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It looks like Mel Gibson is going to have some company in rehab as many sources are reporting that Robin Williams has fallen off the wagon - though this time the blame is laid on alcohol as opposed to his rumored(?) first love -columbian snow.
In honor of this great moment in Williams history, please enjoy this timely game:
-rightcoastdave
We've featured the mighty Mr. Pregnant before, and we see one of his fine works is currently charting over at YouTube. Thought we'd give it a fully heterosexual and supportive little pat on the ass with a link. For the record we think this man should run the country for a few years. People would like us again, or at at least fear us.
Peter Murphy and Mick Karn's one single from their one album from their oneshot post-Bauhaus and post-Japan band Dali's Car. Didn't even know this had a video until just now. Three of you are going apeshit with joy, albeit in a moody and detached way.
"Part 1 in Perry Farrell's interview with legendary artist Shepard Fairey, in which the origins for his Obey Andre the Giant viral street art campaign are discussed."
The 1980 single from Japanese electropop pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra.
The Dude abides. Quickly.
Via Waxy
If you're only semi-familiar with `80s Swiss electronic act Yello, it's probably from Oh Yeah, the tack which became the signature sound for Ferris Bueller's Day Off and later, Duffman. Yello is an odd band: two highly creative studio musicians who insist on making their own samples from live instruments, and Dieter Meier, a millionaire playboy turned singer because it suited him that day. Sonically they sort of bridge the gap between Art Of Noise and DEVO, with their albums being relentless playful ( we ran into their first full length LP from 1980 Solid Pleasure over the weekend, of which their first real club hit Bostich springs, which is why we posting this. Yello's first six albums have all been re-released recently and are well worth the cash if you should run across `em, they sound very fresh again.
Painfully great mash-up of the original Star Trek and the Camelot musical number from Monty Python's Holy Grail.
Knights of the Round Table - Star Trek TOS
Via Metafilter
Pretty little short Film from Slumlord productions. Directed by Courtney Fathom Sell and featuring John Haverty and Gray Hurlburt.
Two versions of Ol' Dirty Bastard's Brooklyn Zoo; first the "original", which is more fun to watch, and then the "production" number:
The original version:
The production version:
Evidently spare James Earl Jones audio from the Darth Vader sessions re-edited into Star Wars. Allegedly. Supposedly. We hear.
"Yahweh, Your Wisdom Lets Me Walk in the Light."
Yes. The light. Into it.
rouge interviewer v asks: "Have you ever been to the big hot dog eating contest
out at Coney Island on the 4th of July? It's a little like Hell....with frankfurters."
Also, T-Bird wonders: "What do you do when you run into the lead
character from HBO's 'Entourage' in your neighborhood?
You grab your camera and microphone and see if he
wants to talk about it."
Dave Chappelle wallows in the root of all evil for a bit, giving the finger to at least two of the seven deadly sins. From "The Lost Episodes"... by "lost", of course, Comedy Central means "metered out to fans on a separate DVD so as to make the most of it because the money hose has developed a kink in it the size of Dave's ego troubles."
Henry T. Weiss and Frederick Liddle discuss their inspirations, hardships and more in an exclusive tell-all documentary.
From Zebro.
Kevin Smith recounts a small bit of the insane goings on behind the eventual creation of what would become Superman Returns. If you've ever wondered "why the fuck are most movies like that", this should do for an answer.
From the college lecture DVD An Evening with Kevin Smith, which is pretty great storytelling from an engaging speaker even if you're not a huge fan of his movies.
Host of a TV show insists he was shown "prejudicism" when he wore pantyhose on his head. To a store. That's good TV, is what that is.
It's good to get that on video like this. Should make the jury go easy on the guy when they find all the dead hookers in the freezer twenty years from now.
A man's conscience comes to crash on the couch for a while. From Emphaticemphatic.com
"Short film" Ryu Ga Gotoku is a long-form ad created by none other than the mighty Takashi Miike for the SEGA game of the same name (which translates more or less to "like a dragon"). The hard bit? No English subtitles, as this was aimed for Asian markets where Miike is a bit more than "that insanely cool director of all those weird movies you only ever get to see on DVD." If you're a fan of Miike you won't mind much.
Part one:
Part two:
A penetrating glare into the second most empty space Britney Spears has available:
The past catches up with The Gloved One on Robot Chicken
An animated Japanese potty training video. Once again we discover that we've GOT to move to japan:
From last night. Marry us, Amy Sedaris; you know deep in your heart what you really want is a soon-to-be-fired blogger named after penis residue.
We don't post a whole lot of the Chicks who've Discovered They Can Get Attention On YouTube Mugging Into Their Web Cam thing taking the interweb by storm, but we have to say this gal got our attention:
Give her the network show, we will watch.
"Hello, boys and girls. This is your old pal, Stinky Wizzleteats. This is a song about a whale. No! This is a song about being happy! That's right! It's the Happy Happy Joy Joy song!"
Here's a nifty little video featuring extreme "Mega Mo" slow motion applied to a Funny Car on take off.
David Cross and Janeane Garofalo pop in and make Superchunk's Watery Hands video fun to watch.
With thanks to Chris
Jan Svankmajer is a highly influential Czech stop motion artist whose work you've seen echoed a lot in the Quay Brothers and Tim Burton. He did a nifty little trilogy centered around the gnashing of foodstuffs with broader themes of class oppression, although its more fun than we just made it sound:
Jan Svankmajer's Food (Part One - Breakfast)
Jan Svankmajer's Food (Part Two - Lunch)
Jan Svankmajer's Food (Part Three - Dinner)
Also, here's Zamilovane maso (Meat Love), which is fantastic but not part of the above dealings. You may remember seeing this on MTV as a interstitial back when it gave a shit.
Magic Box Films' cult bit of funny from a few years back. Like when Bugs Bunny would confound Elmer Fudd by dressing up like a girl bunny, except, you know, with six million dead bodies spicing up the comedy mix.
A "devastating character piece" peek into the life of pop superstar Michael McDonald from the creators of The Happy Foster Show.
Evidently this is video of a sort of yoga wherein people convinced of the healing powers of a good forced laugh go for it with gusto. On her blog Beth Agnew explains "It's okay if you think I'm nuts with all this laughter. I'd rather be a crazy quilt than a wet blanket."
Via Splideo
The new .. well, okay , for comedy we'll buy into it and call it "music"-- video From David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff - Jump In My Car. Listen Germany, if you wouldn't keep embracing goofy shit like this and speedos on fat men, you wouldn't have to swing the pendulum so hard in the other direction with things like Hitler when the other nations inevitably pont and giggle. Try to find the balanced path, Germany, you're killing us.
Thanks to Kevin. Sorta.
The world's first time traveler makes a grand miscalculation in the new short film directed by Casimir Nozkowski.
For that special little flip-flop wearing lady in all of us. You know the one. Sing along if you can:
Best thing you'll see all day, we swear it: Quintron & Miss Pussycat star in this short to be shown on New Orleans public broadcast, with more to be found here.
Products of New Orleans, Quintron & Miss Pussycat took it pretty hard on the chin from the evermean Miss Katrina, however unlike FEMA, the president, the mayor, many of the local cops, and the national guard who indulged in a little post-destruction shoe-gazing, Quintron & Miss Pussycat are stopping for nothing and on tour. Catch `em if you can.
With thanks to Agent Hesby
Sister Rosetta Tharpe kicking unbelievable ass with Down by the Riverside. You may have seen this clip blip past in the movie Amélie.
When we think of America, as we're meant to do on the 4th of July, we tend to think of The Blues, which, Ben Affleck aside of course, directly or indirectly is still by far Americas's greatest cultural influence on the world. There is no modern pop music (as the term is understood) which does not stem from it in one way or another. Searching YouTube for a few blue-hued nuggets we came across this little series of 60-second short films by Robert Mugge for Mississippi Public Broadcasting called Blues Breaks. After the Jump, watch quick and quirky little meditations on things like Muddy Waters' house, "Blues Foods" and "Blues Graves." Before all that watch Muddy Waters belt out Manish Boy in `78, just because you can:
`90s sketch comedy group The State gets down to what we really like: pudding, and at reasonable prices.
Blog Frog Style Biscuit tracks down some of the groups going on over at YouTube which you wouldn't want yer ma to know you were reading. Here you can see videos catering to those who get hot for giantesses, guys pumping the gas pedal or schmoes getting kicked in their Christian parts. Who knew YouTube got so freaky.
YouTube Sodom: Top 10 Questionable Groups [Frog Style Biscuit]
What not to do with thousands of tiny explosives, fire, and ripe human flesh. The cameraman did not survive... well, you know, physically, but internet schadenfreude is forever.
A 1965 cereal commercial for Cheerios featuring Underdog, actually serving the purpose for which was originally intended for-- Underdog (along with a stable of other cartoon characters) was designed by the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in 1960 for cereal producers General Mills to sell cereal, it was only after he became the break out star did his adventures branch out a bit.
Via Cartoon Brew
Monty Python at the height of their powers wondering about Da Vinci's need to be an artiste under the heel of the church:
Carlos Vilardebó's movie based on sculptor Alexander Calder's Circus, a complex automation composed of cork and wire and other bits of stuff which knocked `em dead in 1927. Vilardebó's surprisingly funny movie captures Calder making the tiny wire and wood circus performers do their thing after what must have been a maelstrom of painstakingly planning shit out. Via Metafilter.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Richard Christy and Sal the Stockbroker of the Howard Stern show created this short abomination for Howard TV. They were given $4000. They spent $700. We wrote a haiku for this one:
don't watch this, okay?
don't. don't. don't. don't. don't. do not.
two words: Paxton Fudge
Pretty great mash-up action from the depths of MySpace:
Thanks to Alice
Mos Eisley Cantina patrons star in this "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" PSA circa 1979.
Thanks to graf
Billed as "just your average animated spaghetti-western zombie flick", Gone Bad features some spiffy 3d animation. With thanks to Numlok
Episode 1
Episode 2
NBC's Dateline much hashed over "to catch a predator" gets a spoof here with monkeys. Yes. Monkeys. With thanks to Pappy
For Americans, chimps in suits on television are no new trick, hell we put one in charge for what appears to be twice as far as we can prove, but in civilized society like Japan they're still sort of novel, and so they've gone that extra step and created a talk show hosted by a monkey in a suit, one Gomez Chamberlain:
The Chimpan Channel site
Via the newly repainted TV In Japan
Stevie at the height of his 70s badness doing his thing for the crumb-snatchers and Muppets on Sesame Street. Right behind Stevie is Ray Parker Jr. who would later go on to do the Ghostbusters theme song. We're sure Stevie knew he was back there, we're just pointing him out.
Invisible Engine explores the darker side of mumbled fine print in those drug ads. Then they make fun of women and Jesus. We think we heard them mumbling something about Mexicans and kids with autism, too.
Team Tiger Awesome continues their unflinching glimpse into the dark heart of fame itself with the fourth episode of 28 Day Slater. Is he Mario Lopez? Is he A.C. Slater? How long had he been having these blackouts, waking up on the floor, late for updating his blog, next to yet another chloroformed and bloodied child starlet from the Disney channel who... nevermind.
Here's a very classic looking animation from the mighty Gobelins temple of hot french cartooning. Anyone see anything less than stellar come out of this institution? We haven't so far.
A clip from a Japanese game show where suckers try to sit down in a fake spa at a ski lodge. Serious hijinks ensue, eventually involving rocket boosters. We tried real hard to envision this sort of thing going on here in America, and we were sued into a bloody pulp before we could even finish the thought.
A cool bit of dark eyecandy from Japanese visual rock band Dir En Grey, who stylistically tend to fall somewhere between David Bowie when he was on drugs and David Bowie when he was off drugs and Nina Hagen, with a tiny bit of GWAR tossed in. This not all that work safe, but you'd be happier without that silly waste of your life anyway, wouldn't you.
A clip in which David Lynch test drives digital video for his ever-upcoming Inland Empire. Looks damn spiffy to us.
Viral ad for the Sidekick 3 useless gadget thing featuring the ever lovely Sarah Silverman Sarah Silvermaning it so hard in our faces.
Sarah... in the scant time between when Jimmy Kimmel first notices the pain in left side and clutches his chest, and when he hits the floor, we'll be there Sarah. FOR YOU.
Being hideously wounded by pseudo feudal-era Japan truck stop novelties doesn't necessarily mean the fun bits of your life are over. Also we think we went to school with this guy, and we're sorry.
The Dogs' Your Mama's On Crack Rock: not only catchy as dengue fever, this is officially the new Bitchinest Video We've Seen While Doing Screenhead, edging out that horse video we tried real hard to find a legal way of showing you but never did. With thanks to Melanie.
Paramount had the idea of revamping the original Star Trek series in 2003, tasking effects house Digital Stream to freshen up old episodes with computer effects. Here's a poof of concept clip called Star Trek Enhanced featuring reworked bits from episode "Doomsday Machine" :
Trek refurbished
Also, here is what appears to be a mid-'90s attempt at the same thing, however somewhat less sophisticated:
Via Metafilter
First, we learn through the magic of Godzilla how to be a good dad:
Then, we see Godzilla do the numa numa thing. Yes, it's a dead meme, but it takes stuff a while to reach Monster Island, they're all still on dial-up:
Then, and we don't know why this didn't happen sooner, Godzilla + Black Sabbath = ... well, whatever that is Lemmy sees before he wakes up covered in dead hookers and bacon:
Immortal Technique and Mos Def's bit of irritation with The Resident, given a tinfoil hat sort of a video. Fun to watch in an inverse propaganda sort of a way, even if you're not 100% convinced a born-again chimp from Connecticut who wishes to be seen as a Texan managed to somehow mastermind the 911 event.
"I'm... killing my eyes."
Kevin McDonald is our favorite Kid In The Hall, the girly face and scream in skits like this one is why:
There is so much wrong here that we're not even sure where to start.
This is an old advertisement which ran at a drive-in theater during the intermission for something called Smithfield Bar-b-Que. It's... we mean... c'mon, just watch this, it blew out tiny minds. Thanks to Numlok:
Numlok has other, slightly less upsetting ads going at YouTube as well --
Intermission: Our Pizza is the Mosta! and Intermission: Pop goes the whistle.
Steve Martin shows off his banjo skills on The Dave Letterman show hitting the stage with bluegrass star Earl Scruggs for an instrumental set. After Deliverance it's easy to think of the banjo as a redneck American south thing, in truth the instrument belongs to the dirtbag underclasses from many different regions of the world, notably Africa and India. Haha! We kid the Banjo. Seriously though, it'll give you rickets just looking at it.
A toe-curling montage of William Shatner's mid-70s fashion decisions set to Buona Fortuno Amore Mio by the Everly Brothers. Grip something tight before clicking this one.
Via Milk And Cookies
Described this way: "I was hired by NZTV to make a pilot for an anti-american sitcom. this is what we made. they will not return our phone calls or talk to us. I doubt they want this to be seen (probably not) but here it is anyway." With thanks to Rob.
An all too brief late `90s early `00s collaboration between pigface, PiL and Killing Joke luminaries Martin Atkins, Chris Connelly, Geordie Walker and Jah Wobble, here's something like a single from The Damage Manual:
We post this for no other reason than it absolutely killed us as a youngin', and it hasn't lost a thing since; it's the one where the convict escapes from jail in the warden's television set. You know the one.
We though this complicated dace routine was neat to watch before we found out that it was performed by 21 deaf-mute performers who had to get in sync with each other so precisely purely though sign language. "The 1,000-hand Kwan-yin" is roughly "goddess of mercy" in the Buddhist culture.
Highly cool and slightly violent older Supinfocom animation. With thanks to Numlok.
We enjoyied the hell out of this home-brewed video for electro outfit Le Mans' Data Cassette by Zack of Phi Phenom. A clunky sort of clip which employs bits of Go Nagai's late 70s giant robot animation classic Grandizer (aka Goldorak, Goldrake, or Duke Fleed depending on where your dangly bits blossomed) on Ebay-obtained Super8 film. To us, the video looks just like the track sounds:
Here's a fairly spiffy interview with Andy Kaufman which we hadn't seen before, from the documentary The Real Andy Kaufman:
-- and here's Andy singing Slim Whitman 's Rosemarie on the David Letterman show, which we're linking to principally because the motherfucker is on stage in a turban and a diaper. That's a commitment to something or other we guess, and we kind of like that.
You will learn nothing from this short rant on the nature of the Vlog, but if you should happen to have to watch, say, roughly 400 of these things all day long, you may nod your head in grim amusement with a recognition of certain basic truths.
Electronic music genius Edgard Varèse's 1958 animated film, created for the World's Fair at Brussels. Frank Zappa was such a fan of Varèse, Frank's 15th birthday present from his mom was being allowed to give him a phone call.
A quick yet deep look at the hell-cow world of competitive milk drinking. That'd right, the kids love that sweet sweet mammary gland juice... maybe too hard.
