Soooooo if you can’t make it through all 400+ pages of Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” there IS a movie about it! I dare you to watch all 2hrs and 40 min of it. I will buy you a candy bar if you do. Then we can talk about why you chose that candy bar and who made you want it. Mmm. Sweet sweet media.

DoseOne is a word ninja.

Listen to some of the goods here:

This is some of Tim and Eric’s earlier stuff you can find here. If you don’t know Tim and Eric then you don’t know funny. Your a looser with no friends and you should be really ashamed of yourself. Shut up. Watch this you looser. Stop crying. Clean yourself up and dress yourself down. De-louse your scalp and put on a speedo. Jump in with the cool kids and watch this magic.

If you liked Wierd Al’s UHF like I know I did then you have to like Tim and Eric. I realized this here:

Stop crying now.  You can spit out all those pills.

You can watch the rest of his work here at your own risk.

…he’s hurtn’ Lynda.

Did you know Billy Bob directed this? And he acted in it. (He plays the retard). Why aren’t there more movies from Billy Bob. Tell me now.

This is one of many mashups Beck has been doing. Think of it as Beck the DJ. He’s combining a ton of different artists into one long track and mixing around all the elements from each.  It’s more focused on song structure and movements than maintaining a beat to dance to. You can find the rest HERE.

On top of all of that he’s just covered the entire Velvet Underground Album with Nico.

Above is the last few minutes of Adam’s latest work, “It Felt Like a Kiss”. This I believe is being toured around art houses in Europe and has yet to make it over here in a legal format. Adam is best known for his documentary series “The Power of Nightmares” and “The Trap”.

What makes Adam Curtis brilliant:

Adam has found a way to take complicated, ambiguous content and fashion it into something so immersive that it plays like a feature film.  He puts these complex ideas into a narrative that anyone can latch on to and supports it with found footage. It’s in this footage spanning the past century that he builds these compelling montages .

Where the Zeitgeist art docs come off as condescending, Adam Curtis comes off as that cool British teacher that knows his shit (and doesn’t belong at your university). He also has impeccable taste in visual imagery. He never says too much or blatantly panders his position but rather leaves it to the imagery and a bit of your imagination. Still, you can sense there’s always a gentle nudge.

There’s a unique feeling that comes with watching an Adam Curtis series that I’ve never felt in any other news  delivery vehicles.  It’s a hearty feeling, one you achieve only when you’ve learned something. But beyond that and even more amazing …  I WAS ENTERTAINED.

Who thought news information and entertainment could mix in such a lovely fashion.

Cheers to Adam Curtis and the ilk soon to follow.

This cartoon is the first time I had ever heard or seen this song in it’s entirety. You probably won’t recognize it until about 2 min. in.  I think it’s the earliest recording of Calloway and his band.  Watch the ghost and you’ll catch the original moonwalk, it’s actually a rotoscoped version of Calloway dancing. By the way, “cokie” is cocaine and the “Gong” is Hep Jive for opium.  In longer versions of the song Minne is actually the tradgedy of the story because she ends up dying in a psych ward. You won’t hear that in the squeaky clean T.V. versions below.      Read the rest of this entry →