Because there’s nothing aliens love more than flat-footed dancing to bluegrass (don’t quote me on that, I’ve only met a few and there was a language barrier), this is a bluegrass cover of the Star Trek:The Next Generation theme by musicians Gordon Lustig (banjo, mandolin, guitar), Kevin Axt (bass) and

Your children: they’re for embarrassing in front of their friends. Plus doing the chores you don’t want to do for a very meager allowance. Or no allowance at all. This is a video of father Matt (not a priest) and a group of his dad pals performing Alice Cooper’s ‘School’s

Because the internet, just like an unruly 3-year old, refuses to sleep when it should, this is a video from the Bell Bros of Sesame Street’s Big Bird (plus Count von Count) edited into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 avian horror film The Birds. The whole thing is set to Outkast’s 2000

This is a video of the custom plasma speakers built by engineer Fabricio H. Franzoli from two CRT television flyback transformers playing the classic Popeye theme. Now those are some sexy speakers. I thought my Yamahas were nice, but they don’t look anything like two robot nipples shooting musical lightning.

This is a video of musician Luna Lee (who I’ve had the pleasure of seeing perform live) covering The Grateful Dead’s ‘Sugar Magnolia’ on the gayageum. It’s a pleasant trip — the kind of trip you might hope for at a concert. Watching your face melt in the funhouse mirror

The Mario Kart Band of Columbus, Ohio, performs live gigs where audience members compete in 4-player Mario Kart, and the band provides the track-specific music, along with some sound effects. That’s amazing and we should start planning a trip to Ohio. TRUE STORY: I have never won a Mario Kart

This is a clip of Brazilian hillbilly band (that’s a thing — I was surprised, but I know I shouldn’t have been) Tião e os Bravos covering Rage Against The Machine’s 1992 ‘Killing In The Name Of’ atop a dirty mattress stage. Admittedly, not the worst stage I’ve ever seen.

Because some people were just born to sit in a dark room staring at a computer monitor for countless hours at a time (wait — is that all of us?), this is a video of Eminem’s 2002 banger ‘Lose Yourself’ performed by actors reciting lines in 331 different moves. The