As a kid I remember certain VHS tapes that my sister and I almost wore out from viewing so much:
– The Court Jester recorded off the UK’s Channel 4
– a marathon of Gallagher borrowed from Aunt Helen and Uncle Bill (kids love the watermelon smashing)
– a holiday Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast special
– a marathon of Kids in the Hall taped off a Comedy Central KITH Mother’s Day special
Watching this KITH clip, I was surprised by the fact that I could almost do this entire monolgue from memory…even now there are certain KITH bits that I use in my day-to-day conversations ("Time moves forwards! Not backwards!") that I’m sure people aren’t picking up on, that I’m doing just to amuse myself. This clip is still great.
We’re back from Alaska, and whatta trip. I don’t know if you can read this flyer, but it’s for a marathon on Prince of Wales island, where we did a bunch of filming for Musicwood. I don’t know why the guy running it is carrying a gun, but they sure do like their guns up there in AK. The trip was amazing — cable cars, 500 year-old trees, a ferry to a barely inhabited island, Native Americans carving totem poles, interviewing logging company guys, a Native American tree ceremony, the felling of a giant tree (Timmmmber!!!), flying in a tiny sea plane, listening to Sergius Gregory playing guitar in the forest, etc. Amazing.
But also this one thing happened and for some reason, even as it was happening I kept thinking "I want to write this down." So here it is, raw, no revision. Maybe it’ll become a short story, not sure.
"There is something growing behind the modern day corporate life, something weird. Break-cutted-mashup-video-core: The videofocuses on the frontlines of modern day life, on work and leisure, art and powerpoint"
The content’s a bit simplistic, right, but the form, wow. Crank it up, it delivers the goods. It’s apparently a mash of 15 different artists on the Cock Rock Disco label (great name for a label). Solid stuff.
Sometimes something is so geeked out fantabulous that you almost can’t even tell what’s going on. Case in point: this is Bohemian Rhapsody done on hardware machines. The machines make noises of different pitches when they do different things (the scanner scanning, disk drive reading disk, etc.) and these have somehow been programmed to make their specific pitched sounds in time to create Bohemian Rhapsody. Whoa. Get past the intro and it really starts to rock.
The name of the song is "Thank You Mario But Our Princess is in Another Castle". It’s a great song, made greater by the concept (sung from the perspective of the character at the end of the Super Mario levels), made even greater by the 8-bit video. I never thought of the characters as real before, or that they could get sad or have wants and needs. Good stuff.
The Promoe is back with a brand new track! His beard dreadlocks are more fierce than ever, and sometimes his delivery sounds a bit like Kanye. I wonder what he’s rapping about…
What a gorgeous day. Wow. Had my final eye appointment today and the doc said my recovery was "a miracle", so that was pretty great. Also the weather was pretty great. Also this clip of old-timey harmonica players that Pat H sent me is pretty great.
I know I’ve posted stuff by PES before (the rubik’s cube stop-motion thing), but it’s just so good, and then there’s the making of, which is a great look into the mind of someone who would make little films like this that obviously take tons of time and effort…good stuff…
I forgot how great this scene from Delicatessen was…if I remember right, this trailer for the film was pretty much just this scene and my friends and I saw it and said "Yep, we’ll be seeing that." What a great film it is, I still think it’s better than their next films, City of Lost Children, or Amelie. I dug up this clip because I have to do promos for a show about a sexxxy hotel, and I’d love to replicate this somehow…I’m gonna try and show it in my brainstorming meeting…
