{"id":473,"date":"2012-09-20T01:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=473"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:28:49","slug":"yo-gabba-gabba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/yo-gabba-gabba\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Believe This Is Really Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcpARm3oOEg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In celebration of the collaboration between Volcom and Yo Gabba Gabba!, Biz Markie, Wayne Coyne, Jack Black, Mark Mothersbaugh and Jon Heder alongside the Yo Gabba Gabba! characters Muno, Foofa, Brobee, Toodee and Plex, got together to create a music video featuring an original song written and performed special for this magical coming together called &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Believe It&#8217;s Really Happening&#8221; performed by Biz and Wayne!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yo Gabba Gabba! is one of those rare, bright spots of childrens&#8217; entertainment that I actually enjoy just as much as my kids do. This is no accident, of course: Biz Markie and Mark Mothersbaugh have recurring segments on the show, and they regularly feature folks like The Flaming Lips, Mos Def, Amy Sedaris, etc. They even recently reunited one of my all-time favorite bands, Rocket From The Crypt, albeit for a totally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=03WJCe6jQE8\">goofy and forgettable song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a bit of trivia: <acronym title=\"Rocket From The Crypt\">RFTC<\/acronym>&#8216;s lead singer (and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Reis\">serial-band-starter<\/a>) John Reis introduces every musical act on the show under his pseudonym, <em>The Swami<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of the collaboration between Volcom and Yo Gabba Gabba!, Biz Markie, Wayne Coyne, Jack Black, Mark Mothersbaugh and Jon Heder alongside the Yo Gabba Gabba! characters Muno, Foofa, Brobee, Toodee and Plex, got together to create a music video featuring an original song written and performed special for this magical coming together called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[136,135],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rocket-from-the-crypt","tag-yo-gabba-gabba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-7D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}