Month: April 2004

Opening session @ BloggerCon

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 17, 2004
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Here’s Dave Winer, hosting the opening session…

“Okay, who owns this accordion? Anyone? Anyone?”

I’m currently sitting in the front row of Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School, where the opening session of BloggerCon 2 is taking place as I write this. I’ll post updates throughout the day, as the place is soaking in WiFi and interesting people.

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Condolences for Weird Al

I heard via Boing Boing that “Weird Al” Yankovic’s parents died from

carbon monoxide poisoning in their sleep on April 9th. Having recently

dealt the possibility of losing a parent, I have a faint idea of the

pain he must be feeling right now.

In spite of this, he says that he’s not cancelling any of his tour

dates (he is taking some time for himself by cancelling all interviews

and other PR-related activites). He’s also encouraging people to buy

carbon monoxide detectors for their houses.

From one accordion player/parodist to another, my heart goes out to you, Al.

Be sure to read Weird Al’s message to his fans.

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And you thought my accordion technique was ridiculous

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 14, 2004
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“Come home with me! I’ll give you…THREE DOLLARS…”

[ via del.icio.us, which I really need to use more often ] How to use a hand puppet to meet, attract, and date tons of single women. Here’s the relevant snippet:

Let me explain – Well, I’ve got a friend that uses what I call, “The

Puppet Method” to meet single women in nightclubs. Here’s how he does

it:

First, you will need a hand puppet. You can buy them at your major toy stores such as Toys R Us.
Bring your hand puppet with you to a nightclub where there are lots of single ladies.
When you see a girl that you’re attracted to, approach her and tap her

on the shoulder lightly with your puppet and when she turns around

raise your hand puppet towards her face and say something like this

with your puppet, “Hi beautiful, would you like to dance with me?” Move

your puppet up and down with your hand as you are saying your script

just as if the puppet was really talking. And be sure to talk in a real

silly voice.
What happens next? She’s going to die laughing and think that you are

so funny. Plus, you will make a very favorable impression on her

because women love a guy with a sense of humor. And, of course, she

will most likely dance with you.

I know this method of meeting single women seems a little silly, but

try it. It works like a charm for my friend and it can work for you

too.

I’ll bet this could be turned into a decent social experiment / paying newspaper article. Hmm…

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Music

I’ll bet you didn’t know that the theme to Hawaii 5-0 had lyrics

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 14, 2004
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[via Circadian Shift ] Bubblegum Machine posts 2 MP3s a week, and their criteria are: “If it’s ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it’s in. If it features hand

claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews,

sha-la-las, toothy teen idols or candy-based metaphors for carnal acts,

it’s in.”

Tom Jones singing Ring of Fire? Yes, please! [3 MB MP3 download]

Ever wondered what the theme from Hawaii 5-0 would sound like if it had lyrics and Sammy Davis Jr. sang it? Wonder no more [2MB MP3 download].

Ever been working on a project on your computer and were so deep into

the “flow” that you forgot to save your work? Then been hit by a power

outage or system error forcing you to reboot? Then you know what Macarthur Park [7MB MP3 download] — the unexplainable and overwrought pop hit sunch by Richard Harris in his overly eeee-loooo-seeeee-dated style — is all about:

Macarthur’s Park is melting in the dark

All that sweet cream icing flooooowing doooooown

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don’t think that I can take it

Because it took so long to bake it

And I’ll never have the recipe agaaaaaaaaaaaaain!

Forget the Donna Summer version; this is the real deal, baby!

There are 74 weeks’ worth of MP3s on the site. Download, and enjoy the pure pop cheesiness!

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…Like a Polaroid pic-CHAH!

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 13, 2004
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Tomorrow night is the monthly Kickass Karaoke at the Bovine Sex Club. Carson’s got some new CDs that don’t yet appear in the master list — included are The Darkness’ I Believe in a Thing Called Love, the White Stripes’ The Hardest Button to Button and Outkast’s Hey Ya, which Wil and I tried out last Sunday with him on lead vocals and me on accordion, chorus and yelling “Ice! Cold!” in response to “What’s cooler than cool?!”