I could swear I featured this video in Friday Videos ages ago, but I can’t find it in the archive. Maybe I talked about it on Twitter or something. (Note: I don’t deadname anyone except Twitter.) I swear my brain is more foggy soup than usual (I mean, I know why but OOF) and maybe it’s started making things up, too? I mean, why not. Maybe it’s reverse manifesting. Anyway, this is South African group … Continue reading Friday Videos Love Freshly Ground→
This movie imprinted on me HARD. In 1990, I was 15. Pump Up the Volume blew my teenage mind. You could just…make up a radio show? (Well, at the time, no, the FCC got a little tetchy about it.) You could just…start talking? And see who connected with you? We didn’t have so much internet back then. AOL didn’t become AOL until 1991. The internet existed, but it was in limited use with limited access. I … Continue reading Friday Videos Pump Up the Volume→
Alas, Bonnie Tyler passed away this week at the age of 75. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was one of my first favorite songs as an adolescent. It was so much. This was back when I had to hope the radio would play the song you loved while I was listening, and before the days where maybe I could record it (badly) on a cassette. Or you bought the whole album, but it was 1983. I … Continue reading Friday Videos Bid Farewell to Bonnie Tyler→
So there are some parties happening this weekend. I’m sort of “meh” about them. I haven’t been a big rah-rah fan of July 4 for several years (since…2016 maybe? Wonder why?) and for several years it was a very stressful holiday for my dogs, and therefore for us. Our solution for our dogs, if you need help: a Bluetooth speaker turned up very loud playing brown noise (the worst name for a pretty good sleeping … Continue reading Friday Videos Wish You a Peaceful Weekend→
Happy First Friday of Summer! Or, if you’re in the souther hemisphere, Happy Winter and Cozy Season! It’s either blankets or bug spray, your choice. I hope you have lovely plans ahead of you, and lots of pleasant weather to enjoy, regardless of season. I have no sense of time whatsoever. The passage of time is meaningless (5 minutes? 5 hours? Couldn’t tell you) and the existence of time as a concept is an eternal … Continue reading Friday Videos Love Covers→
Today on Friday Videos, we’re celebrating a program that should still be on the air, except that we don’t have music videos anymore, so maybe not. Remember Pop Up Video from VH1? I sure do. I could watch for hours. I love behind the scenes stuff. Like, SO much. So here are a few faves: “You Gotta Be” by Des-ree: The sign language interpretation of the dance moves. Who wrote these? There are a few … Continue reading Friday Videos Pop Up!→
This week with Friday Videos, we’re celebrating one of the greatest parody artists of my lifetime: Mr. Weird Al. I think Adam knows every Weird Al song, and his music is part of every road trip. And it’s wild to think about Weird Al’s longevity as an artist, too. He’s been popular and creating comedy music since the mid-70s. So I figured this week, I’d share some of my faves. “Foil” – if you don’t … Continue reading Friday Videos Love Parody→
As spoken by the elders, one should always trust those who like big butts, for they cannot lie. And truthfulness is as honorable as having a big back porch, as my college friend would say. I freaking love the edit compilations of a zillion different properties or media clips assembled to form something else. Sometimes it’s a supercut of one person’s speeches and sometimes it’s so many disparate sources I’m dizzy by the end. This … Continue reading Friday Videos Love Big Butts→
TW/CW: Margaret Thatcher. I first heard this in the 90s, on a cassette someone had recorded from the radio (remember that?) and then heard it years later online, when online was kinda new. This song was allegedly by Krasswerk, but according to a comment from 13 years ago, “This song was created in Shoreditch in London by a friend of mine called Pete. He released it under the name of Very Important Music and it … Continue reading Friday Videos Love Rave, Rave, Rave, and Murder→
Web cams aren’t technically videos so much as they are live streams, but I love them and wanted to share a few of my favorites. Also: did you know the first live stream cam was about coffee? The first webcam was the Trojan Room coffee pot at the University of Cambridge computer lab in the UK, and was created in 1991. 1991! The camera was set up purely to monitor the amount inside the coffee … Continue reading Friday Videos Love Visiting the Animals→
So, wanna hear something a little embarrassing? I have been Chroniquelly Onlinne since forever, but there were some mysteries that to me seemed like magic. Like Photoshop. To be honest, Photoshop remains a bit of a mystery to me, and the skills I do have with it probably amount to .00001% of its capabilities. So when I first saw this video ages and ages ago (2001??! 25 years?) I could not believe how road signs … Continue reading Friday Videos Say Make Your Time→
