Rebel Prince

Mesh two songs by Nickelback (“Someday” and “How You Remind Me”), and with some clever editing, you realize both unexpected counterpoint and formula songwriting (MP3, 3.6M). The effect is most pronounced using headphones: the former song is on the left channel, the latter on the right. (Link via Stephen.)

After we listened to this, Thom started humming one of the songs, and I was going to launch into the other one, when I said I could imagine it being given a mock-serious classical treatment. “Like a gay men’s chorus,” Thom suggested. Oh, the burden of our collective overactive imagination.

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“The Exorcist in 30 Seconds (and Re-enacted by Bunnies)” (Flash required). Heh. There’s some other funny stuff on the site too, including selected diary excerpts by a third-grade girl, given a dramatic reading by actors (“Amy’s Diary”). Somehow this reminds me of—indulge me, please—Dev’s birthday, junior year in college. Our circle of friends planned a surprise party, and in the days and hours leading up to the event, we had generated a frantic trail of group e-mails. For some reason it occurred to us to print them all out and present them to the birthday boy, but before handing them over, we did a little dramatic reading, passing the “script” around to the respective e-mail authors and taking turns re-enacting the drama known as event planning. Hm, it was a lot more fun at the time than I’m making it sound right now, I swear.

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