You know the deal -- if I can't embed a video here, I don't like to post it. Why post something with just a couple lines of text and a link?
But I'm willing to make an exception if the video's pretty awesome, and the Yo Gabba Gabba! video for "All My Friends are Insects" as performed by Weezer, the creation of which we noted here a few months back, is pretty awesome. It was on the Nick YGG site last night, but was gone this morning, apparently because Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive. Oh, well, good for them -- go watch it.
It misses the complete awesomeness of Steve Burns' "I Hog the Ground" video, but by just a hair. Also amusing: the raging discussion of how earthworms are not insects.
I dunno. Doesn't bug me.
Video: "I Found Love" (Yo Gabba Gabba) - Trembling Blue Stars
This isn't a new Season 3 video from Yo Gabba Gabba -- it's actually from Season 1. And the song itself -- "I Found Love," done by Trembling Blue Stars -- is actually more than 40 years old. But it's newly available on YouTube, and it's so dreamy (with animation so lovely) I couldn't resist posting it.
Trembling Blue Stars - "I Found Love" (from Yo Gabba Gabba) [YouTube]
Plus, a bonus video after the jump which, though it might seem odd at first, actually does tie to this first video.
Yo Gabba Gabba Season Three Set for March 8
Photo credit: Ben Clark/Nickelodeon
That's right, everybody's favorite Super Bowl advertising star and his pals will return on March 8 for the long-awaited new season of "I can't believe that person agreed to be on the show" and toddler life lessons on the Nickelodeon show Yo Gabba Gabba!. The Season Three premiere "Circus" will feature "Weird Al" Yankovic playing a circus ringmaster, Sarah Silverman teaching the -- I am not making this up -- "Time to Mime" Dancey Dance, and Black Kids singing "I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Brush Their Teeth." (OK, kidding, sort of.)
Beyond Weird Al, Sarah, and Black Kids, this season will feature appearances from (in no particular order) Jack McBrayer, Paul Scheer, Weezer, Anthony Bourdain, Of Montreal, Mos Def, Devo, The Aquabats, Mark Mothersbaugh, Biz Markie Travis Barker, Erykah Badu, Band of Horses, Blitzen Trapper, Chairlift, Rob Dyrdek, The Faint, Flaming Lips, The Killers, Solange Knowles, Mix Master Mike, Angela Kinsey, The Sounds, Taking Back Sunday, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Charlyne Yi and John Francis Daley, Samm Levine and Martin Starr from "Freaks and Greeks."
Whew.
Here's the premiere week schedule...Yo Gabba Gabba Goes To The Super Bowl
Yo Gabba Gabba's Muno (the tall red one) is co-starring in a Super Bowl ad for Kia. I could make the serious tsk-tsk noises about how this proves that the show is targeted at least in part at adults because why else would the ad agency use a character from a show whose most popular song encourages kids to eat everything on their plates.
Instead, I'll just note that whatever swelled head Muno might get compared to his (unseen) YGG co-stars would be wiped out by the fact that that Paul Frank monkey gets most of the good scenes (the tattoo was particularly amusing).
Yo Gabba Gabba! Live... in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
Really. Sure, the Yo Gabba Gabba! folks went and hit NYC and LA, but now Yo Gabba Gabba Live is hitting the nation's breadbasket, with March shows lined up for Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Toronto (listening to live music is awesome, eh?), Cincinnati, St. Louis, and, yes, Fort Wayne, Indiana, population, just over a quarter million (with an MSA total of almost 400,000). For those of us in Phoenix (5th largest city in America, 4.3 million in the MSA), seeing shows like this go to Fort Wayne and not Phoenix (I know, this isn't a southwest tour, but you get my point) is just another reminder of how messed up the live music market here is. Maybe if they came here, Amare Stoudamire would join them on stage. Assuming he doesn't get traded soon.
Anyway, the NYC and LA shows had some pretty cool live guests (Dinosaur Jr., Snoop Dogg, the Roots), so I'll be curious to see who -- if anyone -- joins the fun in these slightly less major media markets. Tickets go on sale this week -- tour dates after the jump.Randy Kaplan in Concert! (Or Why I Won't Be in Hollywood Sunday)
I probably would have made a bigger deal about the whole Kids' Day at Amoeba Records in Hollywood tomorrow (Sunday). Peter Himmelman in concert at 1 PM, assorted Yo Gabba Gabba! giveaways, et cetera, later in the day. (Hey, any place that features TMBG and Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang in-stores is OK by me.)
But Randy Kaplan is in concert tomorrow here in Phoenix at almost exactly the same time, and so he gets my time. The concert is at 2 PM at the Church of the Beatitudes and is part of the Not Just For Kids concert series. Tickets are just $3 per person, $10 per family. If you're in Phoenix, you've probably already heard about it, but if you haven't, do join us. It will rock, not in the strictly rock sense, but it'll be fun, just like it was last time.
Randy Kaplan - "Mosquito Song"
