Archive for the ‘film & video’ Category

New music for you thankless people

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Alles Neu by Peter Fox. In German, but it shouldn’t hurt you. With monkeys, drums, and batter.
via filthy internet jesus

Many Moons by Janelle Monae. Android funk. via little. yellow. different.

Going on by Gnarls Barkley. Interdimensionally Jamaican, signed version courtesy of a cease-and-desist by Warner, apparently. Thanks, corporate!

As you can see, without the joy of internet, I would probably still be living under a rock listening to Barry Manilow, apparently.

cephalopod perversion

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

The curious rise of tentacle sex in manga

Well, and this one took me the better part of two hours to post. Thanks a ton for getting all corrupty, website. Hope I remember all the new passwords I set up…

Eurovision 2008

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Optimistic about:
Malta: Vodka
Cyprus: Femme Fatale. Gets a nice Greek rockabilly feel around the chorus.
Bosnia: PokuÅ¡aj. I’m a little rusty, but it sounds almost like Arcade Fire, but Slavic.
Latvia: Wolves of the Sea seems to be a deliberate reference to 2006’s We are the Winners (of the Eurovision Song Contest)
Likewise, Finland is going for metal again: Missä miehet ratsastaa. Hey, at least it’s in Finnish this time, but it’s no Lordi
UK: Even If. Finally, the British have decided to stop ruining Eurovision for the rest of us. I am not even going to bother linking to Scooch.

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Man, every oncet in a while I think of something brilliant and original to write in here. Then, of course, I forget it along the way, and I just end up posting a bunch of youtube links instead. This is another of those days.

James Earl Jones: This is ABC

Stevie Wonder, a vocoder, and some muppets: 1, 2, 3, Sesame (see also Superstition)

Cookie Monster as John Shaft

Johnny Cash: Nasty Dan with Oscar the Grouch, and Jackson with Miss Piggy, Dirty old Egg-sucking Dog with Rowlf, and a VERY CHANGED version of Don’t Take Your Guns to Town with Big Bird

I love trash, and Subway

Finally, a new generation of puppets live even further north: Be Joyful, featuring Nanalan

Thank you, and good night.

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

wheels on the bus rock out

these kids remind me of someone, I just don’t know who

Monday, February 11th, 2008

charlie bit me, via

Happy holidays

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Happy New Year
Sammy at the Bowery, 1943

Happy Christmas, my ass:
Fairytale of New York

December was a crap month to end a fairly lovely year. I’m hoping that 2008 goes a bit better.

Monday, December 10th, 2007

drambuie research in Australia

Jon, your thoughts?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

rehab. I finally understand why people actually care about amy winehouse; this song, at least, sounds to me like someone else misses there being no new Motown for the past 30-odd years.

Monday, November 19th, 2007

The cat says: only connect

best version of Satisfaction ever recorded

this is very wrong

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

new Orangina ad campaign is all about furries. Stripper furries.

I cannot begin to express how weird this is.

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Man, everything I post now is a video link. What am I doing, just watching TV all day? Anyway:

We are the cyclists; the intermediate stage between humans and pure energy. (via JORT)

How the Edwardians Spoke. Interesting BBC doc; German recordings of British POWs in WWI are virtually the only source of vernacular regional speech patterns from before the talkies. The Scottish accents don’t sound that different to me, but I was surprised at how distinct Oxfordshire was; apparently the Oxbridge crowd and the townies didn’t mix much.

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Steve Martin plays his composition “The Crow”

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Wuthering Heights (orig. by Kate Bush)
The Good the Bad the Ugly (orig. by Ennio Morricone)
life on mars (orig. by David Bowie)

see also: (Mic Conway’s Whoopee Band performing God Save the Queen, featuring only one uke)

sophisticated rituals of like totally grownup nations

Monday, October 15th, 2007

flag rituals on the Pakistan/Indian border

polish bhangra

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

scratching the roti

oddly compelling video for the first week of October.

Monday, October 8th, 2007

How to draw Octopus Pie, a short film by Meredith Gran

Some Flight of the Conchords for you:
Prince of Parties (the lads do psychedelia: Ravi Shankar!)
Foux da fa fa (the lads do Scopitone: baguette!)
Frodo, Don’t Wear The Ring (the lads do LOTR: bling!)
The Humans are Dead: (part one) part two: binary solo

The importance of marching bands in foreign pop (an unexhaustive two-part survey):
Emanuela by Fettes Brot
Matadorby Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

WTF NSFW

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

COAL!

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Doctor Who roundup

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Tom Baker swear-o-tron
(see also: Tom Baker outtakes

Manic Depressive With Blinky Device Saves London, Again

daleks go bollywood. Well, okay, only for the first 15 seconds or so…but it was stuck in my head for days. Now, stuck in yours!