Jim Henson + Tim Burton.

“Mysterious Mose” by Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh.
Their site: Screen Novelties

Mysterious Bonus Round: Play this video twice and you’ll want to buy the damn song.

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(cool image by Josh Bancroft)

Sweltering heat.
The smell of BBQ and citronella candles.
The sound of the ice cream truck coasting down your street.

WFMU’s collection of ice cream truck (downloadable) audio clips.
And part II of the collection.

They make the perfect Summer ringtones.

 

 Hello: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Mr. Softee: Play Now | Play in Popup

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They call her La Gringita (”The Little White Girl”).
She is only 8.
Turn up your volume.

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Okay, I’ll admit it: I was looking up Daft Punk videos on YouTube.  I came across this video, and I still don’t know what to make of it… except that this person’s fingers are a lot more flexible than mine.

Daft Hands: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

And then there’s the obvious, poor choice in green bracelet jewelry.

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Either way, it’s way more creative than I could be… unless of course I get a Mac.

(via Fritz)

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Bookmark this post - we will be updating this schedule as events appear

Here’s a working list of upcoming bitchin’ stuff, mark your calendars:

MAY
May 1 - The Breeders will make an appearance at Amoeba Music, San Francisco.

May 2 - The film Iron Man opens.
May 2 - The (limited) opening of the film Son of Rambow.

May 3-4 – The Maker Faire, San Mateo County Fairgrounds.
May 4 - The Japanese Nikkei Matsuri Festival in Japantown, San Jose.

May 6-7 - Flight of the Conchords play the Town Hall Theatre, NY.

May 9-11 - The 37th annual Stanford Pow-Wow.

May 16 - Actor/author/director Henry Winkler speaks at the Menlo Park library. Coool! ‘The Fonz.”

May 17 - The Blogadilla 1 year anniversary!!

May 22 - The long-awaited film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens.
May 22 - The Yard Dogs Road Show hobo cabaret plays the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, CA.

May 23 - The (limited) opening of the John Cusack film War, Inc..

May 24-25 - The Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras, Morgan Hill, CA.

May 25 - The Neil Diamond cover band SuperDiamond plays Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley.
May 25 - NASA’s Phoenix Lander will land near the north pole of Mars.
May 25 - The Crucible in conjunction with NASA present a Mars-themed show “Fire and Ice,” Oakland, CA.

May 27 - Flight of the Conchords play Hob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco.

May 29 - Flight of the Conchords play Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco.

May 31 - The Neil Diamond cover band SuperDiamond plays Harrah’s, Lake Tahoe.

(more…)

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Japanese Kewpie™ brand Tarako (cod roe) pasta sauce has an insane marketing campaign. For example: their product icon is a Kewpie (English: Cupie) doll wearing a cod roe egg sac.

Their commercials are entertaining and disturbing at the same time - which is the best flavor of entertaining.

• The Tarako dancing girls sing the praises of cod roe, with hypnotic Danny Elfmanesque music and with Björk video sensibilities.
• Extraterrestrial cod roe babies abduct a little girl at the beach.
• Tarako cod roe babies invade the home of a miniature Björk.
• A catatonic young girl has a hallucination about cod roe babies.
• Another girl at the beach is claimed by the Tarako invasion force.
• Cod roe stormtroopers catch a young girl at the dinnertable.
• A cheerleader who is WAY too happy about cod roe.

It is guaranteed that you’ll have this damn song stuck in your head for hours after watching this (even if you don’t understand Japanese) - it is even worse than the Algorithm Exercise.

“Tattara tattara taratara tarako
Tattara tattara taratara tarako

Onaka ga naru to yatte kuru
Nakama wo tsurete yatte kuru
Tarako kabutte kao dashite
Suiccho suiccho dekakemasu

Futo ki ga tsukeba mado no soto
Futo ki ga tsuku to ie no naka”

“Cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod eggs
Cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod eggs.

When your stomach rumbles, they come
They come, bringing their friends
They put on their cod egg hats with their faces showing
And effortlessly, effortlessly head out.

Before you know it, they’re outside your window
Before you know it, they’re in your house.”

Bonus Round:
Dress up your own Tarako cod roe baby.

(via Notcot)

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This month I mixed together Depeche Mode’s “John The Revelator” with the overplayed but catchy “Get Low” by Flo Rida. The result: John The Revelator Gets Low. Alternate titles included “Flo Rida The Revelator” and “Depeche Does The Limbo.” Enjoy.

John The Revelator Gets Low - Mashup by Johnny Haze, 2008

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This year, the new up-and-coming (North American) bands are coming from two places: Portland and Toronto.

Best described as a glorious lovechild of the Zombies and the Beatles, Portland’s The Lark is one of the bands to keep your eyes on this year. I recommend you have a listen to their Muxtape sampler; my personal favorites are: “Come Lately,” “Everyday,” and “Always Right.” If I had to predict the one song that will launch them into greater notoriety, it would be “Always Right.”

The Lark are still relatively fresh and are trying to gain a fair cruising altitude - if you like their sampler, you can help them out by requesting them for the upcoming Portland PDX Pop Now! 2008 music festival.

You’ll be able to say that you’re so indie cool because you knew about them way back in 2008. But we already think you’re cool because you’re reading Blogadilla.

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Folks, if you’re ever in need of some groovy music and/or video or are looking to expand your musical horizons, particularly on a slow working day, check out my boy Max Abelson’s Super Groovy Music/Video Spectacular (aka “Max Abelson and His Funktified Flying Fortress of Fantastic Videos of Music”– these phrases are copyrighted, folks!).

Each day, Max and his gang of Oompa Loompas over at Tumblr pour through the series of tubes that is the Internet and find awesome, old media content that I personally could never find on my own. The programming schedule roughly breaks down as follows:

• Mondays: ’60s
• Tuesdays: ’70s
• Wednesdays: ’80s
• Thursday: ’90s
• Friday: ’00s
• Saturday/Sunday: ????

Today, for instance, check out the throwback to Gilberto Gil, from 1967. The video quality may not always be great, but the material Max comes up with certainly is.

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Check out the sweet, sweet work of Greg Patillo, who is somehow able to both play a flute and beatbox at the same time.  Kind of similar to Yuri Lane, the beatboxing harmonica player I brought you last August, Greg is like Rahzel meets Bobby Militello, with a splash of Kōji Kondō.  Pretty damn impressive:

(via Ralph Lucent)

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Feast your ears on this: Muxtape.

And this: my Muxtape demo.

The up sides to Muxtape:
• You can make a virtual mixtape, to let everyone know that you have better musical taste than they do.
• It’s free.
• It is elegantly simple, super-user-friendly, and setting up an account is free of ass-pain.

The down sides:
• To create a Muxtape, uploaded music must be in mp3 format.
• I miss putting stickers and homemade artwork all over mixtape cassettes.
• If you were born after 1980, you won’t truly understand the nostalgia of mixtapes.

Bonus Round: The book “Mix Tape” by Thurston Moore.

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(photo from René Rondeau)

Earlier this month, researcher/historian David Giovannoni (at First Sounds) discovered the earliest recording of a human voice, from the archives of the French Academy of Sciences. According to records, this sound recording was made by inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 - 17 years before Thomas Edison. The recording was made on Scott de Martinville’s “phonautograph” which records sound onto a carbon (smoke)-blackened paper. Though his machine successfully recorded a human voice, Scott de Martinville had no means to play back the recording. This recording was scanned, processed, and converted into an audible clip at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

HERE IS THE AUDIO CLIP of Scott de Martinville’s recording - it is a 10 second passage from the French song “Au Clair de la Lune” (I also added a modern recording of the song for comparison).

(via ABC Science)

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What’s the point of robots unless you can make them annoying?

The Yellow Drum Machine:

“Like a hyperactive 3 year old, the little Yellow Drum Machine Robot wanders around the house looking for objects to drum on.”

(via Notcot)

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Check out this amazing and cute performance by YoungWoong  Ha a.k.a. “Hero,” who was 3 when this was filmed (he’s now 4 and a half).  Not bad for a kid who has never been trained in music or English, and has never been to an English speaking country!

(Thanks to The Gigglepuss for the linkage)

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Lil Wayne + The Bravery. Make it Rain + Unconditional. The result? You be the judge. My opinion? Indie Electronica Rap ain’t half bad.

Make It Rain Unconditionally - Mashup by Johnny Haze, 2008

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I love my ipod. I talk to it. “I love you, ipod.” I have it full of obnoxious Justin Timberlake videos. But, I had no idea I could love it this way. Dang.

“Simply plug OhMiBod into your iPod® or any music player and it automatically vibrates to the rhythm and intensity of the music. Let your body feel the vibrations as you get down with your favorite tunes”.

Also check out Boditalk - “Boditalk™ is activated by calls made to or from your cell phone when in close range. The cell signal triggers a unique 3 pattern vibrating sequence that lasts for the entire call – enabling you to “get off while you’re on.”"

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I have no idea what “Dong Dong Mao” means, but you know it’s going to be good when the description says:

“桃花朵朵开 peach blossom one after another.”

My personal hypothesis: this is a Chinese boy-band audition tape.

(via Susan)

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This month, I’m throwing funk into the mashup mix, with Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon” as the backdrop for yet another Jay-Z A Capella, “Girls, Girls, Girls.”

Check out “Herbie, Herbie, Herbie” — click the image below to listen to the track.

Herbie, Herbie, Herbie - Mashup by Johnny Haze, 2008

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A spectacular gallery of old school rap/hip-hop party flyers.
This is like an archaeological record of the early history of hip-hop.
Also, they make great laptop wallpapers.

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