Surfing the Infinite Part III

Party like it's post 199!

This is the blog theme I'm going with for next month. Thought you'd want a preview. Make sure your speakers are on.

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Drew a while ago, forgot to post...

Let's Play "Count the Clichés!"

Band of Skulls, "Friends":

All my life [1] I've been searching for something [2, plus doesn't this line seem familiar?]
Something i can't put my finger on [3]
Maybe I've been living for the weekend [4]
Maybe I've been living for this cyber soul
But every friday just about midnight [5]
All my problems seem to disappear [6]
Everyone that I miss when I'm distant
Everybody's here

I need love [7]
Cause only love is true [8]
I need every wakin' hour [9] with you
And my friends* [10] cause they are so beautiful [11]
Yeah my friends [10A] they are so beautiful [11B]
They're my friends [10C]

All my life [1D] i've been wastin', wastin' [12**]
Wastin' all my money [13]
All my time [14]
All the time [14E] i'm waitin', waitin' [12F]
Waitin for the moment [15] you are mine [16]
The song about*** yeah I'm thinkin', thinkin' [12G]
Thinkin all the things that I've done wrong [17, "that" optional]
All the time yeah I was forgettin' [18 (commonly known as "the empty 'yeah' "))
You were mine all along [19, note that many adjectives and nouns can be substituted for "mine" here]

Then they just repeat the chorus.

Total score: 19 distinct clichés, plus 7 more repeated ones, out of 23 lines. That's a clichindex score of 83|108, which is no mean feat. Special attention also should be drawn for the whole-line lift (especially as both lines are in the same place--the first line of the song, no less), the lack of cohesion, and the generally nonsensical, ungrammatical, and illogical nature of the non-cliché lines. This is a truly impressive feat of mislyricism (so bad it inspired a whole feature).

If you have any suggestions for future Count the Clichés entries, feel sure to leave a comment or just keep it to yourself and make me do all this hard work myself.

*It wasn't a cliché until John McCain made it one.
**Not these specific words, but the cliché of repeating a phrase for no reason because you can't think of something else that fits.
***Sidenote: whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

Just Linking to Stuff Mega-Post

I been sitting on some of this for a while, forgot/neglected to post for whatever reason:

Someone had too much fun making this:

Proof that New Zealand is kind of awesome:

Ze importance of context:

SPECIAL MARIO SUBSECTION

It's easy to forget how much a badass Mario is. Don't:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

And this

SUBSECTION OVER...FOR NOW

I don't know, this is just funny:

This is like a parody of Batman Begins-style reboots, and then you realize that it's an actual fucking movie:


Turn your speakers down:


IPAD SUBSECTION
Some of these are worthless but the good ones make it worth clicking.

Also here's the reason I didn't get an iPad. Remember when Apple was the cool company with all the new ideas?
SUBSECTION COMPLETE

VIDEO GAME-RELATED ART SUBSECTION
Pokemon as sumi-e prints

Games covers as books covers. Again, a lot are worthless, but the good ones are better than the actual box art (which raises some interesting questions).

Maybe not art but I found it cool anyway. Title is accurate.
SUBSECTION TERMINATED.

Can't remember if this is good or not, video isn't working:

Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.

Finally, the most insightful image I've ever seen.

...Except I'm guessing everyone looks at it and thinks they're the one guy. Which is stupid cause it's obviously me. I didn't even buy a iPad.

untitled 196th post

You've probably already seen this, but...I don't know, I'm busy. I'll right a real post about something else later.

untitled 195th post

to whom do i have to petition to get brown sugar cinnamon poptarts into wal*marts? the crappy strawberry ones are all over but the place but the best flavor in the world i have to stock up on. that is all thank you for your time.

A Dare

Start at the beginning of Homestuck and see if you can get to the end today.



OK that's a stupid dare, but I've wanted to link to it forever (my main goal with this blog is to waste huge chunks of its readers' time, plus it's the best webcomic going right now) and today seemed like good day since it's the one year anniversary.

Also, check out the music, especially if you like chiptunes, which you do, because you're reading this, which means you're probably a nerd.

i wish i had a skill...

Broken Fingaz -Graffiti Stop Motion from Broken Fingaz on Vimeo.

Nope, still can't sing

"Enter Sandman":

(Here's a better version of the same thing. In my defense I only spent like five minutes writing this.)

UPDATED 4/22: There are usually two kinds of ways I'll write a song of the week. Either it's something I've worked on for a while and figured out enough to get recording, or it's something where I started recording with just a concept (sometimes not even) and just worked out ideas as I went along. This is the much rarer third kind, where I'd have an idea and record so I wouldn't forget it. If you want you might call it a sketch.

I had this just come to me after watching that smoothtallica video and a melody just popped into my head. I decided to do it rockapella because the internet has a retarded fascination with a capella and I knew if I put it in the title it would get a billion hits. This turned out to be true. According to the Youtube this has quickly become my 2nd most popular song, beat out only by That Zelda Song. I'm a whore.

Artistically, this is one of my less successful songs, partly because I don't really know how to write a cappella music (at least I avoided the "guy one sings the guitar, guy two sings the bass, guy three beatboxes" cliche, which is basically the lamest thing ever yet describes nine eighths of all internacapella music). The other failure is that I didn't really care enough about this song to work hard on it. Like I said, it's a sketch, and (hopefully people figured this out for themselves) a joke. I tend to obsess when I fail, but here I just hope people listen to my other, better songs after hearing this one.