Every week I'll be here to reveal and review some of my favorite moments from the internet. Whether it be binge-ing television shows, streaming sports or simply getting lost in a YouTube rabbit hole, I'm here to give you my top picks every Friday, as well as the perfect pairing to get into an optimal headspace for them.
This week, we're taking a look at some great sketches on YouTube, depriving ourselves of our senses and getting hyped for some new shit to watch.
Getting the Omnipotent Blues
Recommended Pairing: Another glass of the same thing you always drink, forever.
Bill Murray fucking rules. Not that it's a controversial point of view or anything, it's just that occssionally when we're all feeling horrible about everything going on in the world it's helpful to remind yourself that you live on the same planet as the guy from Caddyshack and Rushmore.
As I was setting up to watch Groundhog Day on Groundhog day for the 10th year in a row, I came across this little gem:
A solid take on the "repeating a day" premise from the original executed splendidly. Nice work. Fast-forward to an hour later and I've devoured their entire catalog. Nothing groundbreaking, but a genuinely impressive catalog of sketches and comedy shorts.
I realized I had seen this one a while back and thought to myself, I wonder if these guys do other stuff. Then, in a very internet age way just sort of never thought about it again.
That probably explains how the two videos have a combined total of almost TWO MILLION views, but under 22,000 subscribers. I look forward to their next video and pray it can help overcome the feeling of dread we feel when the groundhog prognosticates nuclear winter.
Sensory Deprivation For Fun
Recommended Pairing: A ton of salt for the water.
Generally speaking, I keep to myself. I'm not a loner or anything, in fact, I'm mostly an extrovert. I love goofing around, pitching bits and jokes, searching for adventure, and trying to squeeze as much fun out of each minute that I can. That being said, I hate people. Not individuals, per se. I mean a lot of them do make me want to dive through a window, but I can deal with some of the kookiest with a smile. Crowds on the other hand, no way.
A lot of my friends are way better at relaxing than I am. Scratch that, I am the least relaxed person most people know. I just hate sitting still. I'm the kind of guy that feels like sleeping is wasting time, so I stay up all night literally wasting time.
Recently, it has been suggested to me that I try out a sensory deprivation tank. It was brought up like this:
"Hey Mike," My friend said. "You like taking mushrooms right? I think you'd really like this isolation tank thing." To which I replied, "Go on."
My girlfriend is not into the idea of voluntarily climbing into a warm water coffin. So I had to scour around for a lot of positive videos that might help alleviate the claustrophobia. Rhett and Link made the most compelling case I could find.
I don't think I'm going to encourage my lady friend to check out Joe Rogan, even though he seems to have some of the most passionate pleas for people to jump into a synthetic Dead Sea. And I definitely don't think she should see this guy from Vice, or I might not be able to ever go myself.
Man, I gotta try this shit.
The Super Bowl
Recommended Pairing: A pack of cheap beer and a limitless supply of tortilla chips.
My friend said recently the thing that infuriates him the most about our current political climate is that people aren't bothering to talk sports anymore. I totally get that. I love that I can have very hard opinions on grown men whom I will never meet or interact with. I love that other grown non-professional athletes will gladly sit around and debate sports trivia with you all day long.
Sports hate is an important part of life and helps us channel our frustration in our lives away from other real humans around us and place them squarely on the broad shoulders of our fantasy football players.
This upcoming Super Bowl on Sunday is historic and due to the volume of political news has been under-hyped somehow. It should be a good game — one team without a championship up against one that could set the record for trophies. A young, up and comer versus the establishment. Honestly, it kind of reads like a Star Wars spinoff story.
Without all of the bullshit news that comes in anticipation for the Super Bowl I think this is actually the most excited I've been to watch "the big game" in years. I have no real rooting interest. I just want people to turn their brains off and watch a bunch of idiots smash into each other while giant corporations try to sell us a smorgasbord of artificially flavored deliciousness through overly emotional or overly cheesy commercials.
'Til next week.
Wanna see more of my favorite innerwebs finds? You can read the full "Mike's Favorite Things on the Innerwebs" series right here.
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