MWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Why is this so funny?

PS22 Chorus "Jóga" by Björk

John Holt - Never Never Never

The Racoons

I used to watch this show when I was little. I forgot how awesome the theme song is!

God is Hilarious!

Mystery Brass

The Plain White T's Three Part Harmony tour has officially wrapped up, which means I'm going to have tons more time to sit around and blog all day long instead of just posting random videos I like. Not that I didn't have the time on the road, I guess I'm just bored right now. Anyway, we played a private show in Calgary, AB on this last tour, and I stopped in a pawn shop and picked up a brass instrument that I thought was a trumpet. This was on the day Michael Jackson died and if you follow De'mar, Aileen, or I on twitter you'd know that I spent the day walking the streets playing Michael Jackson songs poorly and annoying most of the city. After spending some time with my 'trumpet' I realized that it's shaped all wrong and can't be a trumpet, it must be a cornet! Sweet! Why did I think it was a trumpet? I guess it's a little on the big side, but then again maybe that's just my imagination.

On the last day of tour we played a place called Mr. Small's outside of Pittsburgh (pronounced "Pitts-bur-uh" if you're British and a snob) and I decided it would be hilarious and awesome if I went out on stage and played it during the last part of "A Lonely September" without warning Tom. I grabbed my 'cornet' and played around a little bit offstage. Everything was totally cool, the melodies I was improvising were amazing! (Okay, not amazing, but they were almost good anyway...) So I get out there, and I'm thinking to myself "Remember, the song is in A major/ F# minor, trumpet is in B flat, so you want to play in B major/G# minor", which I'm not even sure is correct now, but I'm pretty sure. So I get out there, and sweet mother of science! Is it bad!! I know I'm nowhere close to being an expert, but I can usually pull of better stuff than that! Everything was just falling apart, sour note after sour note. (Which was HILARIOUS incidentally, so mission accomplished partly.) I just ended up laughing it off and figured I need to practice more.

So today at home I'm playing with my new beat up 'cornet', and I wonder what the mouthpiece would sound like in my other cornet (also a tour buy, some music store in Flagstaff, AZ I think) and the mouthpiece doesn't fit! Hmmm, that's weird! So I pick up my other cornet, and hey, it feels a lot smaller than the other one! And lighter too! So I play a few notes on the small one, and switch back to the big one. HEY!! They're in different keys!!!! What the hell!? So then today, I scoured the expansive lands of the Internet to see if I could get some info, and what do you know! It's not a trumpet *or* a cornet! Turns out I have a 3 valve soprano bugle in the key of G! Well butter my ass and call me a biscuit! That explains why I was so out of key in Pittsburgh! Okay, it *partly* explains it, but at least now I can feel a little better about my horn playing skills.

So without further ado, and to celebrate my newly discovered 3 valve soprano bugle, here's a clip of Future Corps, a group that I learned used to play at Epcot Center until Disney let them go after a huge round of layoffs (this, as evidenced by this video, was a very bad move) playing "Bohemian Rhapsody" on all instruments in the G bugle family.

How does a train stay on the track?

You think you know, but you don't!

A Reading Rainbow

Metroid - Norfair

Beethoven symphony No.7, Op.92 : mov.2

The conductor seems a little... *off*? Either way, turn your speakers up loud (hope they're not too crappy) and enjoy this.

Maggot Brain

RAN RAN RU

Kitty Kat Shirt!

I don't know who made this, but it's pretty awesome. Not much happens, and the lyrics are a little off, but for some reason, I'm a fan.

1976 Swine Flu Propaganda

Oink

Why the music industry sucks

I don't know who put this together, but it's pretty interesting.

Check out this ad I made

Want to know what's cool? This is.

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Myron Floren playes "Tico Tico" on the Lawrence Welk Show

So, I've been playing accordion in the song 1,2,3,4 on this tour and after a show one night, one of our fans said it reminded her of the accordion player on the Lawrence Welk show. I looked it up on the ol' youtube, and I am thoroughly impressed. I have a long way to go before I start playing anything like this, but give me a break, I just started learning.

Yo check this shit out!

It's a band called "Double Wonderful", and holy shit, it is! Fuck yeah!

Shit, I should start updating this thing...

Just realized that I have been neglecting my blog. Whoops! Sorry! I do have a pretty good excuse... I didn't have internet access for 3 months... Anyway, I'm back on tour with my band. The shows have been going great, in case you were wondering. More updates to come. Maybe I'll get my camera out and snap some pictures or something.

Fun Times!

Religion!

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You've Never Seen Anything Like This Before

Maybe the U.S. auto industry wouldn't need a bailout if they still made commercials like this!

Clara Rockmore Plays The Theremin

The theremin is one of the first electronic instruments ever created, and is played without actually touching anything. Here, theremin legend Clara Rockmore plays "Le Cygne" from Le Carnaval des Animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns.