Be Excellent To Each Other

Craster, Gaywood and I have often threatened to do a YouTube cooking show.

Pray that we continue to resist.

After Sim Beex?

Valve anounced a new DOTA game. Everyone is excited!

Valve reveals it's going to be a card game. Everyone howls in disappointment.



Amazing.

A surprisingly emotioal video about Cassini, which is scheduled to burn up on Saturn in a month so it doesn't contaminate Saturn's (potentially life-bearing) moons:

The Shamen are on Amazon Music so I downloaded them having liked them a fair bit when the albums first came out.

Fuck me they are absolute shite in the main. Boss Drum is really, really embarassing. Just Google any of the lyrics - I think Space Time is my favourite because they've clearly read 3 pages of "A Brief History of Time" and then written a song about it.

Mr C is possibly the worst rapper in the history of shit rappers and "Comin' on" is no greater example of this. He does this awful Ras Trent "ting" throughout that is excruciating and contains such lyrics as

"Yes here we come and we spiritually strong
We comin with de right and de wrong
So negative people can run and galong
With positivity in a de situation"

Etc.

But googling that I then discovered Jason Statham painted gold, in his pants sort of dancing to the video. It's hypnotic.

I still like 'Move Any Mountain' by them. For two reasons -

1) it reminds me of Peep Show
2) it reminds me of Under Logic from Streets of Rage 2

I remember when that was called Pro>Gen. This was all fields back then.

(I bought the entire CD that was just remixes of that song. 20 odd year old me was a FUCKING idiot)

i have a soft spot for them still, though my favourite Shamen track is still Possible Worlds, all tranced out bliss and that.


Their follow up album Axis Mutatis was literally x10.

Statham isn't dancing to the video - he's in the video. That mess is the video.

He can't dive, either.

Also: Holly is so very, very beautiful.

Gotta love a metal cover of a familiar song! RAWK!

Talking of covers, I've possibly posted this before, but I love this cover of 'Video Games' done with a couple of Game Boys. The old videogames in the video help too

I can't get enough of this.

The outro is fucking brutal, too.

I know right? He's got whole albums of this stuff!

Genie in a bottle sounds like it should have been done like this in the first place

Oh shit son!

Giphy "rawk":
https://media1.giphy.com/media/ptntNCl7nwQqk/giphy-loop.mp4

FUUUUUUCCCCKKKK YOU, GIPHY!!

Fuck, you guys didn't know about Leo?

His missus ain't no slouch either.

I spent the afternoon listening to those covers. He is really good.

I do have one criticism of him, and that's that his solos often sound like they've come from a different song. A minor thing really, who cares he rocks!

I'm doing a lot of miles at the moment, working in Glasgow and Edinburgh during the week, driving up on Monday mornings and back to Manchester on Friday afternoon. Having seen a lot of lunacy on the road in the last couple of weeks, I thought it would be a good idea to get a dashcam to record some of it and also in case I have any unfortunate events. Lovely drive home today though. For a change, rain wasn't going horizontally when I was coming through the borders. Here's 3 minutes of one of the best bits. No incidents, no idiots, no sound.

Jinkies!

Impressive as that dude was, there's no way he should have been doing that with actual people in the firing line.

It's ok, he's such a badass that in the event of an accident he could murder all the witnesses in seconds. Problem solved!

We were chatting about JAM at work and Chris Morris and Four Lions and suchlike in general. This sketch always stuck with me. (Close frontrunner with 'Sex For Houses' for most fucked-up thing in the series. I mean fucked-up in a good way.)

NOTE - Some people may find it upsetting.



Oh yes and here's Sex For Houses.

Might even be against the law, reckless endangerment and all that.

So are knife throwing acts illegal?

Good question. I guess not. Which seems ludicrous now that I think about it.

But then you'd need to start banning loads of dangerous things that people do voluntarily. If he was shooting arrows around random passers by that would obviously be different.

True.

Generally speaking, knife throwing acts don't involve the throwing of knives...

Another Friday, another drive back from Glasgow to Manchester. A few years ago I was driving my wife and two friends down this stretch of the M74 at 70mph, overtaking an Eastern European truck when he pulled out and hit the back of the Honda Aerodeck we were in, pushed our rear end into the central crash barrier, which bounced us 180 degrees, and we shot across both lanes and the hard shoulder going backwards finally coming to rest against the crash barrier on the shoulde and the car was about six inches narrower. How the hell we got out of that with only some seat belt bruising and a bit of whiplash, I’ll never know.

Anyway, this close call happened last Friday.

Very good. Thanks.

Luvvin this Yes remix.

Mam, your house is on fire.

https://youtu.be/PY9qVYsAiNk

Oh, hang on...

Edit: The front page of Reddit has some great old COPS clips in a thread. They’re all great shit.

That was oddly compelling.

Sort of similarly I saw this on twitter this morning:

I watched that and thought it was thrilling!

I thought the blue had lost it and couldn’t possibly recover and actually wanted it to win. Great fun.

Three-minute video about the bloke behind the Mortal Kombat announcer voice and a lot of pinball stuff.

I enjoyed that! Thanks. He seemed like such a nice bloke as well.

My mother, who has a little etsy shop selling knitting stuff, has put up a video talking about a certain knitting technique. Much to everyone's surprise, it's managed to notch up 200k views. I think she might be a Youtube star or have gone viral or be a disruptive paradigm or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-bEaVaKLs

Squirtma is great!!! I watched that whole video, which is rare for me as I get bored, but there seems to be a bit of research behind her technique, which is what kept me watching. Who set up the filming? It’s a nice, unobscured angle.

Also, I like the wheel. Does she spin much?

Does your ma make little Sylvanian families clothes?!

She does spin! She used to a lot, but less now. Much of my childhood was surrounded by bags of fleece. She set the camera up herself - I think it's a basic little one, with a cheap mic.

She makes little clothes, and sells that patterns at http://www.woollywoodlanders.co.uk/

Yes, that’s the site I found when I was googling and wondered if it was the same person owned them.

Cool stuff! Yootoob star! She’ll be up with Stuart Ashens soon enough.