Lu Zijian

Ba Gua Zhan Master Lu Zijian was 93 when this as filmed. He's 115 now.

This is how it should be done.

Andy Samberg - Jizz in My Pants

There's no jizzing in your pants for the Fewture. Unless it makes you that hype on possibilities. No harm there.

Otherwise, enjoy it while you can.

This starts slow, then gets funnier. And funnier.

By The Lonely Island.

The Edge & Bono (U2) - Van Diemen's Land (Live RTE Dublin '08)

This came from Scatter o'Light, a blog the Fewture truly loves. You can even grab the mp3 there.

A song which was last played live in '93.

2,000 Year Old Computer: Rebooted

Via Wired Gadget Lab:

A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world's first computer.

A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as well as the dates and locations of upcoming Olympic games.

Luna Angel - Keep Riding 12.13.08

Luna Angel performs Keep Riding at Mo Love! A Benefit for the Angel Family.

This went down on San Francisco's Pier 23 on 12.13.08 to celebrate the passing of Moese Angel.

Rest in power.

www.moeseangel.com

the Fewture's Top 3 Albums of 2008

1. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
2. Kanye West - 808 and Heartbreak
3. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

And if the Fewture had heard 808 sooner, that may be different.

To that Chronicle reporter dude on KFOG this AM who wrote that Pop is Dead: Sure, pop is dead. Because there is no more pop. Everything is too fractionated to have that type of all engrossing, hypnotic, musical hold over the majority of a national or global audience--but that doesn't mean that there isn't music happening. These three artists are moving music forward. No doubt.

We live in a disposal culture, true. Yet innovation still exists.

Michael Franti (Spearhead) @ Indie 103.1 FM

Performing Yell Fire and Bomb the World.

'...they telling you to never worry about the fewture...'

Cadillac Records

the Fewture loves the blues, so Cadillac Records is a welcome look at 1950s blues culture.

According to Philly.com's Carrie Rickey:

In 1950, as the blues, gospel and jazz cross-pollinated but before Detroit's Motown, before Memphis' Sun and Stax - and well before Philadelphia International Records - there was Chicago's Chess label. Those of a certain age fondly remember its logo, a silhouette of a king chess piece flanked by those of bishop and knight.

Cadillac Records, Darnell Martin's boisterous, if not always factual, account of the house that Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James built, is a variety show of the personalities and music that spawned the urbanization of the blues and midwifed the birth of rock-and-roll.

The cast includes Columbus Short, Mos Def, Tammy Blanchard, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles, Cedric the Entertainer, and Norman Reedus.

A Moron Makes My Day

Thanks to mruttan.

808 and Heartbreak

d says they've been calling it his Nebraska. I can see why.

Kanye West's new album, 808 and Heartbreak, along with Q-Tip's The Renaissance are probably the most artistic hiphop albums we've seen in the last five years.

Since Black Starr.

Aside from maybe the Roots, of course.

But honestly, Kanye may have just redefined hiphop. Right now the situation with hiphop's identity has become too complicated, so it's really too soon to say.

But Kanye may have just found the exit strategy.

That's the way the Fewture sees things.

Welcome to Heartbreak and Love Locktown are masterpieces.

This and The Kings of Leon's Only by the Night are the 2 08 albums of the year.

Get Kanye's now. Support art like this. He deserves it.

This one goes out to SV. We lost a beautiful woman yesterday. Dedicated to all the heartbreak.

Robot Chicken Star Wars 2 - Anakin's Dream

In the Fewture, this video is so wrong.

But still so funny.

The Dutchess

Man. Sometimes the Fewture really wishes it could visit the Past to see the great musicians and performers who aren't around anymore.

Via Spectropop:

Anyone who's ever seen clips of Bo Diddley and his band tearing it up on "Hey, Bo Diddley" and "Bo Diddley" in the 1966 movie The Big TNT Show knows The Duchess. The embodiment of tough-yet-graceful rock'n'roll cool, sharing a microphone with the equally glamorous Bo-ettes (Lily "Bee Bee" Jamieson and Gloria Morgan), she dominated the stage in a shiny ankle-length dress, churning primal chords and rhythms out of her Gretsch guitar that gave even Diddley a run for his money.

Prop 8: The Musical

'What else does the Bible say, Jesus?'

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Jon Stewart and John Oliver report on the Mumbai Tragedy