Today, I mowed my lawn for the first time since we moved into the new house. We’ve been here for almost four months, but our grass is pretty scrubby. It was thick in places, but I felt like I was mostly cutting weeds.

There are two things here that are potentially interesting:

1. I haven’t cut grass since I lived with my parents in high school about 15 years ago. I’ve been an apartment dweller in those years and haven’t had to worry about a lawn.

2. My parents were gracious enough to buy us a lawnmower as a house warming present. Thing is, it’s a corded electric mower. It’s what I wanted, but it takes some getting used to, having to mind the cord. So every time I have cord issues, I think to myself I could be having gas issues or starter issues or destroying the environment issues. And then I’m happy with my cord, even though I got some strange looks from people driving by.

In honor of my triumphant lawn mowing experience, I offer you this awesome mowing-related video for One Thing Tube tonight. Enjoy.

Caught this video on the YouTube front page the other day, and I thought it was really well done. The song fits the images very well. I can’t tell if they took a ton of still shots and edited them together or if they took small video clips and removed frames to get the herky-jerky feel. But whatever they did, I like it.

Here’s a link to the video if you’re coming from RSS.

I already posted this on April Fool’s Day on my new tumblelog, but I think it’s good enough to post twice. The guy who directed this video has produced a bunch of great re-enactments of scenes from famous movies. He’s my favorite YouTuber by a long shot. Hope you enjoy.

Direct link to the video if you read One Thing New via RSS.

In my personal pantheon of guitar heroes, Charlie Hunter ranks right up there with Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dave Matthews (c’mon, he’s an innovative guitarist!), and Slash as players who had the most influence on my style.

Hunter plays an 8-string guitar with the top three strings bass notes and the bottom five standard guitar strings. And somehow he manages to play both bass and guitar parts simultaneously.

Some have suggested he has two brains. While I don’t believe that, I do believe he writes some of the best and most original jazz pieces I’ve ever heard. His music is both accessible and interesting, and he manages to preserve melody in the midst of some fairly heady experimentation. I really admire him and the choices he’s made in his career.

This video was recorded at a concert in 2000. I hope you enjoy it.