Tuesday

I've heard most of the rest of the album now, and after hearing how great this album is, I can't understand why Van Halen chose "Tattoo" as their leadoff single. Practically every other song on the album is a better song. Anyways. Fun month here for a long-suffering Van Halen fan like me. First new album in 14 years on Tuesday, and the first with David Lee Roth since 1984!

Breaking Bad highlight reel

DO NOT watch this if you've never watched the series and plan to. There's spoilers galore. But if you do watch the series, you'll love this.

My new obsession

Somebody brought these into the office. Yum.

The Allen Fieldhouse Experience

This is a nice professionally-shot video of a gameday at KU's Allen Fieldhouse. I could be wrong but I think an old friend of mine here in KC was involved in filming this since I caught a quick glimpse of him in the video as a cameraman.

Van Halen-Stay Frosty preview

Now this is more like it! THIS should have been the leadoff single! Sounds like "Ice Cream Man" a little. I can't wait to hear how this song goes when I get to hear the full electric guitar! What a tease!

Van Halen-Blood and Fire preview

I hated this the first time I heard it this afternoon. It's an old Eddie Van Halen instrumental from 1985 I've had forever with Dave singing over top.

However, upon further listens, I kind of dig it, but the chorus is still kind of weak. Regardless, I like it better than "Tattoo." Sounds a lot like "5150" in the guitar work.

Star Wars Uncut

Back in April 2010 I posted about this fan film, and now it's finished and online for all to see. Basically Star Wars was divided up into 15-second segments and fans remade their clip any way they desired, from animation to babies in costumes. It's so fun to watch the finished show.

Real life Beavis & Butthead

This made the rounds a couple of days ago but I had to make sure it got on here because I love it. Sooooo creepy. Link

Marc Martel, Freddie Mercury doppelganger

Been meaning to post this for weeks now. Marc is the lead singer of the band "Downhere," a Canadian band based out of Nashville (Ashley and I are friends with the drummer who went to our church). We saw Downhere before Christmas in KC and while I was at the show I couldn't help but notice how much Marc Martel sounded like the late great Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

Well, funnily enough Martel had been in a competition called "The Queen Extravaganza" where the surviving members of Queen were trying to find look-alikes and sound-alikes to mount a 2012 summer tour. Martel posted his audition to YouTube and freaked people out by how uncanny the resemblance was--to the tune of more then 5 million views.

A week after we saw Downhere play, Martel won the Queen competition. He'll be traveling the country as "Freddie Mercury" this summer. I think we'll probably try to go see the show. Cool stuff!

TRob dunk

That was an all-time highlight reel-worthy dunk. It was one of those where I laughed out loud when I saw it because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. So awesome!

Tremendous blowout win over #3 Baylor tonight. It's always great being a Jayhawk!

Update: same dunk, front view:

Van Halen's "Tattoo"

Van Halen - Tattoo from Van Halen on Vimeo.

Man. Pretty disappointed. Sounds like 20-year-old David Lee Roth solo stuff, made for adult contemporary radio. The video is terrible too.

I hope they saved the rockers for the rest of the album. I'll still go to the concert though.

EJ's full-court basket

KU guys seem to do this all the time.

Van Halen billboard New Year's Eve

Van Halen is actually doing something. This still blows my mind.

VAN HALEN IS BACK!

About time!! Man it's been hard being a VH fan these last 15 years or so. Yes!!!!!!

I wonder if this below is the new album's cover?

Death Buy Lemonade

This is cute.

Going to the Store

Hilarious.

Heh

Walt Disney by Jon Favreau

Really enjoyed this essay.

Damiennifer

Animation stuff

I'm catching up on over a year of posts on CartoonBrew.com--I kind of took a break from looking at industry sites for the last year or so. Got too busy to care. Here's some of the cool stuff I found so far.