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There are a lot of, um, strong opinions about Seinfeld at MeFi. To those let us add criticism of the goofy iMovie title card animation, the horrific sound design, but also the cosmic brilliance of these Seinfeld excerpts dubbed in Yiddish (5x SLVimeo).
posted by yiftach at 11:46 PM PST - 32 comments

I hear people complain daily that there just aren't enough mashups of the Space Jam theme song with stuff like video game music or TV show themes. To that I say, I have just the thing for you.
posted by DoctorFedora at 10:15 PM PST - 26 comments

Jerry Seinfeld gave the best/worst/most honest/cynical acceptance speech ever as he received an Honorary Clio Award (that's "the world’s most recognized international awards competition for advertising, design, digital and communications"), and got cheers from a crowd of modern-day Mad Men when he said "I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy."
full transcript here
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:28 PM PST - 100 comments

Young man loves his mother. A lot. (slyt)
posted by dancestoblue at 8:37 PM PST - 43 comments

"When critics and journalists discuss John Darnielle’s new, first full-length novel, Wolf in White Van, which was just nominated for a National Book Award, they often point out the storytelling aspect of his songwriting. But Mountain Goats songs are as much incantation as narrative—they imply the advent of the trauma with declarations and appeals to dead gods, which deny it or try (futilely) to ward it off." Carl Wilson reviews the novel--about the inventor of a role-playing by mail game with a cult following--in depth on Slate. Listen to the first chapter read by Darnielle here. Autoplay
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:58 PM PST - 20 comments

Tony Zhou answers the question: "What does David Fincher not do?" (previously), (previouser)
posted by octothorpe at 6:10 PM PST - 42 comments

Music historian/nerd Neil Transpontine's blog "History is made at night" covers the "politics of dancing and musicking" -- from the riots at Lou Reed's concerts in Italy in 1975, demonstrations against the "anti-rave" Criminal Justice & Public Order Act of 1994 (UK) to present-day protests in New Orleans against a proposed noise ordinance. [more inside]
posted by spamandkimchi at 5:03 PM PST - 7 comments

Birding Family Circus
posted by hydrophonic at 10:10 AM PST - 54 comments

A short portrait of Alex Zanardi, Formula 1 driver turned Paralympian hand bike world champion. [SLVimeo] [more inside]
posted by ellieBOA at 2:41 AM PST - 13 comments