२ जुलै, २०२२

I've got 10 TikToks for you tonight. A nice round number. Let me know what you like best. I'm predicting #6.

1. Irish guys doing American accents to talk about the 4th of July.

2. The real deal behind this Bali beach.

3. A very charming rendition of "Gymnopedie."

4. The hottest birds.

5. A Kamala impression.

6. The meticulous restoration of an ox-tongue iron.

7. A porcupine tail hairbrush.

8. Sandy Dennis laughs and screams.

9. A puzzling Zillow listing.

10. "POV: you're at a diy house show." (This is a whole page of "duets," so click around. The first one, in the upper left corner is the original, and then others have added their interaction with him in a split screen.)

३० टिप्पण्या:

Quaestor म्हणाले...

"I've got 10 TikToks for you tonight. A nice round number."

Zero is even rounder.

All snarking aside, I'm baffled and disappointed by Number One, which on a quality scale is a definite Number Two, if you catch my drift. He needs to make at least a token effort to study American culture. Being more one than one person would help as well.

Mary Beth म्हणाले...

#6 was my favorite. That's just plain sexy.

The last one has me wondering where in the US does "jail" rhyme with "cell"? The first one made me want to go to Target to get a fireworks gun.

wildswan म्हणाले...

#6
Though I liked the Irish guy trying to imitate Americans

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

#1 is an Irish guy poking fun at Irish guys.

Wa St Blogger म्हणाले...

#1 didn't nail it.
#2 I was amazed at what it took to get to that beach. I would charter a boat. I don't want to be unalived
#9 That house is 3 times the size of mine and less than 2.5 times the cost. I love the wide open main with balcony (mine has similar on a much smaller scale.) I would totally own that. Worst part of the tiktok was the narrator. Ugh.

Jeff Gee म्हणाले...

Loved the Irish guy. He would plug one random American vowel sound into a (totally unidiomatic) faux-American sentence. If I were a casting director I would hire him to play EVERY American character.

Narr म्हणाले...

I only looked at #3. Cute, but where's the cowbell?

john म्हणाले...

I dont think I ever heard Harris talk, so I have no opinion. I'm gonna go with #10, Skunk, as long as the line is drawn about him sleeping on my couch. Forever.

Jeff Gee म्हणाले...

The Eric Satie reminds me of "Music from a Surplus Store" (1959)by Jack Facinato, which employs similar sounding quirky percussion (mostly repurposed tools, and lots of prepared piano). There were some cuts scattered throughout the turn of millennium "Ultra-Lounge" series (pick-to-click: "Spring-Sprang-Sprung" on the Space Age Bachelor Pad collection). This is much cooler, tho.

Readering म्हणाले...

6 is restoration porn.

Readering म्हणाले...

Thanks Thomas Manuel. Lifesaver.

Wa St Blogger म्हणाले...

I think I might have mistyped. House is 3 times my size but my house is 2.5 times the cost

madAsHell म्हणाले...

What??? No one has yet to mention the Kamala impression video??

I usually don't like the TikTok's, but I love to see a Kamala impression.

I think the actress got most of the impression correct, but she failed to a have a refrain, a repeated phrase. Where is the "significance of the passage of time"??

Typically, really stupid, unimaginative people will have a couple pet cliches. They depend upon the cliches to make themselves sound relevant.

The really sad part?? She was reading from a teleprompter!!

The Vault Dweller म्हणाले...

I laughed out loud at, "Did you know that a flock of ravens is called an unkindness?"

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

"It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."
-Kamala Harris



OK.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

Alu-mini-um

@1 made me laugh. thanks.

Mea Sententia म्हणाले...

5. Kamala word salad.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

zillow listing

Balfegor म्हणाले...

Satie is not my favourite composer, but I was tempted and it was quite good.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

I am sorry- no one can really parody Harris speaking- it really is the impossible task.

Bender म्हणाले...

Number 5 is no Elsa Kurt.

Bender म्हणाले...

Number 9 -- It's Sa-Lie-Na. Long I. Not Sa-leen-a.

6 is cool. Winner. Needs the narrator and music from How It's Made though.

3 certainly took effort.

7 reminded me of South Park and Cherokee hair and the tampon shortage.

Bender म्हणाले...

Further research reveals that the jail cells in the house in Celina - long I - are from the jail in Lima - long I - that once held John Dillinger.

Wince म्हणाले...

#6. A-lu-min-ee-um, not aluminum foil, gave it away.

Nancy म्हणाले...

5 not great, 5 were amusing. You do have eclectic taste!

I couldn't get #10 to play.
Irish guy was a yawn.
Porcupine brush was meh.
Kamala is too easy.
Sandy Dennis clip was unpleasant.

The others were fun.
Bali Beach: loved "unalived themselves". How did he climb back up without any water?!
Gynmopedie was indeed charming
Cute bird descriptions and Zillow listing.
Awesome iron restoration.

Lurker21 म्हणाले...

You had me at "A Kamala impression." I had to watch that one. But it's not really an impression, is it? Not in anyway that would have Rich Little, David Frye or Frank Gorshin proud or nervous. It's just a woman making faces and gestures to go along with Kamala's voice. Like that untalented woman who got her 15 hours of fame lipsynching to Trump speeches.

Rollo म्हणाले...

Irish guy still sounds Irish (with a little Canadian thrown in).

Leslie Graves म्हणाले...

"Hottest Birds" sucked me in against my will.

RigelDog म्हणाले...

Hottest Birds guy cracked me up---I wonder if he is the same dude who created the Honey Badger video?

Susan in Seattle म्हणाले...

No. 3 was my favorite. 6 was good too - really like the comment from Readering above about its being 'restoration porn.' Some of the others had enough up-talk to be annoying although the hottest birds made me laugh.