'The Notebook' audition tape - Rachel McAdams

There aren't that many actresses I really respect, but ever since 'The Notebook', Rachel McAdams has gained mine and kept it ever since. She's one of the more better names in Hollywood nowadays and also amongst the most talented, though she keeps a low profile in comparison to numerous others.

I was wandering about on youtube (as everyone is prone to doing at some point in their boredom) and found her audition tape for 'The Notebook'.

*sound of a brain spontaneously combusting*

She has been elevated to a new level of awesome. According to the description of the video, she had only recieved the script for 'The Notebook' the night before and so she hadn't had much time to prepare. I've provided it below:

The director would have been stupid not to cast her.

give me a second go.

Lights is the best canadian to come out of Canada, other than my vertically challenged friend Esme. She's a singer/songwriter who's been around for a few years or so, rocking out her amazing piano hybrid instrument thing, which is apparently called a keytar. Here's a photo of her with this crazy piece of machinery:


It's kind of pissing me off that people are saying she's a rip-off of Owl City because technically, she came first and they're both great artists in their own right. The other thing is that they're both synthpop artists, and since its a genre only the most badass have the guts to explore, it's only obvious that they'd use similar instruments and therefore have similar sounding songs (duh). It's like saying that all of Ke$ha and Katy Perry's songs sound the same- they both belong to the same genre, so of course they sound similar.

Anyways, this was not intended to be a criticise-the-criticisers-of-the-godliest-musicians-on-earth-rant. I actually wanted to spazz about Lights' crazy new video for her song 'Second Go' that looks like buckets full of fun. Fingers crossed that it gets the recognition it deserves and bumps someone less deserving off the charts. =)

and they came BOUNDING OVER.

This man has earned himself a reputation as 'psychotic dog man'. Ultra Tune also hired him to
play a part in one of their advertisements. Watch the video that started it all and you'll see why.



And he's got his own remix too:

where the hell's my yu chi?

There's a video that's been floating around for a while here in HK about a woman who missed her flight at the airport.



And like any good comedy on youtube, it's spruned many spinoffs and adaptations:

some good old flashmobbing.

Humanity at its best. =) T-Mobile is pretty darned impressive.

HOLY HEART FAILURE!

Nothing cheers you up like retro batman. Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb.

how to be famous- don't be.

I'm not going to lie, I love watching youtube vloggers. Amongst some of my favourites are kevjumba, nerimon and communitychannel, but I'm going to focus on a guy called charlieissocoollike.

As far as my non-stalkerish qualities are concerned, he's probably a little older than me (18-20ish) and he's British. I've been following him for a while now and all of his videos are funny and entertaining, he eats ridiculous amounts of wine gums, he paints himself purple and he has a man-crush on David Tennant.

He's also quite intelligent and has some very valid criticisms about modern day society- he manages to present them in a way that they're satirical and not quite offensive (except to Heat magazine). I've provided one of his more recent videos below: