One of the projects I’ve been working on at Sony is a video series entitled 60 Second Soundtracks.  The concept is simple.  I work with some of the biggest music geeks I know, but we’re rarely given the opportunity to share our love of music professionally from a personal viewpoint.  The series was conceived to give us all a place to talk about our favorite albums and why we love them so much.

There was no direction given as to which albums to choose, other than that they were in the SonyBMG (now Sony Music) catalog.  I encouraged people to pick albums from deep in our catalog rather than the obvious choice (I strictly forbid anyone from picking “London Calling,” for example, we have so many Clash fans!)

The result is, I think, a really interesting collection of stories of people’s love of a wide range of albums and songs, and reminiscences of their own personal histories.  Nobody picked albums we ‘happened to be working on this quarter’.  There was no business reason behind the choices, other than that they felt that these albums needed to be heard by more people.

Thanks to Chris at Etc. Productions and Joe at Vella Interactive for making the vision a reality.

I hope you enjoy them.

This is the part of the blog post where I would embed a YouTube player, except that my companies YouTube strategy is to disable sharing on all the videos that we deliver to them.  So you will have to make do with a:

Link: 60 Second Soundtracks playlist on YouTube

Update: here’s a widget with some of the vids, not all.

…or anything, really.

As done by the YouTube-To-TV cast of “Nobody’s Watching” from the creator of Scrubs which returns to Thursday nights and you really should watch because its really frackin funny.

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[Via TVSquad]

With the exciting news of the impending release (10/24) of Sesame Street: Old School, a 3-DVD set featuring episodes and clips from the first 5 seasons of SS, I found it necessary to share my favorite Ernie/Bert sketch of all time below.

There are a ton more clips at foldedspace.org, too!

I continue to bow to all things Henson.

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In response to the above unfunny bit of mediocrity, Nick Bailey of Shorefire responded on a mailing list:

“giggle.. hipsters are funny! giggle giggle… I’m making fun of hipsters… but I am one, see, but I’m making fun of myself, so it’s funny… tee hee… check my super hip references, I know what everyone’s talking about, and so do you, we’re all hip together, but even hipper, because we realize how silly it all is, but of course we still do it, but aren’t hipsters

funny… hee

* YAWN *”

I wholeheartedly agree. When will this die, already.

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This one’s for you, Jenn.

• The Nation just posted its new National Entertainment State documenting the 6 companies that run most of the entertainment world.
• Ricky Gervais interviews Larry David
• YouTube has a pilot by one of the writers of Scrubs about a reality show about the making of a sitcom. It’s much funnier than it sounds… The WB decided to run with “Twins” instead.
• RIP Aaron Spelling

Some sage advice from a classic performer, Louis Jordan.

Your new favorite song is Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”.

Here’s a few other versions of it:

An excellent Beastie Boys mash-up video by DJ Sussex.

A slower, military-drumming and string-quartet having version from Top of the Pops.