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Minnesota Gurls

So Katy Perry has a song on the radio that I have heard a few time called “California Gurls”.  The song is kinda meh, but there seems to be a lot of pretty funny parody songs popping up on YouTube.  Since I am from Minnesota here is “Minnesota Gurls”:

And now that I am living just across the river in North Dakota here is “North Dakota Bois”:

I haven’t looked, but I am willing to bet there are Parodies for every state.

Palmdale’s “Happiness Has A Half-Life” Video

First of May

Since it’s May 1st, it’s time for some Jonathan Coulton. It’s NSFW, but such a great song.

Palmdale’s Video for Here Comes the Summer

I was a huge Letters to Cleo fan in the 90s, and have loved Kay Hanley’s solo stuff since. Recently she has formed a new band with Linus of Hollywood, who himself put out one great album in the 90s with his band Size 14. Kay and Linus are now known as Palmdale. They just recently released a digital EP titled Get Wasted. Here is their video for their first singel “Here Comes the Summer”. I love it.

Jimmy Fallon Making Fun Of Billy Ray Cyrus Making Fun Of Miley Cyrus For Quitting Twitter

So I barely know who Miley Cyrus is, but I watched her stupid little rap about her quitting Twitter. The other night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Fallon dressed up like Billy Ray Cyrus and made his own rap video. It’s hilarious. I have always loved Jimmy Fallon. He’s pretty damn funny.

Green Day

Nirvana’s album Nevermind changed my life. That one album single-handedly got me listening to tons of amazing lesser known bands. One of those bands was Green Day. Back in 1992 I picked up Kerplunk and was blown away. How could an album this good not get any radio play. That’s when I gave up on the radio. Since that Green Day album was so great I started listening to other bands on Lookout! Records. Screeching Weasel, The Queers, Squirtgun, and Mr. T Experience all suddenly became my favorite bands. Then I got into bands on Epitaph, and Fat Wreck Chords. Such great music, yet mostly unheard of.

I never got a chance to see Nirvana live, but I did see Green Day back in 2002. It was one of the best concerts I have ever seen, but it lacked anything from Kerplunk. Tonight Green Day is playing in Fargo. I can’t wait to see them, and will be hoping for some music off of Kerplunk, but I doubt they will play any of it. They have so many great songs, and most people probably don’t know much from Kerplunk.

I have checked their setlists and they do vary a little from concert to concert, but no Kerplunk songs. I am still hoping they play some “Christie Road” though. It’s one of my all time favorite Green Day songs.

I know they aren’t going to play anything older than Kerplunk, but how awesome would it be if they played “Paper Lanterns”?

Or maybe “80″?

Or even “Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?”.

I am sure the concert will be great, but I kind of wish I would have seen them back in ‘92 or ‘93 to see them play my favorite songs.

Dinosaur Jr. “Over It”

I was a huge Dinosaur Jr. fan in the early 90s, but wasn’t much of a fan of their last album they released in 2007. I just watched the video for their new song, “Over It”, that is off their new album coming out next Tuesday. I really liked the new song. It sounds like the old Dinosaur Jr. that I use to know and love, just with more gray hairs now. Here’s the video. It brought me right back in 1993.

“Weird Al” Yankovic “Craigslist”

I have been a “Weird Al” Yankovic fan since first hearing “Eat It” in forth grade. I have pretty much liked everything he had done since. I’m not a big fan of his latest song “Craigslist” though, but it’s not his fault. It’s a parody of the Doors, and I can’t stand the Doors. I can’t get over the crappy sound of the Doors to like the song. It’s a pretty cool video directed by Liam Lynch though.

Straight Outta Fosston

While I’m not from Fosston, I have driven through Fosston and do know people from Fosston, so I thought this was rather funny. Anybody from a small northern Minnesota town would probably get a kick out of this video too.

Sing It Loud

Sing it loud are an up and coming Minneapolis band. I have seem them, and they put on a pretty good show. Here they are doing an acoustic version of one of my favorite Jimmy Eat World songs.

First

This is the best video that I have seen in a long time.

Origin of the Easter Bunny

Spraying Hot Water in Cold Weather

I should have tried this yesterday.

It would be cool to see water instantly freeze, but frankly, I didn’t want to spend much time outside yesterday. Today it’s been warming up all day. It has warmed up to -9ºF already. I am not sure how cold it has to be for that trick to work. Maybe I should try it today?

Smell Ya Later 2008

This is a pretty cool year in review video.

Tumbledown “Lonesome”

I have yet another new music video to share with you. This time it’s the only “Country” band that I like, if you can call it country. They do, but I’m not so sure about that. It’s Tumbledown, the country side project of Mike Herrera from MXPX.