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I love all the youtube posts so far! I loved the ones by David Wolfe sinaptix! The chi demonstrations were cool too

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You may not appreciate this unless you're a musician.  There is a guy from Finland who takes guitar gods/bands and overdubs his own purposely bad solos, music and fake crowd reaction over the footage.  If you've ever witnessed really bad bands trying to jam/warming up or lame guitarists trying out guitars at the local music store, you'll appreciate these.  It's the funniest thing I've seen in ages:

Santana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNoZg9kl-zE

(the original for that one is here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpPb2cVswlI

Ozzy and Jake E Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqtk6kKTlDM

Eric Clapton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCzUMjCykn8

Metallica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttaqVd0rOjA

18 Reply by lyra (edited by lyra 2007-11-05 15:00:03)

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Tillman the skateboarding bulldog!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wygt6L_3L5Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PX_pd771ock


Too funny!  I'm a person and even I can't skateboard!  Look at this dog go!  He pushes the board while running with one paw on it, then hops on and goes, leaning to the left, leaning to the right and steering his board all around Venice Beach and Santa Monica and Hollywood.  Vids like this make me miss L.A. and all the crazy fun stuff you see there!

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Tillman is so cool! Tyson is another skating bulldog. (what is it with skateboarding and bulldogs?)

Tyson on Oprah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDELqhEWl3A

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lyra wrote:

Too funny!  I'm a person and even I can't skateboard!  Look at this dog go!  He pushes the board while running with one paw on it, then hops on and goes, leaning to the left, leaning to the right and steering his board all around Venice Beach and Santa Monica and Hollywood.  Vids like this make me miss L.A. and all the crazy fun stuff you see there!

I lived on Venice Beach for a few years between 1997 and 2004 (literally, right on the boardwalk).  Although I don't miss many other parts of L.A. (particularly anything happening east of Lincoln blvd and virtually all people living there), I do miss living in Venice. 

Characters like Jerome (the little flaming black dude who dances and skateboards himself around the boardwalk...with only stubs for his arms and legs), Harry Perry (who really is not a very good guitar player, which makes him endearing) and the many palm readers, handwriting analysts, etc.  The smell of incense every day rising up to my window, playing in the drum circle every sunday afternoon, rollerblading to Third Street for Benita's Fries.

I've been looking at places there over the past 6 months, considering going back....

Now, onto a funny video involving a cat:

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en- … 1dcf93cdbb

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Sunshine wrote:
lyra wrote:

Too funny!  I'm a person and even I can't skateboard!  Look at this dog go!  He pushes the board while running with one paw on it, then hops on and goes, leaning to the left, leaning to the right and steering his board all around Venice Beach and Santa Monica and Hollywood.  Vids like this make me miss L.A. and all the crazy fun stuff you see there!

I lived on Venice Beach for a few years between 1997 and 2004 (literally, right on the boardwalk)..... playing in the drum circle every sunday afternoon.....

Who knows, maybe we were there at the same time and didn't know it. wink  I went up there a few times to watch the drum circles on Sunday afternoons during the time period you speak of.  I left in 2002.  Venice was the last place I visited before leaving California for good.  I was heading back to Cali on the 5 south from Oregon, and at the junction of the 5 and 405 I swung over to the 405 since it would be my only chance before leaving for good.   Had my cat with me.  So I was one of the crazy people populating the boardwalk, carrying my black cat over my shoulder as I bought incense and watched a drum circle from underneath a palm tree.  My cat's first and only trip to the beach.  She didn't care much for it.  big_smile  But she did really dig the drum circle.  Her eyes were locked on it intensely, something about the rhythmic drums maybe really got her attention.  Or maybe she was just seeing stuff the rest of us couldn't see. wink

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Just a random fun vid I thought I'd post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2-DdwWPbQM&NR=1


I could relate to the reaction that the woman had who filmed it.  That would be me too, laughing in exhileration going "OH SHIT!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!  WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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That landing vid reminded me of this other one that has been going around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8

and this was a cool trick wow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7OiKd6EHhI

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Old Lady vs. Car  (really funny)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mji82PQTYeo

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lyra wrote:

Who knows, maybe we were there at the same time and didn't know it. wink  I went up there a few times to watch the drum circles on Sunday afternoons during the time period you speak of.  I left in 2002.  Venice was the last place I visited before leaving California for good.  I was heading back to Cali on the 5 south from Oregon, and at the junction of the 5 and 405 I swung over to the 405 since it would be my only chance before leaving for good.   Had my cat with me.  So I was one of the crazy people populating the boardwalk, carrying my black cat over my shoulder as I bought incense and watched a drum circle from underneath a palm tree.  My cat's first and only trip to the beach.  She didn't care much for it.  big_smile  But she did really dig the drum circle.  Her eyes were locked on it intensely, something about the rhythmic drums maybe really got her attention.  Or maybe she was just seeing stuff the rest of us couldn't see. wink

I actually was in Williamsburg, NYC that year (moved back to Venice in April, 2003).  I seem to go back and forth between NYC and L.A (although I'm in Sedona right now).

I used to love the drum circle.  Beside the fact that I'm a drummer, I just loved the weird vibe.  Definitely more going on there than just drumming...in other realms.  I bought a great drum from a family that made them (they often set up on the boardwalk and sell their drums).  It literally was the deepest sounding drum in southern california and I loved to be the foundation of what was going on in the circle.  Had a good friend who used to come down and record the whole thing.  Made for some awesome tribal rhythms that later would be used in trance music.

Anyway, Venice is a good mix of light and dark and I think that's what attracted me there and still does.

(I love black cats.  3 black cats have owned me throughout my life.  My favorite was my mom's cat, who was around when I was a teenager.  Her name was Obeah..which I'm sure some here will get)

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Awesome dancer - really really funny

Evolution of Dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

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I've got a bunch of fun stuff and cool shit on my YouTube playlists - http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=millsley

Hilarious public access commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYMnmymg … p;index=54

The best/worst fight scene ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NI6iu7e … p;index=57

The greatest Panda video ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnapzB-4 … p;index=61

Sony's latest Bravia commercials not shown in the US - they're executed beautifully (all of it is real!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A08HQP_S … p;index=66
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUAbkRU … p;index=68

Rowan Atkinson's study of physical comedy - "Laughing Matters" - double entendre!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9fsn6lQ … p;index=76

Women in art transformation piece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_ … mp;index=5

Alternative medicine (Qi Gong) teachers at a hospital in China successfully cure a student's (not patient) cancerous tumor on camera in under 5 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xWQ1Mz … p;index=15

Earth is growing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgidAIC … p;index=24

Kuda Bux has eyeless sight - said he mastered his awareness by contemplating the gap between the candle flame a few hours a day for twenty years.  yowsa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6x_zO0I … p;index=29

Planet/star size comparisons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_x4AjYT … p;index=30

My favorite character from "Waking Life" discussing human evolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCXCDhTF … p;index=43

Network - I'm mad as hell!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBs … p;index=44

sorry for so many all at once!  there's some great stuff out there smile

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A couple more interesting links:
Another QiGong healer demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6UTGkC73GE

And this about energy between your hands and fun tricks, kind of reminds me of Dr Eric Pearl The Reconnection as he tried to describe towards the end of his book:
part1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbE2BgJ6jLo
part2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aLWyPyvrBw

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Asskicking indigo child
http://youtube.com/watch?v=agtpbhYSEFw& … re=related

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Chris Angel "magic" ... I don't really know how he pulls his tricks off, but his stunts are amusing to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ckh8bRv_IE

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Watching.....


wtf? cool.