Quiet on the Radio #004

March 3rd, 2010

Quiet on the Radio is a potluck of mentionable items from my story. I group them together, not because they aren’t important enough for their own post. But because if I wait for the right amount of time the urge to divulge will pass.

The Mama Papa

There is a new Plants and Animals video. It’s quirky and française and I love it.

The Mama Papa by Plants and Animals from Secret City Records on Vimeo.

VideoFACT dollars hard at work. I am eagerly awaiting this new album. La La Land will drops April 20. You can hear another track, “Tom Cruise” here.

Plug a plug

Dan wrote a very nice piece congratulating Julie and my upcoming nuptuals. He also echoes my discoveries about how unpopular marriage is among the kids these days.

The funny little technicality that I would add is that not only are we having a short engagement, we had just celebrated one year of knowing each other the week before I proposed.

A mentor of mine commented in an email, “Man you don’t waste time. When did you meet this girl?”

To which I had to point out that my parents met and married within the timeframe Julie and I took to meet and get engaged. Needless to say, they aren’t concerned

Dan and I have yet to meet in person. We’ve been passing bits online for nearly a year now. He is a fellow musician and RSS junkie with exceptional taste. I’ve been able to cut way down on my feeds but still daily find interesting links through his feed. His Facebook Hiatus has challenged me to reconsider the value I receive from that service. I’ll write more on that to come. Maybe.

You Should Have Seen This

Greg Rutter has written a great list of ridiculous Internet memes. I quite like the simple design of the site, and depending on your cache clearing habits, items that you have already visited will be grayed out. Part 1 and Part 2

Warning: this will suck you in for a long time.

Wedding Dresses

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Rube Goldberg Machines Too Shall Pass

Ok Go must have won a battle with their label about making their videos embedable. I’ve always been a huge fan of Rube Goldberg machines. Especially smashy ones. This video is certainly one of the greatest I’ve ever seen. A nice evolution for Ok Go’s string of single-continuous shot videos.

Update: Here is a link to a behind the scenes, “How they did it” of the video.

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