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"The Kablooie Stick" Video

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Created: 11/03/2005
Video description: An Astounding Product -- just point the stick and say "Kablooie!" The amazing stick that makes things disappear and reappear. (Produced by Matthew, the 13 year old son of Kirk Moore.)

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The week in a minute: 11/11/05

A compilation of some of the past week's best videos, brought to you by the Download.com Video team. This week we have blood-thirsty zombies, loads of fake mustaches, and piles of severed bee heads.

1.) "Stubbs the Zombie" game trailer

2.) Copeland: "Pin Your Wings

3.) "Yacht Rock": Part 5

4.) "The Kablooie Stick"

5.) Steel Pulse: "No Weapons"

6.) A different kind of gun safety class

7.) "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" trailer

8.) Mike Tyson and Bobby Brown: "Monster Mash"

9.) "Hostel" trailer

10.) Exclusive interview with Omer Pasha: The Curse music videos

11.) "Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock"

12.) "Phil's MostExtraOrdinary"

13.) Ke-myu'ni-'ka'shen

14.) Ace Ramano: Action Man

15.) Pop Dolls: "Magazines"

16.) Gaz Reynolds: "Electric Kama Sutra"

17.) P.I.C: "Got Me Like"

Click here for the Week in a Minute archive.

"When the Pumpkins Arrived"

Everyone was having fun in the world -- until fear arrived in the form of attacking pumpkins! This is the first movie in the Pumpkin Trilogy by Kirk Moore.

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"When the Pumpkins Returned"

Since the pumpkins ran away, everyone forgot about them. They never talked about them and forbid even thinking about them -- until they came back. (The second movie in the Pumpkin Trilogy by Kirk Moore.)

Polk Audio SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater

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British Sea Power: "Waving Flags"

British Sea Power play amplified rock music and are based in Brighton, East Sussex. Over the past couple of years, they have variously found themselves sharing tea and talk with Julian Casablancas, John McEnroe, Jarvis Cocker, Julian Cope and Jeremy Vine (just to stick to the letter Js). You have to ask yourself, how on earth did this happen?

From First To Last: "The Latest Plague"

?It?s one thing to play a certain type of music,? says singer Sonny Moore dismissively, ?but it?s another thing to have no originality.? This is not just another brash quote from a member of one of the only truly punk bands left, From First To Last. It?s actually more of a mantra. Because when the members of From First To Last?Moore, drummer Derek Bloom and guitarists Travis Richter and Matt Good?began recording their highly anticipated second album Heroine, the pursuit, above all things, was originality. Which, as one spin of Heroine attests, is what they?ve achieved. ?We are so pleased,? Moore says. ?Before we started, we all said, ?We?re not going to make this record unless it?s a record we truly love.? And we did. This is the first time I?ve ever been so proud of a piece of art in my life.? This didn?t happen overnight. Formed in 2002 by Richter and Good in their hometown of Orlando, Florida, it wasn?t until FFTL began recording their Epitaph debut Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count that the band?s line-up began to congeal. Living in Los Angeles and half-heartedly playing in another band, the then 15-year-old Moore decided to spend a few weeks with the band in Georgia, where they were recording their debut. His timing couldn?t have been better. Moore arrived just as Good and Richter parted with their original singer and they were in the process of filling in the vocal gap on their own. After hearing Moore singing backups in the studio one day, a decision was made: Moore was in. Perhaps unsurprisingly the remainder of Dear Diary came together almost as quickly. Good and Richter had written the album in two weeks; Moore completed his vocals in the same space. They were barely a band in some senses, but FFTL?s music caught on nonetheless. Due in large part to their constant touring schedule, including three consecutive Warped Tour runs, Dear Diary went onto sell over 100,000 copies. But beyond the album?s success was an often-unnoticed subtext. As Moore puts it on the album?s opening track, with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, ?I?m glad you?ve graced me with your presence/You?re just in time to see me wrestle with my conscience.? Nevermind your broken heart. This was ?screamo? with wit.

From First To Last: "Note To Self"

?It?s one thing to play a certain type of music,? says singer Sonny Moore dismissively, ?but it?s another thing to have no originality.? This is not just another brash quote from a member of one of the only truly punk bands left, From First To Last. It?s actually more of a mantra. Because when the members of From First To Last?Moore, drummer Derek Bloom and guitarists Travis Richter and Matt Good?began recording their highly anticipated second album Heroine, the pursuit, above all things, was originality. Which, as one spin of Heroine attests, is what they?ve achieved. ?We are so pleased,? Moore says. ?Before we started, we all said, ?We?re not going to make this record unless it?s a record we truly love.? And we did. This is the first time I?ve ever been so proud of a piece of art in my life.? This didn?t happen overnight. Formed in 2002 by Richter and Good in their hometown of Orlando, Florida, it wasn?t until FFTL began recording their Epitaph debut Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count that the band?s line-up began to congeal. Living in Los Angeles and half-heartedly playing in another band, the then 15-year-old Moore decided to spend a few weeks with the band in Georgia, where they were recording their debut. His timing couldn?t have been better. Moore arrived just as Good and Richter parted with their original singer and they were in the process of filling in the vocal gap on their own. After hearing Moore singing backups in the studio one day, a decision was made: Moore was in. Perhaps unsurprisingly the remainder of Dear Diary came together almost as quickly. Good and Richter had written the album in two weeks; Moore completed his vocals in the same space. They were barely a band in some senses, but FFTL?s music caught on nonetheless. Due in large part to their constant touring schedule, including three consecutive Warped Tour runs, Dear Diary went onto sell over 100,000 copies. But beyond the album?s success was an often-unnoticed subtext. As Moore puts it on the album?s opening track, with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, ?I?m glad you?ve graced me with your presence/You?re just in time to see me wrestle with my conscience.? Nevermind your broken heart. This was ?screamo? with wit.