Saturday, May 9, 2009

You've got red on your garden.



I've got to admit, it's good to be back, Dedicated Readers. I've got to be doing something creative to be happy, and this is a pretty good place for it.

Today's video comes to us from a PopCap game, strangely enough. It's a new one, and it's called Plants Vs. Zombies. I'm intimately familiar with this game already, as I just watched my wife play it for about 3 hours straight, which is, coincidentally, the exact amount of time it takes to actually become a zombie by playing it.

If you're familiar with PopCap games, you know them for their obsessive clickiness. That's probably how most of you ended up here in the first place. Plants Vs. Zombies delivers all the clicking you can handle, and then some. Also, a blatant Thriller ripoff, which is awesome.

But that's not the important part here.

The important part is today's video, which is phenomenally catchy, zombie-themed, and bloody hilarious. I will admit it's a little bit poppy, but it works here. You have been duly warned. Enjoy... Zombie On Your Lawn.

Then, go get the game here.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Cue the lights!



...Aaaaand I'm back. I do apologize for the long absence, dedicated readers. My wife and I moved into a new house and had no internet service for awhile. But I have returned with more arbitrary nonsense for your aural and visual pleasure.
In my absence, I've come across a fantastic musical...act, I suppose is the best word. He calls himself Girl Talk, and his modus operandi is to mix, churn, and otherwise blend samples of all kinds of different music together in a way that just...works. I can't begin to describe it without debasing the purity of what this man does. Instead, I've tracked down this handy video, which illustrates what songs he's sampling and when, along with lyrics. This is what I've been telling people for as long as I can remember: There are many styles of music that are all good for many different reasons. Girl Talk finds those reasons and puts them together in a way that can perhaps best be described as "ear candy". So, without further ridiculous fanfare (You can add your own, if you wish. I did.) I give you...Girl Talk.