Posts tagged video
The Fine Brothers: Spoiling novels, stealing hearts
Sep 7th
Crush of the day = these boys. Nerd is teh hot. You know this.
Regard: Four minutes. 50 book spoilers. One of the most educational lunch breaks you’ll ever have:
Symbolism people, SYMBOLISM.
Now I don’t even need to read those Twilight books everybody’s been raving about.
The next time I see a group of 15-year-old girls at the mall I’m going to run right up to them and scream “OMG WASN’T IT AWESOME WHEN EDWARD CUT THAT BABY OUT OF BELLA’S STOMACH?!”
And then we’ll gab and bond until security comes to take me away, at which point the terrified youngsters will breathe a sigh of relief and dial up their mommies to let them know that the crazy lady has been apprehended…
Ahhh daydreams.
<3L
Fan Expo 2010: Nizzle nerds out [VIDEO]
Sep 1st
Hiya hooms.
Feel like watching a bunch of nerdlingers geek out over even bigger nerdlingers and related nerdcore merchandise?
I did. So I went to FanEX at the Metro Convention Centre on Sunday, despite the fact that I’d only slept a few hours and was living in a 90% un-packed house.
You know your girl isn’t going to pass up an opportunity to buy some kawaii new toys and Nintendo gear – or feel borderline stylish… even if only in comparison to obese Freddy Krueger.
Here’s the video. Enjeezy!
<3L
Tonight: Zack Taylor’s Big Celebrity Bash
Aug 27th
Hey there, hip friends.
What are you up to this evening, hmmm?
If you aren’t too repairing a bicycle or combing your righteous beardstache, I’d like to invite you to my buddy Zack Taylor’s birthday party/ webbiversary at the Roosevelt Room.
We’ll have punch, and pie, and a Spencer Pratt Pinata…
Maybe we’ll even have a Spencer Pratt.
Unfortunately, I can’t reveal exactly which celebrities will be at this event, but I will say that it’s going to be one star-studded clusterfrick of an awesome night.
They don’t call Zacky the Perez Hilton of Canada for no reason. Homeboy’s connected – and not like, Canada connected, but really connected, in an L.A. type of way.
I can safely reveal (without getting my skull chewed off by publicists and the like) that some Playboy cover models, Toronto Argonaut Cheerleaders, local entertainment reporters/ music hosts, recording artists and BLONDE BLOGGERS will be there.
Apparently, a bunch of coolbies are flying in from New York and Los Angeles too, but that’s all on the hush hush. You’ll find out who popped by the soiree tomorrow morning in newsland (or tonight, if you’re there.)
Also cool: Guest performances by Aleesia and French DJ (*swoon*) Monsieur Cedric.
Yours truly will be doing some red carpet interviews for ZackTaylor.ca and a bunch of other sponsors, so wave or punch me in the head or something if you see me. Maybe it’ll be caught on tape and go viral… We’ll both be FAMOUS!
Gratuitous promo spot:
This all pops off at 10:00 p.m. ish tonight, so get to the Roosevelt Room fashionably whenever-the-heck-you-feel-like it.
Telling people to “be there early!” is lame. I never arrive early because I’ve got better things to do than bop around an empty club.
The truly cool never wait in line anyways. I often do wait in line, but that’s only because I’m a nerd. A late-rolling, too-cool-for-school noiiiid.
And on that note, I still have nothing to wear tonight.
If I don’t find something after work today, I’ll probably just go in last year’s Halloween costume. What do you think? Too cool?
[Note: The "punch, pie and Pratt pinata" was a literary device used for comedic effect. Unless somebody is inspired by this post to bake pies and paste a flesh toned beard and crazy eyes onto a Bob the Builder pinata from the Bulk Barn, you'll be more likely to see young William Shatner in outer space than the above mentioned things.]
(sorry John)
Love,
Lauren
Bands Bands Bands & Blogosaurus Rex [viddies!]
Aug 10th
Hey.
Not in a superblogolicious mood right now, sorry.
I wish I were because there’s soooo ding much to write about, but I am le tired of writing so I crunched some videos instead. Meet our gay dinosaur mascot. We found him chilling in the closet at the loft – just sitting there all by his lonesome, not so much as a dust bunny in sight. Kind of spooky.
We named him Blogosaur.
He’s still in my purse. Is it weird that this is the second plastic dinosaur I’ve found this year, dubbed “mascot”, and carried around for a length of time? I’m pretty sure they’re both from the dollar store too.
My J-School cronies will know what I’m talking about. I still have that purple diplodocus in my room from that little science fair at NCB. What did we call him again… Anybody?
Last night, I drove from my place in Toronto to my parents’ house (my REAL home) 3.5 hours down the highway when I learned that my new computer had arrived in the mail because I seriously couldn’t wait to touch it. Also, because my apartment looks like a storage unit right now (in the process of one roomate moving out, one roomate moving in – clusterfrickland) and it’s getting really hard to breathe in there. Bad energy. Ew.
I’ve been working all day. Work work working like a busy little bee. Remotely, though – from a farm town you’ve probably never heard of in Southwestern Ontario.
Look! Above this sentence! I met Public Enemy on Saturday before they performed at Wakestock, and that was awesome. A lot of cool people have graced me with their famousness over the past couple of months, but nothing can top shaking the hand of Mr. Drayton. I don’t even want to type his stage name because I hate the way that word looks without a ‘u’ in it.
j/k.
FLAVOR FLAAAAAAAV!
Now here are some of dose derr videos I told you aboot from my Youtube channel. You should subscribe or something, if you’re into that. I’m starting to be.
PUBLIC ENEMY:
ALEXISONFIRE:
USS:
YOUR MOMMA:
Wait. No. I was going to put a slaggy lady here for comedic effect, but I’ve changed my ways.
MR. T:
Love,
ZzzZzzZzz…
cows and cows and cows and CYRIAK HARRIS.
Aug 4th
Don’t watch this if you’re high. Seriously. A lot of kids freaked out on me after I posted this on Facebook.
Woah…Cyriak Harris just blew your FRICKING MIND!!!
I had to wiki this dude after stumbling upon his website. His awesome, awesome website. According to interweb authoritahs, Harris is a freelance animator guy from England known for his surreal short web animations.
“Cyriak displays a surreal and often disturbing animation style with a distinct British theme. Many of his animations are based on Z-List celebrities, television shows and his hometown of Brighton.”
Remind me never to go to Brighton… issss what I would say if I were a square, like yer MAHM (ayoooooh!).
If Brighton is anything like this, I’m going RIGHT MEOW and I’ll live there forever and ever amen like a character in some unfortunate hippy’s epic neverending acid trip.
meweirdyoulongtime.
Oooh oooooh – and guess who has the best freaky animated gif section on his website like, ever? It’s totally CYRIAK.
Allow me to share a few of my favourites – because blondespaz insomniacs shouldn’t have all the fun.
(warning: if you HAVE been smoking the drugs, you should probably navigate away from the page at this point, lest you trip the fachk out and make me feel bad for ruining your happy.)
How’s that for the morning awesome?
One more. This one’s even better than cows and cows and cows.
<3
Timas, Diplo, Monokini: the awesome & hilarious digest for july 25th 2010
Jul 26th
Me: *grumble grumble* Can I add “lame” to the awesomehilarious post today? Just this once?
You: “No you can’t, because the whole darn thing is about maintaining a positive attitude in the face of adverrrsity or something stupid and idealistic like that. Remember?”
*sigh* Frick.
Let’s start with “hilarious” then…
- Getting slapped with a $220 towing fee + a $60 ticket after my car mysteriously disappeared from the street. Apparently, I was partially obstructing some crochety old loosah’s driveway with the nose of my car. This would have been a “c’est la vie! live and learn! at least I still have legs!” moment had I not already been towed 3 times this year and running late for work.It’s not cute, it’s not funny, it’s not blonde - this stuff is expensive and it’s holding me back from doing better things with my hard-earned cash.I normally try not to refrain from using off-colour language on my blog, but my word am I angry! BEIGE Toronto’s lame parking rules, EGGSHELL the surly tow truck driver and TAUPE this overpopulated city’s lack of spaces to park.Adding insult to injury, when I got to work and tried to park in the lot that usually charges me $10, I was asked for THIRTY because there were “lot of special event in city today” – so I drove down the road and paid 20$ instead. *grumble grumble*
From this point on it’s mostly awesome. Outside of parking woes (and some surrious sleep deprivation) life’s been pretty gravy lately:
- Friday’s TIME Festival at Sound Academy. Y’all know I love me some dubstep, right? My week was already jam-booked but I could NOT pass up a chance to see Diplo spin in my backyard so I scored some last minute tix and danced my face off until 5a.m. I made a video, too… one of my buddies grabbed the camera at some point and shot me shaking my thang (thanks MP!). Please don’t mind the falling down shorts or the sweaty blonde mop on my head.
- The Toronto Independent Music Awards were earlier that night, and that was fantastic as well. Got a chance to chat with so many sweet local bands / rappers / singers / rockstars. Still processing videos from the event for work (when I’m not at other work), but I dooo have this picture of yours truly interviewing m’boy Sean Ward – TIMA host / blogger / comic artist / vlogger extraordinaire:
- This article on the top 5 web pranks ever pulled by moot and the 4chan gang = also awesome.
- I ordered my new laptop last night
Did I go Mac or PC? All will be revealed in due time my friend, but I WILL tell you this – my new baby has been custom engineered with an i7 processor, 6 Gigs of RAM and a whole TERABYTE of storage on the HD. She looks dammmmn good too - hilarious: I’ve come close to buying this dress three times now, but after seeing no less than 5 girls rocking it around the city have decided that I just can’t do it.
As much as I adore it (and I do – so, so, so much) I just can’t stomach shelling out for something that everyone else has. I’m not one for uniforms. Jeez, you’d think Douglas Coupland could have designed more than ONE dress for his roots collection.
- awesome: The Cotton Candy T monokini by Zeugari. Actually, EVERYTHING by Zuegari. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll see me rocking one of these masterpieces at WakeStock…
Yummy. - Signing a lease for my shiny sweet apartment – FINALLY! I’ve been living in Toronto now for over 2 months – I figured it was time to put my name on a piece of paper and unpack my bags for good. The big move with all the furniture coming out of my storage locker in London goes down at the end of August. I hate moving (ie; watching my male relatives and friends move my stuff up and down stairs), but it’ll be so nice to have my entire wardrobe up here with me. And like, my bed and computer desk and stuff.
- Annnd finally, I can’t get this song out of my head which is awesome because I’m in love with it at the moment. So sassy!Hate Hate, Hate Hate Hate…
All eyes on me, I took the night…
Everything is (SO NOT) terrible
Jul 16th
I don’t know how to begin describing what I saw at the Drake Underground Monday night.
I seriously can’t think of an appropriate adjective.
“Weird” is too tame. “Awesome” is too lame. “Hilarious” is thrown around way too loosely in my everyday vocabulary to be used on something that literally made my face ache from laughing so hard for two hours straight. My cheeks are quivering just thinking about it.
I’m sure there’s a word somewhere within the English language to describe Everything is Terrible’s Quest for the Magick Crystal Tour… If not in English, then surely in Mandarin, and if not Mandarin, then SURELY in Newspeak. “doubleplusgood“, perhaps?
Whatever the most appropriate adjective is, it should most definitely be used with an emphatic “fucking” in front of it.
As promised, EIT’s new film (2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift) pretty much melted my face off just like everything else on their genius flucking website.
If you like post-postmodernist psychadellic pseudo-vintage pop culture remixes, or are a hypersatirical millenial neo-nerd who tries to use schmancy terms in big run-on sentences like me *BREATH*, you’ll love this film.
Also, if you have eyeballs you’ll love this film.
If you didn’t already know, Everything is Terrible = Seven internet monsters who scour the seven seas (but like, on land) for old VHS tapes with so-weird-it’s-pee-your-pants-hilarious stuff on them that isn’t actually supposed to be hilarious but IS hilarious – know what I mean?
Stuff like Educational Christian videos, Cat massage tutorials from the 80s, and the creepiest/BEST yoga workout video for children in the history of yoga, workout videos and children:
EIT takes said VHS tapes, digitize them and puts them online for you to watch at work while you’re supposed to be doing something less awesome.
THEN, they take these fabulous clips and re-mix them into insanely entertaining feature-length films like the one I saw on Monday night during their show at The Drake.
I think I fell legitimately in love with these monsters after seeing them do their thing in person – and by “do their thing” i mean dance around the room, make witty quips in funny voices and teach the audience about shade tippage.
Did I mention that they’re monsters from the internet? Monsters. From THE INTERNET.
(image by Ashley Macknica)
*sigh*
I used to think I was quirky and unique for loving weird shit like this. Not to sound like a hipster who gets all pissy when their favourite obscure underground band starts to get popular but like… well you know where I’m going with this.
To fetch my dinner from the microwave, that’s where – ’cause that little black tray of sodium saturated goodness certainly isn’t going to walk into my belly on its own, now is it?
yup.
Love always,
Lauren O’Gilgamesh.
MMVA Wristbands = Summer’s hottest accessory [VIDEO]
Jun 7th
In less than one week, approximately sixty four majillion super-awesome MuchMeisters will line up outside of 299 Queen Street West to score wristbands for admission to the 2010 MuchMusic video awards.
Advanced futuristic technomalollogies tell us that it will look something like this:
As an MMVA Virgin Mobile VVIP, It’s important that I am on scene to capture the melee (obvs). But, unlike mighty security folk who be on hand to keep tabs on the fiasco (assuring that it does not, in fact, turn into a fiasco at all – relatively speaking, of course. You can’t bring together eleventy zillion Bieber fans and expect the scene to be completely tame), I am but a PUNY WIMP!
If I show up at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday when the wristband giveaway begins, I won’t have a chance in H-E-Double hockey sticks of getting myself to the front of the line for some Twitpicitty goodness.
That’s why I decided to go earlier than that. WAY earlier:
Do YOU want to score a wristband?
That was a stupid question. Of course you do!
If the steady stream of “OMG LAUREN CAN YOU HOOK ME UP WITH MMVA TICKETS PLEEEEASE?” messages I’ve been fielding over the past couple of weeks have taught me anything, it’s that everybody and their sister’s boyfriend’s step cousin-in law wants to be at this event.
I don’t really blame them for asking. I mean, it’s going to be the sickest award show EVAR (well… almost ever).
Unfortunately, digital correspondents are not bearers of wristbands. If I want to get a wristband for my own mother I’ll need to bring her along with me to Much Headquarters on Saturday to wait in line for one just like everybody else. Maybe I will! She totally thinks the Biebs is a cutie (in a most NON creepy and very legal way).
Here’s what you need to know to get your own wristband so that you can be a part of the MMVA audience on June 20th:
- The MMVA wristband giveaway starts at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 12 at MuchMusic HQ : 299 Queen St. West, Toronto.
- You MUST be at least 14 years old to score one of these puppies.You WILL be asked to show ID so please don’t wait in line all night if you’re 13 years and 364 days old, unless you just want to wait in line for kicks or something. But you won’t get a wristband. On the plus side, you can still order off the kids menu at most restaurants and rock out in the ballpit at Chucky Cheese without looking like a crazylady. For this, I envy you my youthful friend…
- Like I said – you MUST BRING ID – Valid forms of identification include school photo ID with your birth certificate, driver’s license, photo health card, TTC card or passport (actual or photocopied). Basically, some form of photo ID (if it’s school ID or a TTC card, we’ll need your birth certificate too.)
- You can’t pick up a wristband for your friend, your dad, your cousin or your pet dragon. It’s one wristband per person, capiche? Once that magical ticket is on your wrist, you can’t take it off until after the MMVAs are over. You can leave it on until September if you want to, though. I probably will.
- Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Food Bank. This won’t guarantee you a wristband, but it WILL help out somebody in need and bring good karma your way
- Wristbands are free free free! Don’t try bribing the staff, ‘cause it won’t work. You can try bribing me if you want, but I can’t get you a wristband. I will, however, gladly accept your hard earned money and/or home-baked items of deliciousness in exchange for… um… a heartfelt thankyou?
- Security Staffers will be monitoring the line-up at all times – and they’re pretty tough cookies, so Moms and Dads need not worry about your kids getting mugged and stuff. I hereby declare that I will personally drop kick anybody who tries to mess with one of my fellow MuchManiacs. I’m fierce like that.
- If for some reason you can’t get a wristband (too young, too late to the lineup, too busy on June 12th), fear not! You can still come and watch the MMVAs from the street on June 20. You will most definitely be able to see the stages and you never know who might come out to sign autographs or mug for your digi-cams.
Don’t want to brave the lineup? YOUR LOSS, KITTEN! It’s going to be a good time… but there arrre other ways that you can potentially get yourself a wristband without showing up June 12th.
1. Get creative with MuchMusic and Meal Exchange to win TWO WRISTBANDS (and help change the world in the process. NBD.) All you have to do is “like” meal exchange on Facebook, and answer this question through skit, rap, song, poem – however you like to express your fabulous self: “How would you make sure that every Canadian has access to healthy food?”Full contest deets right hurr.
2. Solve the MMVA Mega Mystery! There are 6 special wristbands hidden across Canada – and these are no ordinary wristbands, my friends. If you solve the clues and are the first to locate the Mega Mystery wristband in your area, you and one very lucky friend will be partying like mother freakin’ ROCKSTARS at the MMVAs. Walking the red carpet, chillin’ with celebs in the VIP, flying to Toronto FOH FREE. Yeah. Worth the sleuthin‘, imho.
Annnd just because I have the opportunity to mention it, this commercial for the Mega Mystery contest pretty much makes my day every time I see it. Old lady ninja assasins? Um, helllllz yes. I feel like this video was made for me.
Nizzzzzle OUT!
<3 Always, btw.
VIDEO: What YOU want to see @ the 2010 MMVAs
Jun 2nd
Grrrreetings, Toigers!
In my last post I told you what I’m a-hoping to see go down at the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards. (Sparkly unicorns, flame-throwing jockstraps, surpise appearances by iconic Long Beach rappers… NBD.)
But I’m just one girl – and sort of a weird girl at that (if the jockstrap thing didn’t tip you off) – so I decided to hit the streets and find out what Y’ALL want to see from our already confirmed performers at the MMVAs this year.
If you just so happen to be one of the approximately 68 billion people in the world that I didn’t get a chance to talk to this week, fear not! You can still have your say. Leave your own MMVA wishes in the comments section of this post, or better yet – head on over to mmva.muchmusic.com and banter away to your music lovin’ heart’s content. And while you’re there, maybe you want to check out my VVIP Profile and show your girl a bit of love by clicking on some red arrows, hmmmm?
Regarddd…
<3 L
iMom: Mommy O’Nizzle gets a new gadget for mother’s day! [video]
May 12th
My mom is hilarious. Straight up. If this woman had her own TV show, I’d totally watch it… and not just because I’d probably be on it and I love to watch myself. I do love to watch myself, but not as much as I love to watch the truly hilarious. My mom = truly hilarious.
As you (should) know, mother’s day was this past Sunday.
This of course means that my mother is now one gadget closer to being a super cyborg robo mom (or at the very least a person who understands the difference between typing a term in the Google search box and the browser’s address bar.)
Saturday morning, as I was preparing to go out and search the sprawling metropolis that is Chatham-Kent for a perfect mother’s day gift, my brother (who was also home for the weekend) came bounding into the kitchen all like “HEY! Let’s get mom an iPod Touch for mother’s day!”
I was obviously down for that. My parents are about to go on a huge trip to Ireland and I figured that having a tiny little WiFi equipped device could come in handy for them while traveling.
And I just really like gadgets.
So, as soon as my Dad got home it was off to Future Shop and bing, bam, boom. iPod for Mommy.
Save for a bouquet of flowers and a card or two, our Mother’s day present was complete. Or so we thought.
Now, let me preface this by telling you that my mom is a very smart woman. She’s a Registered Nurse in ER for gosh sakes – she can do a whole bunch of crazy complicated medical stuff that I can’t even begin to describe because I know nothing about CCs and defibrillators or whatever the heck it is that brings people back to life after they conk out… but when it comes to computers, my mom is technologically-challenged to the point of hilarity.
I was almost ROFLling (literally, rolling on the floor laughing) the other day when she made a comment about how much she hates that animated gif in my side bar – you know, this hilarious image of the little old lady getting pwned:
It wasn’t the first time she expressed her distaste for this “movie”, but it was the first time she asked me why it says “Own three D”.
I had to try to explain “Pwnage” to my mother, which proved to be quite a difficult task…
Thinking back on it now, I’d actually be pretty disturbed if my mom – or anybody’s mom – or anybody over 50 knew what “pwned” meant without having to Google it.
Sometimes, I take my own nerdy knowledge base for granted.
Anyways, Sunday morning after we did the mother’s day brunch thang we busted it out – Mom’s brand new iPod touch! Would she love it? Would she hate it? Would she even know what the heck it is?
She loved it, of course. She was so excited, in fact, that she spent most of the afternoon transferring CDs into her iTunes library and downloading nifty apps getting my brother to download nifty apps for her.
She was trying to find Kanye West’s “Streetlights” (a song she heard coming from one our rooms or cars or something at one point) when I made this video.
Unfortunately, I started the camera a little late and missed a lot of gold. Nonetheless, behold – my mom playing with her new toy:
Note: My mother is actually a lot more tech-savvy than she appears in this video. She emails, prints directions, looks up recipes, follows me (and only me) on Twitter, and is a bona fide Priceline guru. Seriously. I haven’t paid full price for a hotel room in years.
Note 2: My mom gave me full (though slightly hesitant) consent to post that video to youtube. Where do you think I inherited my sense of humour from?
Happy mother’s day to the best mom EVAR.!
Have a blast in Ireland and remember -we love you (and Leprechauns, so bring some home – k?)
