YouTuber Fantapants made this clever Royal Wedding vs. Star Wars video. If you look closely, Princess Diana makes an appearance at the Royal Wedding around the 1:10 mark.
(via HYST)
No, this is not a joke. An old audio clip has been unearthed of a teenage Mark Sinclair (aka Vin Diesel) rapping over a beat by legendary NY avant-dance composer Arthur Russell under the name Second Edition. This is bizarre not so much for the music, but for the idea itself. Diesel, the lug head, $20 million action star and Russell, the stoned, gay, downtown disco bohemian trying their hardest to make a primitive rap tune work. It seems like a match made in an alternate universe, but no, it definitely comes from this dimension. It has been discovered on tapes owned by renowned guitarist Gary Lucas, who has this to say on his Soundcloud page:
Fragments of an aborted recording session at Battery Sound NYC in 1986 which brought together fledgling rapper Mark Sinclair—today better known as the actor Vin Diesel—and avant composer/dance music maven Arthur Russell in a project midwifed by Gary Lucas, who discovered Mark Sinclair rapping and break-dancing on the streets of the West Village, and greenlighted by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records and Barry Feldman of Upside/Logarhythm records.
“I’m the Man of Steel” the teenage Sinclair asserts, foreshadowing his stellar ascent as a worldwide action movie hero (“Triple XXX”, “Pitch Dark”, and most recently the #1 box office hit “Fast Five”)—but even Diesel is no match for Arthur’s crafty diabolical beats, which keep dropping “the one” out from under him, breaking up Sinclair’s delivery and eventually rendering the session useless.
“It’s the white part of me fucking it up!”
—Mark Sinclair at the recording session
Unfortunately embedding has been disabled, but if you really are curious to hear it (it’s not amazing to be honest) you can do so here.
Thanks to Steven Hall.
Previously on DM:
Arthur’s Landing: ‘Love Dancing’
Expect a deluge of really bad Osama bin Laden death songs. Here’s one by a rapper from Phoenix, Arizona calling himself Hot Rod. He was at one time a protege of 50 Cent.
“My musical ear has expanded. Now the music I make is fuckin’ incredible and I can’t wait to unleash it to the world.” Hot Rod.
Mr. Rod, put it back on the leash.
Via The Daily Swarm
Here’s Augie f*cking Garrido, head coach of the University of Texas baseball team and someone who is full of f*ck. He’s also quite possibly the world’s best f*cking movtivational speaker. Don’t believe me? Watch a clip of Augie f*cking Garrido flipping the f*ck out from Richard Linklater’s 2009 documentary, Inning By Inning: A Portrait of a Coach
(via BuzzFeed and with thanks to Gavon Laessig)
“The safer you play, the longer you stay.”
Public service announcement from French safe sex organization AIDES is a wonderfully witty and effective way to get your message out there.
The video is an animation of a poster that can be seen in all of its glory here.
Via copyranter
Apparently the Fab Four consisted of John Legend, George Michael, George Lennon and Larry.
(via Nerdcore)
