Originally posted on September 24, 2006 @ 9:44 pm
Weird Al Yankovic’s latest parody music video “White & Nerdy” has become an instant online classic.
The lyrics include a surprising number of very relevant computer-geek references, including MySpace, Minesweeper, “killer apps,” JavaScript, Segways, ergonomic keyboards, Wikipedia, “ROTFLOL,” and HTML.
As an added bonus, Donny Osmond is a back up dancer for Weird Al.
This video is a lot better then David Hasselhoff’s Jump In My Car for sure :)
Originally posted on September 2, 2006 @ 2:17 pm
I’m always in search of new technology and when I find something interesting, I like to share it, especially when it has to do with music.
I’d like to introduce you to BlogMusik.net – Free Internet virtual iPod for Music Albums playlist Beta.
How does it work you ask? Well you type in the song title or artist you’d like to hear into the search box and it brings up a side menu as you can see in my screen shot above with all the songs it has available that fits your search.
You then click the song title and bam! It starts to play right on your computer. If you register, you get even more options. Check it out for more information.
On the technical side of things this cool web application at first glance I thought was using AJAX for the controls but after more looking I realised it’s using a lot of Flash to handle all the on screen controls and from what I can tell from messing with it for about an hour, it’s also using PHP with a MySQL database backend, so it runs really fast.
So far on the song availability front, every song title or group that I’ve searched for on BlogMusik, it’s had at least a few songs to choose from. The sound quality is pretty decent too.
Originally posted on July 13, 2006 @ 10:19 pm
President Bush sings U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday”:
Originally posted on May 21, 2006 @ 11:43 pm
I just finished watching Episode 1 of VH1’s Supergroup which I posted about last week.
The show starts off with five Rock Warriors who descend on their spectacular new Vegas digs and meet their new band mates.
First to show up was the Motor City Madman Ted Nugent, then Jason Bonham, Biohazard’s Evan Seinfeld, Scott Ian of Anthrax and last but not least former Skid Row front man Sebastian Bach.
Both Scott Ian and Sebastian Bach get to live out their childhood dreams by being in a band with Ted Nugent but Evan resists Ted’s pull toward “Old Man Rock” as he put it and the two bump heads during rehearsal. Ted could so kick Evan’s ass. Hehe.
I learned a bit of Skid Row history watching the show tonight. Come to find out, Doc McGhee who was the manager for Skid Row fired Sebastian Bach in 1996 for his wild, in-your-face arrogant attitude that attracted media criticism.
Here’s the shocker, Doc McGhee is the manager for the Supergroup, so of course Sebastian and Doc were also bumping heads. I never knew what happened or why he wasn’t in Skid Row anymore. Now I know and knowing is half the battle :)
The only person who didn’t seem to have any issues with anyone was Jason Bonham. I’m thinking he’ll be the level headed person in the show to help keep the peace. We shall see.
It looks like there will be a fair amount of drama with this new show but I’m looking forward to the next episode which will air next Sunday.
Originally posted on May 14, 2006 @ 9:16 pm
Earlier today I was watching VH1 on my local cable network and they showed a sneak peak for a new show called Super Group airing on Sunday May 21, 2006 at 10:00 PM EDT.
The concept is they take five seasoned Rock Stars who descend on Las Vegas, Nevada to form a band and save Rock and Roll.
Sounds pretty cool I’m thinking because Rock and Roll does need to be saved. The catch? None of them know who their band mates are ahead of time.
This show should be good. I love rock and roll and they have a few of my favorites in the line up: The Motor City Madman Ted Nugent, Former Skid Row front man Sebastian Bach and Anthrax’s Scott Ian. So far, so good.
They also team up with drummer (Led Zeppelin heir) Jason Bonham and Biohazard’s Evan Seinfeld to live together, form a band, write new music and perform a concert in just 12 days.
I don’t know much about the last two guys but with Ted’s crazy solos, Scott Ian’s pounding rhythm guitar and Sebastian Bach’s screaming vocals, it just has to be totally heavy metal madness!