I know this is old in TripleDoubleU terms, but I still have met people who haven’t seen it yet. So here it is – Justin Bieber’s U Smile slowed down to a speed more suited to his fan base. I have to admit that it sounds… how can I put this in Bieberese…
B U TIF L
This is also an oldie but a goodie. Click here to watch. You simply must.
If you can make it all the way through 35+ minutes of this, you will no doubt be rewarded with some humor, but you may also be rewarded much fatigue.
If you watch it in its entirety, please comment below, and point out which of the 100 ways to love a cat are the funniest.
I’ll admit it – I’ve only jumped around. 35 minutes is about 34 minutes too long for a YouTube video to me. But of what I have seen, I chortled…
On the other hand, this show debuts as a midseason replacement on NBC, and it reeks of potential, if that’s a polite thing to say. I know it’s four minutes longer than my usual liking, but after trying the above video out, it didn’t seem so bad.
Plus, Olivia Munn is purdy.
The only question that remains – if Perfect Couples premieres on Thursdays, does that mean my Parks and Recreation won’t be coming back?
Just as a reminder about how uninspiring and unoriginal (unobtainium, anyone?) James Cameron’s Avatar was, here’s a slightly different take on the recap:
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Navi from "The Legend of Zelda"
As a reminder:
As Ms. Swan might say, "He looka lika cat."
(SIDENOTE: Click here to understand Ms. Swan.)
Aang, the one, true Avatar
Now put it all together and you get:
As uninspiring as the original...
I once read somewhere that olfactory memories are the strongest (I don’t remember the specifics because I didn’t smell it), but I’d beg to differ. In my opinion, songs provide the greater capacity to throw you back, and here are some 80’s songs that do.
For starters, movie themes are cheats, and Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World is no exception, so much so that I also refer to it as the Real Genius song. It always instantly conjures this image in my mind:
Everybody wants to butter the world.
For whatever reason, The Motels’ Only the Lonely always reminds me think of playing summer baseball. My best guess as to the reason why? I used to watch Casey Kasem’s America’s Top 10 (or some other show like that… I don’t remember because I didn’t smell it) before I’d ride my bike to the park. As it is with most of these aural/cerebral connections… it’s best not to ask how or why.
I was only the lonely in right field.
This one’s an easy link up – Janet Jackson’s When I Think of You always makes me think of my first girlfriend, Brenda. I was in the sixth grade; she was in fifth. She was a cheerleader. This was the song that her team (group?) performed to at the Pontiac Silverdome. The odd memory attached to this? The handled neon green comb I used to carry around with me to fix my spiked haircut:
It kind of looked like this, but more rounded and more neon green.
This one is a bit sentimental. Joe Jackson’s Steppin’ Out always hurls me back to an early 80’s winter when I went ice fishing with my dad and his friends.
J. Geils Band’s Centerfold is about a man’s discovery of his childhood dream girl growing up and appearing in an adult magazine. To me, it’s about summer camp and reading this:
My memory has just been sold... on eBay for $1.09.
Unfortunately, Bryan Adams’ Cuts Like a Knife also makes me think of comic books… except I was in college, driving around town in a burgundy Cadillac Brougham in a pony tail and trench coat, searching for back issues, listening to his greatest hits cassette, So Far So Good.
So far, so good, indeed.
Here’s the close-up:
When I thought about making this image, I didn't really think about what it meant.
I once was going to write about how the Proactiv commercials ripped off a Bruce Hornsby riff, but I was sidelined into exploring the curse that product has had on its bevy of attractive hawkers.
But not this time.
Throughout the years, commercials have ruined many popular songs by using them to push products. Not only do the songs get overplayed, but they also become synonymous with that product.
For example:
Well, there’s one thing I hate more than that. It infuriates me to the bone in such a primal way that it makes me wonder if I truly am…
an Artist!
Anyspew, I can’t stand it when commercials rip-off song riffs.
As mentioned at this post’s start, Proactiv did this in their commercials.
Here are some others that I found (the articles about):
Or did they simply commit the act of liberal borrowing?
Want to know the source of this rage? Budweiser has a couple of radio spots currently playing in which, I believe, this song is being ripped off:
I couldn’t find the spots anywhere on the TripleDoubleU, but one is about baseball being America’s pastime, and the other is about how there is 24 happy hours across the world.
If anyone can find those for me, I’d greatly appreciate it. I have far more ripping and riffing to do…
BONUS STEALING!
I’ve remembered two more…
The answer for both is of course, yes.
BONUS FORGOTTEN POST!
My brother recently packed up and headed west to California. He’s moving into the area known as Korean Town, and he was not too happy to find out that this show might be happening:
K-Town… Korean American’s answer to the biggest question mark in the world… Jersey Shore.
Considering either area might not be a viable living option for most, the third option could always be Detroit.
You could wait to watch the new ABC show called Detroit 187, or you could share my experience. The following pictures were taken the other day on my way to the ballgame:
I was going to add something about the Detroit Tigers not being able to catch a break, but…
Even though it’s been around, like forever, which according to itself means:
forever is until you find something better…
…I’ve only recently discovered what my name means via the Urban Dictionary. Take a gander for yourself:
I can live with that. And I need to find out who funwithamber is… Either she’s a fun girl named Amber, or a scientist from Jurassic Park. So in other words, a win either way.
Also from the TripleDoubleU archives, I present to you a new Parry Gripp song. I’ve written about him before, so for more of that, click here. Otherwise, enjoy the heartwarming tale of the Hero Rats…
*sniff* The part about “saving us from ourselves” gets me every time.
I don’t like this guy. At all. My reason is to quickly follow.
The way he sings in a whisper makes me imagine a man holding his cat’s front paws and making it dance, while he cooed much to the feline’s dismay, “You think you’re cooler than me.”
Anymeow, Mike Posner is from Southfield, Michigan, and as much as I seek to support local performers making it big, this guy – not so much.
To be honest, I originally thought his name was Mike Poser, and in a way under that belief, I appreciated his irony. Now he’s ironic in another way.
So here is A Handful Of local acts done good (not counting Motown, to make a point)… after the jump… Read More
I’ve written about the Insane Clown Posse before (<—you must check this link out), and I hoped it’d be the last.
Nope.
Rapper (?) Violent J’s 5 year-old son, Violent JJ (of course), is now a rapper (?)… and apparently a wrestler, too.
(SIDENOTE: For more Violent J fun, check out Violent J is John Goodman.)
That was going to be my Hibbidy-Wah?! of the day, but then I saw this:
You're welcome.
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