YouTube Madness
November 13, 2007
Since I got broadband, I’ve been enjoying YouTube a lot more. Possibly because I no longer have to wait for twenty minutes while a video downloads. Anyway, I’ve been working on a horribly serious (but surprisingly upbeat) post about relationships and loneliness, which is taking a while to make sense. So, in the meantime, I thought I’d post this great video I found.
The band’s called Rasputina, who play what may be best described as gothic cello rock. The song is The New Zero, from the album How We Quit The Forest. They’re kind of an obscure band for an English guy to have heard of, but one of my American exes was into them and gave me the album as a present, years ago. The video is a fan-made effort, but it looks great. So here it is:
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Margaret | November 13, 2007 at 8:38 am
Horribly menacing video. Do you know what the filrm is?
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experimental chimp | November 13, 2007 at 8:55 am
It’s The Black Cat from 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.
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exactscience | November 13, 2007 at 8:59 am
Reminds me of DeVotchKa
Just you know less maudlin, with a stronger more throbbing beat and a female singer etc
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adifferentvoice | November 13, 2007 at 10:31 am
Thank you. 1934, amazing. I’ve just bought it from Amazon – my husband and daughters will love it (shiver).
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Gabriel... | November 13, 2007 at 8:07 pm
GREAT!! Now I can use your blog as a repository for all my thousands of YouTube links… like this one where Mark Twain uses Satan to teach kids lessons about life… IN CLAYMATION. Totally Awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nir9TjozWvU
Or this one which offers important insights into Canadian culture…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie06fsB52a0
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experimental chimp | November 13, 2007 at 9:29 pm
That Mark Twain/Satan clip is fucking awesome.
As to the Canadian beer commericial, I’d respond with one for a British beer, but every British beer that has enough resources to advertise with amusing TV spots is awful. So I’m going to betray my roots with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww8Hjxllu54
Bavarian maids and a great theme tune. What more could you ask for?
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Ian | November 14, 2007 at 6:36 pm
After reading your post I felt like rummaging around youtube and right on the front page I came across this amazing song with an equally amazing video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zidiWe9yq88
I think it perfectly conveys the feeling of a crazed walking on air day. Sometimes I have periods of such days, I feel like one of them might be coming up at the moment.
It’s also kind of sad, though, this caricature of someone relying entirely on psychiatric medication to get along in daily life (reminds me of my life).