amezri | saturday; doctor who; videos; long way down

Yesterday I met up with Ben Alpi at Uncommon Grounds. Ended up chatting with him for like 3 hours about new projects and movies and other dorky, fandomy things.

Didn't really do anything useful the rest of the night, but chat with people online and poke around YouTube. Well, okay, in the morning I trimmed some of the shrubs in the yard.

It's too early to be awake on a Sunday.

rhooligan had me test out Magnetix, his online magnetic poetry thingy, a while back. He's now put up a poem by Frost and one by Poe, asking people to go and mix them up.

I've yet to watch any of series 3 Doctor Who, but the squee over "the Sound of Drums" has me really looking forward to it. There is also mention of a song that plays at the end of the episode and I've found the group's music video: Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child

That, of course, led me to some other videos on Stage 6...
+ Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
+ Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
+ Snow Patrol vs. The Police - Every Car You Chase (PartyBen mashup) [the youtube version has better audio sync]
+ Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (US version) [I heart this one] -- (UK video on YouTube)
+ Mandy Moore - Extraordinary (co-written with the Weepies)
+ S.H.E. - Boom (uhm. I guess they're jumping into hip-hop as well...)
+ Utada Hikaru - Traveling (BIZARRE vid...)
+ HY - AM11:00 (what's this? A Japanese band with an alt. rock sound? Yes please.)

Tom Welling on Special Unit 2?! WTF.......

I'd sort of put Long Way Down, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's latest bike trip, out of my mind and only just went to have a look at the BBC site. They've got a lot of video blogs up there now. Yay! According to their trip map, they're in Ethiopia now, having deviated a ways from the original route and are now in Adigrat. Looks like they're a bit past the half way point and not long before they get to the Democratic Republic of Congo :x

Blogs that have amused me this far (most available as RealPlay, WMP or text transcript):

Ewan's intro

Charley's intro

Ewan talks about their time in Scotland, riding with his brother and father.

Ewan & Charley on the Chris Moyles Show.

Ewan & Charley on the Chris Moyles show again. Ewan geeks about STAR WARS because in Tunisia he visited a Star Wars location and no one knew who he was XD

Sandstorm in Al Marj, Libya. Is... kinda funny.

Roman ruins in Bardiya, Libya. Ewan turns the cameras on Claudio and asks about editing the video blogs.

Visiting Riders for Health. Also, the Q&A portion is amusing. (Ewan: "Don't spend so much time cleaning them, spend more time riding them. Bikes were built to be ridden, not to be cleaned, OK?")