Comments on: Cat playing guitar interrupted by earthquake

By: pdffs

pdffs — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:28:00 +0000

Nah, it rolled on for a fair while…

By: isawu

isawu — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:09:00 +0000

A little “Rock-n-Roll” music.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:25:00 +0000

Presumably not “I love my dog”…

By: The Hamster King

The Hamster King — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:14:00 +0000

Yeah, as an L.A. resident who’s been through a number of shakes, that “earthquake” didn’t ring true. They don’t come and go like that and they don’t sound like that … .

By: Dennis Smith

Dennis Smith — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:03:00 +0000

I wish I was a baller….

By: TheKaz1969

TheKaz1969 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:26:00 +0000

If only the cat were named Nero…

By: luneborg andreas

luneborg andreas — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:08:00 +0000

Show must go on?

By: Jello

Jello — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:49:00 +0000

Thank you, I was hoping someone had beaten me to it!

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:15:00 +0000

That it’s fake makes a lot of sense; as mentioned in the Reddit thread, earthquakes here in Melbourne are rare as hell and spook the crap out of us; this is only the second or third one anywhere near this strong that I’ve felt, and I’m 37. Maybe a Japanese or San Franciscan camera operator could be so chilled, but no Melburnian, I bet…

Funny how that wasn’t enough to cause anyone in four news networks to check… also, I felt it almost as strongly as it appeared in the vid (like 3/4), and the duration was far shorter, maybe a third of that amount of activity tops.

By: JhmL

JhmL — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:11:00 +0000

And right in the middle of the solo too, how rude!

By: Willem Reyners Tay

Willem Reyners Tay — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:05:00 +0000

Haha.. yeah this is widely recognised as a fakez..hence the cat not going haywire!

By: paulj

paulj — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:01:00 +0000

I’m not impressed with the laid-back picking. Even if their name is Steven, any self-respecting cat would be shredding!

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 02:53:00 +0000

If there were several, would it be Cat Stevens? Cats Steven? Cats Stevens…?

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:24:00 +0000

Youtube is a log of rythmic cats. So logrythmic.

By: Tom Henthorn

Tom Henthorn — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:03:00 +0000

I love how little of a fuck the cat gives about the earthquake

By: Volt Ron

Volt Ron — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:03:00 +0000

Looks exactly like it, but without the earthquake type of sound effects and camera shake. Both are still amusing videos.

By: Shai_Hulud

Shai_Hulud — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:53:00 +0000

What I find fascinating is how a subjectively “interesting/amusing” story albeit fiction tends to have more value than plain truth. The fact that four tv news networks used the video as material is hilarious.

It’s also really cool and slightly alarming that a piece of media can be edited so quickly, released into the wild, and then be incorporated into news as information.

By: danno

danno — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:43:00 +0000

“owner heroically continues filming cat video”

By: waetherman

waetherman — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:40:00 +0000

Even more likely “But I Might Die Tonight”

By: Thad Boyd

Thad Boyd — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:38:00 +0000

Of course. Why even HAVE a Cat Steven if you’re not going to teach him to play guitar?

By: Shai_Hulud

Shai_Hulud — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:36:00 +0000

Looks like this cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6JtnAT6jU#t=0m20s

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:25:00 +0000

I love the Internet.

By: chortick

chortick — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:23:00 +0000

While we all appreciate a good amp, kitty needs to dial back the bass a little…

By: crummett

crummett — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:22:00 +0000

That is _exactly_ the kind of headline I expect to see on boingboing!

By: Shai_Hulud

Shai_Hulud — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:20:00 +0000

*spoiler*
video is a remix/edit (hoax?) as found by australian redditors http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/vb0t4/cat_in_melbourne_plays_a_guitar_and_is/c52zpud
A couple of news agencies even used the video as news material, without bothering to check varicity. Well, it does tell an interesting story.
http://electronsoup.net/?p=16

By: retchdog

retchdog — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:15:00 +0000

the truncated scream at the end is a bit unsettling…

By: Bob Mull

Bob Mull — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:14:00 +0000

Schrödinger’s cats

By: Shibi_SF

Shibi_SF — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:13:00 +0000

I hope that he was playing “Moonshadow” or more likely, “Wild World”.

By: Judas Peckerwood

Judas Peckerwood — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:07:00 +0000

That’s one cool cat!

By: futnuh

futnuh — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:47:00 +0000

Linear cats, or logarithmic cats?