This is hilarious:
I spotted it on the uglychart blog.
Jul
20
One of the neat things about seeing Tori Amos live are the improvisational parts. And, they can be especially amusing when they come out of flubbed songs. Here’s a performance of Professional Widow I found on youtube with a new “Things F*ck Up Sometimes” middle section 
Most bands I’ve seen, when they mess up, just keep going and finish the song. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a band that mess up so badly they couldn’t finish the song. But, Tori seems averse to just playing through errors. She usually stops and calls herself on it. It’s funny and the fans love it.
Jul
15
A concert from their Death Cult Armaggedon tour. I thought that disc was pretty good. The makeup+costumes aren’t all that scary… I wonder why these bands still do that? I guess I just don’t understand that part of the black metal culture. But, the important thing is the music, and Dimmu Borgir are one of my favorites in this style.
The video quality is a bit grainy, but the audio quality is pretty good. They duplicate the symphonic parts on the disc pretty well live (without an actual orchestra, obviously).
Jul
14
From a Simpsons episode, when Billy Corgan introduces himself to Homer:
Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely. You know, my kids think you’re the greatest, and thanks to your gloomy music, they’ve finally stopped dreaming of a future I can’t possibly provide.
In chronological order, some of my favorite Smashing Pumpkins songs that have videos:
Rhinocerous, from Gish. So many people today don’t realize that Billy used to have hair….
Gish was not my favorite disc, to be honest, but some of the songs are alright. Siamese Dream, on the other hand, was really strong from start to finish. Here’s the opening track, Cherub Rock:
And my favorite SP song…. Today:
On youtube you can also find videos for: Disarm and Rocket. The whole disc is good.
Next up we have (I think) the last video before the appearance of “Uncle Fester” Billy. It’s Bullet with Butterfly Wings which is a simple but pretty effective song, I think. I like the bridge with the long bend that leads to the “tell me I’m the only …” section.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings was from their double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I loved those discs, but my favorite songs on it were not made into videos, so … that was all you get.
I’m afraid, after this point, the pumpkins were much more hit-and-miss with me. Especially if I’m trying to pick from their videos, which is obviously just a small subset of their total output. Let’s see…
Remember that terrible Batman and Robin movie? Well, the pumpkins did one of the songs on the soundtrack, which I actually liked quite a bit:
Here is the video for Ava Adore, from the
I don’t have Zeitgeist yet, so I don’t have on opinion on it.
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Jul
2
A talk by Matthieu Ricard (a Buddhist monk) about the nature of authentic happiness. Before becoming a monk, he was a scientist, and he currently studies the effects of meditation on the brain.
Jul
1
In Dallas, some woman thought she could buy out an AT&T store’s iPhones to put on eBay. So, she payed some kid $800 for his spot in line, and found out her plan wouldn’t work when she got in the store. oops!
The story is confusing, because she said she wanted to buy $100,000 worth of phones. But, in the video she only has $16k of cash on her. Maybe the rest was going on credit?
Anyway, even though she was likely too profane to show on camera after she got her bad news, the policy probably saved her a fortune. You can still walk into stores around here and buy one, and eBay already has lots of iPhone listings. She’d probably have a hard time turning much of a profit on them if she had gotten them.
In fact, the kid in line was far more shrewd, as he didn’t even need his space (he was in line with 2 other people and they only wanted two phones, total). AND, he managed to get $800, which is more money than he needed to buy the phone. I’m surprised the person second in line didn’t undercut it and offer her second-place for $700, or something. I guess with a camera crew following her, she wanted to get the flashiest place in line possible.
I also wonder if the camera crew and/or reporter knew about the limit (because it seemed like common knowledge to me anyway), and chose not to tell her so they could get their amusing story…