Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - Tuesday, December 12th, 2007

Easy Stomach

Mmmmmmm.... nothing says Christmas like Kraft Holiday Recipes!


Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

I like this Zayre's promo with Batman and Robin:

Monday, December 10, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - Monday, December 10th, 2007

Have a Six-Million-Dollar morning:

Sunday, December 09, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Best Xmas video ever?

Saturday, December 08, 2007

At Is That Legal? Eric's having kittens over Ultravox being pompous...

Ya, but Mr-X was sooooo cool!

My complaint about Vienna was the bridge sounded too much like these guys:







(who I might add are beginning to look more and more like the systems engineers they always were - and still are so cool!)

Anyway, if you want 80s pompous, what about these guys:






(Nevermind that I loved, and still love The Blue Nile)

A lot of people thought these guys were pretensious, but I just thought they were FAB-U-LAS!





Mick Karn on the fretless bass... good lord. Check him out here years later riffing on Sons of Pioneers:



The 24 Days of YouTube - December 8th, 2007

The Thin White (very white) Duke does The Snowman

To all you naysayers who claimed it didn't happen; here is the original opening to Raymond Briggs' The Snowman with the introduction by David Bowie (looking a little too "Let's Dance" for my taste):

Friday, December 07, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - December 7th, 2007

What-the-hell, enjoy some Kinks:

Thursday, December 06, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - December 6th, 2007

Les Joyeaux Lurons



While Stephen Harper and Gilles Duceppe debate Christmas lights, Jack Layton contemple "un nasty parti, man!"

It's a Quebec thing, just deal with it:


Wednesday, December 05, 2007

The 24 days of YouTube - December 5th, 2007

Cold War Choo-choo

Lionel Trains has just the thing for your cute little war-monger. A mobile missile launcher! Take that portable WMDs!

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

The 24 days of YouTube - December 4th, 2007

A Bozo Christmas Carol.

The title says it all: this is too painful to be imagined, luckily they only give us the intro:

Monday, December 03, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - December 3rd, 2007

A Forest Rangers Christmas Special

On this very special Forest Rangers, MacLeod - channeling his best Festus - steals a pocket watch, then discovers the true meaning of the season.

(if you REALLY want to view the other parts of the episode you can You Tube them yourselves):

Sunday, December 02, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - December 2nd, 2007

This seemed appropriate given Evel's Exit. I believe I got the stunt cycle for my 12th Christmas - Pure magic:

Saturday, December 01, 2007

The 24 Days of YouTube - December 1st, 2007

First up this year is the animated version of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince. It has nothing to do with Christmas. This used to come on during the holidays in the 70s, and many remember it fondly...

but looking at it again, what a bringdown!

Enjoy:


Part I


Part II