Young Americans Trailer And Video Clips
"The Pat Dollard Tapes" offer up a first person peek into what's going on in Iraq.
Young Americans Trailer And Video Clips
Thanks to Jim
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August 1, 2006
July 31, 2006
The Kids In The Hall - Wigging Out
One of sketch comedy group The Kids In The Hall's odd little goofs on paranoia and, we're guessing here, Jim Jarmusch.
July 26, 2006
Mr Pregnant "WHAT I WANT IN A WOMAN"
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.
July 25, 2006
Comic Foundry Magazine goes to the 2006 Eisner Awards
Comic Foundry Magazine trucked on down to the 2006 Eisner Awards at the Comic-Con this weekend to see what was what. Evidently "not paying a lot for this muffler" remains the guiding star of fashion for the modern comic artist, god love `em.
Dali's Car - The Judgement Is The Mirror
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.
July 24, 2006
Lolla Lives-Shepard Fairey-Webisode 1-Andre's Posse
"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."
July 21, 2006
The Life and Death of a Pumpkin
Wow... something which must like Halloween even less than Jocelyn Wildenstein. Directed by Aaron Yonda, with more at Blamesociety Films.
July 20, 2006
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Games
The 1980 single from Japanese electropop pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra.
The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version
The Dude abides. Quickly.
Via Waxy
July 19, 2006
Yello - Bostich
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.
"It's just a model."
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
July 18, 2006
Afterthought
Pretty little short Film from Slumlord productions. Directed by Courtney Fathom Sell and featuring John Haverty and Gray Hurlburt.
Brooklyn Zoo
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:
July 17, 2006
The Vader Sessions
Evidently spare James Earl Jones audio from the Darth Vader sessions re-edited into Star Wars. Allegedly. Supposedly. We hear.
Reverend Alecia
"Yahweh, Your Wisdom Lets Me Walk in the Light."
Yes. The light. Into it.
Adrian Grenier: What is up with him and Williamsburg?
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."
He's Rich, Beyotch!
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."
Electric Pulse Dance Theater
Henry T. Weiss and Frederick Liddle discuss their inspirations, hardships and more in an exclusive tell-all documentary.
From Zebro.
July 14, 2006
Kevin Smith talks about Superman
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.
Pantyhose As A Fashion Statement
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.
Baby Fishing
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.
With Conscience
A man's conscience comes to crash on the couch for a while. From Emphaticemphatic.com
8 1/2 Mile
This is different: The AV Club has Fellini's 8 1/2 remixed as a trailer in the style of Eminem's 8 Mile. It's actually a pretty tight fit since both films circle around artistic ambition, and its cleverly done. If Marshal could have gotten away with a dream sequence bull-fighting chicks, we think he'd have gone for it.
July 13, 2006
Ryu Ga Gotoku
"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:
Celebhead: Britney
A penetrating glare into the second most empty space Britney Spears has available:
July 12, 2006
Rocketboom Replacement
The Burning Gates Of Dell
Footage from Elephant's Dream gets a new song devoted to the burning Dellfire experienced not too long ago by some unlucky business men.
Via Gizmodo
July 11, 2006
The Real Michael Jackson - Robot Chicken
The past catches up with The Gloved One on Robot Chicken
How to poop
An animated Japanese potty training video. Once again we discover that we've GOT to move to japan:
Amy Sedaris on The Colbert Report
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.
Why Fart And Waste It--
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.
Ask A Japanese Person!
You got questions, evidently under-employed Japanese people got answers. You ask, some guy in Japan (mostly in Tokyo) asks around with a camera, and then you watch the answer. Episode one tackles the "what's the deal with the 'V' it's popular to shoot in photographs" issue, and also time travel.
We have one which has been bothering us for some time: "Japanese person, sushi is a goof, right? Just to see what our silly culture will buy into? We've never seen actual Japanese people eat sushi, just dopey Americans. Is this because of the bomb thing? We did apologize, you know."
We'll post a reply should it arrive.
July 10, 2006
Mega Mo
Here's a nifty little video featuring extreme "Mega Mo" slow motion applied to a Funny Car on take off.
Superchunk - Watery Hands
David Cross and Janeane Garofalo pop in and make Superchunk's Watery Hands video fun to watch.
With thanks to Chris
Jan Svankmajer's Food Trilogy
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.
Titler
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.
July 7, 2006
Michael McDonald
A "devastating character piece" peek into the life of pop superstar Michael McDonald from the creators of The Happy Foster Show.
July 6, 2006
Laugh Practice - Green Laugh
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
Bloody Hofful
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.
July 5, 2006
Time Mistake
The world's first time traveler makes a grand miscalculation in the new short film directed by Casimir Nozkowski.
Spinal Tap - Bitch School
For that special little flip-flop wearing lady in all of us. You know the one. Sing along if you can:
The Drum Buddy & Puppet Show
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
July 4, 2006
Down by the Riverside
Sister Rosetta Tharpe kicking unbelievable ass with Down by the Riverside. You may have seen this clip blip past in the movie Amélie.
Blues Breaks
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:
$240 worth of pudding
`90s sketch comedy group The State gets down to what we really like: pudding, and at reasonable prices.
June 30, 2006
Cool Fireworks Factory Accident
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.
Underdog Cheerios Commercial
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 - The Last But One Supper
Monty Python at the height of their powers wondering about Da Vinci's need to be an artiste under the heel of the church:
Hendrix speaks
"Staring at WFMU's mouldering cassette library the other day, I noticed the Jimi Hendrix Spoken Word Tape for the very first time. There's no information on it, other than the date (1997) and the person who compiled it ("Chad G"). If you listen to the 31 minute MP3, you'll hear Hendrix dedicating songs from stage, bemoaning the constant pressure to play guitar with his teeth, reminiscing on his days in Harlem, rehearsing songs, and most importantly, wondering where the grass is at."
The Wit and Wisdom of Jimi Hendrix (MP3) [wfmu]
This is not bad at all, and since the July 4th weekend kicks off for a lot of you today, we'll toss in the obligatory yet undeniably cool clip of Jimi at Woodstock, including his Star Spangled Banner... probably still the prettiest "fuck you" to a government overstepping its bounds:
Calder's Circus
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
SuperTwink
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
Ebert refused to review this. Ebert.
Tré NSFW.
The Teletubbies Lean Wit It
Pretty great mash-up action from the depths of MySpace:
Thanks to Alice
June 29, 2006
1979 Star Wars "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" PSA
Mos Eisley Cantina patrons star in this "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" PSA circa 1979.
Thanks to graf
Gone Bad
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
To Catch A Primate
NBC's Dateline much hashed over "to catch a predator" gets a spoof here with monkeys. Yes. Monkeys. With thanks to Pappy
June 28, 2006
The Chimpan Channel
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
We feel warmer already
Sketch comedy group Zebro take a peek at An Inconvenient Truth :
June 27, 2006
X-Elscior
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.
28 Day Slater - Episode 4
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.
Otafuku Rex
Otafuku Rex are a Gorillaz-esque animated concept band who present themselves in stop motion animation, created by Xow!, otherwise best known for their video mash-up software Xipster. Here's the video for Do Me, I'm Best.
With thanks to Numlok
Sébastien
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.
Snowing Is Half The Battle
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.
Dir En Grey
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.
David Lynch's Inland Empire
A clip in which David Lynch test drives digital video for his ever-upcoming Inland Empire. Looks damn spiffy to us.
June 26, 2006
Sidekick 3 ad with Sarah Silverman
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.
Ninja Star in the Eye
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.
June 23, 2006
Star Trek Enhanced
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
Rinji News O Moshiagemasu!
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:
Bush Knocked Down The Towers
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.
The Kids In The Hall: Never Put Salt In Your Eyes
"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:
June 22, 2006
Steve Martin & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
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.
The Rich Hell Of Polyester
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
The Happy Foster Show
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.
June 21, 2006
Kwan-yin of 1,000 Hands
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.
Horses Collide At Full Speed
If you really hate race horses, like if you were picked on by race horses as a child and now all you see are race horses living the good life all around you and you're possibly on the 32and day of your meth experiment and your wife just left you, then this video is for you. Everyone else will find it a tad depressing.
Horses Collide At Full Speed [yourdailymedia]
The Great Grendizer Rocks Out With His Multi-Purpose Missile Launcher/ Reproductive Device/ Liquid Waste Removal Conduit Extended Out
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:
Goofing on Elvis
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.
June 20, 2006
Vlog - It's An Epidemic
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.