He tends to oversing, but you have to admit the boy’s got pipes. He likes melodrama in his covers, and he’s got spades on this one!
Part Of Your World – Darren Criss
He has an earlier version, the one he recorded in his room, but this one is better. Maybe he’s really a performer, he plays off of the energy of the people around him, so he seems more alive.
F*ck You – StitchedElf
This is the cutest lesbian ukelele version of a song with the word “f*ck” in it.
With You – Justin Bieber
Not really a fan, but I’ve never seen any pre-One Time videos from Justin Bieber. So I was just curious to see.
Shape Of My Heart – Sting
Okay, this is NOT a cover, because Shape Of My Heart is Sting’s song, but I really just love this version. I’ve forgotten just how much I love this song, and the album it came from, Ten Summoner’s Tales.
With the whole Facebook movement where you change your profile pic to your favorite cartoons as a way to stand up against violence committed against children, it got me thinking about what my favortie cartoon was as a kid. It was easy, hands down it was the Herculoids. It was an obscure cartoon, but to me it was the ONE show that really brings me back to when I was a kid (this really dates me). I loved the “animals” more than the people . I loved Tundro, he was my favortie, a rhino/triceratops hybrid who shoots bullets from his horns, and Gloop and Gleep, the play doh characters I happen to identify with the most. It was the idea of the family with “pets” who had superpowers that really hooked me. Watching this really gets me melancholic…
The Herculoids
Here are some of the other favorites I religiously watched when I was a kid:
Wacky Races
I loved the way it’s a different set of winners for each episode. I loved guessing who was going to win each week. And I loved how Dick Dastardly never won. It cemented my belief in the idea that evil never triumphs over good.
Mighty Mightor
I liked the idea of the Superman/Clark Kent dual identities and the hero here is no different. Skinny Tor becomes buff gym rat Mightor with the wave of his club. And the fact that nobody knows that he’s the same guy. Very Hannah Montana…only on prehistoric steroids.
Moby Dick
Cartoons involving the sea, or creatures of the sea is always appealing to me. Even the cheesy Flipper was a hit to me, since it was the first time I’d see real dolphins on TV. The idea of having a whale as your bodyguard or resbak was big fantasy of mine, being a bullied kid. I always fantasized Moby crushing those bullies at my school with his massive flukes.
Superfriends
How could I not include this? Although there were subsequent versions, like the one with the Wonder Twins, this was the original. It was a bit bitin for me though, because being a comic fan, the show only had the 4 main heroes of the Justice League of America, and it skipped my favorites like Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman.
Sealab 2020
Omigosh, this would probably the only other show that would rival The Herculoids as my favorite cartoon as a kid. It had everything I loved: the sea, diving, sharks, dolphins, living underwater — what’s not to love? Each episode took me to a different world, much like the live action series Man From Atlantis, my other favorite. Watching this opening theme gives me goosebumps. I guess shows like these got me into scuba diving years before I even thought of getting certified.
I’m sure many of you have seen some of these on the internet, but I thought of re-visiting them today. I sort of need a pick-me-up today, so let’s just smile at some of these:
This one’s a classic. One of the most popular photos online. I like the “hamen eggen chz”. Sounds German.
Killer yung pinakbeth!
Hehe…bakit, hinihithit na rin ba ang kangkong?
I’m sure pinipilahan to…
Talagang kailangan ilagay na Christ The King ang pangalan ng clinic?!? After that sign?
Okay, promise, that’s the last poocheechee sign I’m posting. Talaga namang “no entry” pag meron ka, diba?
Eh kung yung nanay ang walang panty, puwede?
Oo nga naman…
Of course we’d all LOVE to buy “slightly used” toilet paper, right? “Medyo” pinahid lang sa tae…
Hahaha, talagang pinapunta sa Jollibee! Wawa naman, baka hindi masarap ang malanghap nila…
ROFL!!! This one is my favorite. More than the wrong spelling, (and wrong words: adulfs?!?) the whole secret prizes killed me! I can almost imagine the tone of the one who wrote it: “Anong prize?” “Secreeet!” Hahaha!
Do you have more? Send them to me and let’s do a part 2!
A new bog year, a new Top Ten logo. If you’re wondering why I jumped to a Top Ten we just did, when I should be posting 2009 Top Tens, a glitch on my laptop erased all the entries that I was supposed to email myself. So to cut a long story short, I lost all the entries. So I thought, I’d post whatever I have in my notebook. Better post it now since I don’t have a digital copy of it in my email. After this, I go back to the chronology I was following. This was with the Pilipinas Kay Ganda brouhaha, which was summarily junked and led to a resignation in the Department of Tourism.
November 18, 2010 – The Top Ten Tourism Slogans For The Philippines (Or A Province, Or A City)
Ant Anonymous – “More Asia, Than Malaysia.”
RVincent – “Boom Boom Mayon! Bye Bye Albay.”
Kid Bukid – “Bohol: Go To Hill!”
Rogue – “Bakat Sa Mabalacat.”
Puputot – “Be Cool, Bicol!”
Manuel Caceres – “Make Roro To Mindoro!”
Callie Burn – “Haller, Baler!”
Joltino – “San Juan, Juan-derful!”
Jaye Delassy – “Pinas, Ganda Mo Teh!”
Axel – “Cubao. Bow.”
Franzen – “Maganda Raw, Sa Tuguegarao.”
Greg – “Mag Masbate Araw-Araw!”
Poljeffrey – “Sa Pandacan, Big Time Ka!”
Inoman/Joti/Farrah – “Thanks For Coming, Camiguin!”
Jaye Delassy – “PH OK! PH OK!”
Tyler Swift – “Tata Tete Titi Toto Tutuban!”
Kroo Kroo/Lee/Mrs. DJ – “Make A Baby in Macabebe!”
Ugly Kid Joey/Homer Singson – “Virac, You Rock!”
Blitzkrieg – “Kamuning Get Me!”
Chez Kitron – “Bongga Ka Day, Sa Norzagaray!”
Acer – “In Na In Sa Philippine.”
Elton Dot Org – “Hanap Mo Ba Maluwag, Halina Sa Laoag!”
Copochax – “Go Gaga In Naga!”
Anika Bananika – “Quezon In The Zone.”
Gracia – “Vigan, Punta Na KaiVigan!”
Gracia – “Kung Ikaw Ay Pagod, Gulong Mo Ay Pudpod…Pagudpod!”
