Even though I’m more of a geek than a dork, this is way too funny (and often true) not to post:
Dave and Brian via Geekologie.
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My Anthem!
Monday, March 1st, 2010The Golden Earring rocked once again
Monday, February 22nd, 2010I spent last night with my big sister at the last concert of Golden Earring’s current tour. This was an electric gig (as opposed to an acoustic, they mix them up on tours), and it completely R-O-C-K-E-D!
The support act was The New Shining, a Dutch band that was actually very good (can you tell support acts have often disappointed me in the past?), so the warmup was very effective…but no support act can beat the ‘Earring’. Once they stepped on stage they went from zero to 100 MPH in zero point zero seconds. Excellent as always, but on top of that it was kinda ‘extra special’. Not sure why, but these guys flew! Amazing guitar solos by George Kooymans, an electrifying bass+synth solo/intro by Rinus Gerritsen and Cesar Zuiderwijk completely rocked the hall with a truly mindblowing drum solo. And how Barry Hay still belts out the songs like that after all these years I really don’t know.
All in all one really great night out. It’s been way too long since I did this, and being there with my ‘big sis’ made it extra cool. Thanks sis!
May the farce be with you
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Quite some time after the original Star Wars Rap (okay, 6 years), this is just amazing work, and very-geeky-funny:
Guitar Hero 5 – Party Mode is fun!
Sunday, September 20th, 2009Tonight I played Guitar Hero 5 with Robert and Liesbeth, and the new ‘Party Mode’ is a lot of fun. You can now just jump in at any point in a playing track and switch instruments and settings on the fly which really deserves the name ‘party play’. Now if they only made the tracklist as good as the lists in Rock Band 1 and 2 this would be the perfect game, but still a lot of fun nonetheless.
Natural sound illustrated
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009…in a brilliant and funny commercial:
Via: Gizmodo
Too funny – literal music video song texts
Monday, October 27th, 2008This really cracked me up…what if songs lyrics were actually about what’s happening in the music video? Check it out:
Rock Band kicks ass
Monday, October 20th, 2008Okay, I’m behind the times on this one, but I had my first full Rock Band experience tonight with my friends Robert and Liesbeth. I’ve played Guitar Hero parts 1, 2 and 3 before, as well as the Aerosmith edition (Robert and I finished it on medium in one afternoon) and even the sucky Rock the 80’s encore thing. But: Rock Band beats ‘em all.
The game itself is what you’d expect but better than before: The addition of the drum set and microphone really clinch the ‘band’ feel, and the base version (PS2 that is) containt 61 (!) tracks and some really great ones too. The interface is slicker but then again takes longer to load, although you only notice that the first time and we were yapping and high-fiving though the loads anyway.
The drumming is *F*U*N*, but harder than you’d think. Especially the pase bedal messes you up (and cramps up your shins really quick when you’re starting out), but it feels great to be hammering out those beats.
The singing…well, let’s leave that to the professionals. On a regular-sized TV the song lyrics could (or should) have been bigger, we we sitting down right in front of the TV to be able to read them, but it’s actually quite easy if you know the song beforehand. If you don’t, you’ll mess up pretty quick, so don’t go trying that in public right away 
On the whole we head a great time, for me this is the best game I’ve played this year so far. It’s more fun than Guitar Hero, although we can’t wait for the new Guitar Hero World Tour game with a full band set as well (and improved drums).
Weezer – Pork and Beans
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Weezer’s new video for Pork and Beans is probably the most recognisable in ages: they honor/feature/make fun of/imitate lots of very well-known Internet memes. Check it out:
Colbie Caillat – Bubbly
Monday, May 5th, 2008Been listening to this most of this weekend: “Bubbly” by Colbie Caillat (from the most excellent album “Coco“):
Yeehaw, y’all!
Monday, April 14th, 2008I watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? again last night (for the umpteenth time, I admit), and the song “Man of Constant Sorrow” keeps hunting me. So here’s a clip from the movie, and the man who actually performed that (Dan Tyminski) in a nice live version:
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