SHOW ME YOUR TUBES.
August 12th, 2010 | by TJ |Wouldn’t it be funny if the videos on YouTube were called “tubes?”
No?
Well, whatever. It would at least serve my purposes in terms of post title.
Anyway, this guy is adorable. I was originally considering his Mario Kart Love Song as a first dance song, but I think that maybe it is too long, or the jokes too obscure*. Regardless, he is TOO CUTE.
And in my grand tradition of writing about Britain’s Got Talent and basically ignoring America’s Got Talent, because I am OVER your talent, America, check out Spellbound and Christopher Stone, neither of which I can embed but are worth your click, for astoundingness and “OH I AM SO IN YOUR CORNER, SHY LITTLE MAN!!”-ness, respectively.
And ALSO, I was damned to hell by no less than four skrillion people on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, for spreading this around, so why would I not also unleash it on all of you who may or may not have seen it yet, because even though I KNOW what will happen, I continually watch it because oh my god, you guys, the Santa girl.
I am an asshole, I am an asshole eight hundred times over, but now you are in this snot pit with me, and that is worth it. To me.
And have I talked about Jordan Frisbee & Tatiana Mollman on here at all? I like to watch for videos of the new routine each year – they eventually make their way to YouTube and they’re always fantastic. I’m not even INTO dancing, if a person who is not a dancer of any kind CAN actually be into dancing, but oh man, I get a kick out of these two:
Also, check out this completely improvised dancing between the two of them. For the love of pete, Phil and I can’t even kiss each other without awkwardly smashing face parts off of other face parts, or sleep in the same bed without SOMEONE’S elbow crossing the clearly defined line, directly into the ribcage of someone else, an innocent second party who STICKS TO HER SIDE.
I meant for this post to introduce you to all of the stuff I have found to be interesting on YouTube recently, but instead, have ended up somewhat depressed at my complete lack of discernible, video-worthy talents. What have you found on YouTube recently that makes you realize how little you have managed to do with your life? A six year old who wrote an opera? A blind trapeze artist?
(*I am also considering Skullcrusher Mountain.)
By Teal on Aug 12, 2010
aaargh! I just spent the last ten minutes bawling… Am definitely in the snot pit…
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TJ Reply:
August 12th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
The Santa Girl brings everyone down.
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Teal Reply:
August 12th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
I believe I sobbed out loud at that exact moment… luckily no one is around…
*shifty eyes*
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Lindsay Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Oh yes, the santa girl does it everytime.
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By Megan (Best of Fates) on Aug 12, 2010
I loved the last video of the couple dancing – it does make me feel bad that I’m not more talented!
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TJ Reply:
August 12th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
They are so talented. They have a ton of other videos on YouTube as well – they have a different routine each year.
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By Jenni on Aug 12, 2010
I’m sorry, did you want to rip my out my still beating heart? Seriously, that video. Oh my god. They way the kids and the parents just kind of melted together.
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By June on Aug 12, 2010
My sister-in-law tortured me with that reunion video this morning so I knew not to click! (I’m almost out of tissues) Though I loved the one clip with the dog that was all “forget about that kid, what about ME?!”
And YES, to Skullcrusher Mountain.
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By Willow on Aug 12, 2010
Really? REALLY, TJ?? While I’m at work?? I didn’t know what a “snafuffle” was until my boss point out that I had just emitted one. (Luckily it’s a really laid-back office.)
The following video gets to me. WARNING: It’s a bit graphic and disturbing, and I believe every licensed or would-be-licensed driver in the world should be made to watch this. I know that a lot of it is dramatization, and still…yeah. My road rage has decreased significantly since seeing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC2SBX2nnUw
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By Wulfa on Aug 12, 2010
Managed to refrain from crying, but just barely. Reminds me of the Orclette’s reunion with her daddy last year.
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By Jezrael on Aug 12, 2010
Damn you TJ. DAMN YOU. What a way to start the working day… now where did I put that box of tissues…
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By Bluetiger on Aug 12, 2010
bloody TJ. Now I am crying at work.
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Bluetiger Reply:
August 12th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
hehe made my co-worker cry :D
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By Mary on Aug 13, 2010
I’m in the snot pit with everyone else, although Jordan & Tatiana made a nice followup. :) I had not seen either of those videos before, so I thank you for posting them. :)
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By Pam on Aug 13, 2010
oh, my, the soldiers coming home get me… every.time. I fly in/out of Dulles Airport and the homecomings… make me do the Ugly Cry in the airport for people I don’t even know.
thanks for including the dance videos, too, to make me stop crying!
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By Kimberly on Aug 13, 2010
I watched the reunion video & sniffled. Then my heart grew three sizes bigger because I realized that not one of the people in the videos cared about the balloons, flowers or stuffed animals the soldiers carried in for them. Even the kids!! All they wanted was their soldier.
(sniff…sniff…)
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By Angie on Aug 14, 2010
OMG!
I am late coming to this because I have had one of *those* weeks…but now here I sit, late on a Saturday night, with a glass of red in my hand, my youngest tucked tight in her bed, her dad in far off sandy places & her older sister beyond my reach training to do the same & I really don’t know whether to curse you TJ for making me cry (read, bawl, sob, hunch over in a pain I rarely admit) or praise you for such brutal honesty…
Either way, I miss him & I love him & hate him in equal amouts for instilling the same sense of community, & national pride & service in my daughter/s.
What would it mean to love someone less selfless…
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By BKC on Aug 15, 2010
Coming late to this too, but I’m posting my comment anyway.
I got so into Jordan and Tatiana that I watched everything on YouTube I could find, and then Netflixed the movie they’re in, Love N’ Dancing. Thanks for shaping my weekend, TJ. (If you’re interested, the movie was…not stellar or anything, but there was lots of dancing.)
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