Thursday, August 4, 2011

Today's Web Findings

Today just seems to be one of those days where I've found a bunch of bizarre stuff on the interwebs and thought I'd take a second to share.


Came across this little ditty and I'm a weee bit frightened to say the least! I guess if you have a passion for something then you should do it to the max, but this is borderline insane! It took 2 years and god knows how many legos.

Upon further investigation, Mr. Dylan Woodly has crafted over 50 different videos of legos acting like humans. I can only dream of having this kind of free time on my hands!

Slightly less frightening but still a good reminder that if you post it online, someone's bound to find it.. Blink 182 teamed up with AT&T to scour YouTube for Blink fans using their music in videos. They've assembled them all to bring you the video for their new song Up All Night

And finally for today, just because this vid combines two of my favorite things, Awolnation and Fail videos, I proudly present to you FAIL! (please excuse the fact that the guy singing this seems like kind of a db..)

Monday, August 1, 2011

I Want My MTV...

I guess there's no better day to make Money For Nothing from Dire Straits my Jam of The Day as MTV turns 30 today! While I wasn't alive at the launch of the network, it still had a profound effect on the entire generation.






I'm old enough to remember when the channel still played videos. I'm old enough to remember some  of the greatest shows the channel ever had like Remote Control and Singled Out (ok, I seriously can't say that with a straight face, but they were pretty awesome at the time.) Who knew that while watching early episodes of The Real World it would be the beginnings of an entire genre of shows?!


As time went by and Music videos became few and far between, we'd race home from school to watch TRL- even if 60% of the countdown was boy bands, the chance to see Bush, Korn or Limp Bizkit was good enough to suffer through it.

We saw 120 Minutes, come and go then come back again(!!!) Alternative Nation rocked our world, and Daria was the poster child for disgruntled teens everywhere. There were Movie Awards and Video Music Awards, Beavis and Butthead, a bunch of Jackasses, Headbangers Ball (still one of the coolest shows on TV EVER!)

There was Say What Karaoke - which to this day still makes me hate the song Hungry Like The Wolf because it was on every god damn day!!

We were MADE, we experienced True Life and what it was like to have kids at 16. We were introduced to some rich kids from Laguna, some Guido-Juiceheads from New Jersey. And last but not least, I have to throw in perhaps one of the most epic shows to ever take over the airwaves, MTV Unplugged.


All in all, it's been a great 30 years- even if it's not still all about the music, heck that's what Radio 92.9's here for, right?! Our kids will just have to learn what music videos are from MTV2, MTVu and all 36 other variations of the channel.




Now without further adieu,  here's my top 15 most memorable vids, in no particular order:
















































Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Kooks are coming!

My Jam of the Day is in honor of a pretty awesome Boch Studio 92.9 we've got today! The Kooks are coming in and you can catch their full performance and interview as we stream it live at 1:30pm at MyRadio929.com
 
Jam of the Day for Thursday, July 28, 2012: The Kooks Naive
 
 
Their new album Junk of the Heart is due out September 13th