The title track from J-BiRD the Straybird's Twilight Campaign, one of many spoken word albums I own, but the only one I find myself listening to repeatedly: [audio:http://www.pardisparker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/J-BiRD-the-Straybird-Twilight-Campaign.mp3] The man's got a gift. Read more »

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M∆DE IN HEIGHTS, a collaboration between Sabzi, of Common Market and Blue Scholars fame, and Kelsey Bulkin: M∆DE IN HEIGHTS by M∆DE IN HEIGHTS So. So. Good. Read more »

Surely there's a quote somewhere about how it's the difficult things that are worth doing... Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) defending PBS funding at a Senate hearing in 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q Read more »

I present to you a Lego stop-motion video of Michael Jackson, created by Berlin-based animator Annette Jung: http://vimeo.com/60169112 Read more »

So good that I was applauding as I watched it, even though I was watching it alone on my laptop. The music video for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' Can't Hold Us, written by Ben Haggerty, Ryan Lewis, and Tricia Davis, directed by Ryan Lewis, Jason Koenig, and Jon Jon Augustavo, and ... Read more »

...and Koopas. This is the trailer for 140, an upcoming side-scrolling "rhythmic" game with constantly changing landscapes that alter as each level's overlaid techno soundtrack hits its major percussive beats, requiring players to time their movement and jumps with the rhythm to stay alive: http://vimeo.com/59001919 Read more »

We can make that happen, right? Right? The saxophone player who runs over is apparently a guy named Sapphire Adizes, and he may or may not be a real person, but it doesn't matter, does it? The video's still awesome either way, isn't it? And regardless of whether this is some ... Read more »

The latest episode from the good folks at The Perennial Plate finds their culinary adventurers in my homeland, Sri Lanka: http://vimeo.com/60752284 There are so many aspects of this footage that I'm in love with. The people, the ocean, the animals, the markets, the sun, the villages - all of those things really ... Read more »

You could argue that the outfit isn't necessary, but you can't deny that this guy is a game-changer in the tambourine world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LxS3ScFwrc Read more »