Subject: Internet Broadcasting

• More Mexican Pooping Conspiracies

  If there's one thing the Anti-Immigrant All-Stars are good at, it's at spinning wild, wacky conspiracies about Mexicans. The latest going around, as I reported last week, was a supposed Mexican shit epidemic plaguing the streets of Dana Point. As the article points out, none of the day laborers interviewed for the story admitted to the dumps, had ever heard of someone defecating, and even agreed anyone who did such a deed should get deported. But such frankness didn't sway the folks over at ALI

  April 18, 2007

• Wally Wipeouts!

  The call for fans to bring forth their own Wally George archives continues to be heeded, this time by an enterprising YouTube user named Billybopper1, who has compiled thirteen montages of Wally getting prank calls live on the air. Long before Howard Stern's penis and Baba Booey became call-in catchphrases, the best recurring phone pranks involved Wally's impotence. It isn't clear whether Wally simply couldn't afford a call screener or didn't want one -- it's evident watching these highlights t

  December 24, 2007

• YouTube Saves Trestles

  The Save San Onofre Coalition really hopes the Coastal Commission is a buncha voyeurs. See, the SSOC (made up of Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Endangered Habitats League, Laguna Greenbelt, Surfrider Foundation, Audubon California, the California State Parks Foundation and probably some ninjas) has compiled hundreds and hundreds of videos on YouTube for the purpose of convincing Coastal Commission members that a poorly-planned toll road built by a shoddil

  January 23, 2008

• Video Savant: Deodato's “Also Sprach Zarathustra”

  Welcome to Heard Mentality's newest regular feature, Video Savant. It will appear every Tuesday, if all goes according to plan and YouTube keeps delivering the audio/visual goods. Video Savant's concept is simple: I scour the vast cyber tundra (mostly the beneficent expanses of YouTube) for unusual and excellent music-oriented videos and then comment on them, for your edification and entertainment. The goal is to expand your musical horizons in weekly increments, so that in good time you can

  February 19, 2008

• Thinking Aloud at the Prospector last night--in hi def!

  Through the magic of YouTube, you, yes, you can come along as the OC Weekly travels to exotic Long Beach to film hipsters in their natural habitat. You will ooh and ahh as local band Thinking Aloud serenades you into a stupor.

  February 22, 2008

• Idiots Already Misconstruing Ask a Mexican on YouTube!

  March 16, 2008

• Shawn Nelson Even More of a Moron Than First Thought

  Yesterday, we reported on the efforts of Fullerton Councilmember Shawn Nelson to get rid of the historic murals on the Lemon Street overpass just south of Valencia Drive. Today, we came across a YouTube video with footage of the murals and--more crucially--Nelson's unexpurgated remarks. All we can say is--Nelson, you're turning out to be the stupidest city councilmember in Orange County since Dick Nichols. First Nelson error: Misrepresenting the Thee Midniters classic "The Town I Live In" as "

  April 16, 2008

• Newfangled Interweb Promotions

  There aren't any previews or coming attractions for plays, which can make it difficult for potential audience members to decide if they'd like to attend a production. Well, the internet is changing that. Thanks to the development of YouTube, theater companies can now record a section of their performance and broadcast it for the world to see... and then judge. One theater company hopping on the viral video bandwagon is South Coast Repertory, who've posted clips of their current showings. Take

  June 2, 2008

• Video Savant: Soundtrack to 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'

  One of the fringe benefits of spending an afternoon at Mike McHugh's Distillery Studios recently to watch LA cult-pop figure Ariel Pink and band work on their next album was discovering the existence of a 1964 Russian film titled Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, directed by Sergei Parajanov (sometimes rendered Paradjanov). The group's drummer had the DVD in the studio and Matt Castille, who's producing Ariel Pink's forthcoming full-length, compared Shadows to Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Moun

  June 24, 2008

• Funniest Video of the Day...

  ...Is undoubtedly SanTana's rosy envisioning of its grand choo-choo conspiracy. The city still hasn't discovered YouTube, so click here for some MediaPlayer-only fun! Think they paid U2 for the rights to the band's "Beautiful Day"? Also recorded for posterity's sake here is the below, older propaganda. Spot the busty politician in the beginning!

  July 14, 2008

• ¡Vamos! Frank Black Plays Detroit Bar Aug. 21

  Pixies mainman Frank Black (a.k.a. Black Francis and Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) will play Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar Aug. 21. You can get tickets here. I'd post a video right about now, but YouTube appears to be broken at the moment.

  August 1, 2008

• Matt Costa Releases Second Single

  The Malloys, the brotherly director-ly duo who've worked previously with artists like the Kooks, Jimmy Eat World, Cold War Kids, Santana, the White Stripes, Will Ferrell (?) and others, have teamed up once again with Huntington Beach's Matt Costa for the video to his second single, "Cigarette Eyes," off his sophomore album, Unfamiliar Faces. The video was shot in a single take and even features a couple cameos from Costa's drummer, James Fletcher, who also plays drums for the Costa Mesa-based

  August 27, 2008

• No on Prop 8 public service announcement

  Weekly contributing writer Dave Barton and his friend Greg Adkins directed and edited this moving No on Prop 8 clip, currently making the rounds of YouTube and even the Daily Kos. The lines being read are from 1 Corinthians. And of course you already knew that Proposition 8 is the November religious-fundie ballot measure that seeks to ban re-ban gay marriage in California...

  September 29, 2008

• What's Humming Through the Skulls of Orange County?

  June 8, 2000

• LowBallVideoChatter: John Lennon, "Instant Karma"

  28 years gone today . . . Yes, that is indeed a blindfolded Yoko rocking the knitting needles. It's art, y'know . . . Also: I'm avoiding the obvious "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" clip, because all the YouTube ones are supremely cheesy . . .

  December 8, 2008

• Musical Advent Calendar: No Doubt, 'Oi to the World'

  Tonight is the annual "Vandals Christmas Formal" at the House of Blues in Anaheim, and we talked earlier this week about No Doubt getting back together in 2009, so what better OCriffic song for today than No Doubt's cover of Vandals Christmas tune "Oi to the World"? None more better.Unfortunately, all the videos on YouTube have "embedding disabled by request" (the Internet's becoming a real police state) so check it out here.

  December 20, 2008

• UCI's Kyle Good Done Good in Online Video Contest

    After clicking the "play" symbol on 133 YouTube video submissions, judges selected the entry above by UC Irvine student Kyle Good as one of three finalists for the X Prize Foundation's "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" online video contest. That could bring him a $25,000 check when the winner is announced next week.  Good's "The Capacitor Challenge," which calls for the creation of a new battery storage "ultra capacitor" device to power everything from i-Pods to electri

  January 28, 2009

• Living Halal Video-Reviews Ma's Islamic Chinese

  Check in every weekend for O.C. YouTube foodie madness!

  February 21, 2009

• Sublime video from Saturday night

  A guy can't take a shit these days without someone posting it on YouTube the next day. That being said, here are some clips from the Sublime reunion show Saturday night in Nevada with new singer Rome. According to his MySpace page, he's from Newport Beach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrkfVlCM_SA

  March 2, 2009

• Breaking: Don Henley Rebukes Chuck DeVore!

  Square fight! Soft-rockin' Eagles founder Don Henley has asked YouTube to yank down Irvine State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore's "Boys of Summer" parody, which we posted on Friday. Now if you try to watch the vid on YouTube, you get the inexplicably hilarious message: This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Don Henley. Don't worry, though. If you need your fix of DeVore's campaign tech-dude screeching about Barack Obama destroying America's hopes and dreams to the tune of a song

  April 7, 2009

• Die Laughing

  February 26, 2009

• Computer Love

  October 30, 2008

• Artistic Endowment

  July 17, 2008

• Rocc & Roll

  March 27, 2008

• How the Holechek Brothers' '305' Went From Hit YouTube Short to Full-Length Film

  February 28, 2008

• Back to the Future

  'The Imaginary 20th Century' takes us forward into the past

  February 7, 2008

• Diva Divinity

  Bootyliciousness and divadom
  

  August 30, 2007

• Royalty Pains and Net Prophets

  As online radio faces possible financial doom, Pandora thinks outside the box

  June 21, 2007

• Whats Illegal?

  Video of elementary schoolkids chanting on May Day becomes YouTube hit as immigration-debate propaganda

  May 24, 2007

• Two Domino's Employees Film Themselves Contaminating Food

  WCNC.com I don't relish sharing stories like this, but news is news.  Two Domino's employees in North Carolina with very, very, very poor judgment put up a video of themselves on YouTube stuffing cheese up their noses and then putting it on a pizza they were preparing.  Other bodily orifices and functions were involved in ways I shall not get into (because I just ate). Obviously, Domino's corporate offices fired them.  But they did one better; they got them arrested and are

  April 16, 2009

• Hollywood Boffo for Latino B.O.!

  March 16, 2006

• Organic Culture

  May 15, 2003

• The Egil Has Landed

  November 28, 2002

• Downloaded

  October 17, 2002

• Modern Medicine

  December 2, 1999

• Worm in a Web

  November 16, 2000

• Did Disneyland Try Viral Video Promotion of Summer Nightastic?

  The YouTube video above supposedly captures a young man proposing marriage to his girlfriend in the middle of Disneyland's Main Street USA. But as MousePlanet points out, the whole thing reeks of a stunt to promote the new Summer Nightastic spectacular by hoping the "amateur" video goes viral. There are several clues the proposal was staged:-The would-be groom is obviously a professional performer.-The area the crowd is giving up is too perfectly shaped.-No crowd is that polite, not even at the

  June 25, 2009

• The Ghost of Michael Jackson?

  Oh man. If you're not tired of the MJ news deluge yet, get ready. Too far, people. Too. Far. (However, that music? Thumbs up.) But if you're looking for a really good time, just check out some of the comments left on that YouTube vid. A comment left by YouTube user AmericanMatthew asks, "How can it be that MJ walks as a ghost when his brain was removed of his cranium? Without a brain it is impossible to walk as a Ghost around. Or what do you think about?"

  July 6, 2009

• 2009 Maloof Money Cup Opening Ceremony This Afternoon

  The official opening ceremony and course christening--my, aren't we being Christian--for the 2009 Maloof Money Cup skateboarding competition begins at 3 p.m. at the Orange County Fairgrounds, 88 Fair Dr., Costa Mesa.Created by Joe Maloof, who will attend the opening with his brother and Palms Hotel/Sacramento Kings ownership partner Gavin Maloof, this second annual event is considered the biggest money contest in the skateboarding as the sport's biggest pros chase after a half million dollar pur

  July 9, 2009

• Miley Cyrus

  September 17, 2009

• Anti-Obama 'Eligibility' Movement Members Breaking Ties With Laguna Niguel Birther Orly Taitz

  September 24, 2009

• Dishney: Disneyland Tries Some Viral Marketing?

  While browsing the very latest in cute cat videos from Japan (you think I'm joking, I'm sadly not), I couldn't help but notice the "Promoted Videos" sidebar on YouTube repeatedly featuring a handful of creepy ghost sighting videos from Disneyland. Three have been released so far, all by the same user, ghostsatdisneyland: A strange apparition wandering the grounds of the Haunted Mansion, riding Space Mountain and California Adventures' Tower of Terror. Most of the comments left by fellow YouTube

  October 14, 2009

• Jenny Slate Slips Up on Live Television

  Brand new Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate accidentally dropped the f-bomb on live air--during her first skit ever. EVER. It hasn't quite aired yet here on the west coast but enjoy the clip on YouTube while it's still there. Dig the look of horror on her face immediately after. The good news? Uh, at least it wasn't the other new SNL-er, Nasim Pedrad, former Irvine resident?

  September 26, 2009

• U2 Rose Bowl Show to Be Streamed Live on YouTube

  Chris SansenbachU2 in Anaheim, April 2005.​U2, YouTube. It just makes too much sense.We talked earlier this week about how massively packed the Rose Bowl in Pasadena will be for the U2 show this Sunday, with 100,000 cross-generational music fans coming from across Southern California--really, just think about that drive there, and the parking, and the leaving the parking lot, and the drive home. It took me a half hour to leave the parking garage of the Bren Events Center at UCI on Sunday, for

  October 21, 2009

• Mom of Harassed Corona Del Mar Student Keeps Fighting

  A still from the video mentioned in the lawsuit. Watch the full thing here.​We reported back in September that the American Civil Liberties Union had settled a lawsuit against Newport-Mesa School District and Corona del Mar High School administrators brought by the Orange County Equality Coalition the Ketchum-Wiggins family, whose daughter Hail was harassed via Facebook video and who said administrators didn't do enough to punish the harassers. The lawsuit came in the midst of controversy over

  November 11, 2009