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Warning: GEEK OVERLOAD

MC Frontalot, “It Is Pitch Dark” (YouTube, via Pathologically Polymathic)

FIDDLEBOT

Toyota Partner Robot, “Pomp and Circumstance” (Flash @ Reuters)
Toyota Shows Violin-Playing Robot (AP)

GRAVEL ABANDONS SURREALIST CAMPAIGN

… for hippie rap:

Mike Gravel, “Power to the People/Give Peace a Chance” (YouTube, via Wonkette)
Previously ‘varked:

Ceci n’est pas une élection

CATS CATS CATS FLY FLY FLY

This Movie is About Cats Flying (YouTube, via madamjujujive)

BEATBOXING FLAUTIST

Greg Pattillo, “Inspector Gadget” (YouTube, via extraface)
I think I’m in lust. Here’s an album by his group, Project. Cello, bass, and flute—nice.

PHILOSOPHY STREET

SCTV, “Philosophy Street” (YouTube)

MC FARMER

True origin of hip-hop (YouTube, via MeFi)
Okay, so it’s a Nokia commerical. But it made me laugh.

O EMIGRANT

Rachid Taha, “Ya Rayah” (YouTube)

The original version by Dahmane El Harrachi
Rachid Taha website
Lyrics & translation
Running with the Rebels: Politics, Identity, and Sexual Narrative in the Algerian Rai (Nasser Al-Taee in Echo)
More Rachid Taha youtubery: Rock el Casbah

SESAME STREET DOES DAVID LYNCH

Sesame Street, “Monsterpiece Theatre: Twin Beaks” (YouTube, via ethan_t_hein)

I SEEM TO BE IN THE WRONG REALITY

Go G-Hog (YouTube WTFness, via MeFi)
Story, not that it helps or anything …