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Three Minutes on a Park Bench With Adam Schleichkorn Long Island Patch

How to Make a Viral Video - And Make Money
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Ultimate Guide to Youtube for Business
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Cat Video Film Festival

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Miss Piggy Sings 'Wrecking Ball' by Miley Cyrus

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Alf Sings 'Berzerk' by Eminem

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Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake - "Holy Grail" (Sesame Street Version) 

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Robin Thicke - "Blurred Lines" (Sesame Street/Muppets Version) 

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Daft Punk - "Get Lucky" (Sesame Street Version)

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Station Softball Reality Show

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I'm Just a Cat and I'm Doing Cat Stuff

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Rapping Dog ft. The Singing Cats

URLesque - "Barry the Rapping Dog featuring Mylo and Cleo the Singing Cats"

3 Seconds of Cat Footage


URLesque - "How to Make the Same 3 Seconds of Cat Footage Into a Million Views in 3 Years"

Mylo the Cat on ABC News

A story by ABC News of the recent viral video by Mylo the Cat, called 'I'm Just a Cat and I'm Doing Cat Stuff'. Mtc yall!

VIDEO: Rapping Cat Becomes Web Sensation

Who would've thought that a cat "rapping" about, well, doing "cat stuff" could heat up the web waves the way this one has. If this doesn't make your Tuesday morning a little brighter, we're not sure what will.

Station Softball Reality Show's First Write-Up!

Check out the first write-up on the Station Softball Reality Show, which is now the #1 most shared story of all time on Huntington Patch!

http://huntington.patch.com/articles/keeping-it-real

Two Great Write-Ups from We Wore Masks

The guys at WeWoreMasks always come through with great write-ups on every new track Peter Toh puts out, which they've done again on the latest 2 tracks "American Dream" and "Hollywood". These are both demo versions that are on Peter's Myspace Page (myspace.com/petertohmusic), and the Bears posted the write-ups within a day of each getting released! Many thanks once again to WeWoreMasks and be sure to check out their site for some great music.


From WeWoreMasks.blogspot.com -

"American Dream"
peter toh is in the building.. feel him.

our favorite ex the stryder vocalist/guitarist turned solo artist is back with a new demo called "american dream". it's a bedroom/laptop demo that's definitely got some heat and is apparently a further evolution of an earlier demo called "sweaty night". this new demo is all about the chill. mellow and engaging, toh's soulful croon in tact.

give this one a listen, add it to your myspace profile, and get ready for wildlife.. his full length album that will be dropping sooner than a girl that says yes to soon.

our boy will also be dropping the title track from his album in the next week or so, so be prepared for some next level shit. HIDDEN TRACK, HOLLER AT YOUR BEARS FOR SOME EXCLUSIVES.

"Hollywood"
toh just don't stop. our boy's back with another new demo straight off the laptop and into your ears. give this one a listen, it's a different step for him.. but i'm definitely feeling the vibe. more upbeat, more diverse, still dope. get with it.

note to labels out there: pick this album up. this dude is a workhorse with a sincerity in his music that's lacking in most of the "artists" on your collective rosters. if there's anyone you should listen to, it's we wore masks.. bears have better taste than any a&r rep out there.

Newsday Write-Up on Peter Toh!

Check out the article on Peter Toh in Long Island's Newsday! It's available online now, and will be officially released in the actual paper on Sunday, so be sure to check it out. Many thanks to Glenn Gamboa of Newsday for a great write-up! Check out the full story below or the original on Newsday.com

For Roslyn's Peter Toh, it's 'Love' at first sound

Peter Toh says it was a case of being in the right place at the right time.

The singer-songwriter from Roslyn just happened to be sitting around with rapper Lil Mama, Miss "Lip Gloss" herself, and her father after working on building their studio. When they started talking about needing another song for her debut album, "VYP: Voice of the Young People" (Jive), Toh said he had exactly what they were looking for and pulled out his song "Truly in Love."

"They loved it and said, 'Let's record it right now,'" Toh says. "I'm so glad it worked out."

Not only did "Truly in Love" work out well enough to land on Lil Mama's debut, she kept Toh on the song, making him one of the album's collaborators along with Chris Brown and T-Pain.

"I'm really proud of it," Toh says. "It's a good dose of validation because it's so hard getting out there."

Now, Toh is focused on getting himself out there. He is planning to release his debut single, "Bone Structure," to iTunes next month and is working on material for his debut album rather than trying to go out and get a record company to support it.

Along with his manager, Adam Schleichkorn, Toh has created hiddentracktv.com to promote his music as well as other indie-minded videos. (The site is currently spotlighting another collaboration between Toh and Lil Mama called "Fire.")

Toh says his indie streak comes from immersing himself in Long Island's indie-rock scene, following in the footsteps of Glassjaw and The Movielife.

"I want to create a hybrid, something new, but not abstract," he says. "I want to be on rock radio. I want to do a new rock music, rock with a dash of something new."

Contact The Long Island Sound at thelisound@gmail.com or add ndmus as a friend at MySpace or imeem.

James Catusco in the News!

Well, kind of. James Catusco has received his first ever mention in a legitimate news source, The Northwest Herald, which is a newspaper in Illinois. Check out the story below...

Five on one: How bad are they?

TODAY’S TOPIC: How bad are they?

So the Bulls lost to the Miami Heat, owners of the league’s worst record (14-64), on Tuesday to end their playoff hopes. The Bulls probably feel bad because Miami is bad. But the Heat will get Dwyane Wade (above) and Shawn Marion back next season, and at least they’re not one of these five:

1. James Catusco. Who? Search YouTube for “worst basketball player” and you’ll find him. He’s, uh, not so good.

2. New York Knicks, 2002-08. Six seasons of losing, on the court of basketball and in a court of law, where last year the franchise was found liable for sexual harassment.

3. Philadelphia 76ers, 1972-73. They finished 9-73. They lost 20 in a row. They had the worst record in NBA history.

4. NJIT Highlanders. The 2007-08 squad went 0-29, a Division I record for the most losses without a win.

5. Washington Generals. They never figured out those Harlem Globetrotters and their wacky,

ball-spinning antics.

Haaaaaa! Freakin awesome! Check out the original post HERE

From the Washington Post

The Washington Post did their research, and shouted out the Stryder! In this article, they compared Lil Mama to Santogold, and wrote the following...(This has only just begun)

While Santogold has been collaborating with Ashlee Simpson of late, Lil Mama teamed up with Peter Toh, founding member of Long Island punk outfit the Stryder, for the ska-sounding "Truly in Love."

For the full article, go to washingtonpost.com

Peter Toh Featured on Voice of the Young People

Brooklyn/Harlem rapper Lil Mama's debut album "Voice of the Young People," will be released on April 29th and April 28th in the UK by Jive and Familiar Faces. "Truly In Love," produced, co-written by and also featuring Peter Toh will be alongside the hit singles "Lip Gloss," "Shorty Get Loose," and "G-Slide." Other producers contributing to VYP are Danja, Cool and Dre, Dr. Luke, Swizz Beatz, The Runners, and Scott Storch. April 29th, Lil Mama featuring a song with Peter Toh. COP THAT.

more info on Wikipedia

Write-Up on Peter Toh's "Missing Link" (Wildlife Demo)

The new demo has been up on Toh's Myspace for a day, and there's already a write-up! Ok, I may or may not have sent the link directly to these guys because I know they're big fans, but either way they came through! In all seriousness though, the post is from the site We Wore Masks, which is one of the coolest music blogs out there. So cool in fact, that it's one of the few sites we rep proudly in our Link List, on the sidebar of this page.

Here's the Post Below, or you can CLICK HERE for the original....

Peter Toh "Missing Link"(Wildlife Demo)

our boy toh is at it again.

i'm really starting to get excited for his upcoming full length, wildlife, with every demo he posts. this new track (posted on his myspace) is no exception. "missing link" is about as smooth and natural as it gets. there's a wonderful juxtaposition between a straight forward beat/loop, soulful mid range melodies, and delicate musical intricacies blended throughout the song. dude's really starting to find his stride in the world of art and music. hopefully it's only a matter of time before the music community catches on. tell your friends to put down their akon records and tune them in to a real soulful dude.

listen to "missing link" on peter's myspace.


- panda

Hello My Name Is feature in Vapors issue 46

Check out Yak's write-up in Vapors Magazine, where he shouts out Hidden Track TV! Click the picture below to view it full-size...

Top 5 Obsessive love songs

Check out this list by:
Corinne Pariante of universitypressonline.com, as she lists her top 5 obsessive love songs, and includes "Masquerade in the Key of Crime" by The Stryder with (some) good company...



1. "My Bloody Valentine" -- Good Charlotte

Good Charlotte is usually known for catchy pop-punk songs such as "Boys and Girls" and "Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous". In this creepy number, entitiled "My Bloody Valentine," the boys of Good Charlotte sing to the girl they love. To prove their love for her, they describe in detail how they kill her boyfriend:

"He dropped you off, I followed him home
Then I, I stood outside his bedroom window
Standing over him, he begged me not to do
What I knew I had to do 'cause I'm so in love with you
Oh, my love
Please don't cry
I'll wash my bloody hands and
We'll start a new life"

How sweet.


2. "Cactus" -- Pixies

The Pixies sing despondently, of their love and desperation for a girl. It sounds sweet, but they want her to mutilate herself, stain her dress with the resulting blood and sweat just for nostalgic purposes:

"Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Bloody your hands on a cactus tree
Wipe it on your dress and send it to me"

This song was also redone by the occasionally creepy David Bowie on his album, Heathen.


3. "Masquerade in the Key of Crime" -- The Stryder

The Stryder (which have since broken up) make a beautiful, yet disturbing song about a boy out to kill his ex-girlfriend:

"It's freezing outside now.
It's crowded.
It's loud as hell in here.
My mission, to kill her.
Incision. It will hurt.
I'm staring, stop staring.
She's wearing my favorite shirt."

In the song, set to the piano, they sing how the ex-boyfriend stalks her at a party, all the while questioning whether he should kill her. He even goes as far as chasing her. The song has a shocking finale.


4. "Invisible" -- Clay Aiken

That's right, "American Idol" runner up Clay Aiken gets a little creepy in his single, "Invisible":

"If I was invisible
Then I could just watch you in your room
If I was invincible
I'd make you mine tonight"

On first listen it seems that he is just tired of a girl not noticing him, but by listening further, you realize that he wants to keep his eye on her till she sees him. What makes it even more awkward is when he sings that he is invisible. So does that mean he has been watching this girl without her awareness? That's called stalking. CREEPY.


5. "867-5309 (Jenny)" -- Tommy Tutone

This one hit wonder from the eighties is quite catchy, but then the lyrics reveal that he doesn't actually know the girl, but has gotten the girl's number from the bathroom stall. This is all it takes for his obsession with Jenny to begin:

"Jenny, Jenny you're the girl for me
You don't know me but you make me so happy
I tried to call you before
But I lost my nerve
I tried my imagination
But I was disturbed
Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine"

While more subtle, this song still evokes the creepiness of the obsessive behavior of boys stalking the one they think they love.

Another One from We Wore Masks

These dudes rule, and are some of the few who fully understands what myself and Hidden Track are trying to do. I can't thank them enough for the posts, so hopefully reposting it here, and all our other blogs will get them some more much-deserved traffic. Be sure to check out their blog at http://weworemasks.blogspot.com becuase they update pretty frequently, and they really do post some cool stuff...

Here's the post, which you can also go to directly HERE



so in case we didn't make it obvious before, we love peter toh. i honestly believe dude's doing something new and different in underground music (and being the tastemaker i am, i'm pretty sure i'm right). i also think that's why the masses haven't caught on yet. well, they will.. or they'll be missing out. make sure you don't miss out, and check out his new track (called "heroes") he posted last week on his myspace page. it's got so much soul, i'm pretty sure you'll run out of your front door and grind on the first person you see. he also posted a blog entry and bulletin post about us, which we pretty much screamed like little girls about. GET EM TOH.

We Wore Masks: Peter Toh

Check out this post from We Wore Masks...



peter toh is straight up about the hustle. the brooklyn native (and former lead singer of equal vision records band the stryder) is constantly updating his myspace, website, and youtube channel with new shit. new demos, videos, and so on.. the man simply doesn't quit. he also co-runs one of the more diverse record labels out, hidden track media. i was going to put up his latest release, the shoes of a beast ep, but instead i'm putting up his hard to come by debut, the cleopatra ep. in addition, i'm posting a few of his recent demos packaged together with the two singles from the shoes of a beast ep. if you like what you hear, i highly, highly recommend going to his myspace page, where you can purchase the ep directly from him for a few bucks. as for what he sounds like, i'll let him tell you:

"i'm not an indie musician, i'm not pop, i'm not hip hop, i'm not rock, or r&b. i'm an artist and i make music that fits into one of two categories: the type you like at the moment or the type that you don't like at the moment. all you need to know about me is i'm never afraid and i promise to always blur the lines, take chances, and grow. forever."

Click Here to go to the actual post, and be sure to check out weworemasks.blogspot.com for their very cool Music Blog, where they tell you what you should be down with in all things music and pop culture..

Hidden Track TV Announces Content Partnership with Imeem.com

Hidden Track TV has agreed to bring their music and videos over to Imeem.com, as they have just announced a Content Partnership deal with the California-based company, which is currently the #152 most visited site in the world. Hidden Track TV joins partners such as Paramount Pictures, Warner Music Group, and TNA Wrestling to name a few, along with one of their favorites, Will Ferrell's site, Funny or Die.

This is the first spot that we can have all our videos, music, and blogs on one actual page, so basically it's like a cooler version of myspace! So go to hiddentracktv.imeem.com and add us as a friend today!

Ages on Musicglob

The following is a post from musicglob.com...

"I hadn’t heard of Peter Toh until this week and I am really impressed. This video is first of all extremely well done. The cinematography is beautifully in sync with the song. The song itself is infectious. I can’t help but listen to it. It’s gotta be the beat or something - or everything.

I may be a douchebag for saying this, but this song/video + Peter Toh have all the qualities to be the next Justin Timberlake. Sick beats, the lyrics/voice, and the subtle hint of pop to set mtv and all the kids on fire.

I’ll most likely be writing more on Peter Toh in the future so keep a look out."

Many thanks to Dan at Musiglob for a great write-up and for posting the Ages vid. Be sure to check out his page at musicglob.com.

Fence Plowing on 20/20

The creator of fence plowing discusses how he turned his sudden infamy into a positive outcome on ABC's 20/20...

Dangerous Web Trends on ABC News

An ABC news report about dangerous web trends, showing fence plowing, and teens fighting.

NY Times - Teenagers Misbehaving, for All Online to Watch

This article came out in the New York Times Today! The picture had a caption of "A youth hurling himself into a fence in a YouTube clip by Adam Schleichkorn." They also gave a direct link to my video, and another to my youtube page in the online version of the article...

DEER PARK, N.Y., Feb. 8 — Dozens of teenage boys
hovered outside Deer Park High School Thursday
afternoon, some holding schoolbooks, some holding
skateboards and some holding camera-equipped
cellphones to record the proceedings.

“There’s going to be a fight,” said one boy with
shaggy hair over his eyes. “Anything funny or crazy
that people would want to see and talk about, we tape
it and post it online.”

School officials shooed the boys away, and at a
Starbucks nearby, 17-year-old Gary Buley-Neumar
explained: “Kids beat up other kids and tape it, just
so other kids will see it and laugh. Or they just post
stupid things they did online so other kids will look
at their Web page.”

The police are watching as well. On Feb. 2, Deer Park
officers announced that five teenagers had been
arrested for fence-plowing — a recent fad that
involves youths taking a running start and hurling
themselves into a fence, sending slats flying. The
authorities said the teenagers may have been imitating
a popular YouTube video posted last year that received
three and a half stars and had nearly 70,000 viewers.

Last month, after viewing a video of the beating of a
13-year-old girl that was broadcast on Web sites
including MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube, the
authorities arrested three freshman girls from nearby
North Babylon High School.

Such sites are flooded with teenage-fight videos, and
there are many sites, like PSFights.com, devoted
solely to similar acts. In response to such
cyberbullying, Steve Levy, the Suffolk County
executive, recently asked school districts to
designate a staff Internet monitor to watch for
Web-posted misbehavior among students.

Schoolyard scraps, spectacular skateboard spills,
puppy-love quarrels, goofy antics like placing a slice
of American cheese over the face of a snoring buddy,
and bruising stunts like hurling one’s body through a
neighbor’s wooden fence — these and other staples of
suburban teenage life have taken on a new dimension as
online cinéma vérité. Instead of being whispered about
among friends and then fading away, such rites of
ridiculousness are now routinely captured on video and
posted on the Internet for worldwide perusal, and
posterity.

“Teens have been doing inappropriate things for a long
time, but now they think they can become celebrities
by doing it,” said Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of
developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Schneider
Children’s Hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical
Center.

“In the past, you’d brag to your friends in the locker
room about doing something stupid or crazy or daring,”
Dr. Adesman said. “Now the Internet provides
additional motivation. But these things can just as
easily lead to criminal prosecution as broad
celebrity.”

In the classroom, in the cafeteria, in their bedrooms
or on the street, teenagers are quick on the draw with
the camera phone. They flip, click and post, then hope
Web users will watch them.

Most suburban teenagers, it seems, can rattle off a
litany of the latest teens-gone-wild offerings as
though they were the local multiplex listings: boys
holding cellphones under the lunch table to photograph
up girls’ skirts; an innocent kiss at a party posted
out of context on an ex-boyfriend’s Web site; someone
bursting in on friends who are in the bathroom or
sleeping, drinking or smoking; students goading
teachers into tantrums; assaulting homeless people.

“Teens always do crazy stuff, but it’s just that much
more intense and fun when you can post it,” said
Nathaniel Visneaskous, 18, of Deer Park. “When you
live in a boring town, what else is there to do?”

Parry Aftab, a New Jersey lawyer whose Web site,
WiredSafety.org, offers parents help on issues like
cyberbullying, noted that “you have girls at slumber
parties taking pictures of each other in their bras
and panties, and somehow the shots wind up on a porn
site.”

“Anytime a teen is around friends now, anything they
do can be filmed and put online,” Ms. Aftab said.
“They say, ‘I can become a movie star or at least make
it onto “The Montel Williams Show.” ’ I tell them: ‘Be
careful, because what you do now is forever. When
you’re applying to college or an internship or that
dream job at MTV, people are going to look at what’s
been posted of you online.’ ”

YouTube says it reviews videos posted on its site and
removes those that violate guidelines. “If your video
shows someone getting hurt, attacked or humiliated,
don’t post,” the Web site warns.

Mr. Levy, the Suffolk County executive, said the
authorities’ Internet focus has expanded from stopping
sexual predators to making “sure the child is not
being humiliated by his or her peers on online video.”

“Some kids want their 15 minutes of fame by holding
other kids up to ridicule,” he said. “A premeditated
attack is assault, but how about the friend who plots
with the perpetrators to film it? When does that
become a crime?”

Chris Marotta, a high school junior from Huntington
Station, not far from here, said that with so many
camera phones and digital cameras around, “at any
given time, someone’s taping you.”

“Kids put their fights online for street cred,” he
noted. “If it’s a bad fight and their face is in the
video, they can get arrested.”

Nancy E. Willard, author of the 2006 book
“Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats,” said that adults
“might not consider it a great idea to post online a
video of yourself committing a crime for all to see,
but a lot of teens have this idea that life is a game
and it’s all just entertainment.”

“In doing this, they’re jostling for social position
and status, or establishing themselves in a certain
social group, or just attracting attention,” she said.
“To them, this is defining who they are and what
people think of them. The idea that ‘people know my
name’ is an affirmation of who they are.”

Indeed, Adam Schleichkorn, 25, of Huntington, has been
proclaiming himself the godfather of fence-plowing,
since his seminal 3 ½-star clip, popularized on
YouTube, was cited by the news media in reporting the
Deer Park fence-plowing arrests. Mr. Schleichkorn,
admittedly a bit old for teenage tricks, said he never
meant to promote vandalism; the video, he said, shows
his cousin hurling himself through a segment of fence
that relatives owned and that needed to be torn down
anyhow.

No matter. The fence-plowing frenzy, Mr. Schleichkorn
said, has driven tens of thousands of visitors to his
YouTube page, where his more serious projects — he is
a producer of films, videos and advertisements — can
also be found.

“A week ago, no one knew who I was — now my name has
been on every news and talk show,” Mr. Schleichkorn
said. “I don’t care that it’s for something stupid. I
was on Fox News cracking jokes. Maury Povich called me
today.

“So I’m known as the fence-plowing kid,” he added. “At
least I’m known.”

Click here for the actual article

The last line is so incredibly mis-quoted, but the whole thing is still hilarious.

The godfather of fence plowing on FOX News

The godfather of fence plowing on FOX News...