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#2 & #3 TV SHOW BUDDIES
In case you weren't aware, Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) star on the NBC show Community. About halfway through the first season the unlikely twosome started doing these little bits as the credits rolled, essentially short movies in no way related to the plot. I couldn't even begin to describe how great they are, so you better watch for yourself.
You can only truly appreciate that rap if you took Spanish 1 in high school. If you want more from them, it almost caused me physical pain to leave out this spot-on Sesame Street impression.
My second favorite TV Show Buddy pairing is provided by Dule Hill and James Roday of USA's Psych. Great show. In this video, Roday shows off his hilarious talent at making up nicknames for his fellow detective Gus (Hill). Every single one of these is purely improv, true story.
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#1 AWESOME MUSICIANS
My music view in a nutshell: Good music is music that makes you love life and everything beautiful about it, even the bad parts. If Alternative-Folk-Opera makes you feel that way, then it's good music. Don't believe for a second otherwise. Anyway, here's music that makes me feel great. Hopefully we can find a song or two to agree upon.
1. Want a reason to like Glee? Check out Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Matthew Morrison going all out in a mind-blowing cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On". Bet you didn't know Doogie Howser M.D. could sing like that. For the full song in HD, click here.
2. Some more love for Glee. Why not? Here's a cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" with a ridiculously good mash-up of Usher's "Confessions Pt. 2" and Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" to boot.
3. I love this man--Ben Gibbard (seen to the right with his impossibly adorable wife Zooey Deschanel), lead singer of The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie, my #1 and #2 favorite bands of all time. Got to see him in concert and I can assure you he is just as good live as he is in a studio. Here's a beautiful sampling from The Postal Service, a duet with Jenny Lewis, "Nothing Better". (Note: The music video was made by grad students at Chico State, not the band itself)
4. Three more songs for the road. First up is a surprisingly mainstream offering from MIA in "Paper Planes". Then Rage Against The Machine has a very mellow, calm, and...HAHA oh that was rich, nah they're really angry but "Testify" is a great song anyway. To wrap it up we have Sum 41 with "Pieces," my favorite song of all time, bar none. The music video rocks too. Listen to the lyrics and then watch carefully at 3:03, where the true moral of the song is revealed in perfect fashion.
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DONE! :)
