This Side of Lost

1) The Internet is smaller than you think, or
2) it is possible for Internet celebrities to extend their 15 minutes of fame.

I was originally just going to post The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, which is strong enough to stand on its own, in my opinion, but in the process of taking a closer look at it, I learned something far more interesting.

Some of you may recall a rather bizarre Flash video entitled Hyakugojyuuichi! (and other videos like it) that made the rounds about five years ago. I remember it as one item of the initial wave of True Internet Weirdness™ that broke about the turn of the century. Anyway, the video in and of itself was pretty strange, but the startling thing was that its creator, Neil Cicierega, was only thirteen.

So fast forward to last week, when I found the above song. And after a little bit of digging, I found that the artist behind the song, Lemon Demon, is a pseudonym for the same Neil Cicierega, who is now 19 and still up to plenty of Internet hijinx.

Weird! You'd think there were enough people out there posting True Internet Weirdness™ without coming across the same guy more than once. Incidentally, his music sports a pretty heavy TMBG influence. ZOMG.

In other news:

• Our weekend was good, if busy. We did squeeze in a stop at Tracks (the record store downtown) and picked up KT Tunstall's disc Eye to the Telescope. It pretty much rules.
• Samantha's going to be a cross-country traveller for the next two weeks. This weekend is a fencing tourney in South Bend, while the weekend after that is the opening of a performance of Grease back in Statesboro, in which her brother Tim (he's the non artistic one) has a starring role.
• All this also means that Samantha can't go to any of the opera performances over the next two weekends. :( Anyone else want to go with me?
• Umm... apparently her life is far more interesting than mine.
• Oh, yeah, I bought four boxes of Girl Scout cookies. But no Piñatas. Where have you gone, Piñatas? *weeps for lost Piñatas*
• Ten pound weights become infinitely heavier the more you lift them.
• Quote of the Week 23: "That person helps you find stuff when you can't find stuff." - A little boy in reference to my friend Davin working the desk at a public library

Now I'm off to find out if all the special characters in this post show up on a PC.