As a possessor of somewhat odd tastes I rarely get to experience multiple things I like all at once. There is no baseball video game with a Tom Waits soundtrack and time travel puzzle solving, and rarely does porn include a healthy dose of 90s style sketch comedy or Aaron Sorkin written dialogue. Here though, below these meager words, lives a collection of assembled cool shit. A joyfulness jambalaya for me and those who dig what I dig.

Behold, Fraggles, The Ben Folds Five, a cute girl (Anna Kendrick), Nerdist, and Rob Corddry — all brought together for the Ben Folds Five video “Do it Anyway”. The cake icing? No Gorgs, man I hate Gorgs.

There, now wasn’t that amazing? It kinda reminded me of that old Weezer video for “Keep Fishing”* that had a horde of Muppets in it. Sadly, Weezer began sucking h-h-hard after the “Green Album” (or maybe during it), so here’s hoping Folds, Darren Jessee, and Robert Sledge don’t fall victim to the felt curse as well.

For those of you who are not quite sure what you just watched, here is a link to the Wiki definition of what a music video is. If you don’t know what Fraggles are, there is no help for you.

*I wrongly said the Weezer video was Island in the Sun. I was totally right about Weezer sucking now though. 

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“He’s dead Jim.”

Most of you will recognize at least one of the two names, John Scalzi and Jonathan Coulton. One is a fantastic Science Fiction writer / commentator and the other is a terrifically nerdy musician, put the two together then add a creative pinch of Star Trek fan Trekpropguy and you get the wonderful video below. It all started with Scalzi’s new book Redshirts. Scalzi then got Coulton involved.

Coulton explained on his blog site:

“A while ago John Scalzi, one of my favorite sci-fi authors (and a pal as well) asked if I would write a theme song for his new novel, Redshirts. I said yes, mostly so I could get a chance to read it. You can read about and listen to what happened next and listen to the song over at tor.com as of this morning. You can also check out the whole series of chats about other sci-fi-themed songs of mine that John and I did leading up to today. I’ll be putting Redshirt up in my store soon, and the band and I will be playing it on our June tour. Hooray!”

Then Trekpropguy heard the song and:

“This video was made in tribute to an awesome new song from Jonathan Coulton called “Redshirt” After the song stuck in my head for several days, I decided to make a video using clips from Star Trek to go with the music. I think I did pretty well. No copyright infringement was intended. All these clips were used from clips available on Youtube. Feel free to share, comment, embed, just don’t modify the video!”

Blend the three together and you get Musical Star Trek magic n a bottle. This NerdeBastard has been a long time fan of Scalzi’s writing and Coulton’s music. This merger of the two has made my day. I’m gonna watch it again once I get this dust out of my eyes . . .

There is a bonus video as well. You see, Scalzi has been learning to play the Ukelele. Who better to perform the first Internet Ukelele cover of “Redshirts” than the author of the book? He’s pretty damn good for an amateur.

Via: Whatever

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Today marks the much awaited arrival of Youtube’s all new channels. Taking a step in the direction towards providing original content, well, more original than all those ball-bustin’ videos, Youtube has partnered with a few our favorite geeks to bring you channels with all new programming. Both channels launching today, the Nerdist Channel from The Nerdist himself, Chris Hardwick and Geek & Sundry from the mind of Felicia Day, will feature programs aimed at the geek crowd.

So what have they got for us today? Awesome stuff, that’s what. First up from the Nerdist Channel is Chris Hardwick’s All Star Celebrity Bowling. In a bowling match for charity Team Nerdist: Chris Hardwick, Alex Albrecht (4Points), Klye Clark (Nerdterns), and Steve Agee (Indoor Kids) will square off againt Team Machinima:  Adam Kovic (Inside Gaming – Machinima), Khail Anonymous (ETC – Machinima), Bruce Greene (Wrecknology – Machinima), and Matt Dannevik (Inside Gaming – Machinima).

Okay, I don’t know about you but I kinda want to go bowling now. And not Wii Bowling, which I’m a champion at, but outside the house go to a lane real bowling, which I SUCK at. So there you go, Chris Hardwick’s All Star Bowling has inspired me to leave the house. What did you guys think?

Next is a real treat from Felicia Day’s Geek & Sunday, a new Guild music video! Yay! (Kermit Flail!) It”s a real nerd anthem and it’s already stuck in my head. In a good way.

Yeah, screw those people from high school. Now we’re the cool and trendy ones! “I’m the One That’s Cool” like, “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar” before it, was created by Jed Whedon and Felicia Day and I’m gonna bet it’ll be a real hit at the convention circuit this summer.

So what do you guys think of these new Youtube channels? Hooray for the future of web content, I say.  Expect new awesome stuff everyday so make sure you subscribe: Nerdist Channel – Geek & Sundry. Are there any other channels you’ll be checking out? Share ‘em below.

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Screenteamshow put together this Maroon 5 parody that will make you smile. Sure, the Batman costume doesn’t fit great and it’s not movie quality . . . the guy can dance though, and he had the balls to do it in public.

What really made this video for this NerdBastard was the public joining in to dance their own moves and maybe teach Batman a move or two. There is no need to mention that sexy hot Catwoman in the background . . . you’ll find that out all on your own I’m sure. 

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For those of you who really enjoyed The Muppets, we’ve got a bunch of news for you!  We’ve got two great videos for you, and there may very well be a sequel in the future.

When the Hollywood Reporter asked about the status of a potential sequel, producer Todd Lieberman replied:

We’ve been discussing the potential for something. We don’t know what it is or anything about it, it just started coming up recently — very early, nascent discussions of something potential that I wouldn’t even say is definitely going to happen.

Basically: no answer.  We’ll just have to see.

Hit the jump for the videos we’ve got for you!

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I’m not a big gamer, so I don’t know my Minecraft from my Starcraft, but this I can dig. Laura Shigihara, a singer/song-writer/musician has put together this wonderfully little pop-ditty ode to Minecraft called “Cube Land.” I’m sure it will mean something more to those that play Minecraft, but to everyone else, I think it just makes a nice piece of music you can groove to. Check out the music video below.

Source: Topless Robot

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There is nothing this NerdBastard could write that could possibly enhance the viewing and listening pleasure you should receive from watching this video.

Enjoy!

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What do you do while you are waiting for your favorite show to return to television?

Re-watch reruns?

Write your own Fan Fiction?

Stage your own backyard episodes?

Stalk the series writer, break into his house, jimmy his safe, read all the notes on the upcoming series, get caught by said surprised writer, kidnap said writer after a brief struggle, take said writer and put him in the hole in your basement . . .

Wait,

Don’t do that,

Do this instead:

Adam Ben Ezra created a masterful music video featuring his fan-made musical version of the opening theme (Morning Routine) and ending titles (Blood Theme) of the hit series Dexter. Then he combines the two into one glorious musical number. Watch the video and tell NerdBastards what you do while waiting on your favorite series to start back up.

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In preparation and celebration of the upcoming Muppets movie several bands have come together to cover famous Muppet songs. These songs, including “Rainbow Connection”, “It’s Not Easy Being Green”, are then collected on to ‘The Green Album,’ dropping today.

So who gets to cover the famous Muppet’s them song? Why, pretty famous themselves, OK Go. Their music videos are viral phenomenas and expect plenty of winks and nods to those antics in this video for their rendition of the theme song. Also expect to see the Muppets puppeting OK Go (complete with Muppet hands up the band’s rear ends), which is kind of  creepy, and a collection of strange ‘morning after’ scenes which tend to be even creepier.

Best part, of course, involves Statler and Waldorf, give it a watch below.

Source: /Film

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Morning, bastards! Welcome to your first of many daily doses of Nerdy Bits!

Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut.

Monday through Friday, every morning, we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

The successor to the Poke-bra, this Angry Birds bra gives each tit a distinct personality! (TDW: Geeks)

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