I’m not usually one for viral videos, but tastewar shared this…
The disadvantage of armor. This makes the limo less safe, not more, for the President.
Laughing long and hard
Ace and Gary go live action, in a big and wide way! Rated PG.
Pythons before Monty
If you poke around the videos that show up after the Bonzo Dog Band skit-song I used in my last Neil Innes post, you’ll find this amazing video.
http://youtu.be/-VxV0ZjOcQg
Keep in mind this was before Monty Python’s Flying Circus. And these are cartoons that Terry Gilliam did for the programme.
http://youtu.be/edsgfNFjLYw
As I pointed out years ago, Gilliam had met John Cleese in New York in 1965, and they collaborated on a somewhat notorious magazine project. Later, at the same time when Palin, Idle, and Jones were being very silly with Innes and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Cleese and Graham Chapman were working with Marty Feldman.
http://youtu.be/DAtSw3daGoo
So, in a way, Gilliam was the bridge between the two camps — Palin-Idle-Jones and Cleese-Chapman — and Neil Innes was the de facto seventh Python.
And, of course, they just have to knock Belgium, don’t they? 😉
Japan’s K3?
I have been told by a K3 fan that the equivalent of K3 in Japan is a girl group called Perfume.
http://youtu.be/NBCAPakjr8k
Interesting, but no other Pop act in any culture or language can match this. K3 rules!
http://youtu.be/pBEK2h8QuIY
K3’s usual target audience is kids, but they branch out — Karen Damen in particular, who was in a play called Taxi, Taxi.
This is Karen in a TV show that was on, yes, Nickelodeon. Standards are a bit different in Europe!
Operation Paybackistan
Team America assemble!
The Flash looks a little schlumpy and tired. I can relate, because this was what happened during one of my recent runs.
Barnes is back with his Back Pages
Just in time to celebrate Bob Dylan turning 70 on Tuesday, Barnes Newberry returns to radio with My Back Pages. When? Tomorrow morning at 8! Barnes says…
Okay folks, looks like it is ON tomorrow at 8 am for the debut of My Back Pages with Barnes Newberry. Please join us online at mvyradio.com to pre-celebrate the 70th birthday of His Bobness! Thanks for all your early good wishes (to us both!) and of course, a big thanks to MVY.
WMVY is a commercial FM station on Martha’s Vineyard, and mvyradio is a public Net-only station, and that’s where Barnes will be. It has high-quality (96k) audio, and I’ll be listening on my excellent-sounding Logitech Squeezebox Radio. Note: mvyradio will be posting the complete Neil Innes show I attended last Saturday, A People’s Guide to World Domination, in its archives, and I’ll link to it when available.
Follow-up: Well, that was disappointing. There was a technical screw-up at the station and the show didn’t play over the live stream. It can be heard at this link.