Launched in November 2005, Ask A Ninja is an award winning series of comedy videos. These videos are based on the images of ninjas in popular culture. These videos are available in podcast and vodcast form and also in mov and wmv file formats. The role of the ninja in the videos is being played by one of the co-creators, Douglas Sarine.
The series Ask A Ninja was created by Los Angeles improvisational comedian Kent Nicholas and Douglas Sarine. The videos feature a ninja who answers various emails from the viewers. The shows creator was influenced by a similarly formatted show called Ask Zorbak and Strong Bad Email. The show was originally envisioned as an animated show about 2 ninjas residing in Orange County.
The show, Ask A Ninja is hilariously comic. Most of the episodes starting from1-16 feature ninja, answering in front of a featureless blue background. The show sometimes also takes place inside a car or any other house. A special episode of the show was shot in a warehouse with Jamie and Adams.
In the show, Ask A Ninja, only the eyes of the ninja are visible as rest of him is covered in traditional black ninja clothes. The ninja is very famous for his emphatic declarations and his extremely expansive, spontaneous and exaggerated hand gestures, which are quite helpful in communicating his comic intentions. The host very regularly uses many linguistic blends in his speech, which involve the word ninja like: ninjelephant; ninternship; ninjas etc.
In the show Ask A Ninja, special video editing is used regularly to lay emphasis on showing the host doing the same thing 3 times. The editing is also used to put focus on the ninjas mysterious powers like the ability to adopt impenetrable disguise and turning microscopically small or simply vanish. The new episodes of the show are being released bi-weekly. The episodes are normally of 4-7 minutes of duration and ends with a signature remark of the ninja, I look forward to killing you soon.
Ask A Ninjas older episodes ended with the advertisements of Ninja-Mart Store, which enabled the viewers to purchase any ninja merchandise related with the show. The show has also advertised The Simpsons Game and Doritos. The show has also begun hosting its videos with the Cast Fires video hosting service.
The popularity of the show, Ask A Ninja can be gauged from the fact that Douglas Sarine was once asked to report as a guest film critic on National Public Radios show called, All Things Considered. In a classified special delivery episode, his review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest was shown. He also interviewed, Blades of Glory, stars Will Fernell and Jon Heder. The show made its live stage debut at the El Rey Theatre on 5th December, 2007, with Patton Oswatt and Hardn Phirm. The creators of the show have also announced of an under production Ask A Ninja book, which will be released next year. Wikipedia
Ask A Ninja Award Winning Series Of Comedy Videos
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Bad Moon Lyrics Credence Clearwater Hit
A Credence Clearwater number called Bad Moon Rising is a song about the doom that comes when the world is engulfed in an all-ending storm. The lyrics of the song is written and sung by John Fogerty. This song has been a great hit in 1969. This song belongs to the Green River album. It attained and remained the topper of the UK singles chart for three weeks in September 1969, and at second position on the very reputed Billboard hot 100 singles list.
In the song Bad Moon Rising John Fogerty appraises people about the devastation that may take place due to the fury of nature, when the rising of the moon conveys bad happenings. He asks people if they are ready to die if such a thing happens. The last line of the song is worded as though there is a bathroom on the right. The correct lyrics word the last line as there is a bad moon on the rise. John Fogerty deliberately uses the bathroom wordings in a light-hearted manner in his live shows. Recently he used it in his album Premonition in the year 1998. The lyrics of the song create visuals of devastation and natures fury.
Bad Moon Rising has featured in many albums and performances. It was included in the An American Werewolf in London album and also on Sweet Home Alabama. The song was sung in the season three finale of Las Vegas in the first few minutes. The song also appeared on the season one finale of Supernatural. A cover version of this song was sung by Heart lead singer Ann Wilson for her album Hope and Glory with singer Gretchen Wilson, a country music singer, in the year 2007.
Bad Moon Rising was also a hot favorite with singers and performers like Type O Negative, Social Distortion, The Reels, Rolf Harris, Steel Train, Lagwagon, Rancid and Rasputina. Atco Records let out a reggae modification of Bad Moon Rising by Jah Milla in the year 1981. Homer Simpson sang the song in the tele-series The Simpsons, in the Mr. Sprtiz Goes To Washington episode, when he was asked to perform the CPR by Marge.
If you are on the lookout for a novel version of the Bad Moon Rising you can try it out in The Battlefield Bands album COMD2009 On The Rise, where an instrumental modification of the song by Fogerty is featured on the first half of the sixth track. This version is used in live performances as a surfing song by Outer Hebrides. The Battlefield Band follows a custom of ending their albums with any of the Clearwater Revivial Numbers.
The lyrics of the opening verse of the Bad Moon Rising is I see the bad moon arising…I see trouble on the way…I see earthquakes and lightnin…I see bad times today. Wikipedia
Bad Moon Lyrics Credence Clearwater Hit
In the song Bad Moon Rising John Fogerty appraises people about the devastation that may take place due to the fury of nature, when the rising of the moon conveys bad happenings. He asks people if they are ready to die if such a thing happens. The last line of the song is worded as though there is a bathroom on the right. The correct lyrics word the last line as there is a bad moon on the rise. John Fogerty deliberately uses the bathroom wordings in a light-hearted manner in his live shows. Recently he used it in his album Premonition in the year 1998. The lyrics of the song create visuals of devastation and natures fury.
Bad Moon Rising has featured in many albums and performances. It was included in the An American Werewolf in London album and also on Sweet Home Alabama. The song was sung in the season three finale of Las Vegas in the first few minutes. The song also appeared on the season one finale of Supernatural. A cover version of this song was sung by Heart lead singer Ann Wilson for her album Hope and Glory with singer Gretchen Wilson, a country music singer, in the year 2007.
Bad Moon Rising was also a hot favorite with singers and performers like Type O Negative, Social Distortion, The Reels, Rolf Harris, Steel Train, Lagwagon, Rancid and Rasputina. Atco Records let out a reggae modification of Bad Moon Rising by Jah Milla in the year 1981. Homer Simpson sang the song in the tele-series The Simpsons, in the Mr. Sprtiz Goes To Washington episode, when he was asked to perform the CPR by Marge.
If you are on the lookout for a novel version of the Bad Moon Rising you can try it out in The Battlefield Bands album COMD2009 On The Rise, where an instrumental modification of the song by Fogerty is featured on the first half of the sixth track. This version is used in live performances as a surfing song by Outer Hebrides. The Battlefield Band follows a custom of ending their albums with any of the Clearwater Revivial Numbers.
The lyrics of the opening verse of the Bad Moon Rising is I see the bad moon arising…I see trouble on the way…I see earthquakes and lightnin…I see bad times today. Wikipedia
Bad Moon Lyrics Credence Clearwater Hit
The Pierces Band Music
Based in New York, the Pierces are a music band, whose principal members are two sisters, Catherine Pierce and Allison Pierce who originally hail from Birmingham, Alabama. While they were in school, Allison often bit boys on their arms that left behind moon shaped marks and Catherine raised her body temperature at her own will and had to be sent home daily for the high fever. Consequently they had to be removed from their school. However, their education continued at home where they were taught by their painter mother and guitar-wielding father.
Both The Pierces founder grew up listening Joni Mitchell and Simon&Garfunkel and was always inspired to nurture their creativity. Both the sisters were trained ballerinas and would perform at parties and weddings. At the age of 16, Allison was kidnapped by a gypsy dancing troupe that took her across the country and soon Allison began to love her new life as a dancing gypsy. Catherine set upon herself the mission of finding out her sister. She started taking lessons in Russian and French ballet and was soon able to find out where Allison in Mississippi.
The Pierces, two sisters escaped and took three days to come back to Alabama. Music remained their first love and Allison took up the guitar for honing up her skills further. The voices of the two sisters became almost identical and soon took to the stage for performing. Smooth talkers soon managed to convince them of assured name and fame and both the sisters sold their souls to the devil.
The Pierces band founder that is both the sisters then realized their mistake and took a strong stance of no longer serving the devil. The devil released them but vowed never to give them back their souls. New York then became the destination for the depressed sisters. There they met an ex-pirate who had turned into a music producer and it was he who made them realise how they wanted their music to sound like. The sisters wanted to sound like a gypsy dream that one has after consuming too much of red wine while listening to a cabaret singer.
Their debut music album, The Pierces (2000) took shape after a friend of theirs at Auburn University sent their tape to a record company at Nashville. The album, however failed to make a name mainly due to no support from any label. Their second album, Light of the Moon was released in August, by Universal. In March 2007, their third album Thirteen Tales of Love was released in the US. The album was well received by music lovers as well as critics and the song boring needs special mention. The album shows a deviation from the usual music of the band that has been essentially a folk rock band. However, it still retains the captivating lyrics and melodies typical of the band.
Over the years, The Pierces sisters have often been compared with popular artists like The Roches, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Shawn Colvin, the Indigo Girls and Sheryl Crow. Wikipedia
The Pierces Band Music
Both The Pierces founder grew up listening Joni Mitchell and Simon&Garfunkel and was always inspired to nurture their creativity. Both the sisters were trained ballerinas and would perform at parties and weddings. At the age of 16, Allison was kidnapped by a gypsy dancing troupe that took her across the country and soon Allison began to love her new life as a dancing gypsy. Catherine set upon herself the mission of finding out her sister. She started taking lessons in Russian and French ballet and was soon able to find out where Allison in Mississippi.
The Pierces, two sisters escaped and took three days to come back to Alabama. Music remained their first love and Allison took up the guitar for honing up her skills further. The voices of the two sisters became almost identical and soon took to the stage for performing. Smooth talkers soon managed to convince them of assured name and fame and both the sisters sold their souls to the devil.
The Pierces band founder that is both the sisters then realized their mistake and took a strong stance of no longer serving the devil. The devil released them but vowed never to give them back their souls. New York then became the destination for the depressed sisters. There they met an ex-pirate who had turned into a music producer and it was he who made them realise how they wanted their music to sound like. The sisters wanted to sound like a gypsy dream that one has after consuming too much of red wine while listening to a cabaret singer.
Their debut music album, The Pierces (2000) took shape after a friend of theirs at Auburn University sent their tape to a record company at Nashville. The album, however failed to make a name mainly due to no support from any label. Their second album, Light of the Moon was released in August, by Universal. In March 2007, their third album Thirteen Tales of Love was released in the US. The album was well received by music lovers as well as critics and the song boring needs special mention. The album shows a deviation from the usual music of the band that has been essentially a folk rock band. However, it still retains the captivating lyrics and melodies typical of the band.
Over the years, The Pierces sisters have often been compared with popular artists like The Roches, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Shawn Colvin, the Indigo Girls and Sheryl Crow. Wikipedia
The Pierces Band Music
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