The 4 Chords In Music History

This song was performed by ‘Axis of Awesome’, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and is a mashup of a bunch of songs that have used the I-V-vi-IV chord progression (ONE-FIVE-SIX-FOUR), obviously a lot of these songs are in different keys, so they use a different 4 chords, but they all sound exactly the same because of the progression. If you have a dusty guitar in your room that houses spiders due to inactivity then maybe it’s time to pick it up and play four chords over and over again; you just might make it big in the music industry! Check out my guide on chord progressions if you want to write something slightly more original.

McBain the Movie


In the Simpsons a hilarious running gag was McBain and his macho action man appearance and poorly worded one liners; a clear parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger and all his movies. In true early Simpsons spirit the character was never overplayed and was given just the right amount of screen time, which was on the Simpsons TV at the start of a few episodes; if you put all these short segments together you get McBain: the Movie! This is one of the best things I’ve ever seen, can’t wait for the sequel: ‘You Have the Right to Remain Dead’


The Dalai Lama Kills a Mosquito



Ghost in the Shell: The Philosophy of Technology



Trunks Turns Super Saiyan For the First Time


Steve Jobs Gives a Damn Fine Speech… on Death


The Mythology of Star Wars

In 1987 a groundbreaking conversation took place between scholar Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers on the topic of mythology, this conversation was recorded at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch and was turned into a famous 5 part series called ‘The Power of Myth’. In this series, Joseph Campbell delved deep into the world of mythology, and even discussed the archetypal figures that Lucas had used in the Star Wars films. Joseph Campbell left this earth shortly after in 1988, but Bill Moyers returned to the Skywalker ranch in 2000 to further discuss with George Lucas, the mythological grounding which his movies were based on. The result is another fascinating 5 part conversation series on mythology, watch this if you are a fan of Joseph Campbell or Star Wars, or film analysis in general, and you will surely find something of worth!
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Joseph Campbell’s ‘Monomyth’

Joseph Campbell was an extraordinary man with an extensive knowledge on world mythology, symbolism and psychology; he borrowed elements from Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, and his concept of archetypes, and used them both to help bridge a gap between East and West and all of the world religions and rituals. Joseph Campbell is most famous for his formulation of the fascinating and widely studied ‘monomyth’ theory, which states that all myths and stories – whether they be from religious texts or fiction novels – follow the same narrative structure, which he called the ‘the hero’s journey’. This structure was outlined step by step in Campbell’s best selling book, ‘The Hero With a Thousand Faces’, and is referred to as the ‘monomyth’, or one-myth, which is an archetypal journey or transformation that is repeated in every story told by man, in an endless circular pattern. The reason this theory is so popular, is that it touches on that intuitive element found in every man, that nothing is really separate, and that man and the universe is really interconnected in every way.


1). The Call to Adventure
2). Crossing of the Threshold (Entering the Unknown)
3). Trials and Tribulations of the Journey
4). Attainment of Enlightenment
5). Return of the Hero

Take a good look at any myth, story, novel or movie, and chances are you can see all of the same elements, simply wearing a different mask. The short video below shows one such example of the ‘monomyth’, found in the great sci fi masterpiece: ‘The Matrix’.

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Seinfeld Mango Scene

This is one my all time favourite Seinfeld moments: when Kramer gets banned from the local fruit store for trying to return a bad peach. Jerry is left to buy the fruit on Kramer’s strange list for him and it is very, very funny! I work in a fruit/vegetable department at a supermarket so I find it particularly amusing how Kramer doesn’t want to have to resort to buying his fruit at the supermarket because ‘the apples are mealy, the oranges are dry, I don’t know what’s going on with the papayas!’ It’s also funny how picky Kramer is with his fruit, wanting avocados that are soft, but not too soft, and plums ‘that are red on the inside’! This is exactly how customers are when they buy their fruit, Seinfeld nailed this one.

Alan Watts: The Way of Waking Up



New Simpsons Sucks!

Sorry for the bad quality, it’s the only clip I could find on Youtube that wasn’t in Spanish, but then again at least the picture quality matches the content; at 2:45 a dog can even be heard weeping for the Simpsons… and again at 3:17, poor dog. Whenever a new episode is on TV I can’t help but cringe at it, a lot of the time I will actually watch it till the ads just because it is so hard to stop watching your favourite show being ravaged. I literally grew up with the Simpsons, and it was something I looked forward to watching every night at 6pm. It shaped and nurtured my sense of humour, family values and my love of film. But now The Simpsons is in the same category as that friend of yours who used to be quite fit, but is now really fat; what happened to him? Why doesn’t he lose that weight? Doesn’t he know he’s fat? Why isn’t the Simpsons funny anymore? Who’s behind this!? The Simpsons used to be deviously clever, it never tried too hard to make jokes, and a lot of the jokes blew right past me as a kid, but made me fall over as an adult. For example, compare the above clip from the new Simpsons with this clip from the old Simpsons: Continue reading

The Feminist Movement Was a Secret Illuminati Plot?

This interesting video sheds light on a new and zany conspiracy theory: Feminism (we all love feminism!) was created and supported by the FBI to break up the nuclear family and to enable them to tax more than half the population. By giving women rights they are able to pursue jobs and integrate themselves into the workplace, therefore keeping them out of home as the ‘house wife’. Now, with the nuclear family broken down children spend less time with their mums and more time at schools, therefore allowing children to be ‘programmed’ at a young age by society, rather than their mums. Believe it or not? Believe it. Haha.. feminism.


Jim Morrison Interview 1969

This short clip from a larger 10 minute interview has Jim Morrison of The Doors puffing away at a fat cigar like the bad ass that he is. In the interview he discusses his role as the driving force of his band, and he also discusses the role of the Shaman in tribes and in their music. Finally Jim Morrison makes an impressive prediction on the direction music is heading in, he believed that American music has two roots: Blues and Country, and the two fused to create Rock and Roll as we know it. Jim says that the future of Rock music would be a fusion of both Blues, Country and something else entirely, that is electronically made music. He quite accurately visioned a future of music which involved a relationship between man and machine, quite right Jim!

The whole interview can be seen below, it contains the same 3 minutes from the clip above but also fleshes out Jim Morrison’s use of poetry, with Ray Manzarek (keyboard) giving a very interesting take on Jim Morrison’s role in the band, and their role as musicians to improvise musically as a whole.