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This Tom Waits/Cookie Monster Mashup Is Just Completely Correct

Kelly — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:00:57 +0000

I’m not sure what your relationship is with Tom Waits OR Cookie Monster, but even if you have 0 relationship with either of them I think it’s pretty clear to you that this is just a very good thing that is completely correct in every way and you love it so much. Even if you don’t necessarily like “mashup” videos very much, and generally don’t even watch them when they are presented to you because why bother usually, you are looking at this video right now and thinking, “Oh. This is very good.” And maybe this has even been done before? I certainly haven’t seen every mashup, because why bother usually, so maybe someone has made a video mashup of, like, Elmo singing a Lil Wayne song, which would also be good. And maybe some of you are thinking, “This is fine but it’s no ‘Elmo singing Lil Wayne.’” But I’d have to break the news to those people that they are incorrect. This is the best. Either this is the best thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life or I am just VERY tired. I don’t know I can’t make that call right now, because it is true that I am very tired and also think I may be coming down with a cold unfortunately, but I’m pretty sure that this video is just the best. (Via BoingBoing.)

M.I.A. + Blaqstarr + Marlo Stanfield = Regrets Over The Skinny Jeans Trend

Gabe — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:26:05 +0000

When M.I.A. directed this music video for Blaqstarr performing a cover of Tom Wait’s “Way Down in the Hole,” better known as the theme song to The Wire, all of the scientists were like “Eureeka, we’ve discovered the formula for hipster Viagra.” Oh, scientists. Always with your collective cries of Eureeka!

(via Stereogum)

The fact that M.I.A. claims to have only spent “$9.95″ on the video’s production, and compares the entire project to the election, means that the formula is actually too powerful. All the cool kids are going to be shuffling around uncomfortably all day now, with their painful unsubsiding aesthetic appreciation boners and their Bunk impersonations.

Scarlett Johansson’s High School Video Project

Gabe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:40:25 +0000

I’ve been skeptical of the whole Scarlett Johansson recording an album thing. I’ve only heard the one song, “Falling Down,” and it sounds like someone did too much Jesus and Mary Chain karaoke on the set of Lost in Translation. But now she has a music video.

I stopped watching about ten minutes into the makeup chair sequence. Well, guys, you should probably sink your crushes on Scarlett Johannson to the bottom of Whoops Ocean, because it turns out she’s horrible. Sure, she’s got the almond eyes, the gravelly voice, and she was in Ghost World, but when she met with the video director and the idea of her sitting in a makeup chair came up she was like “Yes, that’s a great way to really express to people who I am when I’m just being Scarlett” (she referred to herself in the third person in the meeting). The worst. I want my ten dollars back for seeing The Black Dahlia. Again, I want it back again. I already wanted it back on account of it being such a bad movie, but I want it back for a different reason now. Thanks.