Recently, out of the blue, I realized that a lot work was put behind those intro, and as soon as you get hooked on a serie, the intro rapidly becomes like a ritual… you’re rubbing your hands at the first chord of Superhero by Jane’s Addiction (Entourage), you’re thinking about how will a character die while listening to the inspired music on Six Feet Under’s opening, or you just feel the lousy mood of your favorite teenage charachter from Friday Night Lights.

Anyway, here’s a top 5 of the best TV Show Intro.

1 - Six Feet Under

This is brilliant. Plain brilliant. Thomas Newman wrote a musical masterpiece for one of the best, if not the best TV show ever. It was with great pleasure that I watched and listen to that intro through the 5 seasons.

2 - Entourage

Jane’s Addiction just prooves with this song that they are clearly Rock n Roll Hall of Fame material and that, besides that, only their songs can make L.A. look nice!

3 - Friday Night Lights
The real intro is no longer available on youtube due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal

The music for FNL’s intro was written and performed by Explosions in the sky. Through the intro, you feel as bad as all those teenagers living a teenager standard life in small town USA. Mixing electric guitar, marching band drums, beautiful actors and the hope you can feel as a teenager living with the world on his shoulders, this is definetely  a winner intro, just like the Dillon Panthers!

4 - The Simpsons

Do I need to write more? You just can’t watch a Simpsons episode without watching the intro, it’s just a part of it and it can be change in so many different ways.

5 - That 70’s Show / Friends


That 70’s show intro was improve almost every year and you didn’t even notice (except for all the re-runs!)… Looking back, I think this was the first lip dub I ever watched and the sing along anthem by Cheap Trick just does it for me. We’re all alright!

How did an unknown band like The Rembrandts just turned a simple TV show intro into a feel good TV show intro. After 10 years, they always used the same intro (except with the one with fat Monica!).

Mention
South Park

After 3 clicks and having watched the shaver feature and the projector feature, I knew it was a joke, but from who. Go see for yourself.

Great campaign. Is it too big? Why choose telecom to drag people to your province? Is the whole thing really necessary? Somebody did a good pitch on that one!

OK, the iPhone is officially TIME magazine’s invention of the year. Predictable? Yes, we all think so. But wait. There’s more to this invention of the year thing. If you surf through TIME’s web site a little more, you’ll get to The Best Inventions of the year where you can see a brilliant top five. Go a little further to see the complete list and you’ll notice this : the Flip Mino. It’s a 180$, it shoots movie for up to 60 minutes of recording, it stores up to 2 Gb and it transfers video directly to your hard drive through USB… After youtube made movie universally shareable, The Flip makes movie directing accessible to anyone. Just press the red button!

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCXNt4P8Xg#t=0m54s
(watch out, Joe Theisman leg break).

On the funny side, another new feature lets you hear what you write as a comment before you post it. Curiously, the inspiration for this one may have come from this cartoon! Think twice before posting!!!

sleep.fm

Is social network going somewhere or anywhere? Maybe you should ask the folks (ex-execs at yahoo!, verizon, etc) at sleep.fm, a new social alarm clock network. Currently available only in beta mode and not taking any new subscribers ’til a “relaunch”, sleep.fm lets you share your alarms with friends and wake to personalize messages. There’s a video available and as I was watching it, I’m not sure if it’s a joke or if it’s for real… Wake up Mr West!!!

Note: this could have been posted on April 1st. It would have make a great april fool!!!

Update, October 26: link to a post on gmail’s official blog

Even though english is not my mother tongue, I’m gonna be blogging using it just to make sure I’m up to date. Feel free to correct my writing.

Sorry in advance to all my french and french-canadian friends who’d prefer to read this in french, but as you may know I’m already writing a lot in french at work, so this blog is kind an opportunity to practice my english.