How could you do this to me?

Everybody betrayed me. I'm fed up with this world.

Why Lisa? Why? Why?

O HAI MARK.

Garbage, charmingly anthropomorphized

...also, Herzog.

"Waterfall" by The Fresh & Onlys: Nugget de música

Ghostly ramshackle 60s music, vaguely Western.

The climbing-chiming guitar that plays it out is like crack.

Little Dieter Needs to DAHNSE

I'd always heard that Mike Myers got his inspiration for Dieter from Sprockets, in part, from an impatient waiter in Toronto who would, if you went on for too long, decide that your order was becoming tiresome and leave you and your order incomplete.

I've seen (and enjoyed) several of Werner Herzog's character studies of dreamy eccentrics. But I never heard Dieter's voice so clearly until I watched this:



The pain is exquisite.

Analog Memory

Some things live indefinitely in the dusty recesses of memory.

HBO in the olden days (early- to mid- 80s) used to kill time between the ending of one movie and the beginning of another with a rotating repertoire of short films of varying origin, quality, and subject matter.

I can only remember bits and pieces of some...maybe not enough to ever find them again. But here's one that had enough of an effect on my circa 8-year-old imagination to remind me that it still exists, 25+ years later.

"Facelove" by PS I Love You: Nugget de música

The video is a Joy Division ripoff, the singer looks like Star Wars Kid, but by heck, when he kicks that Big Muff switch midway through, this song shreds, comma.

Slap Chop II: Electric Boogaloo remix

Autotune used for the forces of good. When I start making remixes in my basement, they will go a little something like this:



Phunky phresh. Love the old lady coda at the end.

Freaking. Awesome.

KILLA SCIENCE REMIX, FOOLS!!!!

To the edge of space, using common household items

Well, maybe not things you have sitting around your house right now, but things the average person could procure without too much trouble, thanks to the resources made available by the world-wide interwebs and the matryoshka doll-inization of technology.

Submitted for your approval, a group of guys from Canada and Japan use a weather balloon to lift a Canon HD camcorder to the edge of space, over 20 miles up, tracking it with an attached GPS.

It takes 3 hours and 6 minutes to reach altitude of 107,145 feet, at which point the balloon membrane succumbs to the ideal gas law and pops. Next comes 49 minutes of near-freefall in which the rig is slowed only by the friction of the thin air and a tangled parachute, finally reuniting with Mother Earth 89 miles downrange after nearly four hours aloft.

Here's the video, but please let me warn you that there was no camera stabilization mechanism used. So if you're susceptible to motion sickness or have recently eaten dinner, beware.



Detailed text account by project members here.

My favorite part of the video is how the sounds of civilization slowly fade as the camera climbs higher and higher, until there is nothing but the cold, dark silence of near-vacuum.

Also note the changing perspective of the TV tower in the distance as the camera pans over it each time.

TintMasters?

Tinted Windows, nascent supergroup.

Members:

• James Iha (underappreciated guitarist / songwriter) Smashing Pumpkins: +5
  
• The oblivious dude from Cheap Trick (drummer): +2
  
• Some guy from Fountains of Wayne (bass): +1
  
• One of the Hanson girls (vocals): -10

Sounds more like Fountains of Wayne than anything, but listening to this song gives me a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach that in some alternate universe I could inadvertently be listening to something my nightmares tell me the Jonas Brothers sound like.

Worth it for the vintage Pumpkins mini-solo at 1:58, I tell myself.

The Animated Bayeux Tapestry

The first English comic strip becomes, well, the first cartoon representation of the first English comic strip I could find on Youtube.

Sure, it's oversimplified and only uses the second half of the work, but it's a good summary. Plus it has music, moves, and does away with that pesky Latin.

Watch it once for a lesson on Medieval history. Watch it twice for the Warcraft II remix.



It amazes me that one of the most important events in English history hasn't gotten the Big Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Historical Epic Movie treatment yet. Not that that's a bad thing.

"Heartbeats" by The Knife: Nugget de música

Say kids, have you ever retired to your drawing-room, late in the evening, cursing the stars that circa-1983-era Depeche Mode wasn't peppier? I haven't. But if you have, consider this song your gift from heaven! Huzzah!

And the video matches the music as well as any I've ever seen. Groovy times, footloose and fancy free.

80s synthpop lives!

Little Dieter Needs to Sk8!

Your random Eurotrash for the day: watch and be awed.

And when it ends, know that this was just the warmup.

Your daily gelotherapy

Life can sometimes be too serious and boring. We all know this.

Then something like this comes along.



And this.



And this.



Short but sweet.



And finally this (R-rated, mind ye kiddies!).