All videos and reviews for Lanooz

Wow. Weird Al really put some time into this one. The voice sounds very close to Don McLean's. And the words and music ... seriously impressive. Read the first verse:

A long, long time ago
In a galaxy far away
Naboo was under an attack
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the federation into
Maybe cutting them a little slack
But their response, it didn't thrill us
They locked the doors and tried to kill us ...

We escaped from that gas
Then met Jar Jar and Boss Nass
We took a bongo from the scene
And we went to Theed to see the Queen
We all wound up on Tatooine
That's where we found this boy...

Enjoy.

Labels: aitkins, music video, parody, Star Wars, Weird Al, Weird Al Yankovic

All videos and reviews for IRTheBorg

Fred Flintstone meets Star Trek TOS, with a cameo appearance by R2D2. This video is hysterical. The video is written by The Firm and Jim Jenkins, and they made a musical out of all the standard Star Trek dialogue.

"It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim." "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it." "There's Klingons on the starboard bow." And, of course, "Ye canna do that, Captain."

This little musical is populated by Flintstone versions of the Star Trek cast, dino-Klingons, alien life forms and dead red shirts.

If you like Star Trek, you'll enjoy it. If you hate Star Trek, you'll laugh yourself silly. Either way, it's a great video.

Labels: IRTheBorg, kirk, penny watkins, science and technology, Star Trek, star trekking

All videos and reviews for JackDanyells

This excellent music video, is a spoof on Alanis Morissette's, "Ironic." I like the movement in the background video, and the characters. The Marlboro Man, The Orkin Man and Ray Charles (including sightless sight gags)are all quite ironic, indeed.

The producer, JackDanyells, has written an ironically funny spoof, and he has done a beautiful job of capturing the ironic lyrics, like "a dead end sign next to a fresh grave," in video.

Labels: alanis morissette, comedy, ironic, jackdanyells, music, penny watkins

All videos and reviews for vinylboy20

Turnpike films created this fake -- but very good -- ad for Starbucks. Starbucks should pay them for it. Yawning is catching, and this busload of guys makes an art form out of it. The yawns get deeper, more desperate and grosser sounding, and then, suddenly, everyone has a Starbucks, and it's all good.

It's a great commercial not only for the advertising message, but because after you watch it you need a cup of coffee. Where is the nearest Starbucks, anyway?

Labels: commercial, entertainment, penny watkins, sleep, starbucks, tired, turnpikefilms, vinylboy20, Volkswagen, VW, yawn

All videos and reviews for Betty Butterfield

This is odd, weird ... and very funny stuff.

Poor Betty has issues. You know her. There's one in every neighborhood. One in every apartment building.

She's that very large, very odd woman who lives downstairs from you, the one with all the cats and who's always home, always peeking out her window at whatever is going on on the sidewalk outside the building, any time of the night or day ... The one who always wants to gab about the latest tragedy or mess. There's always something with Betty, so don't get her started because she's got opinions.

Sit back and watch Betty go off, this time on the tragic incident regarding her neighbor who died on the toilet, or as she calls it, the commode. I haven't heard that word since my second grade teacher used the term back in the early '70's.

We're researching more info on who ChrisCanary is and how he started producing the very funny "Betty Butterfield" videos, and who is the drag queen that is Betty. We plan to write a much more thorough review on ChrisCanary later, when we have interviewed him or get more substantial intel, because these videos are so very quirky.

Until we do a longer review on them, enjoy this initial Betty video and look for more coming soon to this site.

Labels: aitkins, bathroom, Betty Butterfield, chriscanary, comedy, commodes, toilet

All videos and reviews for TheResidents

Little Timmy's version of Driver's Education goes something like this: Charlie the chipmunk eats peanuts, and at school they watch teenagers pull toy cars with strings, they hold the little cars, and then they are allowed to drive pedal cars. So they don't get in an accident like the one-legged man.

If you like stream-of-consciousness randomness, the TIMMY videos by TheResidents are for you. These guys are masters at finding and pulling odd but funny random scenes from old films and making up twisted, hilarious stories to go with them. Very weird and very funny.

Labels: animals, cars, chipmunk, entertainment, penny watkins, theresidents, timmy

All videos and reviews for LisaNova

Living in Los Angeles, you either have a car, or you go nowhere. At least that’s what most of us think. We forget that though public transportation here is horribly inefficient, we sometimes miss out by being stuck in our little bubbles driving down Sunset or on the 405. We miss out on the people and the culture of big city life.

The interaction of diverse lives is what makes a metropolis so wonderful to live in and LisaNova’s little trip reminds us of just that.

I'm confused at Lisa's editing choices sometimes. In this case, I didn't understand why she began the video with nothing to say really, then she finally gets to her subject matter at hand.

I thought maybe she was going somewhere humorous with it, but then there was jump cut and she was back to reality. It seems odd that all that wasn't just edited out.

That said, LisaNova has the gift of being interesting and entertaining to watch, period.

Randy Newman: I Love LA

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Even if she is just sitting in front of the camera with nothing to say. Maybe it's because she's unafraid to do just that, and to be self-deprecating ("I have A.D.D." ... "See, I was just lost in the clouds...") and the confidence to show us her true self, perfect or otherwise.

And on the driving in LA theme, here's a Randy Newman video from 1983 on that same subject, but his underscores the driving element. It's fun and it shows all (the best) parts of this huge city. The music, the hair and fashion really takes you back to '83 ... assuming you remember 1983.

Labels: 1983, bus, cars, LA, LisaNova, mischler, people