Most Intense Practice Video Ever
AnnArbor.com has a pair of youtube videos up from practice. The first one was mute, but this one was accompanied by music. The mixture of super bland highlights plus Jay-Z/The Beatles mixed make anyone else laugh?
September 9th, 2009 at 8:38 PM ^
Dare I say a little weak? Yes that makes me laugh a little.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:50 PM ^
Definitely some unintentional comedy there.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:56 PM ^
"Oh yeah" right after one of the WR's dropped the ball. Nice timing :)
September 9th, 2009 at 9:40 PM ^
Why even put those up on any website? That's just lame, sorry.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:42 PM ^
Is pretty sad. When the Ann Arbor news quit, they transferred my subscription to the .com folks, but they don't put out anything worth paying for.
You know what they ought to do? Have some balls and start printing stories about how the freep "praticegate" allegations are bogus. They'd be the first "real journalists" (Since all Brian does is fire some googles through the intertrons) to do so, which would be worth some major bragging rights when this whole thing comes to nothing.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:50 PM ^
I actually like their coverage of the city, but it's definitely not a newspaper (as that is more what you're interested in). It'll be interesting how their coverage evolves over the next year or two as they settle in. I'd like to see them break a big story in some way or another just to cement themselves as a journalistic media and not just a niche community site. The community fluff is nice, but having some solid investigative reporting will solidify their repertoire.
And I would love it if they would put out more than one RSS feed. I'd rather just get the sports than have to sift through 40 articles a day, many I don't care about.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:35 AM ^
I got to know a few of the A2 News photographers, and one of them -- a 15-year veteran of the paper -- got hired at A2.com. I got a chance to talk to him at the Chelsea/Huron game at EMU, and I'm not sure they're putting enough people or money (which really means money into people) for serious labor-intensive stuff like solid investigative reporting. Maybe (hopefully) that'll change, but initially it looks like they were just excited they could hire experience A2 News people for significantly less than they were paying them at the News.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:47 PM ^
is from The Grey Album by Danger Mouse, which blended Jay-Z's Black Album and Beatles' White Album. A veritable sound collage with pleasing results. Worth downloading if you can still find it
September 9th, 2009 at 9:55 PM ^
You should check out the full video... it's from sunday's 25 hour practice. Check it out at freep's website.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:03 PM ^
God i hate that blasphemy of ruining a great Beatles Song. If that was a legit mashup...then I blame Michael Jackson for that, since he owned the publishing to the songs and pimped them out like that...
Im sorry but JayZ or whoever that is blabbering out of time over a great Beatles groove just sucks big time. He killed that song.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:08 PM ^
I'm pretty sure that Danger Mouse is responsible for this mashup, and that he received permission from neither copyright holder when he did this and was sued. Jay Z is a lot more tasteful with the samples he uses than most.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Album
The vocals aren't "out of time" whatsoever.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:45 PM ^
If someone took the greatest song ever written, a song that ends wars, inspires people to feed the hungry, etc. etc. and then mixed it with rap, it would just be a pile of shit.
rap sucks...
September 10th, 2009 at 10:47 AM ^
True, but if someone took the greatest song ever written and mixed it with country, it would cause fire to rain from the sky and the oceans to burn, the arrival of false prophets that will deceive many, war, famine, earthquakes, persecutions and tortures of the elect, lawlessness, and the love of many to grow cold.
country really sucks...
September 10th, 2009 at 12:02 AM ^
Nobody touched the White Album; no one 'killed' Glass Onion. It's still the same track 3 on the White Album. This isn't a replacement entry into the sacred canon. Not saying you have to like the mashup, but who cares? I'm a huge Beatles fan, and I quite enjoyed the Grey Album, just as I enjoyed the mashups on the (Beatles-approved) Love album. Don't see what's so horrible with music being a tangible, living thing. And isn't that the point of the new Beatles Rock Band? That's something that's cool with recorded music, you have the originals to play around with, and in the right hands something interesting might happen. Bob Dylan didn't flinch over Mark Ronson's remix of 'Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine.' Also, as was mentioned earlier, the creation Grey Album had absolutely nothing to do with Michael Jackson or JayZ. It had purely underground origins. In fact legal action was taken to cease its distribution, thus making it something of a digital rarity.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:14 AM ^
I tend to turn a deaf ear when people start describing entire genres of music with words that are completely emotionally over the top (like "blasphemy"). It's all music. Learn to love it. What is the point in being repulsed by an entire genre of music that you don't understand?
The Grey Album is fantastic.
September 10th, 2009 at 8:23 AM ^
or did the editor add it to the clip? If it was played in practice, that would be awesome as I love that song and that Danger Mouse album.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:26 PM ^
Dammit! I clicked and came in here hoping to see some great bootleg footage of the M drill or something.
Have to get my sarcasm meter fixed.