My New Favorite Thing on the Internet

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

My New Favorite Thing on the Internet

You can thank Skendall for this. Tonight, she asked if I'd ever seen the "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Video, like the original one from back in the day.

I said no, and she made me watch the first minute of it, just to get the full scope of how terrible it is.

Now you watch.

Then she showed me THIS. Which is the funniest thing I may have every seen on the internet. My life is now, more complete.

Make sure you watch until the end. My favorite line is the one about Hogwarts.

17 comments:

Barbara Kloss said...: HAHaha! I can't believe the original ever aired!..thanks for the 'spoof'. That was pretty darn funny. And now it's stuck in my head. Thanks.; March 8, 2011 at 8:35 PM
Shallee said...: That is one of my favorite videos of all time! I don't remember how I found it, but I spammed about every person in my contact list to spread it around. I still pull it up just to get a laugh every now and then. My favorite part is the dancing ninja men "who know how to twirl." :); March 8, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Lori M. Lee said...: Haha, I love those literal videos! My favorite might be Meatloaf's. The dancing ninjas was definitely my favorite part.; March 8, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Josin L. McQuein said...: You should check out the Literal Movie Trailers while you're on YT. They're hilarious.; March 8, 2011 at 9:05 PM
Angelica R. Jackson said...: I knew it was going to be the literal version! The one of Take on Me is great too.; March 8, 2011 at 9:05 PM
Sarah said...: I laughed in the first video when I realized she literally meant bright eyes.

I'd never seen the literal videos, but I'm a fan. I have some viewing to do.; March 8, 2011 at 9:23 PM
Kristi Helvig said...: The "Glee club of the damned" line had me crying. Thanks for the laugh!; March 8, 2011 at 9:40 PM
Jeigh said...: Wow, I had so many things to say about the original one, but I think the literal version pretty much summed up everything I was thinking. Those bright eyes are going to give me nightmares.; March 9, 2011 at 12:22 AM
sheri downing said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; March 9, 2011 at 1:21 AM
ARJules said...: I love literal trailers. Usually I watch the ones for movie trailers but this.... this is priceless!

What does it say about me that when I hear the music, I think of junior high dances? Hmmmmmmmm...; March 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM
Alia said...: Mullet with headlights is my favourite. :); March 9, 2011 at 7:32 AM
lotusgirl said...: Funny. I like the ones Tobuscus does of trailers.; March 9, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Caryn said...: Hubby and I saw this several years ago, and we STILL reference it - which is saying a lot, considering how many videos we've viewed (and then forgotten) in the ensuing time. Have you seen the chart? http://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart-that-we-might-better; March 9, 2011 at 9:45 AM
m. christine weber said...: How have I never seen this? It's brilliant! Thanks for posting. *raises hands in backlit Rocky pose to show appreciation*

-a girl & her books; March 10, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Julie Hedlund said...: I almost wet myself laughing. Trying hard not to procrastinate further by watching some of the other literal videos. Not sure how long I'll be able to hold out...; March 15, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Melissa said...: Brilliant song, but the video had me rolling on the floor, clutching my side. And then I watched the literal video . . .

Thank you so very much for posting this! Everyone should start the day with a cheeks-hurt sort of laugh.

:-D; March 16, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Clutzattack said...: This is the funniest parody I've seen since Drunken Jedi.; March 22, 2011 at 12:38 PM

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Five Random Things About Suzie

1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.

2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.

3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.

4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.

5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?

quotes

金不一定閃
流浪者不都迷路

"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I fancied you'd return the way you said
But I grow old and I forget your name
I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost

"Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

"For deadly secrets strike when understood
and lucky stars all exit on the run:
never try to knock on rotten wood,
never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power."
William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND

"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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