I have seen/heard William Shatner’s spoken word interpretation of Rocket Man, but I did not know that he did the same with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. And someone made a video for the intertubes.

Google video link
Also here, with appropriate comment: This is the video that should have been made for the song that should never have been recorded.

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Little kids annoy the crap out of me, and normally this kind of video might be something I’d used after swallowing poison to induce vomiting, but I think it’s actually kind of funny.
Kittens, inspired by kittens.

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Here is a Trader Joe’s commercial, done by someone who seems to have a love/hate relationship with the store.

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Here is Orff’s Carmina Burana with alternate lyrics:

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Finally, Her Morning Elegance, a well-imagined stop-motion music video. I love the way she walks, so springy and happy.

• The video was shot all stills – roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie.
• It took 4 weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated storyboard for the video, with 3d dummies for the characters.
• It took only 2 days of shooting for the live actors on set to re-create the 3.5 minutes computer sequence, frame by frame.
• Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.
• Each of the wonderfully talented people above have worked on the video for a fraction of their normal rates (except Oren who worked for his normal rate of zero).

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And that’s all for today.

I saw this on Speeders Fight Back a few weeks ago and finally got around to finding it on teh intarwebsz. This guy is a real nutjob and the last bit is well-deserved.

Bonus: He has his own listing on the Florida Department of Corrections.

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Completely unrelated is a series of Star Trek: TNG edits that I found through Dinosaur Comics. Each of these gems is under 1:30 and there is a sort of story arc, or at least a set of related themes. You may find them asinine or, like me, completely hilarious. My coworkers were like “WTF this dude is all wonky” as I watched them. Link.

I think my favorites are the Data artwork episodes, particularly episode 10 (though you should really see episode 8 first).

Today’s installment of Friday Youtubery features “Time To Pretend,” the first track from MGMT’s 2008 release, Oracular Spectacular. There is something about this song that really catches me, and it gets my vote for the best new song of 2008. When turned up, the combination of soaring, rich, layered music and 20-something angst lyrics gives me the chills:

Yeah, it’s overwhelming, but what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices, and wake up for the morning commute?

You’ll have to settle for a youtube link since they’ve requested not to embed the video, which I’ll honor. If you’ve got a quick internet connection, be sure to check it out in high quality (look for the link just underneath the bottom right corner of the video).

I dare say it is no coincidence that the song measures in length at 4:20.

MGMT – Time To Pretend (video)