons (TMA member) recently got a lot of new subscribers thanks to Michael Buckley. Lucky for us this prompted her to sing a song she wrote for Song Fu.
Marameo Apparently there were some odd music videos made the year I was born...1979.
Walt Ribeiro had an entertaining trip on the subway a couple days ago.
Reckneck Music Video This is what happens when Rednecks discover YouTube. This music video was made for davidsfarm
Telstar You don't come across a lot of ukulele & stylophone covers these days...
Booty It was a slow day on the Super-Inter-Webs, but I don't need a reason to post a good booty video.
It's Only Money As I mentioned it's been a slow day, so here's a couple classic musical moments from TV & film. This first video is from a movie I watched yesterday called "Double Dynamite" 1951. I wanted to share a song from the film called "Kisses And Tears" sung by Frank Sinatra & Jane Russell, but I couldn't find that video. So you get Frank Sinatra & Groucho Marx instead.
Sit Down Dance Medley Gene Kelly & Donald O'Connor decide to take it easy & relax a bit during this dance number from a Gene Kelly TV special back in 1960.
Spintown News: Just so you know, I won't be doing anymore "2x2" features for awhile. I'm going to be doing a feature called "Songs Of The Day" in it's place. Sometimes there may be 1 song, sometimes there may be 10 songs in this feature. I'm trying this out to share new music quicker. In the past if I had 2 original songs to share, I would wait until I had 2 more to go along with them before posting them. I'd rather start getting the videos out when I first find them. In the past I've kept the covers & original songs separated, but they will now be thrown together. Each song/video will still be labeled an original or cover, with the name of the artist being covered.
Now for a personal note. Things have not been going well with me (in terms of cash flow), and I just got a virus on my laptop. I've got another computer to use, but it's not mine. So if you notice I don't blog for a day or 2, it's probably because I didn't get the chance to do the research. I can't really afford to get my computer fixed, and don't expect to be able to for awhile. I've got some information I really need to recover so I can finish a few videos I had in the works, but I can't even promise that. I'll do what I can, but I don't know how much that'll be.
OZ Yourself This has been going around for weeks, but I'm just now getting to it. Anyways, the video below is me as the Scarecrow from "The Wizard Of Oz". You can put yourself in the video by following THIS link.
McDonald's Commercial Theme McDonald's should be playing this as a commercial all the time.
One Man Band This is the best 1 man band I've seen in awhile.
A Whole New World YouTuber 'impeto' does a nice piano cover of a Disney classic.
Brittney Lane Don't Care I thought this was a cool music video from "Meeting Of Important People".
The Daylight Here Nataly Dawn does a nice little collab with Lauren O'Connell
