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There's a YouTuber named Fernafloo who is quite famous in the Spanish speaking world, and relatively unknown outside of it.  I became aware of him years ago because someone was micspamming a rap song about him in a TF2 Casual match (you don't need to know what any of that means.)

 

I don't speak Spanish and have more or less no interest in streamers or streamer culture, but I found the melody of that novelty rap song to be quite catchy.  That turns out it's because the rapper (Bambiel) lifted it from a song by TheFatRat:

I'm ...not really into TheFatRat's brand of hands in the EDM, but he has a knack for writing oddly infectious melodies.

 

Respect! 

 

 

Tenacious D mashed up would be you, Mikey! 

Let's bring up an old favorite.  Ievan Polkka is a traditional Finnish folk song.  It's been recorded by many artists, but most famously by Loituma in the mid 1990s.  About a dozen years after they initially recorded it, the song went viral as typically nonsensical internet meme.  Late last year the song went viral again when it a version by blind Turkish street musician Bilal Göregen went viral:

While his skills are impressive, I must admit I never particularly liked this version.  First off I find repetition he uses to be bothersome, secondly he just can't compete with the four part harmony of the Loituma version.  I realize this a wholly unfair comparison.  Of course the Kiffness did a remix of Bilal's version, which is an improvement but in my jaded opinion still underwhelming.

This version by a group of Finnish women is impressive for its insane speed if nothing else:

The end of it would make a gabba DJ do a doubletake.

Not to be outdone by a song they recorded 25 years ago going viral yet again, Loituma did a "zoom call" version earlier this year.  You'll have to click through to watch this version because YouTube won't allow an embed.  It's worth it, I promise.  TL;DW: Loituma still have it a quarter of a century later, though I notice that the singer (I am not even going to attempt Finnish names) who does the most iconic part of the song (the bit looped in the original meme, which where the titualar Ievan is asserting that she is having too much fun at a party and will not leave) does NOT project like she did in the original version.  She still hits all the notes (and, ahem, words) and conveys the feeling behind them but just not with the same power.

This live version from 1996 is still the best version for plainly obvious reasons.  100% Finnish projection.

This other live version ca. 1996 is also excellent.  Sadly, there's another version of this video with 14M views that use (otherwise fine) album version audio.  The recorded version is fine, but given how much energy there is in this performance, it's a travesty to strip the audio out of it.  There's a bunch of "club" mixes of the Lotiuma version from the mid 00s.  They're all unimaginably bad and absolutely ruinous to the original.  Avoid them like the plague. 

Ievan Polkka remains an enduring meme that succeeds largely because it's such an infectious, timeless song.  Even if one doesn't speak a single word of an extinct regional dialect of an already impenetrable language.  10/10 would  Barillas dilla deiaduu badaba daga daga daga daga dujaduu again.

33 minutes ago, Knuckledragger said:

 traditional Finnish folk song.

Now this makes perfect sense: https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/WHR+21.pdf (see page 18)

Behind the scenes shot from The Graduate. The idea being that feckless youth is seduced by a much older predatory woman. In fact Ann Bancroft was 36, and Dustin Hoffman was 30 at the time

6 hours ago, Craig Sawyers said:

Behind the scenes shot from The Graduate. The idea being that feckless youth is seduced by a much older predatory woman. In fact Ann Bancroft was 36, and Dustin Hoffman was 30 at the time

Kinda is much older for Hollywood. 

 

  

Think about it.

 

Mahatma Gandhi's statue after some prankster added red lights to the eyes of it (San Francisco, 2019).

 

1 hour ago, Knuckledragger said:

I feel attacked. 

100 years ago today:

 

Also, at over 40 minutes this is a much longer time commitment:

One of my favorite analyses The Shining.  It makes a nice followup to the 2012 documentary Room 237.  Also if you ever want to go off the deep end into flat earth/faked moon landing levels of conspiracy theory delusion, do a bit of dig on YouTube for fan theories on The Shining.  It goes from zero to batshit insane real fuckin' quick.

Oh man, so many things about this video:

A genuine boomer talks about two of the most legendary boomer muscle cars that only boomers can afford.  This guy displays both serious boomer knowledge about the Daytona and the Superbird while exhibiting serious boomer mic quality.  Seriously dude, you've got half a million in cards right there, you can spring for a frickin' lavalier mic.  I may or may not have mentioned it some time in the last 13 years I've been on HC, but in the late 90s I briefly dated a girl who's father collected what is these days several million dollar's worth of vintage Mopar ...on a janitor's salary in the 1980s.  He had multiple Superbirds, Daytonas, Hemi engines sitting in crates, etc etc.  She quickly proved to be a batshit insane manipulative liar, but I always liked her father.  Also, I have held the belief for decades that the Daytona is actually cooler than the Superbird and I think this video reinforces that notion.

This post has an ulterior motive.

Track 4.

 

Ben Garrison doesn't understand Don Quixote.

 

I have a few friends born in 1979 and they'd agree with this sentiment.

 

 

Egad, I think the church had fewer rifts.

Tibetan woman holding Bitcoin mining PSUs.

 

Little known SinglePower modded remote control.

 

Sorry, not flammable enough to be a Singlepower remote.