No, there probably isn’t.

8bit reduces any song to its purest form of awesomeness and makes a good song better.

To prove my point, I present Misirlou by Dick Dale, aka The King Of The Surf Guitar. Read up on Wikipedia if you want to know more, I know this song from Pulp Fiction and won’t bother with a quick copy/paste to educate you about him. You know, the whole “teaching a guy how to fish” thing…

Anyways, thew song is not in stereophonic sound, as your grandfather might have enjoyed this amazing track, no! Glorious 8bit power from ages long gone (before the internet) will give this track a hidden depth that you haven’t experienced before.

You know, 8bit is like old wine.

“Now I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good.”

via Superlevel and via Hoodohaufen

I was sitting there, watching and wondering. Why on Earth would anyone want to watch a game of ping pong (or if you’re rather posh you might prefer table tennis)? Why? Maybe because their lives are so empty that only the clicky-clacky sound of a plastic ball being hit by two “athletes” on a mini-sized court reminds them of what once was a beating heart inside their chest but now only echoes the emptiness inside them.

Yeah, that’s probably one reason to watch a ping pong game.

To make this niche sport more exciting and have it watched by millions you’d probably have to play it with a live hand-grenade, I thought to myself. And only 15 years later someone makes a music video with my idea. And my idea alone!

So… here’s Metal on Metal with Bastard.

via The Daily What.

Youtube snip:

Creative Concept: The Glue Society
Director: Matt Devine of The Glue Society
Production Company: Revolver
Executive Producer: Michael Ritchie
Producer: Caroline Barry
DOP: Danny Ruhlmann
Production Designer: Margot Wilson
Editor: Stewart Reeves for Guillotine
CG Supervisor: Bryn Morrow for Fuel
Lead Flame Artist: Chris Scott for Fuel
VFX Producer: Claudia Lecaros for Fuel
Cast:
The Red Team: Belinda Lee
The Blue Team: Micky Lung
Host: Austin Hollister

Guess where that name comes from, I dare you.

While you’re guessing, have a song about a lost sheep.

Utterly, utterly sad.

WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE FIND THIS LITTLE SHEEP’S MUM? OH DEAR GOD!

Proof: posted to the ugc video sharing site youtube on 19th February 2009.

In internet terms this is, in fact, a very old hat. Or old cheese. Runny, old cheese.

Well, so much for our journalistic integrity on reporting just the facts. Of course we have to post this. It’s (yet another) Star Wars related video. And this is what this site, the safe haven for embedded Star Wars nerdism, is all about.

So without further ado, please do applaud these true heroes of our time for their bravery in, er, science. Or something like that. There’s a Tesla coil, so it must be something to do with science. Possibly.

Power! Unlimited power!

via Nerdcore

If anyone remembers the musical movie Return of the Jedi Special Edition with the horrible muppet band playing in Jabba’s palace… well.

What can I say?

I feel your pain.

It was horrible and over the top.

But I am not here to rant incoherently about a movie that is partly to blame for me being a crazy bitter old man.

Oh noes! Oh noes indeed!

I am here to show you something that should have been in the movie instead of the muppets musical number. A little boy. A little boy playing the harp. And he is playing the Cantina song from Star Wars.

His rendition is so beautiful that it would have melted Han Solo from his carbonite block.

Aren’t you a little short for a harp player?

Not because Batman he suddenly realised that the Terminator franchise has been squeezed to death by the previous movie and the horrible TV series (except that strangely hot Summer Glau Terminatrix chick), oh noes, something much more sinister happened: The director of photography walked on the set and was distracting Batman Christian Bale. Batman Poor guy couldn’t concentrate on the scene (probably something really important like pressing a button in front of a bluescreen) and had no other choice than to voice his anger. Also, I hear he had an upset tummy from eating too many bean burritos from the lunch van.

Now with stuff like that happening in the times we live in, sooner or later it goes viral on that internet thing the kids use. And then it gets mashed, remixed and put on youtube for the rest of us.

Final proof that threats, swearing and danceable beats mix so well together:

What the fuck is it with you?

You can get a free mp3 of the song here.

So for all the other people out there that do visit this site, my fellow internet losers, let me explain what Mark Gormley is all about.

I first saw his masterpiece Without You about 2 weeks ago, laughed about it but found myself playing it over and over again. Seriously.

Mark looks a bit like your average science teacher. Or if you prefer, your average normal white guy, age 45plus with a moustache. He seems not to care too much about his appearance and ist just doing his thing. More or less, he appears to have given up on any sorts of prospects for the foreseeable future and is recording his songs and putting them out there for all of us to see as a hobby to disctract from a boring life. At least that is my interpretation of him. Or in short, he’s a bit like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but with a musical talent.

The videos themselves have little production value, mostly greenscreen with some cheapo effects and miserable CGI pulled from the archive of an old Amiga 500. Now, of course, this is just my interpretation and has by no means any validity. Like anything I say, really.

So that you know what I am talking about, let’s have a look at Without You. This is my favourite Mark Gormley song so far.

Now that you have seen that, what do you think? Is he a menacing predator or a nice guy?

Actually, he is a nice guy. After his videos on Youtube took off, unlike many other internet “stars” that go viral, Mark Gormley stays down to Earth (although he goes into space in many of his videos) and comes across as a rather nice guy. See here:

Godspeed, Mr Mark Gormley!

Back off right there! My first impression, as usual, failed me. Just like that one time when I bought all that useless Jar Jar Binks merchandise because I thought he was gonna be BIG after Episode 1. Oh well …

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate total work of utter brilliance and genius! Indeed it is!

Swede Mason, the artist behind this music video, has taken a simple quote from the cult movie Withnail & I (particularly popular amongst British students for its many drinking game possibilities. Just google this, will you?) and put some beats to it and … well. Turns out this is one of the best things on the Internet.
Ever.
For real.
I could (did, and will again) watch this for hours on end.

We’ve gone on holiday by mistake:

visit Swede Mason on MySpace and on his youtube page

I don’t belong here:

via Cynical-C