Okay, unless you've been living under a different rock than me, you've probably seen Joel Veitch's (no relation) "Viking Kittens", in which a pair of cute, helmet and battleaxe-equipped felinelets "sing" Led Zeppelin's "The Immigrant Song." Behold, if you will, the eerie cosmic coincidences unveiled when that video is synched up with Jonathan Coulton's "The Ikea Song":
This is like the new "Dark Side of the Rainbow.
Calgary's very own Chad VanGaalen brings the awesome with "Flower Gardens." Not only the music, that is, but the psychedelic animation as well. Let's see you top that one, A-Ha.
(P.S., the video's not broken, it's actually supposed to be more-or-less black for the first 15 seconds or so.)
Ray Charles on the "Johnny Cash Show":
[via telescreen]
Now if anybody's got video of Johnny Cash doing "Mess Around" or "In The Heat of the Night"...
Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker finds the bittersweet acoustic centre of the Tootsie Roll that is OutKast's "Hey Ya":
Ladies, I didn't blog this thing for nothin'. I wanna see y'all on your baddest behaviour. Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbour.
[via mefi]
Also, for those of you whose minimum daily requirement of F-bombs has not been filled, Nina Gordon (formerly of Veruca Salt) Lilithises NWA's "Straight Outta Compton":
And now, Interweb, I command you to cover Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" in the talkin' blues style a la "Bob Dylan's Dream".
Behold the glory that is the Colbert Report "On Notice Board" generator... and tremble, ye mighty, before its wrath.
[via xoverboard]
Coop has a wonderful post featuring scans of Veda Orr's Hot Rod Pictorial, a late-'40s yearbook of the dawn of SCTA land speed racing. Orr was a fascinating woman--the first woman dry lakes racer, the first hot rod journalist (she wrote and edited for the SCTA's newsletter before the outbreak of WWII, and even put a couple of issues together during the war as a morale booster for the boys overseas)--and the period between the mid-1930s and late-1940s was a hugely influential one in terms of the look and technology of the traditional hot rod. Well worth a look.
A glimpse at how things might have been, had Darth Vader been more of a streetwise soul brother, voiced by let's say James Earl Jones, rather than an athsmatic evil overlord, voiced by James Earl Jones:
[via Apropos of Something]
