It's fun to stay in the D-P-R-K!!!

I'm reading about one man's trip to North Korea as part of his Axis of Evil Tour *pops*, and he mentions seeing the Arirang performance, which involves 50,000 people or more acting in concert to create complex pictures out of little colored paper cards, all for the benefit of the other 50,000 or so on the other side of the stadium.

This is probably as close as we'll ever get in our lifetime to tens of thousands of North Koreans dancing to the Village People's Y-M-C-A.

Minus the disco beat.
But plus really cool costumes.

Here, see for yourself:

Feist on Sesame Street

The original Feist video for 1,2,3,4 was filmed in one shot, no edits. So is this Sesame Street video, which, if you think about it, is terribly impressive.

First, Feist singing 1,2,3,4 (a spiffy song by a talented artist, btw):




Then, Feist singing on Sesame Street:

Some People Call Me A Space Cowboy

Because Steve Miller is awesome, that's why.

Our Last Video (well, not mine, of course...)

ABBA is famous for lots of things, one of which is that they never reunited to tour or record after they broke up in 1982, leaving lots of sad fans.

People in the US may not know that they did get back together to make one last video, though.

The following video was shown as part of the Eurovision telecast in 2004. Eurovision, a European song contest, broadcast continent-wide every year, was won by ABBA in 1974.
30 years later, they made this appearance.
Enjoy!

28 Favorite Songs

Why 28? Why not.

in almost no order:
01. Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me
02. Grover Washington, Jr - Just the Two of Us
03. Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You
04. The Dead Milk Men - Punk Rock Girl
05. Frank Sinatra - The Way You Look Tonight
06. The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma
07. The Smiths - Shoplifters of the World Unite
08. Steve Forbert - Romeo's Tune
09. Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
10. Kinks - Lola
11. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
12. Steely Dan - Do It Again
13. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
14. They Might Be Giants - The Sun Is A Mass (Of Incandescent Gas)
15. REM - Shiny Happy People
16. Blondie - The Tide Is High
17. ELO - Telephone Line
19. Poco - Crazy Love
20. Elvis Costello - Every Day I Write The Book
21. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
22. REM - Stand
23. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
24. Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
25. Badfinger - Come And Get It
26. Tubes - She's A Beauty
27. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
28. Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me

My favorite-favorite: