Subject: YouTube LLC

• Billyburg Has Its Own Borat: "Why People Do Hang Shoes?"

  April 4, 2007

• Transformers get gully

  January 29, 2007

• Blast from Past: Rove and Rather in '72

  May 8, 2007

• Obsessive Guide to Saturday Night Live Needs You

  November 1, 2006

• YouTube Flirts with Legitimacy

  September 19, 2006

• Music Videos: Epic Once Again

  October 16, 2006

• The Year's Best Music Videos

  December 13, 2006

• YouTube Rap Videos, Please Break Up

  March 6, 2007

• Music Videos Get Small

  April 16, 2007

• Prodigy's Unlikely 25th Hour

  December 12, 2007

• The Year's Best Music Videos

  December 28, 2007

• Fuck a Blog: Alicia Keys on Dick Clark

  January 2, 2008

• From the Video Vaults: Lena Horne's Tree Grows in YouTube

  April 2, 2008

• Democracy Dot Com: The Left Shoots Back

  June 16, 2008

• Chris Crocker Leaves YouTube, Alone

  July 30, 2008

• At Home With Bogie, Bacall, And Some Other Everyday Legends

  August 13, 2008

• Williamsburg "Pandamonium" Reviews are In

  August 18, 2008

• YouTube Slowly Turning to ProTube

  November 11, 2008

• YouTube Cracks Down on Porn

  December 3, 2008

• Loftstel Reaches Out to the Young and Broke

  December 15, 2008

• Warner Pulls Music Vids from YouTube; More to Come?

  December 22, 2008

• Indescribable YouTube Treasure!

  December 29, 2008

• Housing Collapse Makes Real Estate More Affordable to Millionaires

  Brownstoner celebrates the dip in local real estate prices caused by our housing price collapse. The Park Slope brownstone that was going for $2,990,000 six months ago? Slashed to $2.8 million! And there's a building in Crown Heights that you can get for (just barely) under a million. We hope word gets out to this YouTube poster, who is sharing a tiny apartment with two roommates who sleep in bunk beds. Better days are coming, nicxjustice. Hang in there.

  January 2, 2009

• YouTube Delight: Joey Heatherton Kicks and Twirls

  I can stake a tiny little claim to pop culture history, which is that when John Waters was looking for '60s singer-dancer-actress Joey Heatherton to put in his movie Cry-Baby in 1990, I was able to provide him with her contact information. I know people in high places! And looking at this YouTube clip of Joey wowing 'em on "I've Got Your Number," complete with Michael Bennett choreography, I'm even prouder to know Joey, whom I'd wrongly pegged as a mere sexpot, a bosomy love machine. She's act

  January 20, 2009

• You Thought Your Commute was Bad

  YouTube user sl0wgrind records this altercation between what appear to be a couple of nurses on a moving Bx28 bus. Quality is poor, but the combatants seem past the point of coherence anyway. One combatant, encouraged by a perception that "I don't think everybody's puttin' their arms on me," steps to the other, and bellows at her over the shoulder of a straphanger who, like most of the other passengers, quietly waits for her stop. This is the sort of thing you can brag about to your friends wi

  January 28, 2009

• Phelps Bong Pix a Matter of Widespread, Fake Concern

  Michael Phelps was pictured in the News of the World using a bong, and gave a standard-issue apology for "behavior which was regrettable." The IOC

  February 2, 2009

• Cop Raid on YouTube Used In Corruption Hearing

  We're relieved to see we're not the only ones getting news from YouTube. The Post follows up on the above "NYPD Corruption at its best" video of cops raiding the bar Beer Goggles on Staten Island, in which one of the officers appears to some viewers to take bills out of a video poker game and hand them around to other members of the raiding party. The clip was used as defense evidence in Sgt. William Lewis' departmental trial, in which he was accused of tipping the bar owner to the raid; Lewis

  February 2, 2009

• Video: Inside the "Top Model" Riot

  In the middle section of this citizen journalist's YouTube video (warning: horrible music) we get some crowd-level footage of trash talk among the participants in last weekend's "America's Next Top Model" audition/riot. A policeman removes some attendees, one of whom promises that someone is going to get cut. The show's host, Tyra Banks, assures "all the girls who weren't seen" in the show's first-ever tryout for contestants under 5-foot-7 that they'll "get an opportunity to audition," via a m

  March 17, 2009

• Woman Suspects Gas Leak, Impending Death; Leaves Video

  Here's something else great about YouTube: you can use it to leave evidence if you suspect you are being poisoned by a gas leak. User misskriss678 ("a former self-injurer") smelled something "disgusting" on her block and it has crept into her apartment. She suspects gas. "Now I think I'm dying," she says, so she intends to run away. "This is a video just in case I do die of a gas leak. Totally irresponsible of the city." Now you know the truth.

  March 20, 2009

• SING FOR YOUR SYRUP

  Here's to the ladies (and men) who brunch

  March 25, 2009

• Introducing FoodTube

  January 15, 2008

• The Black-Rock Revolution, and How We Rebooted It

  January 15, 2008

• Hi-C

  June 17, 2008

• Fish Tales on YouTube--The End of Line Trailer

  The End of the Line, the documentary that will change to way you think about seafood, will be in theaters June 8, but you can a taste of it (ahem) now. The latest trailer of the film has been released on YouTube, and offers a glimpse into the chilling account of how we are eating our oceans dry--not to mention how easy it would be to stop this from happening.

  June 2, 2009

• Stairway to Stardom Goes All Dramatic And Shit!

  This week's series of giddy YouTube clips from the '80s public access talent show Stairway to Stardom turns all serious here for a meaningful moment. No tapdances in spangles. No cute ditties about hairdressing and mousse. It's time for some (very) high drama. The description of this one says it all: "Precious Taft performs a monologue about radiators." Art doesn't get any deeper than that. And Precious really makes it rock. She cries like steam coming out of a you know. So will you, if you h

  April 15, 2009

• Domino's Grossout Kids Face Arrest; TV Chefs on the Naughty List & Bruni Begs: Eat At Restaurants!

  "Michael" and "Kristy" from the grossout YouTube video in which two Domino's Pizza employees defile pizza toppings before allegedly serving them to customers face felony charges and, possibly, a civil suit. [FOXNews] Don't do as they say or as they do--TV chefs are spreading their bad habits to viewers, such as the overuse of tin foil (Giada), overconsumption of mass-produced meat (Guy Fieri), and purchase of over-packaged pre-made foods (Sandra Lee). [Huffington Post] Fruits and vegetables a

  April 16, 2009

• Lady Gaga

  April 22, 2009

• More Talent From Stairway To Stardom!

  Here's another YouTube treasure from the '80s public access crapathon called Stairway To Stardom. In this clip, the low-rent (no, FREE rent) talent show featured Melissa Ann Ledwon, a game but rather mechanical young girl in too many spangles, who, after some dazzling air piano, tapdances to the brassy Broadway ditty "They're Playing Our Song". High point: After the opening bit, you hear a loud hiss due to the really bad mix of her backup tape.

  April 14, 2009

• 'Abandon Ship Showcase'

  May 6, 2009

• An Evening With the Brain Trust Behind 'Auto-Tune the News'

  July 1, 2009

• New Rye Rye Video, Directed By M.I.A.: "Bang"

  Sometime NYC-resident M.I.A. makes her directing debut with the video to Rye Rye's "Bang"--it's a suitably epileptic video for a pretty epileptic song, plus it's got tons of dancing, and lately, that's all anybody wants to look at again, right? Also, apparently this song played over the credits of Fast & Furious, the fourth installment of that illustrious franchise, which probably means M.I.A. paid the dancers and everything. Seems they went to Spinner for the premiere after YouTube shut M.I.A

  July 1, 2009

• Post Your Favorite YouTube Clip!

  Here's your chance to be a curator of all things silly yet profound. I'm giving you the wondrous opportunity to be a guest blogger and throw up (I mean put up) your favorite all-time YouTube clip for all of us to share and regurgitate to. It can be something gorgeous and life changing or overwhelmingly minute and infantilizing. Just make it special--something you personally cotton to--like the one I'm putting up: A clip of someone in a clown mask doing a tribute to Beyonce. Top that, bitches!

  July 17, 2009

• William Shatner Interprets Sarah Palin Resignation Speech

  The latest Hollywood attack on the Divine Sarah comes from the Conan O'Brien Show, where the treasonous Irishman unleashed liberal media's secret weapon, William Shatner, to read a section of her resignation speech as jazz poetry, which their apparatchiks have disseminated on YouTube. Palin's denunciation of Priceline is expected later this week.

  July 28, 2009

• Matt Wilson Quartet

  September 22, 2009

• A STATELY AFFAIR

  September 29, 2009

• Tabbouleh, That Unlikely Dance Club Anthem

  In the Middle Eastern restaurants that dot the planet, tabbouleh is little more than that reliable if somewhat unexciting staple of parsley, tomatoes, bulgur, and assorted herbs. On YouTube, however, tabbouleh occupies a more rhythmic realm. Check out this video, which stars a Borat doppelganger who dances to a surprisingly catchy beat while singing that tabbouleh makes me "shake shake shake shake shake my booty." While we're not quite convinced that "a song about a salad's gonna make you shit

  October 7, 2009

• Rescue Food PSA: Watch an Ear of Corn Make Out With a Hot Cartoon Woman...for Charity!

  City Harvest, the non-profit that rescues excess food from restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms to donate to hungry New Yorkers, is running a viral video campaign starring feisty food characters. The "Rescue Food" videos, produced pro-bono by a group of local animators, directors, writers, and musicians, can be viewed at www.rescuefood.org and on YouTube.

  October 13, 2009

• The xx

  October 20, 2009

• Tonight! The Long Winters, TMBG, The Wrens (Well, One Of 'Em), and The Long Count

  So if the idea of Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar singing songs inspired by a Jack Kerouac novel fills you with delight, than by all means, hit Webster Hall tonight. If you're hostile or indifferent, though, go anyway: The Long Winters are opening. John Roderick is perhaps the finest purveyor of sensitive, erudite, gently clever, Believer-subscriber-baiting indie rock; as his ongoing YouTube series attests (see above), he's making lots of progress on his new album.

  October 28, 2009

• Stream the New Them Crooked Vultures Record

  ​The nice thing about being John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl, and Josh Homme is that you're not exactly waiting anxiously for royalty checks off your new goofy side-project band--in fact, some days, you might just say 'fuck it' and give the whole thing away for free. Today, for instance. The trio's debut LP, formally out November 17, is streaming in its entirety for free right now at the band's YouTube page. This should take care of that whole not-knowing-the-words thing nicely.

  November 10, 2009