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Parents’ Guide to the Movies, Video Games, and More

These days, parents have a hard time keeping track of what is good for their kids, or what their kids should avoid – if only due to the sheer amount of content that parents need to stay up with.

Did any of the parents who brought their young kids to a free concert in Central Park last week know what to expect when Green Day took the stage?  The concert was sponsored by ABC’s Good Morning America and Walgreen’s, so nothing offensive was going to happen, right?

Watching that clip, you can see the parents with their kids happily singing along to every curse word used in the song.  But I’m sure there were some families in the crowd that did not expect a TV morning show concert to contain profanity.

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Games Music Video Games

Flash Fun: Rock Band Simulator

One thing that ROCK BAND and GUITAR HERO are missing is the ability to control all the other aspects of band life:

  • Picking who is in your band (well, that’s dependent on your friends, and what if all your friends suck at Guitar Hero?)
  • Recording albums or releasing singles
  • Dealing with the recording studio
  • Working the press, managing your band’s hype
  • Are you a corporate sellout?
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An Ode to Chest Hair

And now, an ODE TO CHEST HAIR, featuring tributes to the following unwaxed and hairy:

  • Tom Hanks
  • Hugh Jackman
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Tom Selleck
  • David Hasselhoff
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Paul Rudd
  • Warren Beatty
  • Sean Connery
  • Steve Martin
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Kevin Costner
  • Charlton Heston
  • Chuck Norris
  • Elliott Gould
  • Robin Williams
  • Burt Reynolds
  • Mike Meyers (as Austin Powers)
  • Neil Diamond
  • Prince

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Music Video

Video Fun: Acoustic Versions of Outkast’s HEY YA

Mat Weddle of the band OBADIAH PARKER does an acoustic cover of Outkast’s HEY YA

Ted (Sam Lloyd) on ABC’s SCRUBS

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The Top Viral Videos of All Time…so far

Visible Measures, a company that measures online video usage, has released a report that they’ve entitled THE MOST-VIEWED VIRAL VIDEOS OF ALL TIME.

They determined that this particular listing is the first one to compile videos solely based on being viewed more than 100,000,000 times each.  Their sample size is based on 100 million different videos that appear on 150 different video sharing destinations, as opposed to just counting those videos that were viewed directly on the YouTube website.  Those “embed” tags really proved their worth here.

18 videos made the list.  Here are nine of them, including the top five most viewed videos:

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10 Things Music Video

10 Things You Don’t Know About… What Makes Coldplay, Coldplay

ColdplayA few days ago, we mentioned that during a recent 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW WITH COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MARTIN, the camera showed a list of the 10 rules that Coldplay has for staying true to themselves and being the best band they could be.

You’ve asked what the other rules are, so here they are:

  1. Albums must be no longer than 42 minutes
  2. Production must be amazing, rich, but with space, not overlayered, less tracks more quality. Groove and swing  Drums/rhythm are the most crucial thing to concentrate on; diff. between bittersweet and science of silence
  3. Computers are instruments, not recording aids.
  4. Imagery must be classic, colorful and different. Come back in glorious technicolor.
  5. Make sure videos and pictures are great before setting release date. And highly original.
  6. Always keep mystery. Not many interviews
  7. Groove and Swing.  Rhythms and sounds must always be as original as possible. Once jon has melody, twist it and weird it sonical
  8. Promo/review copies to be on vinyl. Stops copying problem, sounds and looks better.
  9. Jaqueline sabriado, ns p cc, face forward
  10. Think about what to do with charity account. Set up something small but really enabling and constructive.

If you want to see the rules in context, you may want to watch the entire interview yourself.

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Games Music shopping

Game: Guess the BMG Music Catalog CD

A while ago we posted a GUESS THE CD game, where players would have to guess the name of the CD based on the track listing that you provide.

Here’s a variation on the theme: guessing the song based on the listing provided in the BMG Music Catalog sales brochure.

You don’t remember the BMG (or Columbia House) Music Club?

<old man voice>Yeah, I remember when we had to purchase our music the old-fashioned way, through the mail.  We’d have to go through a magazine listing and select the CDs, albums, audio cassettes, or 8-track tapes that we’d like to purchase; send in a postcard with a penny taped to it; and in 4-to-6 weeks, a package would arrive containing our selections… and we’d be lucky if they got the shipment right, or if they were in original packaging instead of being labeled as “special to Columbia House”.  We didn’t have any of this new-fangled instant over the Internet-get the music instantly kind of crap.  We had to work at getting our music.  And we liked it.</old man voice>

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Music Video

Video Fun: “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Song Parodies

We Didn’t Start the Flame War

Watch We Didn’t Start the Flame War and more funny videos on CollegeHumor