Saturday is YouTube Day

No real theme this week except for ‘things that I’ve been listening to recently’. First up, Willie Nelson’s collaboration with Wynton Marsalis’ band, Two Men With The Blues. It’s a really interesting album, that works a lot better than I thought it would at first. Here’s “Georgia On My Mind”:



Next up is a band I had convinced myself that I didn’t like for some reason or another, but actually realized I did like once I sat down and actually listened to them. Here’s Wolf Parade’s “Kissing The Beehive”:



Finally, I couldn’t go too long without something from PJ/MMJ/The Who, so here’s Eddie Vedder and Pete Townshend performing “Heart To Hang Onto”:



There's a bit of backstory for that last one here if you're interested.

A Quick One For Christie

I promised someone I’d put something up here since there’s been so much nothing lately, so here’s something I think she’d enjoy: Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog. That link might only work until tomorrow.

No One's Ever Hacked the Internet Before

I wasn’t crazy about the recent Transformers movie, though a lot of my friends loved it. I think a lot of it had to do with the script’s relentless exploitation of every cheesy action movie cliché: the beautiful blonde who’s also the world’s foremost computer hacker, the no-nonsense soldier who doesn’t have time for some bureaucrat’s regulations, etc., etc. This parody script, imagining if Michael Bay (the director of Transformers) wrote The Dark Knight gets it pretty well, and is pretty funny to boot: