h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

TT - I had a girlfriend like that...once a month she was like that, anyway

Prof - who told you it should be songs? I suggested songs or (other) clips. Such as this, the brilliant contemporary Rumanian philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the equal oversimplicity of religious dogmatism and atheist, materialist (nothing exists except matter) dogmatism such as Richard Dawkins'. Please ignore the intro. I did. [The first man on the vid isn't him]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9S3vvPe9IM

Jabs

Thanks Jab

Pas de problème, mon professeur!

I have to tell you, it's been bugging me - Žižek (to give him his accents) is Slovenian, not Rumanian. I was getting mixed up with another one.

Žižek has been called a rock star of a philosopher - it's not evident from this clip, as he's sitting down reading a lecture - but he gets crowds of students wherever he goes - you can see in his other clips. It's because he's so funny and so brilliant.


Jabs

George Carlin, a great comedian well represented on Youtubes, Here he is as a young man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yakmPBachUE

This is him middle-aged, a pony-tailed hippie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veom7XANGr4&feature=related

And here he is old (he died last June)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PiZSFIVFiU&feature=related

Jabs X-23 was the clone of Wolverine but taller.

Here is the Oscar opening ceremony with Hugh Jackman:
http://www.casttv.com/oscar-ceremony/81st-annual-academy-awards-the-oscars-2009-part1/sb1v08

Yes. Well, anyway. Remember the Arthur Alexander and Beatles versions of Anna (post 144)?

Well, here's another pairing. Arthur Alexander's version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOT7OwcbK-k

And here are the Rolling Stones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG9p0Zd41cA&feature=related

1. Great vocal, terrible band - in total disarray, missing some of the chords.

2. Dartford Grammar School soul! Two C's blues!

Apart from that, it's all brilliant, Infie...

Jabs

Hugh Jackson is the actor that plays Wolverine this year.


Here is Hugh Jackson as Wolverine in this Wolverine's theme (X-Men parody)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhtI_bPwrHo

What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5IIXeR5OUI

Zizek on American disaster films. Professor of Philosophy in Slovenia. Specialises in Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWJBQx_SXfA&playnext_from=PL&feature=PlayList&p=ED12D83FF34A05D1&playnext=1&index=5

If you can follow him through his accent, it's a real treat for the brain cells, and he's a very entertaining man.

Jabs


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This song now on and keeps on popping in my head.

Love grows where my Rosemary goes- Edison Lighthouse/Burrows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33kyqdNhk9k

JOHN OTWAY

Some may remember him - objectively terrible but a real cult hero.

Two songs:

Audience participation - House of the Rising Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPm7CVP6Bk&NR=1


The wonderful roving microphone plus surprise at the end - Two Little Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPm7CVP6Bk&NR=1


Those really keen could look up 'John Otway Hurts Himself', if that's your kind of thing, also briefly on You Tube.


Jabs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyzBe0CA2Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADb18aEfczA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWlscV3mvL4&feature=related

Thought these clips were interesting.

Things have died down a bit round here. How about this, to liven things up (or make them even more miserable, you might say)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hm0r3AGrN8

Before there was Elvis there was Johnny Ray.

I cant hear the music, i was just looking at the pictures-something that made me smile:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNv2A4Kfx4k