Nerimon Reads From The Book Twilight

Alex Day (nerimon on YouTube) has a little secret. He's been reading the book Twilight by author Stephenie Meyer. But he has been reading it to his audience on YouTube and pointing out the inconsistencies and poor writing style of the book/movie franchise beloved of the tween girls the world over.



I haven't read the series or even bothered to go see the Twilight movies because both the movies as well as the books have been slammed so heavily by critics - by critics I mean those other than 13 year-old-girls with a blood lust for Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) or the abs of Taylor Lautner.

Usually I frown when seeing someone defacing a book, but with the lack of literary merit displayed in this short video, I am willing to put aside my distaste I would usually reserve for Alex (or anyone else) tearing pages out of a book. Tear them all out! And to show an example of one of the deep thinkers who swear by these books, there was a story awhile back where on girl insisted that the movie Werewolf of London (released in 1935!) was "a complete remaking of the Wolf Pack" from Twilight lol. Actually I prefer the 1941 Lon Chaney classic "The Wolf Man". You can read her comments in this article where she insists that: Twilight Invented Werewolves.

Luckily (or unluckily if you prefer) Alex also posted a previous video where he begins reading from Meyers' book.

Nerimon: Dopamine And Sons Of Admirals Song Available On iTunes

Just checking in on YouTube and the latest video from Nerimon aka Alex Day pops into my inbox. First off he talks about dopamine and how if you are genetically predisposed to producing larger amount of the stuff you are predisposed to happiness. It is like "adrenaline-lite" as it is a precursor to adrenaline. And is used to help those with Parkinson's Disease which is possibly related to having low levels of dopamine in the brain. So ends today's science lesson.

Alex moves on to discuss his "Dreamline" which seems more like a goal list that he updates every three months or so.



What's All This "Sons Of Admirals" Business?

Towards the end of the video Alex mentions as one of his goals that he wants to try to get the song "Here Comes My Baby" (Check out the video below) to number one in the charts. Sons of Admirals are Alex Day, Charlie McDonnell, Eddplant and Tom Milsom, each of whom are on Youtube (Charlie McDonnell actually is the most subscribed youtuber in the UK with his charlieissocoollike channel with 620,000 subscribers).

The song was just released on iTunes and after the haranguing Alex gave you in that video to buy it, go here: Sons of Admirals on iTunes.

By the time you read this it may be too late, but the Sons of Admirals will be live at the BBC tomorrow (Monday October 25th, 2010) and you can see the show on The 5:19 Show.

And if you're not one of the two and a half million people who have watched the video, here's their song, Here Comes My Baby:



Here's Tom Milsom (aka hexachordal) advising why you should buy the song by Sons of Admirals:



And... Charlie McDonnell. Mostly discussing his uber-nerdiness. Plus a great part about the song.

Nerimon And The Universal Calendar

Here's one of the top English youtubers discussing a conference he attended. If you don't know him, he's Alex Day aka nerimon and he's the 7th most subscribed UK youtuber who makes some interesting videos.



I have to admit that I did know about Carl Sagan's universal calendar concept as Alex explains that if you think of the timeline of the Universe for it's beginning to the present day in terms of a calendar year, the Earth itself just showed up around September and the entirety of the human race appeared in the last 15 minutes of December 31st. That shows the relative insignificance of mankind (and womankind).

But I also like to think that maybe the emergence of the human race could signify and important epoch of the story of the Universe. But then again, maybe we're just a speed bump with little significance in the grand scheme of things. Something to think about (or not).

Here's another recent video by Alex that is a little less heavy. He and his friend Tom Milsom (he's hexachordal on YouTube) go to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum, but first Alex stops in with friends to learn some much needed cooking skills.



The cooking part shows him trying to put together a somewhat edible meal curtesy of another YouTube friend Ben Ebbrell (seems all Youtubers know each other doesn't it?). The cooking channel is sortedfood and you can find some of their recipes on Amazon at Sorted Cookbooks.

Here's the video of Alex trying to pick up a few cooking tips.