Have you seen the Air Orchestra? Directed by Virginia, in concert with the songroom. Apparently this was on TeeVee.

Hilarious and super adorable!!

via YouTube – Air Orchestra.

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The Songroom does amazing things. i think they’re at the Abbotsford Convent.

i can’t help it. Silly videos make me laugh. This one comes via the amazing Glen. Thank you Glen. A scary eighties number with Big Shoes.

i think i discovered this on the same night as i was introduced to the whole “Literal Lyrics” thing.. eg for Total Eclipse of the Heart: For some reason Sony has banned you tube from playing the video in Australia. This one works because there’s a TV and a cat. No, she’s not as good a singer as Bonnie.

Here’s another collection of literal lyrics videos, including [you have been warned] The Rickroll Himself.

Hilarious. Ricky pushes all the wrong buttons for his opener at the Golden Globes. Nice work. i especially liked his comments about The Tourist, as he acknowledges the unfairness of the joke: “i haven’t even seen the film, but who has?” Implying the Globes run on bribery won’t get him any fans with his employers, but he brought plenty of his own special kind of boundary-crossing laughter. And let’s face it, everyone’s talking about it so they won’t mind too much.

i’m sure he really did have lawyers look at the scientology joke beforehand.

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Following the shooting in Tucson i found this speech by Robert F Kennedy from April 1968 – after the assassination of Martin Luther King. It’s really worth listening. Very much of its time, yet still very relevant. You can also find the full transcript over here.

via YouTube – Robert F. Kennedy speech ~ Mindless Menace of Violence.

i liked what the sheriff said after the shooting: all this violent, hateful and abusive rhetoric that fills the tv and radio channels of the US mass media may well be free speech, but it can have consequences.

(Found the Kennedy speech via ‘The only adult in the room‘ – an unabashed fan site for the current president of the US (POTUS) – one of the commenters posted it.)