And now for another episode of whoring for dollars!
Actually, I seldom promote any products beyond book and DVD links on this blog, but The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus 16 Ton Megaset (which gets you all the TV episodes and two live shows) for $34.99 strikes me as a good enough deal that I’m going to order one for myself.
And now, the Dead Parrot Sketch.
Nirvana covers Terry Jacks’ maudlin hit “Seasons in the Sun.”
Stumbled across this image at this story on Alan Moore passing on getting the rights to Watchmen back if he would write sequels:
Wish I could tell you who the artist is.
And as long as I’m stealing awesome wrong Watchman images…
And if you haven’t seen it already, this Saturday Morning version is so many kinds of wrong:
Finally, please note that many of the above can be found at this site dedicated to Watchmen parodies.
Ever now and then you stumble across something that, given your general tastes and outlook, you shouldn’t like, but you do anyway. “What, you like that?” asks your friends. “That is so not you.”
Take Mocca’s “I Would Never” as an example, a simple, charming pop song done in an easy-listening style that went out of fashion at least 40 years ago. I chanced across this a few years ago searching for something else, and every now and then get a yen to hear it again, which then necessitates trying to remember the name of the artist. And then I find it again, only to discover that, yes, it’s still not on iTunes.
So I’m embedding the video here as much as a blog sticky note to myself as sharing it with others…
Mocca seems to be a Indonesian pop band which has done several albums of material in this style: Poppy, upbeat, cheerful, and deeply un-ironic, which must be a crushing disappointment to jaded hipsters everywhere. It’s just well-done and…pleasant.
Sometimes that’s enough.
This video was posted to a Fark thread on rickety bridges.
The view is less awe-inspiring than bowel-clenching, especially when you get to the parts where part of the trail has fallen away…
…but Paul Simon’s cover of “Biko” is pretty good:
And Stephen Merritt (who Neil Gaiman is big on) at least makes a credible effort on “Not One of Us”:
The subject of Epic Beard Man came up at the Saturday Dining Conspiracy. So, if you haven’t seen it already, here’s the original (NSFW) Epic Beard Man fight:
(And here’s the full sound version and transcript (again, NSFW).)
And here is, almost inevitably, Hitler’s reaction to Epic Beard Man’s fight. (Linked because the aspect ratio is too large for the WordPress theme.)
Wait, did I just link a video that combined a new viral Internet meme with yet another viral Internet meme?
Yes. Yes I did.
I think you’ll just have to come to grips with the possibility that I am, in fact, just plain evil.
Amber Lamps.
Embrace the anachronism arachnoid mechanism.
Postscript: And as long as we’re linking to films about big-ass mechanical things attacking people, check this out.
Tim Conway is 76 today, so in honor of his birthday, yep, it’s the elephant story.
It never gets old.
/My lawn. Get off it.