Snowmageddon 2009
Posted on December 8, 2009So somebody was all a bloobloo bloo about the rain they were getting. We’re in the middle of a massive snow storm with a prediction of up to 15″ of snow. So I thought I’d show him what real precipitation looks like.
As an aside, Vimeo took so long to process this video that we actually got a few more inches since then.
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Went to a Concert Last Night
Posted on October 10, 2008At Lincoln’s Zoo Bar, Tyler, Matt and I went to go see The Bellflowers, Little Brown Jug, and Black Squirrels. It was a great lineup, we drank too much, and we enjoyed the show.
First up was The Bellflowers (MySpace Link), a good old fashioned country band from here in Lincoln. Their pedal steel player is one of my wine reps, and so that’s how I found out about these guys in the first place. You may remember them from a concert I went to a while ago, where they played with Loup River Band. From that came this video of them performing. I didn’t get any video of them this time, unfortunately. Bonus awesomeness for this band: They have an honest to god singing saw. You never see singing saw players any more!
Little Brown Jug from Joshua on Vimeo.
Second act was Little Brown Jug. The only video I shot last night with the D90. It was really dark and I was really drunk, so the cinematography is pretty bad, and I’m still getting used to the controls. But it’s a good song. Go to the Vimeo page to see HD. You can kinda hear Tyler and Matt yammering in the background, but it adds to the bar vibe. They have the cutest fiddle player ever in this band, by the way.
The final act was from up in Omaha, Black Squirrels (MySpace link). They were a little less old-timey with their sound but were very good. They had an accordion player, so it was a night for unusual instruments I guess. Definitely worth checking out.
Be sure to check the Flickr for the rest of the pictures from the evening, there were some good ones.
Sunday Listening Post
Posted on March 9, 2008For today’s Listenin’ Post, I thought I would dig through YouTube for some great videos from The Old Grey Whistle Test, a classic BBC2 music show along the same lines as the Midnight Special (I will give guest post status to anybody who buys me that set of DVDs…) Anyway, here’s some good stuff here.
David Bowie’s Queen Bitch, a rollicking classic from The Life Aquatic soundtrack. If you poke around YouTube you can find an excellent duet with Lou Reed.
Roxy Music comes at you with Ladytron, and with some costuming so fruity, the BBC ordered that it could only be shown after ten pm. But still, it’s a good track, and it’s got a lot of vintage synth porn.
Concert Footage
Posted on March 6, 2008At the risk of becoming a video blog, here’s some video I recorded from the show at Duffy’s last night. The opening band was Amy Ana Huffman and the People’s Family Band. I’d never seen them before, but they were quite good. Here’s a video of them, uploaded to Viddler because I used up my Vimeo upload quota for the week.
Good stuff there. Then Weezil Skweezins took the stage. They are definitely a fun show. And once you hear “Up the Butt”, it will get stuck in your head for two days. I should mention, there’s some NSFW language, but you probably figured that out from the title.
Weezil Skweezins – Up Your Butt from Joshua on Vimeo.
There are a few more videos up over at my Vimeo. It was a fun show, and I drank nasty bar scotch. Good times.
Oh, and I should mention, I followed DB’s lead in incorporating video comments. (DB hat-tips me in that post, and now I’m hat-tipping directly back to him. It’s a blogging reacharound.) Iffin you have a webcam, and a Viddler account, you can record video comments directly in the browser window. It’s pretty keen. Thanks, Colin Devroe!
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‘Nother Video
Posted on February 25, 2008Tumblr, futurabolditalic, GoDaddy, Site5, and DNS servers are all conspiring to be a pain in my ass today, so I’m going to post this video here instead.
It’s my little sister, Samantha, torturing the dog.
I used Viddler this time to upload the video, because apparently DB wasn’t bitching about Vimeo for nothing, their processing time really does suck. There’s currently a three and a half hour wait just to start encoding video. That’s too long, even if it is high quality encoding.
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I Made a Film
Posted on February 17, 2008Well, technically, we made a film. John (one of the ones I know, anyways) was checking out my The Flip (about two posts down) and we were discussing editing software, and how I should learn to actually use some. So he took my The Flip, filmed some various shots, and challenged me to edit them into a film with a story.
I’m not sure if he intended for me to make a film about him being a French male prostitute. But c’est la vie.
L’Homme Prostitut from Joshua on Vimeo.
He did the shooting, I did the editing, J.G. Thirwell did the first half of the music and I did the second. I also did the French translations myself, without a dictionary or much working knowledge of the French language. It’s pretty good.
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Review: Flip Video Ultra
Posted on February 4, 2008DB sent me an IM last week about the Flip Video camera, saying that he was thinking about getting one. I had seen it before, and had some questions about its video quality (I’ve seen some cheap video cameras before and they put out some really shitty video), but after some searching around Youtube, we found that quality isn’t actually all that bad. I figured what’s the worse that could happen so I ordered one from Amazon. And even better, I managed to sell my old camcorder in less than 24 hours to make up for part of the hole in my checking account.
I ordered the orange 60 minute Ultra series model. It set me back $170 shipped. Amazon took its sweet time getting the camera out of the warehouse, but once it shipped it arrived swiftly. It’s a neat little device. Very compact, very simple. Just a few buttons, and no gew-gaws. In the box you get the camera, a soft pouch, a TV cable, some batteries, a wrist strap, and the documentation.
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Supertramp Sunday
Posted on January 27, 2008It’s been a couple of weeks, so I thought I’d bring listenin’ Sundays back. This week: ’70s prog-group Supertramp. These may get a little repetitive ‘cuz there are only a few Supertramp songs I know (and like) but I scoured the YouTubes for some good stuff.
Here’s a classic video, “Breakfast in America”.
It’s true. You don’t have to be pretty to play prog rock.
This concert, which was the band’s last with vocalist/keyboardist Roger Hodgson, was recorded the same year I was born.
They didn’t get any handsomer in the ’80s. Though it seems kind of appropriate.
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The Christmas Posting Continues…
Posted on December 25, 2007This was too brilliant not to share. Color me impressed.
I Defy Anyone
Posted on November 21, 2007anyone to not have this song stuck in their head for the next week and a half.
The Cheeky Girls – Touch My Bum
Fun facts: Despite being a no-hit wonder that was once voted the worst pop act ever, the twin Romanian sisters (who got their start touring airport terminals and malls) have a new album coming out before Christmas. That is, if they can overcome their bankruptcy issues. Things are looking up though, they’ve reportedly had their boobs done, and one of them is dating a member of British parliament.
Touch my bum/this is life!
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