Up Up Down Down Left Right . . .in B Flat

Take a look at this half time performance by Cal Berkeley in the fine "marching band too smart for its own good" tradition of Rice's MOB. My favorite band is still Texas' own Prairie View A&M Marching Band (The Storm!) but this here is undeniably good. I'm guessing it will be a cold day in hell before we see or hear something similarly witty from the Show Band of the Southwest.

Another Shameless Plug

From my review of the surprisingly good The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters:

Like many born in the late 60s and early 70s, my childhood was shaped by arcade games. Pac-Man, Asteroids, Centipede, and especially Donkey Kong occupied the vast majority of my non-school pre-pubescent time. I wasted far too many hours feeding the quarter-eaters. After discovering girls, science fiction, and movies, my interested waned and by the end of 1980s, like most of my generation, the classic video game joined the Betamax, blow-dried hair, and Night Ranger as relics of the past. In his documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, director Seth Gordon skillfully explores the lives of contemporary die hard classic arcade game fans, a group for whom time stopped in 1982.

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