Tag: video

Yor starevay lice on the vispring vind

A mad dutchman has memorized “Stairway to Heaven” in reverse, then filmed himself karaokin’ it and reversed the film. The result is a mesmerizing video.

I audiohijacked the sound so you can have this artifact wherever you go in audio form: Backwards Stairway (8.7M .mp3). Please save to hard drive rather than streaming thx.

Thanks to the null device, and to eyeteeth for the transliterated headline.

hair

I was at Café Ruba tonight looking at the freaks. They have VH1 Classic on a big screen TV in there, and said network was playing old metal videos. I don’t think I’d ever seen Dio’s “The Last In Line” video and it was spectacularly bad.

I think the “worst video”, “worst hair in a hair metal band”, and “stupidest song” awards have to go to Boyz Are Gonna Rock by the Vinnie Vincent Invasion. Also Worst Makeup. Also Lamest Attempt To Be Badass.

Mediocre propaganda video

I just watched about forty minutes of Iraqi “insurgent” propaganda video on Google video.

It’s like all military recruiting films. There are lots of explosions and weapons firing, there are scenes of the defeated enemy, and there is the testimony of happy members of the team. I did learn some things about these guys from the video.

  • Whenever they are mortaring or rocketing their enemies, there is someone whose job it is to yell “Allahu akbar!” every time the mortar or rocket fires off. This is a much, much better job than dropping the shells in the mortar or lighting off the rockets.
  • They aren’t doing too well at shooting down airplanes. There are a few sequences in which they shoot missiles at aircraft, and one in which they appear to hit one, but no crashes. They proudly display a few crashed/shotdown UAVs, which are like big model airplanes and don’t look so good on film.
  • They couldn’t get a lot of guys together for this film. The best they can do for the “masses of our victorious hordes” shot is about seven of them running through the desert and rocks looking like Power Rangers.
  • They aren’t so good at the showmanship. They keep trying to do things like jump on top of a disabled truck and yell victory and pump their fists but they look kind of dorky doing it, and confused, like they’re saying “DO I YELL ALLAHU AKBAR YET OR KEEP WAVING THE HELMET OF THE ENEMY? A LITTLE HELP?”
  • Their music sucks in the same way that military music sucks everywhere.

O tempura! O morays!

  1. Old school artpunk/noise/guitar band Mission of Burma has a site for their next album, The Obliterati that includes a wiki, a song-by-song revelation of the new record, and links to Matador’s subscription setup. Snazzy!
  2. Surprise! If the drug company funds the story, they get the result they want a lot of the time. Meanwhile the more effective medication is out of patent and not used. Oops.
  3. When a person becomes a millionaire, some things just have to change. The shoes. The house. The car. The spouse. And, of course, the email service. I wonder how much they’ll charge for the list of 10,000 people who paid $400 a month for webmail? Talk about an ultimate sucker list.
  4. Watch Hugo Chavez bitch out Dubbya in broken English (.wmv video). Streaming quicktime mirror on my site as well.
  5. As jwz said, if you are a compulsive knot untier, this game will eat you. You’re welcome!