Tears for Fears Challenge: Day 3

It has been a grueling challenge, but today I bring you the 3rd installment.

On day 1, I showed you a  cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World.”

On day 2, I showed you the original video with a few things to look for that will no doubt enhance your viewing experience.

Day 3???  Back to the cover song.  But this time, it is applied to one of the most enthralling videos I have seen in recent memory.

A little background on the video: there are people who believe that the world is ruled by reptilian humanoids. Click here for more information.  The person who posted this video on YouTube believes that the video serves as indisputable evidence that reptilian humanoids have infiltrated our daily culture (and also CNN). 

Enjoy!

So there you have it.  3 consecutive posts about a Tears for Fears Song.  They said it couldn’t be done.  Then again, that’s what they said about the reptilian uprising of 1628.

Tears for Fears Challenge: Day 2

For details on the challenge, please refer here.

Day 2 of the Tears for Fears Challenge brings us to the original video.

Make sure that you didn’t miss:

1.  “That guy” in the background.  I can only imagine that the director said to him “…I don’t know, just hang out on the background until 1:49 in the video.  THEN you get your chance to shine.”

2.  Those camera shots that give us a rare glimpse of the lead singer’s multiple rat tails.

3.  “That guy” at 1:49 launching into what can only be called the greatest dance moves ever.

4.  At 2:25, “That guy” is at it again.  This time, he find the time to execute a throw-in for a soccer game that is obviously happening off-camera and then it is back to the greatest dance move ever since 1:49 in the video.

5.  Lastly, I must say that this is a pretty dang good song to have been released in 1982.

Come back for day 3.  It will be a doozy.

Tears for Fears Challenge: Day 1

The other day, a friend approached me and said, “Mike, you may be one of the internet’s foremost bloggers, but I’ll bet that you can’t come up with 3 consecutive posts about a Tears for Fears Song.”*

That was all the motivation I needed.

First of all, if you have never seen this video, please allow me to introduce you to an amazing cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World”  by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews.  In addition to being an amazing song, this is one of those videos that shows that , when you set your mind to it, you can do a lot with out the aid of special effects.

 

Stay tuned for days 2 and 3…

 

* – Citation needed.

Joe Biden: Great Source of Wisdom (seriously)

Yesterday on Meet the Press, David Gregory asked the Vice President what advice he had given his son about a potential run for the senate.

Biden replied, “Whatever you decide to do, make sure there’s something you’re willing to lose over.”

I love that.  It raises some very interesting questions in my life.

Am I involved in something that I feel so strongly about that I am willing to lose?

Am I only choosing easy battles that I know I can win?  Are they worth fighting?

 

Lastly, this quote serves as a reminder that,even though you may not agree with someone politically, they are still worth listening to.

Question of the day

What do you want more than you want God?

 

Come on, be honest. 

 

What is your response to your answer?

Awesome

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Quick Hitter

In America, we tend to confuse standard of living with quality of life.

Now please go back and read that first line again.

We think that if we raise our standard of living (bigger house, nicer car, etc.), then we will improve our quality of life.  But does our life really get better when we get those things?

We get the big house, but the mortgage makes us work 70 hours a week.

We get the nice car, but the payment hangs over our head like a 60-month raincloud.

We get the bigger, better TV just so we can watch mindlessshows in HD.

We go on the amazing vacation, only to have it follow us home and knock on our doors every time the credit card bill comes in the mail.

 

What really improves your quality of life?  More stuff or greater contentment?

Stuff costs money, but I read a Book that says that we can learn contentment.

The End is Near…

It has been almost two months since my last post.  Life and work have been pretty busy, but it looks like the Internets carried on just fine without me.

But today, I have to come out of temporary retirement to warn all of you that the end is near.   Prepare for fire.  Prepare for brimstone. Prepare for the end.

I bring you a sign that our civilization has reached an all-time low.  I bring you the ropeless jump rope. 

 

Editor’s note:  the motionless treadmill and the  weightless dumbell could not be reached for comment.

Mike Nelson: Silver-Tounged Devil

Actual quote by me when discussing the virtues of the equipment that I sell versus my competition:

“When [my competition]‘s machine leaks, you can either die of poisioning or asphyxiation.  When my machine leaks, you can only die of asphyxiation.”

Boy, I’m good.

Atoms / Adams

Imagine a pile of leaves. A big one.

Now imagine that, by some force of nature, the pile comes alive. 

The pile seems to be animated.  The pile begins to take on a human shape and walk around.  It begins to dance.

You convince yourself that you must be seeing a once-in-a-lifetime freak wind pattern taking hold of the pile making it look like it has come alive, but then something happens.  

It talks to you.  It asks you how your day was.  It asks you if you saw the Superbowl.  It asks if you know of a good place to get a bite to eat.  You recommend a salad bar.  The pile is not laughing.

As you are talking with this living breathing entity that is composed of leaves that were, just a minute ago inanimate, you realize that you are having an encounter with something that is supernatural.

What other word can you use when a pile of non-living stuff comes alive?

You own story is not so different.  You are supernatural.

You are just a pile of atoms.  On their own, the atoms that make up the entity called “you” really aren’t that special. 

But something has happened.  Something (or Someone) has animated (breathed life into) the pile of atoms that makes up “you.”  You are supernatural.  Everyone you talk to today is supernatural.  Please act accordingly.

 

“Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” – Genesis 2:7