It fascinates me to observe the different ways people use the internet. I tend to shy away form social networking sites, yet some of my friends are twitterholics. Some people use a blog as a diary for their very most intimate thoughts, I use a blog for AWESOME.
In keeping with that, I thought I would pull some content from the emails that go back and forth between my father and his cousins, whose proclivities for sharing things they feel are awesome are, actually oddly parallel with mine. Only difference is that they send huge email attachments of whatever the awesome is. So I proudly present the Dadpost™, a new feature highlighting the DADAWESOMEST internet finds.
…and buy metric crap tons of stuff to resell to you that you never knew you would ever need. This is Ax-Man, the coolest ever store that has ever existed…ever. And they just built one 2 minutes away from my house. Remember, buy 12, and the 13th is free!
Well looks like our favorite b-superhero Ska-New Wave band has been ironically animated! It’s silly, campy, over the top and the shots remind me of a better drawn, but no less odd Voltron. Rather good modern animation with a retro sensibility. I Declare Win and Cake.
This is an interesting piece. Someone dubbed their guitar “skills” over the ineffable Eric Clapton, making him seem like a total spazz. Watching this makes me feel better about my so-so performances of David Bowie songs on Guitar Hero. But it gets at a deeper issue. In the light of the “Legends of Rock” Expansion (or Expanchkin, as I like to say) for GH2, where are the blues songs, where are the 12-string songs? These too, are Strong Guitar Mojo. Given the GH controller, a squeaky plastic ukulele (thank you Yahtzee), only certain kinds of guitarwork are possible. Here are some reasons that Guitar Hero should have always been called Standard Rock Number Hero:
Leo Kottke:
Carlos Montoya:
Buckethead: Who is a spazz at the beginning but cooks with gasoline in the middle, where he’s two-handing, at about 2:15.
I would have included some David Gilmour, but I couldn’t find any good close ups of him playing.
This is so completely awesome, and I’m so thoroughly dorked about about it, that I can barely type. Less so than usual, even. This little video is the demonstration of someone’s grad design project and the similarities to George Lucas are stunning.
What, wait? Lucas? Chairs?
Hold on there, pardner, I’ll ’splain mahself. Lucas’ grad project was THX1138, albeit in a rudimentary form. And like that seminal, futuristic tale, this video shows us: technology seamlessly blended into our environment, artificial intelligence, the vision of the future as one of conformity and obedience, large yellow numerals, an efficient and quiet indoor world. I’m sure that I could think of more similarities, but just let me say that the above video has no degenerat, inbred tunnel dwellers. Score!
