Monthly Archives: August 2008

Videos worth watching: Paris Hilton’s response & Joe Cocker with subtitles

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I just got a surprising amount of respect for Hilton, who responded this week with this spoof to an ad by John McCain’s campaign criticizing Barack Obama for being too popular, and comparing him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton:

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

And this one is just a wonderful acknowledgement of Joe Cocker’s impenetrable mumbling. Yeah, it takes a boomer to really appreciate this clip, which is from Cocker’s 1969 performance at Woodstock. But for geezers like me, it’s a hoot. I was laughing uncontrollably at work today while watching this. (Thanks to my rockcrit pal John Morthland):

“Dance Like Michael Jackson” — more Asian Americans showing they can dance

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Saw this via Angry Asian Man (a daily must-read): Young Asian Americans are proving they can dance, and not just on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew.”

This cool video is performed by FarEast Movement but created by Wong Fu Productions, a trio of Chinese Americans from UC San Diego who started making cool content online in 2003 and now run the gamut from online videos and music to t-shirts for your back.

Cool track as well as dancing — MJ’s high, lonesome “hee-hee” comes in and out like some ghostly punctuation mark on the dancing, and it’s nice to see these dancers, who probably weren’t even born when “Thriller” came out in 1983, pulling out all those old-school moves.

Garrett’s Popcorn, a Chicago treat now available at O’Hare

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A Chicago institution since 1949, Garrett Popcorn Shops make incredibly tasty cheese popcorn and incredibly crunchy-sweet caramel corn. And, they sell the two flavors as a “Mix” (the first mashup??) that’s a bagful of heaven. OK, somewhat expensive heaven, but hey, did you think the pearly gates would come cheap?
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