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i’ve been wasting an obscene amount of time on YouTube where I should be doing work.. but it’s not without it’s merits!

my favourites playlist is bloated with all sorts of wondrous things, from newly discovered bands to speed paintings to a bunch of classic Ellen episodes to memorable SYTYCD sequences i managed to ferret out. it’s amazing. like Jianyi said, i don’t know what i was doing before YouTube.

hilarious moments:

SHE IS JUST INSANE. also i secretly wish i were her i mean.. DARREN CRISS (and Justin Bieber!, but aye).

also re-watching Vihart’s because she is awesome like that.

speed painting, something i’ve always wished i could do – and totally would experiment with if i had a tablet. I WANT A TABLET, have i mentioned that before? i love watching the process of painting, i can spend all day marvelling at how pictures are formed, something i could never have done before the advent of YouTube.

mickey mouse club also takes up a substantial chunk of my YouTube time. there were more impressive videos with britney spears and christina aguilera, but this is here because i can’t over whatever they were wearing. for a moment i thought.. is this song about concentration camps or something? because it’s totally prisoner-of-war gear. anyway no, it was the fashion (a bleak time we fortunately evade when reviving retro or vintage lol). look out for justin timberlake.

i have also discovered the wonders of playlists, and found a bunch of live sessions by the jakes. i. love. the. jakes. especially Sameer Gadhia, his voice makes him incredibly sexy980. except now they’re all newly packaged as Young The Giant. i don’t really get that but ah well – they play good music. also, live sessions > studio records. they are so beautiful i get epileptic seizures of euphoria every time i listen to them.

Glee got this song stuck in my head for AGES. i went online for the original and realized it was better than the Glee version. and that is pretty rare (OK i know Glee is trashy la but it’s so strangely addictive don’t pretend you don’t watch ok). anyhus, i don’t care what you say – this song is great! in it’s own right.

her space holiday, my song for the day. i love unique rifts that are unpredictable but natural at the same time.

and also, shuta hasunuma, my discovery of the day. i just love it, that’s all. it is in itself of such distilled beauty, i find it difficult to complicate my feelings for it.

SERIOUSLY WHAT IS WITH THIS SUDDEN PROLIFERATION OF GOOD MUSIC? everything’s so beautiful i want to cry. musicians are geniuses. so are artists. and dancers. and entertainers. and t-pain with autotune.