So there’s this band from Brooklyn called the Gregory Brothers. They have some pretty good songs (check out Bad Habit), and describe themselves as “75% Brothers, 25% Babe.”
But more importantly, they’re really funny. Lately they’ve focused their attention on a series of YouTube videos titled “Auto-tune the News,” where they take banal media from the 24 hour news cycles and set them to auto-tune, changing these otherwise macabre monologues into rapturous, unintentional melodies.
Now you may know the Bros have a particular disdain for artsits who use auto-tune to make shitty music, but this is one group who is using it right.
Case and point:
Patrick once saved a drowning dog from an icey pond, so he is probably better than you. 
Gaming and beverages have a wide and varied history, from 7up mascot Spot’s 16-bit adventures, PlayStation’s Pepsi Man and the Donkey Kong Jungle Juice energy drink. I believe in the business world they call this synergy. In the 90′s SEGA and Coca-Cola took such cross-promotional teamwork to the next level, releasing a complete beverage-branded console bundle. In it, you got [...]
Man, Nintendo certainly had a lot of awesome merchandising back in the day. In game-branded food alone there was Nintendo-themed cereal, mac-and-cheese and fruit snacks. Way better than those shitty mint tins they now sell at FYE and Newbury Comics. But here’s a Nintendo product you definitely should not eat: The Legend of Zelda Model Set. Currently [...]
(NOTE: This was a contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. You should go read it.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted me down to their [...]
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