Archive for June, 2006

People that are good at stuff #1: Rodney Mullen

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Rodney Mullen is a skateboarder, but please don’t run away skate-fearing people, as he doesn’t do skateboarding like everyone else - it’s almost some kind of bizarre plank-with-wheels dance. Amazing stuff, despite the punky soundtrack that doesn’t really fit the video.

I do not feel like a tree

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Because I do not consider the ramifications of my actions, I started clicking around youtube in an attempt to find some Entertaining Comedy from people I had not heard before. With some exceptions, it seems the internets is full of mostly, but not totally, unfunny comedy, so in the end I gave up and watched [...]

So Whatcha Sayin’

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

One of the things I like about hip hop is picking up on references and samples in other songs. Even through I am somewhat familiar with EPMD, I’d somehow managed to miss So Watcha Sayin’ till the video appeared on Cocaine Blunts, but in the first line I heard the “Employees of the year/now we’re [...]

Dance Like You’re Selling Nails

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

This was actually the first Venetian Snares song I ever heard, so has a special place in my heart, though at the time it was accompanying a goon video which featured a kitten, if I recall correctly. Anyway, in tribute to the fact that I failed to see Venetian Snares in Brighton last night, here [...]

TV Nerdery

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

CSI chalked up yet another cracking episode in season 6 last night, but of more importance is the fact that Grissom’s hat has returned, and there was a Nana (rather than Papa) Olaf mention. Seriously though, it’s all about the hat.

Pic nicked from Beyond Imagination.

Urban Ninja

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Two reasons why I like this video: 1) it’s got crazy spinny jumps in it, like a parkour Steve Wang movie 2) at one point he appears to be in the shopping centre out of Commando. Cracking.