Who as a kid didn't like Sesame St? Trick question! There's no answer to that. Everybody loved Sesame St. I still love Sesame St, perhaps now more than ever. Their special guests just keep getting more frequent and they keep booking artists closer and closer to my heart. Here, take a closer look at some of my favourite clips:
Goo Goo Dolls! Remember way back when?
Brings back good memories! But it also reminds me of how disturbingly cute Elmo can be.
Backstreet Boys! Before the reunion!
James Blunt, with a lovely rendition of "My Triangle" (sung to the tune of "You're Beautiful")
Aha ha ha ha. "I don't want to talk about it... But I can sing about it!" Brilliant! Oh, Blunty...
Here's Feist with a self-cover of "1, 2, 3, 4"
It's like the song was specifically written to be but on Sesame St.
And OMG it's Neil Patrick Harris as the SHOE FAIRY. Well actually, I can't embed the video below because the youTube Sesame St accounts has issues with embedding, but trust me, you want to click the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaszN9ByxM
It may very well be the best link you'll ever be redirected from this blog. I'll embed the video if it's ever available for that. Mr. Harris never ceases to amaze me. So talented! And I still haven't gotten over my initial fangirl phase of Dr. Horrible.
And this one isn't musical, and it's a slightly older clip but it was one of my favourites as I scoured youTube for Sesame St's guest stars. Robert DeNiro. The man knows funny.
Hey! Look at me, I'm a cabbage! Good source of Riboflavin!
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
First Milestone
As I began to write this post, Edie plugged in the family's old hair dryer. It must have been with us for at least a decade and probably consumes a lot more energy than it should. At least, that's what I assume because the light in my room flickered as soon as I heard the dryer's fan running from behind the adjacent wall.
We watched a movie called Paris, Je t'Aime over the weekend, something I've been meaning to do for about half a year. It's a compilation of 18 short stories from different directors, set in 18 different arrondissements in Paris. The hook they used for North American posters when they screened the film was "stories of love from the city of love". It was certainly something worth seeing, even if to only compare the obviously contrasts in story-telling techniques that the directors used. Of the 18 scenes, the one I found most powerful was set in Faubourg Saint-Denis and directed by Tom Tyker. It was about a blind man reflecting his relationship with an actress, played by Natalie Portman, after receiving a cliche but tragic break up call. The way that it was narrated and filmed was just so incredibly powerful. Of course, this was only about seven minutes of the entire film. There was a great narrative about a woman in a red trench coat, an unlucky tourist in the metro and a W-T-F vampire moment with Elijah Wood strewn before and after that scene for good measure. Also, a good Feist song to wrap things all up.
Feist - La Meme Histoire (We're All in the Dance) (mp3)
In other news, Impressionable Youth Blog Favourite Two Hours Traffic have a new video for Nighthawks. Personally, I'm a little tired of this song because I listened to the intro so many times during the period that I was trying to win their contest for an iPod touch.
Also, I'd like to add a tiny blog milestone to our agenda. Impressionable Youth is now officially listed in the Elbo.ws Music Blog Aggregator. Yay! I feel like I've made a tiny step up in the world.
And with that out of the way, in the words of the blind man living in reality and in fiction somewhere in Paris, "je revisais mes examens, mes examens, mes examens..."
We watched a movie called Paris, Je t'Aime over the weekend, something I've been meaning to do for about half a year. It's a compilation of 18 short stories from different directors, set in 18 different arrondissements in Paris. The hook they used for North American posters when they screened the film was "stories of love from the city of love". It was certainly something worth seeing, even if to only compare the obviously contrasts in story-telling techniques that the directors used. Of the 18 scenes, the one I found most powerful was set in Faubourg Saint-Denis and directed by Tom Tyker. It was about a blind man reflecting his relationship with an actress, played by Natalie Portman, after receiving a cliche but tragic break up call. The way that it was narrated and filmed was just so incredibly powerful. Of course, this was only about seven minutes of the entire film. There was a great narrative about a woman in a red trench coat, an unlucky tourist in the metro and a W-T-F vampire moment with Elijah Wood strewn before and after that scene for good measure. Also, a good Feist song to wrap things all up.Feist - La Meme Histoire (We're All in the Dance) (mp3)
In other news, Impressionable Youth Blog Favourite Two Hours Traffic have a new video for Nighthawks. Personally, I'm a little tired of this song because I listened to the intro so many times during the period that I was trying to win their contest for an iPod touch.
Also, I'd like to add a tiny blog milestone to our agenda. Impressionable Youth is now officially listed in the Elbo.ws Music Blog Aggregator. Yay! I feel like I've made a tiny step up in the world.
And with that out of the way, in the words of the blind man living in reality and in fiction somewhere in Paris, "je revisais mes examens, mes examens, mes examens..."
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