Many congratulations to Neocha.com who recently turned 2 years old. Featured here is a bit of footage from their birthday party in Shanghai, courtesy of a drunken Adam Schokora, including a solid rendition of Kraftwerk’s ‘The Model’, as covered by Sun Ye and Zhu Baixi.
The other day I was asked by a friend to pick out a few examples of classic British comedy. So, in no particular order, here you go Will..
Blackadder Goes Forth
After visiting the Soviet Union in the 1930s, American actor/singer/civil rights activist Paul Robeson became smitten with communist society and it’s egalitarian ideals. He found that “the country was entirely free of racial prejudice and that Afro-American spiritual music resonated to Russian folk traditions.”
“Here, for the first time in my life … I walk in full human dignity.”
He welcomed the arrival of communism in China by singing the Chinese national anthem ‘March Of The Volunteers‘ at a performance in Europe in 1949:
With it’s tagline ‘Broadcast Him’, GodTube is Chrisianity’s way of embracing social video media. Curiousity led me to having a rummage around the GodTube all-time charts to see what pieces of video content have been democratically voted to best sum up the passions and faith of the largest religion in the world.
It should perhaps be no surprise that, unlike the real Youtube, the top of the charts are actually emotively substantive. Regardless of religious persuasions the top two are genuinely affecting in their own right:
8.8 million views
7.5 million views
Mind-blowing and disturbing at the same time. Whoever this BLU chap is, I doff my cap to him.
