YouTube – The Real Reason the Internet Was Invented
It seems that the concept of YouTube, as popular as it is, is not producing the revenue streams needed to support its existence. Firmly ensconced in this viewer’s life, that development makes me fearful.
Where else might we go today to see amateurs and professionals alike creating music and posting comedy. Of course, the fact that the selective taste lies totally with the viewer remains the key element of YouTube’s attractiveness.
Here are at least nine reasons why YouTube rocks.
We begin with one of those enormously creative how to videos:
Other great how-to videos include Captain Kirk’s How to Kiss a Woman (be sure to watch it until it concludes) and how to make some remotely viable use of giant Tesla Coils.
Tiger Woods is currently the greatest golfer on the planet and likely the best of all time. He didn’t get that way without a relentless desire to succeed. His appeal to youngsters is as legendary as his temper and thus we get this YouTube “Be Like” Tiger video:
Of course, something does not set quite right when adults use a cute little girl to make their point but it sure should get people thinking.
Once upon a time, one could never imagine the likes of this amateur, oldy but goody, ever being seen by 60,000,000 million folks. OK, it is much too long but:
Yes this promotes T-Mobile but lord do I love to see Grammy and Grampa and the guy with Lyle Lovett hair-do get down:
You can even see how it is they came to pull this off.
It wasn’t too long ago that one might never have a chance to see their favorite rocker, John Hiatt, playing his perfectly good guitar in a phenomenal unplugged version of Tennessee Plates.
OK so most folks go for Perfectly Good Guitar or his brilliant Have a Little Faith in Me but we still like the acoustic stuff better.
Of course, we now get multiple cracks at Frank Caliendo, whether it be his Bush/Clinton routine or John Madden. Every now and then we watch this montage he did on Letterman that flows from one character to the next.
September marks the seventh anniversary of the passing of the genius who gave us Werewolves of London, The Envoy, the absolutely rocking and diabolical Excitable Boy, and Lawyers, Guns and Money. As he battled cancer knowing his days were numbered he wrote Keep Me in your Heart for A While, a tune one aspiring artist and filmmaker, Hammy Woodchuck, used to honor the man’s legacy.
Then there is the chance to see again and again those wondrous renditions that formed the Playing for Change series. From Stand by Me, Don’t Worry, Bring It On Home, Chanda Mama and the absolutely stunning rendition of Bob Marley’s One Love:
The brilliance of comedians like Robin Williams, George Carlin and Richard Pryor who can deliver some of the most off-color humor imaginable or straight up intellectual humor like:
