Wow, am I crispy fried some bad sleep. I am so damn tired of this shit.

Anyhow, let’s watch some video!

First off, a neat little video project someone did called Hey you! What song you listenin’ to?

The premise is nice and simple. Grab your video camera and pick a busy street and wait for the hundreds of people who will undoubtedly walk by listening to the iPod and other MP3 players, and just ask them what song they are listening to.

and while it kind of lacks structure or thesis or, let’s face it, a point, it’s still a pretty cool little random sampling of what people on the street are listening to these days. I often have the urge to ask people that very question when I see them wrapped in their own private audio world myself. Back in the eighties, when dinosaurs in parachute pants roamed the Earth and we are all ruled by a mighty purple Prince, my Walkman and I were inseparable, so I can totally understand why the MP3 player is so popular.

I just don’t have one myself, because honestly, most of the time I am either home or with friends, so when would I listen to the darn thing? I don’t have a walk to and from school to endure any more!

The one that really surprised me was the Frank Sinatra lady. Old Blue Eyes forever!

Next up, a way for women with impressive endowments to finally get (or at least simulate) respect!

Finally, a way for women to get men to look in the general direction of their brains!

Of course, it might just make you self-conscious about how your brain looks. Vanity is fickle.

It’s a cute premise and quite well executed. I especially like it because all the lovely ladies involved seem to genuinely be having fun making this video, and that is quite infectious. One normally doesn’t get to see women so lovely doing something so patently silly, so it’s quite refreshing. And I am sure that for the ladies involved, it was quite liberating. Freedom from trying to impress everyone all the time! WHEE!

Of course, being a long time (if sporadic) fan of Saturday Night Live, I can’t help but think of the classic skit about the Women With Eyes On Their Breasts.

I’d link it, but it just ain’t out there. Damned NBC lawyers.

In it, aliens appear before a Senate committee who are the aforementioned women who have eyes on the their breasts. The explanation is that over time, women’s eyes migrated to the spot where men would be looking anyhow, and thus, men would finally be looking them in the eyes.

The ladies show up to offer humanity the benefits of their vastly advanced technology and offer to answer all the (all male) committee’s questions, but all the men can think about is questions about what it’s like to have eyes on your breasts.

The women eventually become so offended and annoyed that they leave and take their technology and wisdom with them, so it’s a little bit painful of a skit. But still, clever and funny.

Next up, we have the amazing people at Playing for Change doing an extremely soulful and elegant version of the Rolling Stones tune, Gimmie Shelter.

I love the way the Internet and other computer based revolutions in technology are being used for such feel-good and uplifting art. Through the magic of the Internet, people all over the world can jam together on a song and never een be int he same time zone.

And I like their version of the song quite a bit. I have never been that big a fan of the Rolling Stones’ original version. It always just seemed like a generic Stones tune to me, but this arrangement of it is quite good.

Makes me ponder going back to listen to the original again.

Plus, I used to think the bridge to the chorus was “it’s just a shadowplay”, but now it seems like it’s “it’s just a shout away”. Thanks a lot for that English public school diction there, Mick!

Well that’s all I have for you today. Tune in tomorrow, when I might actuallyh have something substative to say, instead of just a bunch of links plus my own unfocused commentary.

It all depends on where I am in my sleep need. Hopefully I will be in better touch with reality by then.