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mamagotcha ([personal profile] mamagotcha) wrote2007-12-17 04:20 pm

Moving picture suggestions?

Linc will sit still for his daily hair combing if we let him watch YouTube videos. We have a few saved on a favorites list, but sometimes we wander around and see what we can find.

Today we watched Wierd Al videos... a pretty cute WoW one for my all-time fave WA song, "Hardware Store" (there's another WoW one for Jonathan Coulton's "Code Monkey" that's pretty cute, too). "White and Nerdy" (with DONNY OSMOND ZOMG!!1!1) cracks me up every time.

And there was this oddly compelling dancing Spiderman.

I wonder what I'm doing to my kid, giving him daily doses of stuff like Pitagora Suiichi's "Ninja Dance" and Crazy Frog's "Popcorn"... but he doesn't move, the hair gets done, and it's just a few minutes each day.

Anyway... sometimes, as adorable as the Panda Sneeze and Funny Cat videos are, I can only listen to them so many times before getting that funny twitch in my eyelid. Big pluses if you can find something that includes a space shuttle or rockets, trains in general (but crossing gates are the Holy Grail), animals... and great music is always appreciated. Longer than 2 or 3 minutes is helpful, too.

So... do any of you have favorite videos on YouTube or Google Video or whatever that you think I ought to be polluting my little sprite's mind with? (Google vids are good 'cos I can sometimes pop 'em onto the Nano for long waits in line and such). Many thanks!

[identity profile] cheesepuppet.livejournal.com 2007-12-17 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I think people can see what videos I have on my list, right? I'm cheesepuppet on YT. Mine are mostly WoW videos (some not safe for kids, heh), and buddhist stuff. I should go check...
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[personal profile] lunacow 2007-12-17 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
A friend showed her boys Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys, and now they are obsessed with it. I guess they love the robots. You'll definitely want to judge for yourself whether it's Linc-appropriate.
Edited 2007-12-17 23:44 (UTC)

[identity profile] mamagotcha.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah... when he was really tiny, he'd go "doot! doot! doot! doot!" when you said "mahna, mahna!" Probably one of his first words... and this was the vid that taught him.

[identity profile] dbang.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
And have you seen the Russian climbing video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxv8SS1XU_8)? My kids love that.

How about Weird Al vids like White and Nerdy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw) or Smells Like Nirvana (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixyTNd-Ln38)?

[identity profile] dbang.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wait, you already have White and Nerdy. But don't forget the rest of them! :-)

How about a Celtic dancing baby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YuSK7r_izk)?

[identity profile] dbang.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
And vids clips from the songs from Yellow Submarine which my older boys loved when they were younger. Like All Together Now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gkKAa2jIjk&feature=related) or When I'm 64 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TSv5CR6oF0&feature=related) or Nowhere Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHLjYBsl2zA&feature=related).

Am I showing my age?

a more accurate view of my age

[identity profile] dbang.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Schoolhouse rock! I didn't even know they had these on YouTube -- I bought the DVD!

The Bill Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ) or ...oh wait! PERFECT! Conjunction Junction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo&feature=related)

Re: a more accurate view of my age

[identity profile] dbang.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
And I have to include a bit of politics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ssoX3TWsk) if I'm all about video links. probably not for the babe though.
Edited 2007-12-18 03:43 (UTC)

Re: a more accurate view of my age

[identity profile] mamagotcha.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
All great suggestions, and thanks!

[identity profile] mamagotcha.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
The climbing video reminds me of a juggling friend, Sean McKinney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2smpLHV91EE

[identity profile] elainetyger.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
http://www.youthofbritain.com/chillout/

It's on a loop and will replay over and over.

[identity profile] jedusor.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
Just don't click on Two Girls One Cup. Ever.

[identity profile] mamagotcha.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
No, bOINGbOING managed to ward me offa that... but there's a tragic, unfortunate, and terribly hilarious series of films depicting horrible grandchildren screening that vid for their grandmas: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=%22two+girls%22+grandma&search=Search