I’m giving a presentation at an upcoming London-based marketing conference (about which I’m terrified, but don’t tell them that) about blog marketing. To go along with my presentation, I’ve cobbled together a little video that compiles a some of the photos, videos and songs that I’ve featured on this site. I’ve put it up on YouTube for anybody’s amusement. Anyone who’s actually supposed to ATTEND the conference, shouldn’t watch the video… it would ruin the surprise. Enjoy:

I had to make this video while offline, so if I didn’t include a good piece of material, it’s probably because I didn’t have it stored on my own personal computer. Sorry about that. If I get a chance, I’ll come back and include links to the sources of the songs and videos… but it can’t happen tonight.

I know you thought the whole Snakes on a Plane thing had peaked, but, well, this one’s new. “The Snake has entered the Colliseum”:

USC Marching band covers Snakes on a Plane

AOL Sports Blog was kind enough to point to the above video and add the following commentary:

Proving that no cultural phenomenon is too overdone for the University of Southern California’s Trojan Marching Band to exploit, this year’s pop-culture song added to the Spirit of Troy repertoire is Cobra Starship’s “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)”.

I like the big snake walking around the field, but it would have been nice to have some sort of plane, or, of course, Samuel L. Jackson in lieu of the Trojan mascot.

First there were snakes on a presidential candidate’s PAC.  Then there were snakes on the Senate.  Now, the Irish Trojan put together this amusing clip of Snakes on Howard Dean.

Foolishly I’ve been holding on to a long collection of songs for months and now I’ve lost a lot of their names and contact information. Sadly, I no longer have the time to research where each of these came from, so I’m just going to throw them out there to you. Give them a try, and if you know who belongs to each song (and links to their websites), post it in the comments:

• Snakes On A Plane!!!! by ??
• Snakes on a Jetplane by Chitrack
• HONKin Snakes on a Plane by Cheezer and his One Man Band
• Snakes by Mark Zwolanek
• Cakes on a Plane by Pat Trip
• Snakes on a Plane by Rich
• Cats on a Plane by Rusty Elkins
• Snakes on a Plane by ??
• Remix to Ignition by Snakes Say Hiss
• Snakes on a Plane by FM Kat
• Snakes on a Plane by Master
• Snakes on a Plane by ??
• Snakes that Love Being on Planes by ??
• Snakes on a Plane the song by the Old Valley Resotration Society

Anyone want to review these?

Update: One more from WPLJ in New York:

• Snakes on a Plane

An audio book of Snakes on a Plane is available for download, but it’s not free AND it’s chock full of DRM.  If you don’t mind paying and don’t mind subjecting your purchases to the whims of rights-holders, you can give it a shot. Once again, I was asked to accept a “security update” before I was allowed to listen to this, so I wasn’t particularly interested. You might be.

The audiobook apparently cast both DCLugi and the guys from Subatomic Warp to provide audio.  Does anybody care to provide a review?

MTV2 has the entire soundtrack available to listen to. It didn’t work right away with my browser, and I wasn’t interested in installing a required “security update” so that might just be me.

Captain Ahab was one of the winners of the Tagworld contest and their song Snakes on the Brain will appear on the soundtrack for Snakes on a Plane (and maybe in the film?). Over the last few weeks they’ve sent me a bunch of stuff about a music video they were working on. First there was a story about the video shoot in the Los Angeles Alternative. Then there were pictures from their video shoot:

And now they have a completed music video:

Snakes on the Brain

Also Louden Swain, the other Tagworld winner, has said that they’d be happy to mail out copies of their CD to interested fans… just send them your mailing address to band@loudenswain.com and they’ll send it right out.

All previous Fan Songs and Videos.

Fan Videos from around the web:

Snakes on a Porch

Snakes on a Plane trailer

Snakes in a Can

Snakes on a Plane Rap

Another Snakes on a Plane Rap

All previous Fan Videos.

Fueled by Ramen has posted a brief listing of the “Ehanced Content” to appear on the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack:

• Snakes On A Plane (Bring It) (Music Video) by Cobra Starship
• Early Auditions (Video) by Dave Coyne
• Snakes On A Plane (Shake off the Snakes) (Music Video) by Rob Liscombe
• Snakes On The Brain by Captain Ahab
• Here Come The Snakes (Seeing Is Believing) by Louden Swain

It’s nice to see that all of this is going to be on the soundtrack, it’s a nice collection of fan work.

All previous Fan Songs and Fan Videos.

Matt previously gave us the pictures of the Kindergartners as well as the recent Snakes on  a Home Birth video, and he’s back with a little bit more.  One of his students is apparently a talented singer/songwriter/armpit fart artist.  I’m not really sure how else to introduce this one:

Jack sings SOAP and plays the armpit fart

All previous Fan Songs.

This series of four trailers was produced by a radio show, so I don’t think it strictly qualifies as fan productions, but let’s give them a chance (click on an image to hear the associated audio trailer):

All previous Fan Audio.

Cobra Starship, the lead band on the official soundtrack, finally has their Snakes on a Plane song online. I’m generally reluctant to link to MySpace pages for a variety of reasons, but I don’t really see much way around this one. If anyone has any other links for this, preferably with a downloadable mp3, let me know. For the time being, though, here’s:

Snakes on a Plane (Bring It) by Cobra Starship

And, odd for a real song, they mention this blog. What the hell?

UPDATE posted 7/7/6 at 10:02am: The video has been posted on YouTube:

Snakes on a Plane (bring it) by Cobra Starship

All previous Fan Songs.

Tagworld is, presumably, pleased with their first contest so they’ve written in to let me know that they’re holding a second:

I wanted to let you know that today we launched a new contest on TagWorld. Here’s how it works: come to www.TagWorld.com/Snakesonaplane and record a video comment telling us why you should get to video chat with Samuel L. Jackson. The best comment will be selected on July 17^th, and the winner will get to use TagWorld Video Chat to chat with Sam Jackson on July 22^nd. Webcam is required to participate – we’re really excited about this and I’m sure your readers will contribute some amazing comments! It officially launches tomorrow but I wanted to send it to you today so your readers could have first crack at the contest!

I’m personally curious how far Samuel L. Jackson thinks he would have come without having ‘L’ as his middle initial, but I’m not sure if that would make the cut.

There were some problems with Tagworld’s first contest, and it took an awfully long time to get results, but hopefully they’ve fine tuned their testing process and everything will run a little bit more smoothly this time. Time will tell.

In other, unrelated tagworld news, a reader pointed me to this craigslist ad looking for girls interested in appearing in Tagworld winner Captain Ahab’s music video. Technically, they’re looking for “BOOTY GIRLS” which isn’t really my thing, but I guess you take what you can get.

Tagworld officially announced the winners of the contest yesterday:

Snakes on the Brain by Captain Ahab

Here Come the Snakes by Louden Swain

Both of those songs were snakes-related which is good (I was worried Hollywood.mp3 was going to make the cut). They’re both now going to appear on the soundtrack. Congrats.

All previous Fan Songs.

Tagworld has written to let me know that they’ll be announcing the contest winner tomorrow morning (I suppose that’s tomorrow morning LA time so probably tomorrow noonish Eastern time).  Despite the lengthy delays in the contest, I admit I’m curious about the winner.

Check back tomorrow.

I’ve been sitting on a collection of songs for a long time now. I’m still moving, so updates are hard, but here you go:

Snakes on a Plane The Song by The Old Valley Restoration Society

Remix to Ignition by Snakes Say Hisss!

Snakes on a Plane! by F.M. Kat

Cats on a Plane Movie Trailer by Rusty Elkins

Snakes on a Plane by Rich S

Cakes on a Plane by Pat-Trip

HONKinSnakes on a Plane by Cheezer and His One Man Band

In The Dark Version 1 by Fade To Blue

Snakes on a Jetplane by Chitrak

I haven’t listened to these yet, give them a shot and let me know what you think.

Also, I got word from Tagworld that they’re going to take a few extra days going over the songs in the top-25 with New Line and figure out which they can use. We should be hearing more from them soon.

All previous Fan Songs.

The Tagworld contest voting period is concluded, and here are the songs that we will be presented to New Line for review:

Artist Name	Track
Legaci	Cover Me In Sleep
Nosheen	Rebel with a CAUSE
Louden Swain	Here Come the Snakes
So Many Dynamos	Heat/Humidity
Captain Ahab	Snakes on the Brain
A Victimless Crime	I Only F***ed Her ‘Cause You Wouldn’t
Shranky Drank	Final Snakes
Stabilizer	Industry Standard
Former Fat Boys	Snakes on a Plane!
Nascence	Black
Futuristic Sex Robots	Snakes on a Plane
Jamal Cuervo	Snakes on a Plane
The Turtlenecks	Snakes on a Plane
JC Cannegieter	Hollywood
The Codenames	Snakes on a Plane
Psychaesthetic	A Polemic
The Guesstimates	Two Snakes On A Plane
3 Minute Hero	Sleeping With The Lights On
Kandice Melonakos	Nightmare
Gary Sullivan	Starting Over
Vulvaluxe	Snakes To Ride
Zachary Busby	Serious Problem
Nispy	Snakes on a Plane (Goin’ Down)
Lemon	Come Alive
The Your Moms	I’ve Had it with These Snakes

I haven’t gotten the chance to listen to all of these yet, but I’m glad to see there’s a fair number of actual Snakes on a Plane related songs on the list. Hopefully New Line can find a real winner and HOPEFULLY we’ll hear the song on the big screen.

Tagworld will be posting the official selection by New Line on June 1st.

Chris Rohan, who was part of the team who put together the first audio trailer, as well as my favorite fan song (with DCLugi), has a new website at NutsAFlame.com with a lot of new audio content:

Answering Machine	Nathanial as SLJ and Chris
Audio SoaP Audition	David Coyne
CATapault	Chris and Nathanial
Macbeth Blooper	Nathanial SLJ (and Chris)
Nathanial Perry is SLJ	Nathanial SLJ (and Chris)
Pickles	David Coyne
Puberty Stick	Chris (and Nathanial)
Snakes on a Plane (SoaP)	Nathanial SLJ (and/by Chris)
SoaP Song	David Coyne
The Tragedy of Macbeth	Nathanial SLJ (and Chris)

All previous Fan Audio.

Sorry for the slow updates. I had my first final today - a 9 hour takehome. It’s somewhat exhausting. If anyone wants to discuss Criminal Procedure, though, I’m up for it. I know as much as I’m ever going to know about fourth amendment protections, go ahead, quiz me. Next up? Constitutional Law.

Anyway, here are a few more songs for you, remember, we’ve still got almost a month of Tagworld voting left… make sure actual Snakes on a Plane songs end up before New Line’s ears.

Snakes on a Plane by Yumian Robb

SoaP by Arthur Blume

Snakes On A Plane by Dan Israel

Final Snakes by Shranky Dank

I haven’t gotten a chance to listen to them. Anyone want to post some reviews?

All previous Fan Songs.

Nispy was kind enough to do a new Tagworld Contest Tally for us:

There are an alarmingly large number of non-snake, non-plane related songs in the top 25 songs in the TagWorld contest. Here is the top 25 as of this morning:

1- NOSHEEN 815 BS
2-The Guesstimates 778 - UPDATED: SOAP
3-Futuristic Sex Robotz 771 - SOAP!
4-Former Fat Boys 553 - SOAP!
5-The Codenames 515 - SOAP!
6-??? hollywood.mp3 504 - BS
7-Nascence 500 - BS
8-The Your Moms 400 - SOAP!
9-John Elkins 358 - BS
10-Louden Swain 292 - SOAP!
11-Esselfortium 274 - BS
12-Wizzerds of Rhyme 256 - SOAP!
13-3 Minute Hero 245 - BS
14-A Victimless Crime 244 - BS
15-Legaci 244 - BS
16-Nispy 242 - SOAP!
17-Shranky Drank 237 - SOAP!
18-Stabilizer 236 - SOAP inspired industrial
19-Psychaesthetic 231 - BS
20-So Many Dynamos 231 - BS
21-The Bubblegum Crisis of 1736 219 - BS
22-Ben Rusch 201 - BS
23-Obscure Descension 201 - BS
24-PEN15 & The Pounder 201 - SOAP!
25-Zachary 198 - SOAP!

The SOAP songs near the bottom of the list need help keeping up with the BS songs in the list! Please get the word out to vote for the underdogs! You get 10 votes, so use them for the bottom SOAP songs! These bands are lagging by a large margin and need the most help:

Nispy
PEN15 & The Pounder
Stabilizer
Shranky Drank
Zachary
Wizzerds of Rhyme
Asp

So, please head over there and vote for SOAP songs if you haven’t already. Nobody wants to see Hollywood.mp3 on the big screen.