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Bruce has a friend named Kevin
I discovered a gem on YouTube today, and it hides much deeper treasure. Bruce & friend Kevin: Live at the Rivoli! PART 1 [45m] is two Kids who come from The Hall doing a stage show. I don't know if Part 2 will be posted, but I hope so.
I mean, if you're going to go to the Maldives, do it in style!
THE RITZ-CARLTON MALDIVES | Phenomenal private island resort (full tour) [1h12m] is a wordless tour of the resort. You won't get any perky central casting aspiring host here; it's images and music and an extremely engineered hotel resort that is basically at one with the water. I can't afford it and am not really into oceans, but if I were and could, this could be amazing.
BBC Africa Eye investigates TB Joshua
I hadn't heard of Nigerian charismatic pastor TB Joshua [Wikipedia] until I heard his name floating about during overnight BBC World Service radio programming recently. I looked around and found this: Disciples: The Cult Of TB Joshua, three episodes from BBC Africa Eye [~50m each, YT Playlist, CW: descriptions and depictions of religious manipulation, sexual and physical abuse, other cult leader behavior].
Stikkan
This is completely fascinating. It's the story of the biggest Swedish export to the world, told through an unexpected lens. Stig Anderson [Wikipedia] was the founder of Polar Music, was one of Sweden's most prolific songwriters, and later was entirely intertwined with ABBA. STIKKAN [2024, 1h, Swedish/multi-language with English subtitles] tells the story of his surprising life and career, and it's worth a look!
Smartphone Pepper's Ghost
The YouTube channel Creative fest has a bunch of simple kitchen table projects, some of them little science things, some of them just fun. I was struck by their "hologram projector" projects using easy to find plastic and cell phones. The original: How To Make 3D Hologram Display with CD Cover [9m], How to make 3d Hologram Box Screen | 3d Hologram Transparent Projector [12m], More simple Way to make 3d hologram box screen [8m], How to make Transparent Hologram Screen | Hologram Projector | Easy Science Project [5m], Make a hologram projector with plastic glass cap || DIY 3D Hologram
Notation Must Die!
Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music [1h15m] has had me fascinated and thrilled with new information since I started watching it. Even if you know nothing about musical notation, you might also find this history and evolution and dissection of those weird 🎶 fascinating.
JS+TDS=?
Who you gonna turn to now from loneliness?
PET SHOP BOYS - LONELINESS - A film by ALASDAIR McLELLAN is a bit lusty and very gay and probably NSFW? If you like your synthpop combined with orchestra strings, this might be your jam.
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
"LIGO" - Director's Cut [1h46m] is a documentary about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory [film website] and the painstaking path taken toward realizing and releasing their first major observation. It's a lot of smart people talking about doing complex science in an accessible way. If you like this kind of think, you'll probably like this.
Old News Grey Of Whistle The Test World
An oddity that YouTube decided to share with me -- Queen, 1977, using Old Grey Whistle Test as a promotional tool for their upcoming album News Of The World. The Old Grey Whistle Test Presents Queen News Of The World [2h10m] is a lengthy look into rock and roll fame decades past.
Clara Belle Williams
Clara Belle Williams was born in Plum, TX in October 1885 [!]. She attended undergrad in Prairie View TX, graduating in 1908. After a marriage, three sons, and a widowing, she enrolled at University Of Chicato and finally at New Mexico College of Agriculture in 1928. Clara Belle Williams was [what is now known as] New Mexico State University's first black graduate [nmsu.edu link, primary text link], graduating in 1937 with a degree in English at the age of 51. She was the Las Cruces School System's first black school teacher, and she forged a path into a community that had very little black population during a time long before it was expected. Here is an interview with Clara Belle Williams and her family from 1980 [1h31m. VHS transfer, long but amazing]
Come to see Brian May's kitchen, stay for the lovely conversation!
I'm really not quite sure who Rosie Bennet is, but somehow she ended up sitting in Brian May's kitchen talking about all kinds of things. From fame to his astrophysics degree to AI and even a bit of music! It's a lovely gentle-voiced conversation that is one of the best musician interviews I've encountered lately! Brian May on AI, Mental Health, Fame, Plagiarism and the Internet - FRET NOT EP.2 [1h5m]
Well, here's your viewing for the week decided.
Do you like Star Wars lore? Exactly how much do you like Star Wars lore? I ask because A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and is chock full of Star Wars lore. "This is not a defence of Episode 1, nor is it an attack. The idea is a detailed, fair, and informed analysis. We'll go over the entire movie, giving credit and blame as needed."
Scat Singing. It's not as nasty as you think.
Ella Fitzgerald Live 1974 is a tight 45 minutes recorded in the ZDF studios. The setlist is in the first pinned comment under the video. Tommy Flanagan, Roy Eldridge, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Joe Pass, Keter Betts, and Bobby Durham all play with her.
Into The Heart Of U2
As they become a legacy act, doing a lengthy residency in Las Vegas, and are becoming ever more deprecated across younger generations triggered mainly by their Apple Album Distribution debacle, U2 fans Bill See [Divine Weeks frontman] and Melody Muraca [early U2 Fanzine founder] have sat down to record the Into The Heart Of U2 Podcast [YouTube playlist link]. Album by album, tour by tour, with a lot of research and background information that I didn't know before... This might be the way for you to process your U2 fandom or your U2 mourning. Apple Podcasts Link.
Dogsandsnow
These Happy Dogs Love Sliding Down Snowy Hills [3m15s] That's what it is.
The Verge Reviews Apple Vision Pro
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not is a very lengthy review of the newest Apple device from The Verge, and it is longer than you expect, and reading it I felt like it answered nearly all the questions I had in my head. I'm not going to rush out and buy one, but this is a really in-depth description of what using one in a real way is like.
Sayonara, TurboTax
The IRS Direct File pilot offers a new choice to file your 2023 federal tax return online. If you're eligible, you can file for free, directly with IRS. [IRS.gov about page] Directfile.IRS.gov
2024 Spring Preview Of Broadway Shows
Wondering what upcoming Broadway shows to see? Up next, our panel of opinionated theater experts tell us THEIR must-sees. CUNY TV THEATER: All the Moving Parts 2024 Spring Preview of Broadway Shows [~1h]
Sincerely Yours...
Presented in three parts -- Sincerely Yours: The Making Of "The Breakfast Club" [IMDb] Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, a lightly-edited [to get past YouTube's robots] examination of the ridiculously iconic 1985 film.
Future Sushi
The Most FUTURISTIC Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant [17m] may not be about exactly that, but it is about a very futuristic suchi restaurant that has a lot of ways to order and then your food just magically appears. And at prices that feel unimaginable in the US today, so inexpensive! A fun little food adventure.
A Legal Terrorist
Michael Kruse, writing in Politico, ‘This to Him Is the Grand Finale’: Donald Trump’s 50-Year Mission to Discredit the Justice System, is a VERY long read that begins with the Trumps being sued for racist rental properties in the early Seventies and being defended by Roy Cohn, and moves forward decade by decade and provides a LOT of really interesting and necessary context for what we will be seeing happen this year in various courts around the country.
Glitter And Doom
Back in 2008, Tom Waits went out on a tour [Wikipedia]. Not related to an album, this was a tour all about the atmosphere. "Tom Waits - Glitter And Doom Concert Experience [1h46m] is a compilation of professional footage and fan films to reconstruct an entire Tom Waits concert from his "Glitter and Doom Tour" of 2008. I used all the released soundboard audio that had footage to accompany it to make a concert film that should make a good experience of what it would have been like being in the audience." Set list in video description.
Winter weather having you thinking about Spring? Come To My Garden!
So this isn't an audience bootleg, but it isn't a pro-shot video. What it is, is a single camera direct-on shot of this 25th Anniversary production by Washington D.C.'s Shakespeare Theater Company of The Secret Garden [2h], based on the book by Francis Hodgson Burnett [Wikipedia, Archive.org], music and book by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman [Wikipedia]. It's a beautiful production, the static shot works fine, and it features Tony Award winner Daisy Eagen, who won for playing Mary Lennox in the first production, as Martha in this performance along with many other excellent performers.
In the original book, he kills the cricket with a hammer immediately.
Pinocchio is a Story About Art and God [45m] is Jacob Geller's latest video. It draws from a great number of the popular Pinocchio depictions from the original novel to the Lies Of P. I think the title is pretty self-explanatory. I hope you watch and enjoy.
Dance Music Emerges
When Disco Ruled The World [1h]
I Was There When House Took Over the World [40m]
We Call It Techno! [1h40m]
Techno City: What is Detroit Techno? [36m]
Idris Elba's How Clubbing Changed The World [1h40m]
I Was There When House Took Over the World [40m]
We Call It Techno! [1h40m]
Techno City: What is Detroit Techno? [36m]
Idris Elba's How Clubbing Changed The World [1h40m]
Sub Berlin : The Story Of Tresor
Sub Berlin - The Story of Tresor [1h24m, mixed language with embedded English subtitles] is a 2012 documentary about the Berlin nightclub [Wikipedia] that started before the Wall came down, and was one of the defining actors in the evolution of Techno in the early Nineties.
The Pomp Room
What happens if you have a bar, sort of in the middle of nowhere, that becomes a really popular local music spot with a super loyal local crew, but then that grows and everything begins to blossom beyond your expectations? The Pomp Room: A Rock N Roll Bar Story [1h40m] is set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, covers decades, and was bigger than you think.
Six guys from nowhere, given the chance, become something gigantic
The old way the music industry used to work was: a band would be discovered and signed to a contract. Over the course of two, three, four albums the band would be given the chance to develop and grow and see if they connect with an audience. This system worked complete gangbusters for music promoter Don Kirshner and a supergroup of local musicians, witness -- Kansas: Miracles Out of Nowhere [1h16m]. It's both a fascinating look at the industry from a band's perspective, and also a reminder about how brilliant this American prog band really was.
It's just fascinating to see all the things people lose
People lose millions of items at airports each year. Follow the journey of the stuff from found in Seattle to sold in Alabama or auctioned in Pittsburgh. Inside Airport: Lost & Found [NatGeo, 45m] is a fascinating look at just how hard so many people work to try to reunite lost objects with the travelers who left them behind. Also, what happens to objects that can't be returned?
BOOM animated short film
BOOM [6m40s, École des Nouvelles Images] A couple of birds try to save their eggs from a volcanic eruption.
Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Barbie, BFI, Wow
I've watched a LOT of stuff related to Barbie. Panels and interviews and contrived videos... but I'm going to say that Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera on Barbie | BFI in conversation [40m] is the single most grounded, real-feeling conversation I've seen. Ryan and America seem to be sitting with a small group of friends talking about this experience they both went through, and it just feels so honest and bare and naked... Hard to describe, great to experience.
Lily Gladstone profiled in Rolling Stone
I feel like the Rolling Stone article Lily Gladstone Is Seizing the Moment — and Making History manifests Gladstone into the perfect person for right now for me. I haven't seen the film yet, but I've seen some interviews and this article expanded and confirmed a lot to me -- she's a very deliberate actor who is making careful and masterful choices. I can't wait to see what she does next.
Bill Hader talks anxiety with Dan Harris
I don't know what I was expecting when I sat down to watch Bill Hader on Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome and Leaning Into Discomfort [1h20m], from the Ten Percent Happier podcast but what I got was a bare-bones confessional of a man who suffers deeply from anxiety even while he lives one of the most public lives in the country. I think I needed to watch this, and maybe you need to watch it also.
i've heard of marble madness but 2: Electric Boogaloo
Ivan Miranda decides to use a lot more 3D printing and a lot of hand tooling to, both figuratively and literally, complete his own seven-segment digital clock: BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK - Pt. 3 and BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK Pt.4 - NOW FASTER!!. Previously.
Getting a bit LOST in 2024
YouTuber Billiam continues his examination of television series LOST (previously, previouslier) with his new video LOST: A DEEP DIVE INTO THE UNIVERSE [6h40m]. This fourth and not final installment examines season 5, the philosophical roots of the show, ancillary material such as novels, videogames, and ARGs, and tries to untangle the time travel maze of the plot. This is a deeper dive than you're expecting, even if you've seen the previous installments, and he's finding treasures in the depths. He swears the next episode will be the last.
Bowiemas/Bowienalia January 8/10
Even as David Bowie gets a street named after him in Paris for his 77th birthday and the 8th anniversary of his ultimate persona transformation, we should perhaps observe the first Bowie death we all experienced: D. A. Pennebaker's film Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, the final rock and roll suicide , July 3, 1973. [Vimeo, 1h30m] New for this year, Louder Magazine writes about the making of an earlier album, The Man Who Sold The World. But, of course, 2024 is the 50th anniversary of Diamond Dogs [YT playlist], lauded recently in Far Out Magazine, so here is footage of Bowie playing in Hollywood in 1974 [Dailymotion, 40m].
All The Jimmy Carr Standup Specials
How much do you like Jimmy Carr? He's that weird-laughing UK standup comedian who still does sort of an old-fashioned joke-joke-joke act. He also hosts panel shows here and there. Well, anyway, here is Every Single Jimmy Carr Stand-Up Comedy Special - PART 1 [5h30m] and Every Single Jimmy Carr Stand-Up Comedy Special - PART 2 [6h30m]. "In total that's well over 10 hours of one-liners, heckles, roasts, dark jokes and put-downs." Put online by Jimmy Carr himself.
The Rest Is Entertainment
So, Richard Osman and Marina Hyde have a fairly new podcast, The Rest Is Entertainment, and for their FIFTH episode, they did a mailbag that is really quite good. How panel shows REALLY work and discussing if WWE 'is actually entertainment' [32m] is less incendiary than its title might suggest, and is full of really interesting information. Mostly UK centric, but the generalized bits apply everywhere.
It's true... 1984 was 40 years ago
180 Songs That Turn 40 Years Old in 2024 [18m22s] is a cavalcade of song hooks coupled with titles. Great for making Gen X feel super old, or maybe as a reference piece for youngs who would recognize a melody but not know the title. It's a lot. I'm sorry.
The Joy Of The Uncommon Updates
Something I haven't seen often with any journalism outfits really, Wendover Productions brings us a bunch of updates in a single video: Everything That's Changed With Nine of Our Most Popular Videos. It's a half-hour of quick summaries plus updates of some of the situations and stories they've covered, and it feels good to know how the stories have progressed since first covered.
The Hollywood Reporter Songwriter Roundtable
Billie Eilish, Cynthia Erivo, Dua Lipa, Jon Batiste, Julia Michaels, and Olivia Rodrigo sit down and have a powerhouse discussion of music, songwriting, and a lot of women's voices. Plus Jon Batiste being his wonderful weird self. Songwriters Roundtable: Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Jon Batiste, Cynthia Erivo & More [The Hollywood Reporter, 1h] This is full of really great moments and insights, truly.
11.21 is a number I will never forget because of this moment
Let's take a journey with Jordy McNeill back in time to an obsession of hers from 20-ish years ago: sport stacking. In The Strange Saga of an Early 2000s Craze, she spends 25 minutes examining the history of the sport, along with her own history with it, in a very interesting video about something that emerged from seemingly nowhere and took over the minds of many for a long time.
I'm really not sure you can actually script this
In so funny and cute🤣!The kitten took the rooster on an outdoor trip.The happiest rooster in the world [8m11s], a cat takes a rooster on a walk down to a lakeside. I don't think you can engineer this happening. It's a cat. Once they get there, the cat begins tasting the rooster but does not horribly eat them. They seem to be friends. It's a happy video.
"how did they let Greta Gerwig make this movie"
Deconstruction is a term that has a very academic meaning but in faith circles deconstruction has a different meaning. And while this video covers a really wide range of topics that are brought up by the movie, at its center Barbie is a Deconstructionist Text [1h30m] holds forth that the destruction of previously-held personal belief systems is intrinsic to the Barbie experience. It's an in-depth look at this movie that I wasn't expecting but probably needed.
This article comes from NPR Sports
First edible mascot in sports history stars in the Pop-Tarts Bowl is an article in which it is revealed that a dancing Pop-Tart, after declaring it to be his dream, was lowered into a gigantic toaster and delivered fresh and hot for the winning team to eat. I love the 21st Century!
But what is the plot of IRIS?
IRIS: A Space Opera by Justice (Official Video) [~1h] reminds me a bit of The Chemical Brothers, but I'm sure there are other things going on in here. I liked this enough to post it here.
Southern Poverty Law Center writes about Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience
GROUP DYNAMICS AND DIVISION OF LABOR WITHIN THE ANTI-LGBTQ+ PSEUDOSCIENCE NETWORK [SPLC.org] is a really really long article outlining the exact way networks of funding and people work to promote anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience, and discusses its ties to white supremacy and the religious right. It gets into specifics and details, but the greater picture it paints is one of coordinated efforts to move public opinion and accepted science against LGBTQ+ existence in society.
He was an actual victim of cancel culture. RIP Tom Smothers.
Tom Smothers, Comedian, Musician and Scourge of CBS Censors, Dies at 86. [Hollywood Reporter] "He and his brother, Dick, "turned television upside down" on 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' before they were canned." Tom was actually the one that was pushing the envelope. He was deliriously funny and always confrontational and hated the term "cancelled", preferred to use "murdered" to what happened to them. Here is the documentary Smothered - The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (2002) [1h32m] from Internet Archive. Smothered from previously this year.
I had enough "oh wow" moments that I just felt compelled to post
The awkwardly titled Nobody Believes But It REALLY WORKS! 15 Brilliant (+1 FREE) Chef's Secrets Work Like CRAZY Magic! is 11 minutes of things that people might find useful in the kitchen. I hadn't heard of this channel before, but apparently Websppon World has over 1M subscribers, so I'm both late to the game and the YouTube algorithm is a slacker. The different tips are chapter linked in the "more inside" part of the video description.
Because every good marble track needs a Volcano World
BUILDING THE WORLDS BIGGEST MARBLE TRACK TO EXPLOIT THE GAME - Marble World Is Perfectly Balanced [50m] is completely entrancing. Nearly 1000 marbles begin the run, only a few will make the winner's circle, and many end up in the gutter. The Spiffing Brit has done this before [previously], but this one is even more unhinged than the first.