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When I was a kid, I was a huge web-dork. I spent inordinate amounts of time with html and java-script. But you need something cool to put within all that code, so I was soon spending inordinate amounts of time with Paintshop Pro and its accompanying .gif creator. I don't know how many hours up through college I spent creating .gifs, but I was awesome at it.  Remember, in the late 1990's, before we had easy to stream video (you know, before I could watch downtown Cairo live on my phone while on a sidewalk in Manhattan) .gifs were an effing big deal. It's an image! It moves! Now .gifs are like a pair of chucks or Vans: sure, we have the technology for better, more comfortable shoes, but the old-skool shoes are just so cool. .Gifs are just so cool.  Kinda as cool as this high-five:

Now in 2011 to create a .gif you go to a website, enter the youtube link, and press Create .gif. Not as exciting a process, but just as exciting a result.

Everyone and their mom is in this video.

...Well, not everyone, but a lot of great random musicians are acting goofy in the very fun new Sara Bareilles video for the song Uncharted.  It's refreshing to see a well-made low-tech video, and here's definitely a case where the video makes the song. Watch below, because when else will you see Pharrell and Sara Quin battle for most adorable in the same video:

I don't really know anything about this Bareilles musician and from the sound of  it I could write her off as radio friendly singer-songwriterzzzzzz...., but there's just 4 too many cool folks (Pharrell Williams, Tegan, Sara, Ben Folds) who agreed to be in this video to not give her more of a chance. Will do so.

Awww... crap!

This is what happens when you don't go to that small show at Mercury Lounge because you're "too tired."   Sara Quin (of the Tegan and ... fame) produced FENCES' new s/t album, which I like much ($5!!). Fences is very good indie heartfelt non-whiny/sleep-inducing acoustic dude-with-a-guitar music.

So, I had planned to go to the show because I suspected -- as you can see from the videos -- he's even better live.  Turns out Sara Quin was there -- she duets on the song My Girl The Horse --  as you can also see from the videos.  Note - Sara Quin is my Beiber, as the kids say. Post on this later. So I could have seen them perform together live on a small stage in NYC; but instead I decided to stay home and be lame on my couch. Lesson learned: in NYC you will always pay for being lame. I apologize to you all that instead of Sara Quin and Fences photos, I have a re-blog.


Fences: My Girl The Horse (feat. Sara Quin) from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo.


Fences: Sadie (A Shoot The Player Film) from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo.

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