Team Combat video with annotations

Posted on 2010/01/16 by admin


Here’s an idea: tag moments in a combat video so people can go back and see the more interesting attacks and wild catches. I’ve even opened up the video so other people can add their own annotations.

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United State of Pop 2009

Posted on 2010/01/14 by admin

In the shower this morning I remembered the United State of Pop 2008, the DJ Earworm mashup of the billboard top 25 tracks of the year. I knew the latest one would be out, so I looked it up. Watch it once, then listen to it again and read through the handy lyrics guide.

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Fridge Magnet Poetry

Posted on 2010/01/13 by admin

Here is a sonnet. It’s a story from the point of view of a man asking his master if he can ravish a woman, but picks the wrong one, and has to face the consequences.

Sonnet

I was at a party back in 2001 (or maybe 2002), and I found a Shakespearean Fridge Magnet set. A play would have been too long, and I’d have run out of tiles. A sonnet, on the other hand, was just about the right length. It even conforms to the rules of sonnet writing. According to wikipedia:

A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

It even sort of makes sense.

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Top 40 of 2009 voting

Posted on 2010/01/13 by admin

A bit late, but let the voting begin!

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New song video

Posted on 2010/01/12 by admin

This is a song I started writing on a beach in Ireland, back in 2006. I only just finished it today. One of my goals for 2010 is to write and record an album’s worth of songs, so to get myself into the project I decided to actually finish writing this one.

Here are some lyrics:
Watching the sun go down
Pretend there’s no one else around
Sitting Hand in hand
Pushing toes into the sand

And the birds skip out of reach
As the waves break on the beach
And the wind is blowing free
And sun kisses the sea

And there’s a whisper, hardly heard
It’s wonderful
Wonderful

A reflection in the eye
Of the sun at the edge of the sky
The blanket keeps the cold at bay
It’s the perfect way to end the day

As the sun dips out of sight
And the evening turns to night
And the clouds part overhead
And the stars shine down instead

And there’s a whisper, hardly heard,
It’s wonderful

Walking home now in the moonlight
There’s no hurry as the night’s sublime
Shooting star seen close to midnight
Make a wish, and make it good
Make it right
Make it count this time

Time is on your side
Time, time is on your side

And then finally fall asleep
And the dream is good to keep
And the dawn begins to break
And two lovers stir and wake

And there’s a whisper, hardly heard
you’re wonderful.

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