Tag: video/Archives

JacobTV- Jesus

A video by of composer JacobTV‘s (aka Jacob ter Veldhuis), from the CD/DVD-box Shining City, “Jesus is coming” Aurelia Saxophone Quartet:

Fiest-y Angel

Feist sings like an angel on A Colbert Christmas, for this heavenly auto-prayer answering message:

True Blood

Gonna miss our weekly sips of True Blood. But this exceptional HBO episodic love-story, vampires-live, Louisiana lunacy returns next summer. Alan Ball, the creator of another HBO great, Six Feet Under, based this TV series on the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris.

The show intro is as good as TV gets; “True Blood- Opening Credits” (music: “Bad Things” by Jace Everett):

Palin Piano

This is beautiful: Keyboardist Henry Hey of the band Rudder plays with the rhythm and melody of Sarah Palin speech:

via Glassdog.

PRX 3

The Public Radio Exchange’s PRX 3.0 is unleashed, with a new sliding features collection on the front, playlists, 30sec prevus w/o login, and this nice intro video:

Drunk History

At Funny or Die “Mark Gagliardi drank a bottle of Scotch… And then discussed a famous historical event. That night history was made… Drunk History.” This first episode is on Aaron, Alex and ammo, “Drunk History Vol. 1:”

In subsequent episodes Jack Black as Ben Franklin flies kites and f%#ks.

Fleet Foxes- Winter Hymnal

It’s getting cold out, time for the Fleet Foxes short “White Winter Hymnal:”

Fleet Foxes: space | wikipedia | amazon | Sub Pop
“White Winter Hymnal” (2:27 mp3):

Insane in Juarez

“Juarez Insanity,” a TV story by Scott Carrier and videographer Lisa Miller, aired on PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly series. Scott and Lisa spent time with José Antonio Galván, a born-again preacher in Juárez, Mexico, who cares for homeless drug-addicted, mentally ill street people with no place to live but El Pastor’s shelter (Albergue Para Discapacitaros Mentales) out in the desert just south of the U.S. border.

I’ve got 110 patients, my “childs,” that are my childs, not my patients, my childs, and this is a mental institution, especially for the person of the streets. For the people who they lay down on the streets like trash, nobody wants them except Jesus Christ and your server, his servant.

Photo © Julián Cardona

Change Gonna Come

Seal does Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come:”

UPDATE: WFMU just posted 14 versions of the song, including Aretha, Otis, Dylan, and the original Sam Cooke “A Change is Gonna Come” (3:13 mp3):

Synchronized Presidential Debating

From 236.com (Political Comedy – Unfair and Unbalanced):

Did watching the 2nd and 3rd debates give you a feeling of déjà vu? This montage of synced-up footage from all three presidential debates confirms our deep-seated belief that every debate was exactly the same.

“Synchronized Presidential Debating:”

Literal Video Version

Literal Video Versions, from DustFilms, answer the musical question: What if a music video’s lyrics had something/anything to do with the inane stories you’re seeing on screen? Posted at Funny or Die is A-Ha’s “Take on Me: Literal Video Version” — an ode to squiggly lines and pipe-wrench ass-kicks:

LVV vid#2 is also out, Tears for Fears’ Head Over Heels: Literal Video Version.

via WFMU’s blog.

Red Sox Nuts

The Red Sox tie it at 3-3 in the ALCS. Reminds me of 2004 and this vid about their series win, “Red Sox vs. Mastercard:”:

Interviews 50 Cents

Slate’s Interviews 50 Cents:

Two microphones, a card table, NPR’s Alex Chadwick, and intimate stories from passers-by. In this episode, Alex talks to a woman whose business lets average voters make their own political ads.

“Bad Blood” Hitchhiker- Indianapolis IN:

Archives: Interviews 50 Cents

HV032- Soapbox

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
032 Soapbox— Sampling 20th Century Political Speech
Host— Sarah Vowell of This American Life
Airdates— 10/8/2008 – 10/15/2008

Soapbox (53:00 mp3):

We hang with the mostly homeless protesters, and Scott Carrier, in “Lafayette Square” across from the White House.

“Memory Waltz” is from composer Oliver Nelson’s LP: The Kennedy Dream; A Musical Tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy., with musicians Phil Woods, Hank Jones, George Duvivier and Grady Tate.

Bonus audio: The Kennedy Dream “A Genuine Peace” (2:35 mp3):

We hear excerpts from All the Presidents’ Inaugurations:
• Calvin Coolidge— Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1925
• Franklin D. Roosevelt— First Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1933
• Harry S. Truman— Inaugural Address, Thursday, January 20, 1949
• Dwight D. Eisenhower— First Inaugural Address, Tuesday, January 20, 1953
• John F. Kennedy— Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961

And from John McCain and Barack Obama’s September 26 2008 Presidential Debate, Oxford MS.

Writer Dave Eggers helps his brother Bill run for State Representative as a Republican — blood proves thicker than politics, from This American Life.

Slam poet Taylor Mali tells us “How to Write a Political Poem” (CD: Conviction).

Host Sarah Vowell digs “The Garden for Disappointed Politicians,” from The Future Dictionary of America. Music by Jeff Arntsen of Racket Ship.

Thomas in Lafayette Square; © 1983 Scott Carrier

Audio artist Jesse Boggs choreographs a bipartisan “WMD Waltz.”

And more Presidents’ Inaugurations
• Lyndon B. Johnson— Inaugural Address, Wednesday, January 20, 1965
• Richard M. Nixon— Second Inaugural Address, Saturday, January 20, 1973
• Gerald Ford Remarks— On Taking the Oath of Office, Friday Aug. 9, 1974
• Jimmy Carter— Inaugural Address, Thursday, January 20, 1977
• Ronald Reagan— Second Inaugural Address, Monday, January 21, 1985
• George H. W. Bush— Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1989
• Bill Clinton First— Inaugural Address, Thursday, January 20, 1993
• George W. Bush— Inaugural Address, Saturday, January 20, 2001

Audio by Jesse Boggs; video by Trent Harris, “Bushisms” (the cryptomusicology of Presidential patter):

Avett Bros

Know nada about this band, ‘cept I do like this ditty. Avett Brothers, “Murder in the City” (3:12mp3):

via My Old Kentucky Blog.

GWB- My Way- rx

rx has a new video, sampling George W Bush doin’ it “My Way:”

The Great Schlep

This one definitely Not Safe For Work (NSFW), produced by an Obama-nation known as Jewish Council for Education & Research, it’s Sarah Potty-Mouth Silverman for The Great Schlep, on Vimeo (NSFW):

via WFMU’s blog.

Radio Flames

Some fuel for the McLuhan-esque debate as to whether radio’s a hot or cold medium, and a definition of “the show must go on:”

Fly Boys Fishing

The Fly Boys have a new excerpt from their fish-porn film, landing steelhead in BC:

Raising The Ghost (5 Min Cut)

HV029- Old School

Hearing Voices from NPR®
029 Old School: Back-to-School Special
Host: Katie Davis of Neighborhood Stories
Airs week of: 2012-06-06 (Originally: 2008-09-17)

Old School (53:00 mp3):

Richard Paul follows “School VP,” Asst. Principal Irasema Salcido, through her hectic multi-lingual morning at DC’s Bell Multicultural  High School.

Host Katie Davis finds she “Got Carried.”

Slam poet and  history teacher Taylor Mali schools us on “What Teachers Make” (CD: Conviction | video.)

Producer Hillary Frank gets the shy “Quiet Kids” to speak up.

Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich‘s commencement speech advises  “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen),” with music from filmmaker Baz Luhrman (CD: Something For Everybody), performed by actor Lee Perry, sung by Quindon Tarver).

Host Katie Davis takes her DC summer camp into the wild woods on a “Hike to Rock  Creek,” two blocks from where the kids  live.

And more poems: Meryn Cadell “The Sweater” Angel Food for Thought (video), Jelani “By The Numbers” Angel Food for Thought., and Taylor Mali “Seventh Grade Viking Warrior” Conviction.

Music: Jurassic 5 “Lesson 6: The Lecture” Jurassic 5 EP, Archie Moore’s “Times Table’ With Soul and a Beat” from WFMU Blog- 365 Days Project, Lanterna “Fields” Sands, Sam Cooke “Wonderful World” Greatest Hits.

Baz Luhrmann – Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)