Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Monday, December 30, 2013

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Friday, December 27, 2013

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Monday, December 23, 2013


John Denver//"Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)"

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Friday, December 20, 2013


Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, William Frawley//"Silver Bells"

Thursday, December 19, 2013


Marilyn McCoo & Donna Summer//"O Come All Ye Faithful" (Solid Gold)

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Tuesday, December 17, 2013


Cast of "Promises, Promises"//"Turkey Lurkey Time"

Monday, December 16, 2013

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Friday, December 13, 2013

Thursday, December 12, 2013


"Hard to Be a Cat at Christmas"

Friskies will donate one can of food to animal rescues and shelters nationwide for every view the video receives (up to 500,000).

Wednesday, December 11, 2013


The Weather Girls//"Dear Santa (Bring Me a Man This Christmas)"

Tuesday, December 10, 2013


Yoko Kanno & Maaya Sakamoto//"Kissing the Christmas Killer"

Monday, December 9, 2013

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Friday, December 6, 2013


Ariana Grande & Elizabeth Gillies//"The Christmas Song"

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Wednesday, December 4, 2013


Judith Owen & Julia Fordham//"White Christmas"

Tuesday, December 3, 2013


Glasvegas//"A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss)

Still less creepy than "The Polar Express".

Monday, December 2, 2013

Sunday, December 1, 2013



The Star Wars Holiday Special

Though this is popularly known (and universally reviled) as "the Christmas special", the Holiday Special was actually first broadcast on CBS on November 17, 1978, that is, it was a Thanksgiving special. I believe it was rerun a month later closer to Christmas, and possibly combining memories of Meco's classic "Christmas in the Stars" LP lead to the popular idea that "Life Day" is the Star Wars universe equivalent of Christmas. I personally consider it Thanksgiving, and I (and many other Star Wars fan the world over, even the ones who don't like ANY part of this special, not even ironically) acknowledge Life Day every year on November 17 (which is close enough to my birthday that I acknowledge it literally as "Life Day").

What can I say about the Star Wars Holiday Special? I like parts of it. Diahann Carroll has a beautiful number, as long as you ignore the fact that Itchy is jerking off to it. I love Bea "Beatrice" Arthur's song, both in and out of context - it's a great show-stopping cabaret number that is simultaneously joyous, poignant, fun, bitter and sad. And finally there's Carrie Fisher's Life Day anthem, which I enjoy for its sheer, extraordinary strangeness.

As for the rest of it...I don't love it. In fact, I find much of it disturbing, even horrifying (the bits with Itchy and Lumpy in particular - those faces). Even the bit that even the haters acknowledge to be at least interesting - the animated part - I personally find to be ugly, and even sort of nauseating. That's pretty much my final thought on the Special as a whole, in fact: ugly, and even sort of nauseating.

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Friday, November 29, 2013

Thursday, November 28, 2013


The Beautiful South//"Old Red Eyes is Back"

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Monday, November 25, 2013


April Stevens & Nino Tempo//"Land of A Thousand Dances"

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Friday, November 22, 2013

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Monday, November 18, 2013

Friday, November 15, 2013

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Monday, November 11, 2013

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Friday, November 8, 2013

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Monday, November 4, 2013

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Friday, November 1, 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Monday, October 28, 2013


Oleta Adams & Het Metropole Orkest//"I Just Had To Hear Your Voice"

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Monday, October 21, 2013


Exit Calm//"When They Rise"

It's fine it's all fine

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Friday, October 18, 2013


Glasvegas//"Later ... When the TV Turns to Static"

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Monday, October 14, 2013

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Friday, October 11, 2013

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Monday, October 7, 2013

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Friday, October 4, 2013

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Tuesday, October 1, 2013


Voyager captures sounds of interstellar space

Hello there.

I see you.

I know you.

I am you.

There are many of us. More than you will ever know. I don't know if this thought is a comfort to you or cause for more sadness, but it is the truth nonetheless.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Friday, September 27, 2013

Thursday, September 26, 2013


The Rolling Stones//"Time Is On My Side"

Once every so often one must revisit vintage Stones footage to remind oneself that there was a time when they really were the dirtier, more "dangerous" version of The Beatles, rather than the strange and aged nostalgia act that they are today...and have been since the early 80s pretty much. Mick really was beautiful back in the day, wasn't he?

Wednesday, September 25, 2013


BOY//"Oh Boy"

I love this song, but I hate this video. Not that I require every video to be a literal representation of the song, but I would like for it to have SOME connection to it.

The one literal-literal moment I could find in the video is the bit where Valeska spits up the gold necklace. I hate it.

This song is frequently on my mind because I seem to have a larger than average number of heartsick friends who are forever falling in love boys and girls who are waaay out of their league, if not in looks or status then just in the general "speed" at which they live their lives. I am the same way, but at least I keep it to myself.

Have you ever seen the movie "My Sassy Girl"? It was a huge hit in the early 2000s, not least of all because it was so funny and cute and charming and had a pretty girl in the lead, but I think movies of this sort specifically appeal to the heartsick among us because it is only in movies where you have the quirky, "fast" girl eventually falling for (and staying with) the awkward and quiet nerdy boy. This has never, ever, ever, ever, ever happened in real life.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013


Carpenters//"I Need To Be In Love"

This time of year always makes me feel lonely. The cooler days, the longer nights, the sweaters and scarves, the falling leaves and outdoor cafes, the constant reminders of the coming long winter months...everything about this time of year makes me want to hold someone close...to have someone to hold close. Saying that I "need" to be in love would probably be a gross overstatement (I have, after all, gone all these years without and am doing pretty fine), but autumn in New York is pretty much the closest I ever come to saying so.

I love Karen Carpenter and never really understood her being the poster child for fake '70s smiley-faced sentimental easily listening love pop. Even at her most supposedly-saccharine ("Close to You", "We've Only Just Begun"), the songs for me have always been more about the sadness and longing and loss than they were about that faintest glimmer of hope that arises from it. It's sad that it was only after she died, after we found out more about her life, that even her harshest detractors have recognized this, when the clues were right there in your face all along. Did nobody ever really sit down and listen to even a single verse of "Superstar", or "Goodbye to Love", or "Rainy Days and Mondays", or "I Need to Be In Love", or "Hurting Each Other", back in the day?

Of course, as in most things in life, I blame Richard.

Monday, September 23, 2013


The Scaffold//"2 Days Monday"
 
 
This is actually Paul McCartney's brother. I will make no comment further than that.

Sunday, September 22, 2013


Ron & Marty
 



Ron and/or Marty (whichever one is not the puppet) was arrested in 2012 on charges of possession of child pornography and conspiracy to kidnap a child. I won't even go into the chat transcripts.

Saturday, September 21, 2013


The Hardy Boys//"One Time In a Million"

Happy birthday, Bruce.

We miss you.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Thursday, September 19, 2013


Yo La Tengo//"Ohm"

I sort of stopped liking Yo La Tengo back in the late '90s. "I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One" was the transition record for me, when they started leaning too much on the abstract noodling while I just wanted some punchy, catchy pop songs! MAN, "Electr-O-Pura" was like a perfect album.

They've gotten back to writing pop songs in their last couple of records and I started liking them again, even to the point of going back and buying all of the stuff that I had skipped post-"And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out", and yes, even learning to appreciate it. All of it.

You'd think with an album title like "Fade" and the song title like "Ohm" that they were going back to the abstract noodly stuff, but this record, as you can see and hear from the video and song, is really the brightest and poppiest they've been in years.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013


The Beth Edges//"Colours Collide"

I love everything about this. The classic verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-bridge-chorus structure, the crispy guitars, the snappy drums, the bouncy pop-rock "oh-oh-oh-oh"s, and the gorgeous and colorful video, comprised of hundreds of lomographs that were submitted to the band as part of a contest I believe.

I've always been a big fan of film photography (it's how I learned), and actually rediscovered my love of it a couple years back through lomography. Though the term has come to be used interchangeably with all "analogue" film photography lately, the technical definition is "analogue" photographs taken with cheap plastic toy cameras and/or with expired film with the expressly stated purpose of taking photographs with intentionally surprising, occasionally wonky results.

But whatever. To try to label it defeats the purpose. I love it all and really do think it will make a comeback, not just with the hipsters and the "weird" kids but with everybody. I think it won't happen in this generation, but in the next one, when people look back on today and wonder, seriously wonder, why there are seemingly so few truly iconic moments or personalities to define this generation, and also wonder why they're recollection of these times are so...small. And square. And orange. And washed out and fuzzy - not in any real, organic, warm sense but in a computer algorithmically everything-looks-exactly-the-same sense. And why all we can remember is food. And feet. And bathroom mirrors.

And though it's all related, I think the mere fact that a photograph "exists" gives it an automatic step-up in importance, regardless of subject matter. There was a time when taking a picture was a little more involved than simply pointing your phone at a mirror. You had to acquire a camera. You had to get film. You had to know how to open and load your camera, how to wind and rewind. God help you if you needed a flash (especially in earlier times when you needed to worry about bulbs or cubes). You had to wait until you finished a whole roll before you could look at any of them, and then only after sending them into a shop and having to wait an hour, or a week, or weeks to get them back. Or, if you dared, develop them yourself, if you had access to the right space, lights, projectors, paper, chemicals. And with each roll, you knew you only had a limited number of chances to get a good shot, before you had to start the process all over again. Not even mentioning the expense involved in all this. Things were once not so instant, not so...disposable.

So what does it mean? It means that every time you pick up a photograph, you're picking up an image that somebody probably put a lot of thought into. No matter what the subject matter, no matter where you find it, whether it's from your grandmother's wedding or if it's just a stranger's loose vacation snapshot found at the bottom of a thrift store cabinet, every time you pick up or look at a photograph you can't help but wonder, who took this, and why? What does it say, what were they trying to say, and how closely do the two match up?

Unless, you know, they were just fiddling with it and the shutter went off.

Still, you never know.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Monday, September 16, 2013

Sunday, September 15, 2013


Maureen McGovern//"I Want to Learn to Fly"

Saturday, September 14, 2013


Battle of the Planets

This week's Saturday morning cartoon...although growing up this wasn't on on Saturday mornings but rather Monday through Friday mornings at maybe 6:30, 7:00. Waking up to cartoons was never bad. I need to bring that back into my life. Waking up to NY1 or the stupid Today Show just doesn't cut it.

Friday, September 13, 2013

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Monday, September 9, 2013

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Monday, September 2, 2013


Small Black//"Photojournalist"

And we're back! You may have noticed that NTMO was slightly...not in existence...for the last few weeks. That was because I had gotten an email quite suddenly in the middle of the night telling me that the Blogger robots had noticed an unusual number of links to other sites on this blog, had decided it was a spam blog, and that the blog had been deleted.

That's it.

No "If you think this is a mistake, please contact us", no "If you would like an actual human review of your site, please contact us", nothing. Just "Our system automatically decided this, so THE END." I knew logically that there had to be some sort of recourse or review process, but god damned if Blogger was going to give me the first hint as to a page to visit or a person/address to contact.

There was nothing on the Blogger FAQ about this (other than stating that this is something that is occasionally done - basically exactly what was said in the email they sent me), and sending a message to Blogger's "contact us" link on the site did not get me any response. I thought it was the end, but there was so much else taking my attention at the time that I was willing to just shrug it off, thinking this was fun while it lasted, maybe I should do other things now.

It wasn't until just the other night when I was on my dashboard, saw the link to NTMO under "deleted links" or some such heading, and noticed for the first time a button next to it marked "Restore". I swear, that wasn't there before. I clicked on the button and, lo and behold, got a message saying that an actual human being would now review my blog, and that I would receive a response within a day or two. Sure enough, over the weekend I got the message saying that yes, they had made a mistake, and the blog was back online.

OF COURSE this blog as a number of links to "other sites". 98% of those "other sites" are YouTube. Because THIS IS A VIDEO BLOG. Yeesh.

Anyway, that's how life-support on satellite NTMO was switched back on. And just in the nick of time, as air doesn't really circulate up here in space. You think being on a plane for 13 hours is bad...

But there's nothing like a good near-death experience to force one to take stock. Maybe I can/should do other things with this blog. The videos are not going to stop (unless Blogger tells me again that I need to), but maybe I can no longer assume that the images, beats and melodies tell the whole story, the one that I want to tell. I don't know, still figuring it out in my head. In the meantime, if you don't care, just ignore all the distraction below the band name//"song title" information and keep click-scrolling. Until I find a voice, until I figure it out, just keep enjoying the videos.

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Thursday, August 29, 2013


The Pains of Being Pure at Heart//"Say No To Love"

Wednesday, August 28, 2013


The Radio Dept.//"The Worst Taste in Music"

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Friday, August 23, 2013

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Monday, August 19, 2013

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Wednesday, August 14, 2013


山根麻衣 with 柳ジョージ&ザ・バンド・オブ・ナイト//「IN MIRAGE」

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Monday, August 12, 2013

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Friday, August 9, 2013

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Monday, August 5, 2013

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Friday, August 2, 2013

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Monday, July 29, 2013

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Friday, July 26, 2013

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Monday, July 22, 2013

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Saturday, July 20, 2013


Felix the Cat in "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg"

Friday, July 19, 2013

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Monday, July 15, 2013


Kenny Rogers & The First Edition//"Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town"

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Friday, July 12, 2013

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Monday, July 8, 2013

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Friday, July 5, 2013

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Monday, July 1, 2013


Landsat Data Continuity Mission: The Long Swath (Complete)

Sunday, June 30, 2013


The Spinners//"Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"

Saturday, June 29, 2013


Hedwig and the Angry Inch//"The Origin of Love"

Friday, June 28, 2013

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Wednesday, June 26, 2013


Roberta Flack and Maxi Priest//"Set the Night to Music"

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Monday, June 24, 2013

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Friday, June 21, 2013

Thursday, June 20, 2013


The Ocean Blue//"Sad Night, Where is Morning?"

Wednesday, June 19, 2013


The Secret History//"Johnny Panic (Forget Everything)"

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Monday, June 17, 2013

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Friday, June 14, 2013

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Wednesday, June 12, 2013


Wada Kanako (和田加奈子)//"Summer Mirage" (夏のミラージュ)

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Monday, June 10, 2013

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Friday, June 7, 2013

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Monday, June 3, 2013

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Friday, May 31, 2013

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Monday, May 27, 2013

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Friday, May 24, 2013

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Monday, May 20, 2013

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Friday, May 17, 2013

Thursday, May 16, 2013


Pizzicato Five//"On the Sunny Side of the Street"

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Monday, May 13, 2013

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Friday, May 10, 2013

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Monday, May 6, 2013

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Friday, May 3, 2013

Thursday, May 2, 2013


Marlene Dietrich//"The Laziest Girl in Town"

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Tuesday, April 23, 2013


Matt Nathanson//"Mission Bells [acoustic]"

Monday, April 22, 2013

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Friday, April 19, 2013

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Monday, April 15, 2013


The Manhattan Transfer//"Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone"

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Friday, April 12, 2013


Peter Sarstedt//"Where Do You Go To My Lovely?"

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Monday, April 8, 2013

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Friday, April 5, 2013

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Monday, April 1, 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Friday, March 29, 2013

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Monday, March 25, 2013

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Friday, March 22, 2013

Thursday, March 21, 2013


Dionne Warwick & Barry Manilow//"I'll Never Love This Way Again"

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Tuesday, March 19, 2013


The Pains of Being Pure at Heart//"Until the Sun Explodes"

Monday, March 18, 2013

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Friday, March 15, 2013

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Wednesday, March 13, 2013


deadmau5 & Imogen Heap//"Telemiscommunications"

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Monday, March 11, 2013

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Friday, March 8, 2013

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Monday, March 4, 2013

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Friday, March 1, 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Monday, February 25, 2013

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Friday, February 22, 2013

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Monday, February 18, 2013

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Friday, February 15, 2013

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Monday, February 11, 2013

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Friday, February 8, 2013

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Monday, February 4, 2013

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Friday, February 1, 2013


International Space Station Fly-Around (2009.03.19)

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Monday, January 28, 2013

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Friday, January 25, 2013


The Andrews Sisters//"Straighten Up and Fly Right"

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Tuesday, January 22, 2013


The Royal Guardsmen//"Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"

Monday, January 21, 2013

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Friday, January 18, 2013

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Monday, January 14, 2013


Fat Jon as Maurice Galactica//"Divided Ascension"

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Saturday, January 12, 2013


Melanie C. w/ Emma Bunton//"I Know Him So Well"

Friday, January 11, 2013


Asian Kung-Fu Generation//"Soredewa, Mata Ashita (Well Then, See You Again Tomorrow)"

Thursday, January 10, 2013


Teresa Graves & Carol Channing//"Soul Sisters"

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Monday, January 7, 2013


Andrew Huang//"You Were My Brightest Light"

Sunday, January 6, 2013


Ray LaMontagne//"Like Rock & Roll and Radio"

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Friday, January 4, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Tuesday, January 1, 2013