August 2010 Archives

I know, I know, this went viral a few weeks ago - still, it's a video that begs to be posted,  even if it's just for posterity's sake. What's great about this video, is not that it's particularly hilarious (especially to people who aren't new to Autotune the News) but that it's incredibly catchy. After I got this song stuck in my head for weeks, along with their Double Rainbow song - I knew that the people behind it were musical geniuses. True enough, The Gregory Brothers are the type that have music pulsating through their veins - particularly the soul kind. To have a better appreciation of their true talent, you've got to check out their MySpace page. It's no wonder how this viral song got so many hits and how it inspired some equally excellent covers that you can check out here, here and here.

It's List Addicts Friday time - and today's topic is high school crushes and unrequited love. Why? Just because I'm in the mood for it and these two always go together.

High school has always been a memorable time for me - not because of the nice memories I've shared with my high school friends, but because of all the heartache, heartbreak and the tramautic experiences I've had dealing with members of the opposite sex. Despite the good intentions of the strict nuns at my high school, and my loving, yet overprotective father, I wasn't prepared to deal the enigma that were boys - high school boys at that . Despite this, I was able to go through high school  with my sanity intact. But then, to anyone who's ever had to deal with high school crushes and unrequited love, I don't think you'll ever leave unscarred.

1. Hello Saferide - Highschool Stalker

When you talk about unrequited love, there always an element of stalking involved.  In Highschool Stalker, Hello Saferide gives us the inside scoop of what it is to be a high school stalker. And because she dates herself by using Yahoo! and AltaVista to search, it would be circa mid-1990s (I myself used HotBot and Infoseek). I never did go as far as breaking into the dentist's office like she did in the song. However, does doing voodoo magic to make your crush notice you count as psycho stalker-ish? It did work though.

Dani from Everyone's Talking sent this in, with the promise of posting my blog to their 50,000 followers. I thought, sure, and started contemplating on why, for the life me, have I not gotten 50,000 followers in the past three years that this blog has been alive. Then it hit me, like an axe hitting the white ivory keys of that hapless piano that got thrown over a cliff. I've had the wrong approach with this blog all along. Since random acts of sex and violence sell, instead of Lyric of the Day, we're going to have Boobies of the Day. But for now, you'll just have to content yourselves with a graphic display of piano mutilation - with excellent mood music to boot. If you liked the music, Dani's got some more at www.everyonestalking.net too.