Skillet's new video - Monster

POD's Anything Right - Same chorus as TFK's Fire It Up?

My friend Jim comments on my previous post that the chorus to TFK's Fire It Up sounds an awful lot like POD's Anything Right.

So here's POD's song. What do you think? (Chorus starts at 1:20)

Thousand Foot Krutch - Fire It Up live

The guitarist could have shown more enthusiasm.

The Banff Crasher Squirrel

Courtesy the comments section.

Thousand Foot Krutch - Fire It Up

The greatness of new autumn releases continues!

And now for something completely different

From the file, "Things you probably didn't know about me", I'm a HUGE Huey Lewis and the News fan. I dusted off my copy of Live at 25 the other day, and fell in love with the band all over again. Great stuff.





Go ahead, laugh. I don't care.

Skillet's two new songs - Monster, Hero

From the much-anticipated forthcoming Skillet album, Awake, out August 25.

Darth Vader dances

OK, that was awesome.

UFC 100: We're Just Getting Started

Commercial for the new Ultimate Fighter

Shame that my eagerness to see this means by the time it comes, winter will be at our doorstep.

The House Hippo ad

I love this ad. Not because it reminds us that not everything we see on TV is real, but because it makes me realize that tiny hippos would be the cutest pets ever! Seriously .... if any of you mad scientists out there can make me a tiny hippo for a pet, I'd love to get one.

Downhere - Unbelievable

These guys are supposed to be coming to Edmonton in August, and I do plan to be there. Here's a classic from their album Wide Eyed and Mystified.

This makes my list of "The Most Disturbing Things I've Ever Seen"

Thanks to my 15-year-old daughter for showing this to me. Now I get to make fun of it.



SATURDAY AFTERNOON EDIT: I'm not sure what's funnier - the fact that the video was one of the Jonas Brothers dancing (in high heels, no less) to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" or that less than 24 hours later, not only has the video been removed for copyright violation, the Official Jonas Brothers YouTube Channel has been suspended. Those 500,000+ subscribers must be pretty upset.

SUNDAY MORNING EDIT: Video is back, so I guess things got worked out. No, I'm not going to go investigate this.

Best. Submission. Ever. - Inverted Triangle

Skillet's new song, Monster

From their forthcoming album. Quality is as good as it gets for YouTube, really.

Skillet: A Day in the Life of a Show

Time-lapse videos are nothing new, but that doesn't make this any less fun to watch.

Happy Easter!

A Better Way - Downhere

An appropriate song for Good Friday.

Crazy MMA knockout!

The New Newsboys

Sorry ... I'm just not sold on Michael Tait as lead singer yet.

Rube Goldberg machine destroys Creme Egg

This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Facebook Effects

Hysterical! My brother Dean wrote this.

Starfield's "My Generation" played on handbells

This is absolutely fantastic!

Dancing with the Star Wars Stars

Skip right to the 3-minute mark for Darth Vader. Just do it.

Fuggly!

A sketch from This Hour Has 22 Minutes, written by my brother Dean!

Apple introduces revolutionary new laptop with no keyboard

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Bride - God Gave Rock N Roll to You

I remember Petra doing this ages ago. This version is pretty cool.

History of the UFC title belts

Courtesy BeltFanDan, AKA PawNtheSandman.

Downhere - How Many Kings

An appropriate song for the Christmas season.

Christmas at Ground Zero

Because not every great Christmas song is a classic hymn.

BIGGEST RICK ROLL EVER

Awesome.

YouTube goes widescreen!

YouTube Embraces Widescreen Paves the Way for Hollywood Features - Webmonkey

As we pointed out last week, YouTube is now offering HD quality video on select movies. But one of the hallmarks of HD video is the widescreen aspect ratio (16:9 rather than 4:3) and now the YouTube site has been updated so that all video is now displayed in a new widescreen player.

As the YouTube blog notes, this means that the vast majority of videos on the site — which were uploaded as 4:3 — are now displayed with black bars on the sides (the empty space not used by 4:3 videos).

Two things:

1) Now, all I need is a free video editor that will actually let me edit the widescreen video that my digicam will let me shoot ... except I don't shoot in widescreen because I can't edit it.

2) This puts YouTube ahead of the WWE in terms of providing me with easily-accessible widescreen content. Not that I'm bitter.

Relient K - The Best Thing

Otherwise known as "That song used to advertise Trading Spaces on TLC."

Stryper - Always There For You

I can't believe this song is 20 years old. I still remember driving my Hyundai Pony down to the University of North Dakota to see them in concert.

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Newsboys - I Am Free

Hmmm ... watching this older clip ... the Houston We Are Go CD may have been less "live" than advertised ...

Skillet - Rebirthing

Love this song.

BarlowGirl - Never Alone

Michael W. Smith - A New Hallelujah music video

Downhere - The Real Jesus - Live

One of the hidden gems from Downhere's last album, Wide Eyed and Mystified.

Downhere - A Better Way

One of the greatest songs ever written, in my humble opinion.

Downhere - The More

Yeah, I've basically turned the blog into a music video reposting service. Consider it a respite between the Learn to Run updates.



And the studio version ...

Lincoln Brewster - Everlasting God

Stellar Kart - Me and Jesus

The cornucopia of Christian music videos continues. I love this song, but the album version is much better.

Downhere - Here I Am

My current favourite song.

Slow motion lightning video

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Video from Today's Big Thing website.

The perils of live TV reporting

Pepsi Blue Hawaii - Only in Japan

Pepsi: Get Your Drink On With Pepsi Blue Hawaii

Click the link for a pretty funny video review of Pepsi Blue Hawaii, which is a pineapple-lemon flavoured Pepsi that is, sadly, only available in Japan.

I say sadly, despite the fact that the reviewers didn't care for it that much, because I like colas, I like lemon-flavoured colas, and I like pineapple, so I figure Pepsi Blue Hawaii would rule!

If Pepsi would like to send me some free samples of Blue Hawaii, I promise to write a much more positive review, despite the fact that, you know, I'm Canadian and my opinion probably wouldn't influence anyone in Japan to drink it anyway.

High-ranking Pepsi executives can contact me via e-mail.

Worst Office Freak Out Ever

Great moments in spelling bee history

Kurt Angle's latest neck injury

It's at about the 4 minute mark.

Geese!

Animoto video of Christmas

My mother (believe it or not) suggested I try Animoto. So I did. This was the result of me redoing our Christmas video. It's the 30 second version because I'm too cheap to pay money to make a better video.

Starfield - Son of God

An appropriate video for a Sunday morning. Enjoy!

Frozen Grand Central

WARNING: I may be the last person on Earth to see this video.

But, wow, is it ever good.

Return of the Hungarian Partridges

For the past couple of springs, our backyard has played host to a pair of Hungarian Partridges. Last year, the two of them nested in our firepit for a few weeks as the snow melted, before disappearing for the summer. This morning, there were three of them exploring our backyard.

EDIT: Video added ...

You are my sunshine!

Our penultimate Hawaii video. Nicole shot this on her camera, as she didn't want to learn to play the ukulele. It was taken at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

Funny side note: this is our most-viewed Hawaii video on YouTube, and someone awarded it the dreaded one-star (Poor) rating.

Batting 1,000 on YouTube

Sure, it's a small accomplishment in the online world, but this is my first YouTube video to get 1,000 viewings.

Surfing in Hawaii!

It's Sunday morning, it's cold. Time for another visit to Hawaii!

This was the first Hawaii video I put together a few months ago when I started playing around with our video editing software. It's a 30-second clip edited down from about 3 minutes of footage. I thought it turned out pretty good. Make sure you stay until the end of the credits.

I love this video for several reasons:

• One of the things Nicole absolutely wanted to do in Hawaii was surfing. For her, this was a dream come true. It was a great thrill as a parent to watch her have so much fun.
• Michelle did not want to go surfing, but we cajoled her into doing it, and she was so happy afterwards. This was an enormous step for her because she was utterly intimidated by the prospect of surfing, but sucked it up, took the lessons, and had a blast.

Basically, this was a chance to watch my kids do something amazing, and stand back and take it all in. What a joy!

Oooohhh .... I love turtles

Another Hawaii video. This one I'm posting directly, as the YouTube version is way too pixelated and I'm not happy with it in that form.

This is a video of Green Sea Turtles, which was taken on the North Shore of Oahu. There was a spot where about 50 Green Sea Turtles would come every day to sun themselves and eat. This site is well known in Hawaii, but it isn't advertised very much. If you know about it, great, and if you don't, it's just an unmarked spot on a beach near the highway that you'll drive by before you even know you've missed it. I can't remember how my wife discovered its existence, but good thing she did, as we stopped here twice during our trip, and it was a fantastic experience. The kids loved it.

Interested observers were allowed to go in the water to swim and snorkel with them, as long as we didn't touch or crowd them. (The turtles were allowed to touch or crowd us, however.)

Christmas 2007 videos

A repost from my old blog.