To be honest, I’ve went over the all-knowing Wikipedia, and though extensive, I still barely get what makes dubstep what it is. It’s still techno to my limited understanding, just with a half-step drum pattern and wobbling bass lines? I guess it does sound different enough, because unlike techno… I kinda like it.
This is an example of dubstep by Plastician called Japan:
Or it may be grime.
I don’t know.
Game On
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Initially, this post was going to bring up how the start of the chorus in Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass is quite reminiscent of the bridge in Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream, but I found another angle… a sign of the times, if you will.
(SIDENOTE: If you’re interested in which portion of the songs I speak of, here you go:
SUPER BASS: Boy you got my heart beat runnin’ away/ Beating like a drum and it’s coming your way
TEENAGE DREAM: I’ma get your heart racing/ In my skin-tight jeans / Be your teenage dream tonight
That is all…)
So anyhotties, what was I saying? Oh yeah.
I only recently learned of this terrible song by ABBA called Super Trouper, and it got me thinking… this is a precursor to Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass. Besides both of them having the world super in their titles, they both have a lot more in common than you’d think (I’ve included the full videos at the end of this post, after the jump).
Aside from one being about –
Super trouper lights are gonna find me…
– and the other being about –
Don’t you hear that heartbeat comin’ your way…
– in both videos you have the following:
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Check
Check
Check
Check
Check
Check
Everyone in ABBA gets a chance at being a GIF, so "check" again.
Oh my circuits… this list could have went on and on and on and (you get the point).
Once, while in a very altered state, I admitted to wishing that I was a robot. I’ve since blamed it on the alteredness of my mind, but I can’t deny one thing:
I love robots.
And I always have, ever since watching this show:
No, the Flying Robot is not trying to get Johnny Sokko. Although I do remember him as being quite annoying...
Please join me and my glorious list of (More Than) A Handful Of My Favorite Robot Sidekicks after the jump… Read More
Back when Short Circuit 2 was released on VHS circa 1989, I had a vision. As the movie ended, and Johnny 5 jumped for joy at becoming an American citizen (this did happen), I paused it. I ran to my bedroom closet and dug out my Lego’s. And I built.
For quite some time, this has been my pride and joy (it made my Fact Sheet for sheet’s sake)… a (non-gold plated) Johnny 5 replica:
I felt alive!
But now… now I’ve seen this:
I feel... lowly...
Should I feel bad?
I was fourteen at the time, and I always planned on returning to the project. I wanted to coordinate the colors better; I wanted to draw out the details to replicate the model; I was beginning to write a program in BASIC that would help me document those details.
So yes, I should feel bad. All the coolest things I’ve done in my life were when I was a kid. Before I drank beer. This blog should be proof of that. I think I’m going to go to bed now. Perhaps I’ll have a bit of beer beforehand…
There was another part to this mental madness involving President Obama being a superhero and that being the reason he was too busy to get any bigger issues fixed (it’s hard to repair the economy or create jobs if you’re saving babies and rescuing kittens in trees, I guess).
Otherwise, the concept of this dream was simple: I was in the U.K. and they were still quite fond of VHS. It was the preferred format over DVD and digital copies. There was a supermarket filled to the brim with the latest releases in the outdated form.
If this was actually the case, this would be a clam shell case you’d see there this week:
How big is that tape if it contains both versions of the film?
(SIDENOTE: Also, how cool is this?)
I didn’t see Harry Potter and the End of a Cash Cow Part II this weekend, but apparently in some theaters this ad was shown:
It’s a vast improvement over less fresh Summer’s Eve commercials:
It’s your move Massengill. Time to take this campaign…
…into the future:
I originally saw this kid’s spoof of Rebecca Black’s Friday, and his speech impediment was off-putting. This video is clever enough that I could ignore that.
His choices are what make this work because they are not easy attempts at humor. For easy attempts at humor, check out the two videos below this one (or this blog on a regular basis):
This should have been a Hibbidy-Wah?! post. This could have been a JusWondering, or part of an Awful Battle, or something from InASense, Lost, but the thought crossed my mind to defend it.
WHY DID I EVER CONSIDER DEFENDING THIS?!
(images after the jump as not to offend the casual viewer… Facebookers and Twitterers, I’m sorry… it’s too late…)
Boobs are a national treasure (the fleshy globules, not the idiots), and they should be treated and protected and respected (?) as so. That’s why today’s Awesome Battle is a collection of products aimed at cleaving away negative aspects of having cleavage, I guess, if there is such a thing. Perhaps it should be an Awful Battle based upon the products being showcased, but what was I saying again…?
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