Don Melton Tumbles

• 2011-08-09

  “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on two cellos. Interesting cover of Cobain and Novoselic but they really needed Grohl to sit in on drums.

  Via Neatorama.

• 2011-08-04

  Visual effects created for “Game of Thrones.” What? You mean the dragons were CGI too!? Awww…

  Via Neatorama.

• 2011-05-29

  “Straight Razor.” About the traditions. About real barbershops. Yep. And shaving a man’s head clean like a billiard ball.

  Via Neatorama.

• 2011-05-27

  Speaking of Fireball XL5, here’s Don Spencer singing the theme song during the closing credits. A wonderful little pop tune. Just gets completely stuck in your head too. Dammit.

  Turns out Spencer is still around after that 1962 chart topper. Yep. He’s now Russell Crowe’s father-in-law.

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  In which a cat has a blog

  It’s still more interesting than my blog. And probably better than my Twitter stream too. Sad.

• 2011-05-26

  “Floating Chicago.” A mirrored skyline turning skyscrapers into what look like ’60s era matinee space ships. Reminds of something from Fireball XL5 or Thunderbirds.

  Via Andrew Sullivan.

• 2011-05-25

  Thanks to How to Carve Roast Unicorn, I now have “Ooh La La” by Goldfrapp stuck in my head. Oh great.

  Sadly, it’s my first exposure to them. I know they’re supposed to be an Electronic music band, but this performance really has the sound and look of Glam rock from the ’70s. Or maybe that’s just me being old.

• 2011-05-23

  “El Cielo de Canarias”
  
  Scenes from Tenerife, the largest and most populous of the seven Canary Islands. Daniel López, based there, uses time-lapse photography to capture the skies above and eerie, wave-like clouds below. Beautifully matched to Matti Paalanen’s music.

  And no, I’d never heard of either of these guys before I saw this.

  Via Andrew Sullivan.

• 2011-05-22

  Look who’s back

  It’s been over a year but I thought, what the Hell, I might as well bang on the side of this blog to see what falls out. And, for starters, apparently that’s a different theme. With the old Disqus comments disabled (for now) while I figure out how this new “replies” thing works at Tumblr.

  Hopefully some new posts will appear here too. We’ll see. Let’s not go crazy yet.

• 2010-03-10

  “YouTube closes down for the night.”

  Kids today. They probably don’t even know why this is funny.