Yet more youtube

If you're not familiar with the Portishead, maybe it's time you were.

Thought for Food

Thanks Gifa!

Contrast

I know. I'm supposed to stop posting video clips harvested from youtube.

But play along for a few minutes, it might be a fun exercise.

The original:

The should've been novelty cover that totally eclipsed the original:

And the absurd:


That last one seems prone to disappearing, but a search on "sad kermit" will probably do the trick.

-transiit

Useless crap.

The perfect gift for anyone you know that's had a hard time learning how to drive a manual transmission...

and has transparent hands.

The LED shift knob.

473mg Omega 3!

Or so says the little graphic on the side of my jar of pickled herring.

Marketing must be such a weird business.

"We need to get some mileage on the pickled herring account! Go think up a strategy to move that product!"

Exotic Birds.

organization

so I'm trying to clean my apartment in a way more than just "push everything closer to the edges", so tonight's project was organizing my movie collection.

Alphabetical didn't make any sense, by director seemed iffy, and I have enough things that don't cleanly fit into a genre, so I went and made up my own.

So I have things arranged by categories like "Terry Gilliam", "Braindead Action", "Zombies" and "Bruce Campbell"

I tried to arrange the sections for the smoothest flow, which led to some inductive leaps like "Doctor Who" -> "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" -> "Red Dwarf" -> "Mr. Bean"

But, it's not like I'll ever have to explain why "True Romance" and "Killing Zoe" are in the same section to anyone, anyhow.

New theory

So due to some ill-conceived timing, I ended up grabbing dinner at Denny's tonight.

Haven't eaten there in years, and I made the mistake of walking in hungry.

Of course, not long after I left, I felt like I was teetering over the precipice of being violently ill.

So here's the new theory: Much less vomit would be spilled after a night of drinking and debauchery if it were less popular to visit such establishments as part of the evening's activities.

Seriously, I was totally sober, and even I felt like spewing afterward.

And now, some hours later, the indigestion...

Hey, I can see my house from here!

The readers.

television surrogate.

It dawned on me tonight (for those that it wasn't yet obvious for), that I've been using youtube as a television surrogate.

At least I tend to be less passive about it, but it does explain why I sit here watching videos of Steve Albini reviewing distortion pedals:



(be sure to look for Big Black stuff on there. The Touch & Go 25th anniversary show footage is pretty good stuff.)

No, really. Check out Big Black. And maybe Rapeman or Shellac if it's on there.

If you don't know who Steve Albini is, maybe it's time to learn. something. about. him.



So after posting the Fugazi video last night, I got a message from someone thanking me for cluing them in (although they did claim to be unhip. In my response, I informed them that the footage was nearly 20 years old.)

So, this one's for you, anonymous internet person, more Fugazi (and only 10 years old this time!)



-transiit

(I promise I'll stop posting youtube videos for a little bit. Maybe. Well, I'll try.)