Signs is the plural of sign. See sign (disambiguation).

Signs may also refer to:

''Signs'' (film), a 2002 film by M. Night Shyamalan

''Signs'' (journal), a journal of women's studies

''Signs'' (International Journal of Semiotics), International Journal of Semiotics, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Signs Gospel, a hypothetical source text for the Gospel of John, according to source criticism

''Signs of the Times'' (magazine), a Seventh-day Adventist magazine published in the U.S. by Pacific Press

*''Signs of the Times'' (Australian magazine), the Australian edition of that magazine published by Signs Publishing Company

''Signs Publishing Company'' in Victoria, Australia

Albums

''Signs'', a 1993 album by Kathryn Tickell

''Signs'' (album), a 2001 album by Badmarsh & Shri

Songs

"Signs" (Five Man Electrical Band song), a 1970 song by Five Man Electrical Band

*"Signs" (Tesla song), the 1990 cover of the above song by Tesla

"Signs" (Cardiacs song), a 1999 song by Cardiacs

"Signs" (Snoop Dogg song), a 2004 song by Snoop Dogg

"Signs" (Bloc Party song), a 2009 Bloc Party song from the album ''Intimacy Remixed''

"Signs", a 1995 single from the band Blameless

See also

"Signes" (song), a 2004 song by Nâdiya

Sign of the times (disambiguation)

Boonaa Mohammed is a Canadian Muslim poet. Mohammed was the winner of the 2007 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Poetry Face-Off “Best New Artist” award. He has a playwright residency at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. Although he is better known for his poetry, Mohammed is also heavily involved in the hip-hop community, and speaks out about local and global issues.

Background

He is a second generation immigrant of Oromo ancestry. He would then go on to graduate as valedictorian of his high school and attend Ryerson University and finally graduated and now he teaches in a private islamic school called Salaheddin Islamic School

Footnotes

External links

Performance at TEDx Toronto

Category:Canadian poets Category:Canadian Muslims Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie (, ''Moguchaya kuchka''), refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin. The group had the aim of producing a specifically Russian kind of art music, rather than one that imitated older European music or relied on European-style conservatory training. In a sense, they were a branch of the Romantic Nationalist movement in Russia, sharing similar artistic goals with the Abramtsevo Colony and Russian Revival.

History

Name

In May 1867 the critic Vladimir Stasov wrote an article, ''Mr. Balakirev's Slavic Concert'', on a concert given for visiting Slav delegations to the "All-Russian Ethnographical Exhibition" in Moscow. The four Russian composers whose works were played at the concert were Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Mily Balakirev, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The article ended with the following statement:

The expression "mighty handful" (, ''Moguchaya kuchka'', "Mighty Bunch" or "Group"), was mocked by enemies of Balakirev and Stasov: Aleksandr Serov, academic circles of the conservatory, the Russian Musical Society, and their press supporters. The group responded by defiantly adopting the name. (although today the Russian equivalent "Пятерка" ("Pyatyorka") is occasionally used to refer to this group.). In his memoirs, Rimsky-Korsakov routinely refers to the group as "Balakirev's circle", and occasionally uses "The Mighty Handful", usually with an ironic tone. He also makes the following reference to "The Five":

The Russian word ''kuchka'' also spawned the terms "kuchkism" and "kuchkist", which may be applied to artistic aims or works in tune with the sensibilities of The Mighty Handful.

The name of Les Six, an even looser collection of French-speaking composers, emulates that of "The Five".

Formation

The formation of the group began in 1856, with the first meeting of Balakirev and César Cui. Modest Mussorgsky joined them in 1857, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1861, and Alexander Borodin in 1862. All the composers in The Five were young men in 1862. Balakirev was 25, Cui 27, Mussorgsky 23, Borodin the eldest at 28, and Rimsky-Korsakov just 18. They were all self-trained amateurs. Borodin combined composing with a career in chemistry. Rimsky-Korsakov was a naval officer (he wrote his First Symphony on a three-year naval voyage circumnavigating the globe). Mussorgsky had been in the Guards, then in the civil service before taking up music; even at the height of his career in the 1870s he was forced by the expense of his drinking habit to hold down a full-time job in the State Forestry Department.

In contrast to the élite status and court connections of Conservatory composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Five were mainly from the minor gentry of the provinces. To some degree their ''esprit de corps'' depended on the myth, which they themselves created, of a movement that was more "authentically Russian," in the sense that it was closer to the native soil, than the classic academy.

Before them, Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky had gone some way towards producing a distinctly Russian kind of music, writing operas on Russian subjects, but The Mighty Handful represented the first concentrated attempt to develop such a music, with Stasov as their artistic adviser and Dargomyzhsky as an elder statesman to the group, so to speak. The circle began to fall apart during the 1870s, no doubt partially due to the fact that Balakirev withdrew from musical life early in the decade for a period of time. All of "The Five" are buried in Tikhvin Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

Musical language

Stylization

The musical language The Five developed set them far apart from the Conservatoire. This self-conscious Russian styling was based on two elements:

They tried to incorporate in their music what they heard in village songs, in Cossack and Caucasian dances, in church chants and the tolling of church bells (to the point where the bell tolling became a cliché). The Five's music became filled with imitative sounds of Russian life. They also tried to reproduce the long-drawn, lyrical and melismatic peasant song, what Glinka had once called "the soul of Russian music." Balakirev made this possible by his study of songs from the Volga in the 1860s. More than any previous anthology, his transcriptions artfully preserved the distinctive aspects of Russian folk music:

*Tonal mutability

:A tune seems to shift naturally from one tonal center to another, often ending up in a different key than the one in which the song began. This can produce a feeling of elusiveness, a lack of definition or of logical progression in the harmony. Even when stylized by The Five, this quality can make Russian music sound very different from the tonal structures of the West.

*Heterophony

:A melody is simultaneously rendered by two or more performers in different variations. This is improvised by the singers until the end, when the song reverts to a single melodic line.

*Parallel fifths, fourths and thirds

:The effect lends Russian music a raw sonority missing entirely from the comparatively polished harmonies of Western music.

The Five also adopted a series of harmonic devices to create a distinct "Russian" style and color different from Western music. This "exotic" styling of "Russia" was not just self-conscious but entirely invented. None of these devices was actually used in Russian folk or church music:

*Whole tone scale

:Although Glinka did not invent this scale, his application of it in the opera ''Ruslan and Lyudmila'' (1842) — most recognizable at the end of the festive overture — provided a characteristic harmonic and melodic device. This scale in "Russian" works often suggests evil or ominous personages or situations. It was used by all the major composers from Tchaikovsky (the appearance of the Countess's ghost in ''The Queen of Spades'') to Rimsky-Korsakov (in all his magic-story operas—''Sadko'', ''Kashchey the Deathless'' and ''The Invisible City of Kitezh''). Claude Debussy also uses this scale in his music, taking this, among many things, from the Russians. Later it became a standard device in horror-movie scores.

The Russian submediant

:Also linked to Glinka's ''Ruslan'', this is a harmonic pattern (in major mode) in which one upper part proceeds from the dominant pitch chromatically to the submediant while the other harmony parts remain constant. The most basic form of this pattern can be shown as follows (beginning with typical tonic): root-position tonic triad --> root-position augmented tonic triad -> 1st inversion submediant minor triad. A famous example of the Russian submediant occurs in the very opening bars of the third movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Scheherezade''.

*Diminished or octatonic scale

:Rimsky-Korsakov first used this in his symphonic poem ''Sadko'' in 1867. This scale became a sort of Russian calling-card — a ''leitmotif'' of magic and menace used not just by Rimsky-Korsakov but all of his followers, above all Alexander Scriabin, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky and Olivier Messiaen (mode 2).

*Modular rotation in sequences of thirds

:The Five made this device of Franz Liszt their own to base a loose symphonic-poem type of structure. This way, they could avoid the rigid Western laws of modulation in sonata form, allowing the form of a musical composition to be shaped entirely by the "content" of the music (its programmatic statements and visual descriptions) rather than by formal laws of symmetry. This loose structure became especially important for Mussorgsky's ''Pictures at an Exhibition'', a work that may have done more than any other to define the Russian style.

*Pentatonic scale

:This stylistic aspect became used by every Russian nationalist composer. Its distinctive feature is to have only five notes in the octave, rather than the seven of the heptatonic scales (e.g., major and minor). The pentatonic scale is one of the ways of suggesting a "primitive" folk-melodic style as well as the "Eastern" element (Middle East, Asia). A melodic example of the "major-mode" pentatonic scale (C-D-E-G-A) can be heard at the entrance of the chorus at the beginning of Borodin's ''Prince Igor''.

Orientalism

One hallmark of "The Five" was its reliance on orientalism. Many quintessentially "Russian" works were composed in orientalist style, such as Balakirev's ''Islamey'', Borodin's ''Prince Igor'' and Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Scheherazade''. Orientalism, in fact, became widely considered in the West both one of the best-known aspects of Russian music and a trait of Russian national character. As leader of "The Five," Balakirev encouraged the use of eastern themes and harmonies to set their "Russian" music apart from the German symphonism of Anton Rubinstein and other Western-oriented composers. Because Rimsky-Korsakov used Russian folk and oriental melodies in his First Symphony, Stasov and the other nationalists dubbed it the "First Russian Symphony," even though Rubinstein had written his ''Ocean'' Symphony a dozen years before it. These were themes Balakirev had transcribed in the Caucasus. "The symphony is good," Cui wrote to Rimsky-Korsakov in 1863, while the latter was out on naval deployment. "We played it a few days ago at Balakirev's—to the great pleasure of Stassov. It is really Russian. Only a Russian could have composed it, because it lacks the slightest trace of any stagnant Germanness."

Orientalism was not confined to using authentic Eastern melodies. What became more important than the melodies themselves were the musical conventions added to them. These conventions allowed orientalism to become an avenue for writing music on subjects considered unmentionable otherwise, such as political themes and erotic fantasies. It also became a means of expressing Russian supremacy as the empire expanded under Alexander II. This was often reinforced through misogynist symbolism—the rational, active and moral Western man versus the irrational, passive and immoral Eastern woman.

Two major works entirely dominated by orientalism are Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite ''Antar'' and Balakirev's symphonic poem ''Tamara''. ''Antar'', set in Arabia, uses two different styles of music, Western (Russian) and Eastern (Arabian). The first theme, Antar's, is masculine and Russian in character. The second theme, feminine and oriental in melodic contour, belongs to the queen, Gul Nazar. Rimsky-Korsakov was able to soften the implicit misogyny to some extent. However, female sensuality does exert a paralyzing, ultimately destructive influence. With Gul Nazar extinguishing Antar's life in a final embrace, the woman overcomes the man.

Balakirev gives a more overtly misogynistic view of oriental women in ''Tamara''. He had originally planned to write a Caucasan dance called a ''lezginka'', modeled on Glinka, for this work. However, he discovered a poem by Mikhail Lermontov about the beautiful Tamara, who lived in a tower alongside the gorge of Daryal. She lured travelers and allowed them to enjoy a night of sensual delights, only to kill them and throw their bodies into the River Terek. Balakirev uses two specific codes endemic to orientalism in writing ''Tamara''. The first code, based on obsessive rhythms, note repetitions, climactic effects and accelerated tempi, represents Dionysian intoxication. The second code, consisting of unpredictable rhythms, irregular phrasing and based on long passages with many repeat notes, augmented and diminished intervals and extended melismas, depict sensual longing. Not only did Balakirev use these codes extensively, but he also attempted to supercharge them further when he revised the orchestration of ''Tamara'' in 1898.

A direct result of such orientalism was the big influence that this circle left on the formation of classical traditions in other nations of the east and south of Russia. For instance, one of Rimsky-Korsakov's famous students, Alexander Spendiaryan went on to become the founder of Armenian classical music, carrying on the traditions and aesthetics of the Mighty Handful to the Caucasus.

Quotations

Rimsky-Korsakov provides the following picture of "The Mighty Handful" in his memoirs, ''Chronicle of My Musical Life'' (translated by J. A. Joffe):

Tastes

Balakirev

Abilities

Influence

Except perhaps for Cui, the members of this group influenced or taught many of the great Russian composers who were to follow, including Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Timeline

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See also

Music of Russia

List of Russian composers

Tchaikovsky and the Five

Les Six, French composers

Armenian Mighty Handful

The Turkish Five

Group of Eight (music), Spanish composers

References

External links

Encyclopædia Britannica article about "The Five"

The Article about The Five in "1000 years of Russian Music"

Turgenev and Russian Music: The Mighty Handful (with music samples)

Russian musical influences of The Five on works of Claude Debussy

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name	Bill Engvall
birth name	William Ray Engvall, Jr.
birth date	July 27, 1957
birth place	Galveston, Texas, U.S.
medium	Stand-up, television, film
nationality	American
active	1990–present
genre	Country comedy, observational comedy, satire
subject	Culture of the Southern United States, everyday life, marriage, parenting, self-deprecation
spouse	Mary Gail Watson (1982–present) 2 children
notable work	Blue Collar Comedy Tour Bill Pelton onThe Jeff Foxworthy ShowHost ofCountry Fried Home VideosBill Little in Delta FarceBill Pearson onThe Bill Engvall ShowHost of Lingo (2011 Run)
children	1 son (Travis), 1 daughter (Emily)
website	www.billengvall.com }}

William Ray "Bill" Engvall, Jr. (born July 27, 1957) is an American comedian and actor best known for his work as a stand-up comic and as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy group.

Early life

Bill Engvall was born in Galveston, Texas. Following graduation from Richardson High School in Richardson, Texas, Engvall attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, intending to earn a Bachelors degree and become a teacher. While at Southwestern he was a member of Xi Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. Engvall left college prior to earning his degree and worked a series of jobs, including tour guide at Inner Space Caverns, and disc jockey in a Dallas, Texas nightclub. It was while working as club DJ he first ventured into standup comedy at amateur and open mic nights around Dallas.

Career

In 1990 Bill Engvall moved to southern California to dedicate full time to his comedy. Early notoriety came from hosting the cable show ''A Pair of Jokers'' with Rosie O'Donnell and an appearance on the ''The Golden Palace'' where he played Blanche's son Matthew, a stockbroker turned aspiring comic. Other early appearances included hosting A&E; Networks ''An Evening at The Improv'' as well as stand-up routines on ''The Tonight Show'' and ''The Late Show with David Letterman. A career breakthrough happened in 1992 when Engvall was named Best Male Standup at the American Comedy Awards. His first role as a series regular came soon after when he was cast in the ABC series ''Delta'', starring Delta Burke. The show only lasted one season however, and Engvall returned to making the rounds of comedy clubs and the occasional television appearance until 1996 when he was cast with fellow comic and best friend Jeff Foxworthy in the NBC version of ''The Jeff Foxworthy Show''. Signed by Warner Bros. Records in 1996, Engvall release the first of a series of highly successful comedy albums, ''Here's Your Sign'', based on his signature stage bit. The album was certified Platinum and peaked at #5 on the Billboard Country album chart, thanks in part to the single and video of the same title on which he collaborated with Country star Travis Tritt. Eight more comedy albums followed including ''Dorkfish'' in 1998, and the most recent, 2009's ''Aged and Confused''.

Blue Collar Comedy Tour

A comedy revolution of sorts began in 2000 when Jeff Foxworthy and Engvall launched the first of six Blue Collar Comedy Tours. The tours also featured comedians Ron White and Larry the Cable Guy and was largely responsible to the breakout success of the latter two. Rather than ridicule the simple rural life and traditional values, the four comedians reveled in its virtues. Each of the six years of the tour were huge hits and spawned three movies, a satellite radio show, and a television show, ''Blue Collar TV'' on The WB Network.

Game show host

In June 2011, Bill Engvall began a new chapter in his career as he took over as host of the re-launched ''Lingo'' on GSN. According to an interview in ''American Profile'' magazine, Engvall said he jumped at the chance to host the show, citing the fun his friend Foxworthy had hosting ''Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?''. Engvall had been a fan of ''Lingo'' when it aired a few years previously before ending in 2007, admitting that his wife always beat him to the answers. When asked if there were any plans to have buddies Foxworthy or Larry The Cable Guy appear on Lingo, he replied "You never know! I would love to have them on the show because it would be a blast. I would really dig that."

Personal life

Bill and Gail Engvall (born August 1960) have been married since December 18, 1982. They have a daughter named Emily (born 1986), a recent graduate from the University of Puget Sound, as well as a son, Travis (born 1991), a junior at Northern Arizona University; both of whom are often mentioned during his routines. Engvall resides in southern California when not on tour and maintains a blog for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, of which he holds season tickets.

Discography

Albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions				! width="45"	! width="45"
		! scope="row"		* Release date: May 28, 1996		* Label: [[Warner Bros. Records">Music recording sales certification
! width="45"	! width="45"	! width="45"
! scope="row"		* Release date: May 28, 1996	* Label: [[Warner Bros. Records	5	50	—		Recording Industry Association of America>US: Platinum
''Dorkfish''		* Release date: October 13, 1998	* Label: Warner Bros. Records	16	119	—		* US: Gold
! scope="row"		* Release date: September 28, 1999	* Label: Warner Bros. Records	44	—	—
''Now That's Awesome''		* Release date: August 22, 2000	* Label: BNA Records	14	133	—
''Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography''		* Release date: September 24, 2002	* Label: Warner Bros. Records	37	—	—
''Here's Your Sign Reloaded''		* Release date: November 11, 2003	* Label: Warner Bros. Records	37	—	12
''A Decade of Laughs''		* Release date: October 26, 2004	* Label: Warner Bros. Records	27	183	1
''15° Off Cool''		* Release date: February 27, 2007	* Label: Warner Bros. Records	16	93	1
''Aged and Confused''		* Release date: October 6, 2009	* Label: Warner Bros. Records	29	159	2

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions			Album
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	"Here's Your Sign (Get the Picture)" (with Travis Tritt)	29	43	72
"Warning Signs" (with John Michael Montgomery)	56	—	—
	"It's Hard to Be a Parent"	72	—	—
"I'm a Cowboy"	60	—	—
"Here's Your Sign Christmas"	50	—	—
1999	"Hollywood Indian Guides"	72	—	—
	"Blue Collar Dollar" (with Jeff Foxworthy and Marty Stuart)	63	—	—
! scope="row"	59	—	—
"Shoulda Shut Up"	71	—	—

Other charted songs

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
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1999	"Here's Your Sign Christmas" (re-entry)
2000	"Here's Your Sign Christmas" (re-entry)

Music videos

! Year	Video	! Director
	"Here's Your Sign (Get the Picture)" (with Travis Tritt)	Jim Yukich
"Warning Signs" (with John Michael Montgomery)
	"I'm a Cowboy"
"Here's Your Sign Christmas"
1999	"Hollywood Indian Guides"
	"Blue Collar Dollar" (with Jeff Foxworthy and Marty Stuart)	Thomas Smugala
"Now That's Awesome"	Peter Zavadil

List of works

Bibliography

''Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar Life'' St. Martin's Press ISBN 0312362676 (2007)

Filmography

''Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again'' (2004)

''Blue Collar TV'' (2004)

''Mobile Home Disaster'' (2005)

''Country Fried Home Videos (Host)'' (2006–present)

''Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For the Road'' (2006)

''The Bill Engvall Show'' (2007–2009)

''Delta Farce'' (2007)

''Bait Shop'' (2008)

''Country Fried Planet'' (2008)

''Celebrity Family Feud'' (2008)

''Strawberry Wine'' (2009)

''Leverage'' (2010) (guest star) as Duke Penzer

''Lingo'' (2011)

''Hawthorne'' (2011) (guest star) as Detective Jimmy Dupree (3 Episodes)

References

External links

Official website

Bill Engvall cast bio on The WB

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name	Ray William Johnson
nationality	American
other names	RWJ, Ray Johnson, RayWJ
occupation	YouTube comedianrapper
years active	2007–present
known for	YouTube videos
website	raywj.com }}

Ray William Johnson is a comedian best known for his YouTube videos, which made him the most-subscribed content creator on that site by 2011, with the most-subscribed channel of all time, as of August 2011. Many of his videos include commentary on other videos under the show title ''Equals Three''. Many of the videos he comments on often enjoy a sudden growth in popularity, as noted by numerous press reports.

As of August 2011, his channel is the number one most subscribed on YouTube, with over 4.4 million subscribers, and over 1.2 billion video views. In February 2011, one industry publication noted that Johnson currently had six of the top twenty most watched videos of the month.

Background

When Johnson was studying at Columbia University to pursue a career in law, he became interested in watching YouTube videos, and eventually, making videos himself. He took notice of the fact that people visit YouTube either to watch viral videos or their favorite video bloggers. From that observation, he started his first formatted show, ''Equals Three'', as a way to combine video blogging and viral video reviews.

Current Projects

Equals Three

Italic title	no
Show name	Equals Three
Genre	ComedyReviewing
Creator	Ray William Johnson
Executive producer	Ray William Johnson
Producer	Erin Schmalfeld
Presenter	Ray William JohnsonGuest presenters:KassemG (2 episodes)Meekakitty (2 episodes)Dan Brown (1 episode)
Writer	Phil HaneySteve GreeneMarvin SilbermintzErin SchmalfeldIlana CohnRay William Johnson
Presented by	Ray William Johnson
Country	United States
Language	English Spanish (Igual A Tres)
Subscribers	approx. 4.3 million
|num episodes	218 (as of 20th of August 2011)
Editor	Brandon Perna
Channel	YouTube
First aired
Last aired	present
Related	BreakingNYC,Your Favorite Martian,Breaking Los Angeles,Igual A Tres
Website	http://RayWJ.com
Production website	}}

In Equals Three (stylized as "=3"), Ray William Johnson reviews, criticizes, and adds commentary to some of the internet's latest viral videos. The Equals Three comes from the three videos he review each episode. Equals Three episodes are usually uploaded to his Youtube channel twice in a week (every Monday and Thursday). In these episodes, Johnson interacts with his audience by posting a viewer-submitted "comment question of the day", then features five of his favorite comments in the proceeding episode. Equals Three is the most subscribed channel on YouTube to date, having over 4 million subscribers, and is recognized by Guinness World Records. Because of that, every Equals Three episode can consistently obtain millions of views within a week, often featured on the YouTube front page. Johnson later co-produced the Spanish version of Equals Three, ''Igual a Tres'', that is dedicated to his Spanish-speaking audiences who have been exceptionally supportive. Igual a Tres adopts the same format and concept of reviewing viral videos and is hosted by PeeDeeFlo.

Your Favorite Martian

In January 2011, Johnson launched a collaborative YouTube channel called "Yourfavoritemartian", which features animated music videos of comedic nature. The songs are performed by a virtual band of four fictional cartoon characters: PuffPuff Humbert (lead singer, voiced by Ray William Johnson), DeeJay (DJ, voiced by Robin "Big Rob" Truman), Axel Chains (drummer), and Benatar (guitar/keyboard). Ray writes lyrics, raps, sings, composes beats, and sometimes collaborates with other musicians to produce the songs. The following is a list of music videos that have been released so far:

''My Balls'' (January 26, 2011) {3:13}

''Zombie Love Song'' (February 9, 2011) {3:59}

''Bottles of Beer'' (February 23, 2011) {3:41}

''Club Villain'' (March 9, 2011) {4:12}

''The Stereotypes Song'' (March 23, 2011) {4:26}

''The Unofficial Smithers Love Song'' (April 6, 2011) {3:55}

''Orphan Tears'' featuring Wax (April 20, 2011) {3:36}

''Mr. DoucheBag'' (May 4, 2011) {3:55}

''Transphobic Techno" (Bitch Got a Penis)'' (May 18, 2011) {3:25}

''Grandma Got a Facebook'' (June 1, 2011) {3:33}

''Tig Ol' Bitties'' (June 15, 2011) {3:52}

''Fight to Win'' featuring DeStorm Power (June 29, 2011) {3:51}

''Stalkin' Your Mom'' featuring Wax (July 13, 2011) {3:13}

''Robot Bar Fight'' (July 27, 2011) {3:12}

''8-Bit World'' featuring Hoodie Allen (August 10, 2011) {3:30}

The newest song is yet to be released but on the YourFavoriteMartian channel it says it will be released on Septermber 7, 2011.

To date, Johnson has released 15 songs through the channel. As of August 2011, the channel has over 1.4 million subscribers and averaging over 10 million views per video. Due to the rapid growth of popularity of the channel and the music videos getting more views than the Equals Three episodes, Johnson has commented in his Breaking Los Angeles video blog that he at some point hopes to have the music videos released weekly instead of bi-weekly.

BreakingNYC / Breaking Los Angeles

"Breaking NYC" is a former daily video blog or "Vlog" that Johnson started in December 2009 while living in New York City. He made the vlogs almost daily until June 2010. After nearly a year-long hiatus, Johnson resumed contributing to the video blog channel, creating a new higher quality series with a similar format. The new series titled "Breaking Los Angeles and the Adventures of Puff Puff" is released every Friday and is filmed in Los Angeles. Ray often features rather notable guests in his new series, including rapper/musician Wax, slam poet George Watsky, rapper/musician Hoodie Allen, battle rapper Dumbfoundead, comedian Gabriel Iglesias, director/actor Bobcat Goldthwait, etc.

References

External links

Official Site

Category:Living people Category:American comedians Category:American Internet personalities

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