Not their best. I preferred their old style with the proper "videosongs" to their new style of more traditional music videos. Still, it deserves to be sifted.

>> ^shuac:

How about a video featuring neither of these two?

That would be against the whole premise of the videosong.

It's like the *animation videosong of 2011

Except it started in 2007

Wow, I'm going to double that *quality call. Where are the xylophone haters now?

Though I think he did upgrade it to a nicer one...

If you feel threatened by Hornby's little gags, you probably have some deep-seated insecurities you should attend to - it was a cute tease at worst if you're comfortable with your life.

I am curious to know how much they got a "pro" to edit this videosong versus their normal "self-made" versions?

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Maybe he meant that Dickens has only written 13,000 characters, as in letters. That would equate to a single short story though ... so probably less likely. Carry on.
>> ^spoco2:

Yeah, doing things like comparing yourself to extraordinary people from history tends to be completely self defeating and useless... why not be yourself and highlight your strengths rather than trying to emulate someone else.

Also... the figure quoted for the number of Dickens' characters sounds completely crap to me, and on looking it up I can only find references like "According to John R. Greenfield, in his Dictionary of British Literary Characters, Dickens created 989 named characters during his career." which is a long way off 13 thousand characters... and while he had many other characters that had no names, I'd rather be remembered for ONE great character rather than thousands of ones that are all much alike.
Which is not to say that Dickens created bland characters, AT ALL, his are some of the most memorable of all, to be sure, but trying to match pure volume is a stupid pursuit.
Now, having said that, High Fidelity and About a Boy are two great pieces of fiction to be sure!

Thank you. Sat on the sidelines watching sifts long enough, time to make contributions.
I agree probably a bit commercial... and more a Ben Folds/Nick Hornby song featuring Pomplamoose, but it was on their page I found it.
I think my favorite bit is at the end when she does "girl gun sounds". Reminds me of a girl I know who can't do Boba Fet's gun sounds from Robot Chicken: Boba Fet Wins (which I thought I saw in the sift before but can't find right now).


>> ^Kevlar:

Quality first post, probie!

>> ^Xax:

Bah, too damned pretentious. "There are a gazillion pieces of sand on Earth, but you're just a lazy piece of shit."


lol, i thought the exact same thing
a good song otherwise though lol
ironic that they blog about playing with ninja turtle figures afterwards