Archive for May, 2007
In The Musicals
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
One of my friends asked me recently what my top 10 albums from the 90s list would look like. It would look very much like this (in no particular order):
- Radiohead – OK Computer
- Dr. Dooom – First Come First Served
- Cornelius – 69/96
- The Blue Hearts – Stick Out
- Coil – Ropeland Music
- Bjork – Homogenic
- ODB – Nigga Please
- Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen
- Beck – Odelay
- OOIOO – Feather Float
The next day someone else asked me what my top 10 music videos list would be like. Well since I am all about this internet thing the kids are so fond of, I will include links so you can experience these for yourself. There are a few that you shouldn’t watch at work though!
- U.N.K.L.E. – Rabbit in Your Headlights
A man walks in traffic in a tunnel and gets hit constantly by cars. It’s pretty brutal. - Fatboy Slim – Weapon of Choice
Wacky dancing Christopher Walken. How can you not like that? - Wax - California
One long shot of a guy running to catch the bus. Oh, and he’s on fire. No CG here folks, he’s really on fire. - Prodigy – Smack my Bitch Up
Crazy POV video with a good ending. - Bjork – Bachelorette
Bjork is the only musician who’s music videos I actually bought on DVD. This one is a weird story within a story within a story etc etc etc. - The White Stripes – Fell In Love With a Girl
Lego animation is good. - Supercar – Be
The idea is simple: kick a soccer ball into a goal. But every time he misses a mobster shoots one of his loved ones in the head. - Michael Jackson – Leave Me Alone
This is just a straight up weird video from MJ, but it was one of my favorite parts of Moonwalker. - Bjork - I Miss You
I TRIED not to repeat but this video is too weird not to include. John K from Ren & Stimpy put his other character Jimmy the Idiot in with cartoon Bjork for super funtimes. - Radiohead - No Surprises
Thom Yorke’s head in a fishbowl that slowly fills up with water while he sings. I just always though this looked cool.
Let’s Watch La-Mulana
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Let me tell you the story of DeceasedCrab. He is an enterprising young Something Awful forum goon who decided to do a video play-thru o a freeware PC game called La-Mulana. There is already one play-thru video series on Youtube, but the interesting part about DeceasedCrab’s is that for one, he is an average player, so you’re not going to see someone breeze through the game as if it were nothing, and two, he talks the whole time. Sometimes that can get a little annoying, but now that he has reached the optional ultra hard sadistic area after the end of the game, this is key. You can listen to a man lose his ever loving mind. If you ever wanted to just sit back and watch as a man descends into madness, this is the place. I’ve embedded the (as of today) newest video, which showcases some insane laughing, but not too many death screams, which are coming more and more frequently. So go check out DeceasedCrab’s youtube profile to follow this journey from the beginning. Fight! For the children!
Keep On Truckin’
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Recently I’ve been having some increasingly odd dreams. I thought I would share one of the three I remember fairly clearly today, and the others at some point in the near future:
I was working at a major trucking company, one of the biggest in the country. No, not that one. I don’t know what it was called, but that wasn’t important. I didn’t have time to worry about things like that because I was embroiled in a battle to save this company from the brink of disaster.
Trucking is, at it’s core, something most people don’t want to think about. Tractor trailers are things to be avoided on the highway as their drivers are often tweaked out speed freaks commanding 37 tons of metal and rubber and gas and hate at a million miles per hour.
BUT NO MORE MY FRIENDS!
To combat this negative image I propose a change in the aesthetic values trucking has been to this point based upon. We will replace the depressing gray boxes that intimidate and disgust motorists with epic works of stained glass. A thirty foot cube of dazzling craftsmanship, designed to improve the driving experience for both truckers and everyday motorists alike. Each trailer unique and beautiful, like a snowflake, bending the light in a thousand directions.
The cost you say? Costs be damned. We’re talking about wrestling this flagging industry from the edge of a bottomless pit. Accidents? If nothing else the scene would be a work of unparalleled art.
WHAT SAY YOU GENTLEMEN?
Will you decide to bring this industry to the next level, or allow it to languish in this increasingly dangerous quagmire?
To tell you the truth, I was totally aware that even one accident would probably bankrupt the company, as the trailers put a considerable economic strain on the company as it was. Having to replace what essentially was a one of a kind work of art would have surely lead to complete financial ruin. Still, I had to stick to my guns or these stereotypically balding executives would have eaten me alive.
Unfortunately I woke up before any definite decision could be reached, but I could see the tide starting to turn, and even had a few backers among the stuffed shirts in the room. I stand by my decision though, if trucks were hauling recycled cans in a stained glass cube I think people would just be happier as they drove down the road. At least I would be.
