Cleaning Out My Inbox
Happy New Year. May 2006 have as few FCC fines as 2005. Or in the immortal words of the Cosmic Cowboy, may all your fucks be sexual, and all your shits excretory.
Here's the alleged stabilized Zapruder film that's been making the rounds. Is it a hoax? A hoax of a hoax? The truth revealed? You decide: [download video: 6.5 meg quicktime file]
Hans Reichel has a cool flash page for his Yuxo CD: link. Click on the glowing balls and play with the ferret, as if you hadn't been told that a million times already.
Another inexplicable flash page, from splitzine: link.
Andy Warhol mumbles in the service of TDK: [download video, half a meg, quicktime file]
Nice falling sand game for turning the young'ins into internet addicts: link.
ACDC performs for a polite Spanish TV audience. Fast forward to Highway to Hell, the final of three songs: link (streaming video from google).
Rites of Goth passage. I guess.
So what should you look for in a good technosexual fantasy?
Another fascinating flashpage, this one based on Michael Palin and a synthesized Japanese voice. Now all we need is a translation: link.
From a beautiful collection of European advertising posters:
Welcome back Ken, that BBC doc looks great. I love the old local jingles.
Posted by: Jeff T | January 02, 2006 at 06:35 PM
who is that guy in the BBC that comes in and out of the picture- when people are being interviewed? (in the shadows) FANTASTIC VIDEO- thanks
Posted by: john | January 02, 2006 at 08:05 PM
Fast forward to Highway to Hell???? My god man, they start with "Beatin' Around the Bush"!!! Skipping that is a sin. This is the real AC/DC....with Bon....there should be no skippage.
:)
Posted by: JackRuby | January 02, 2006 at 08:57 PM
re: fyi Reichel
'play with the ferret' - its actually a badger, he uses a daxaphone, and a dax is german for badger, lots of punning going on…
Posted by: marc | January 02, 2006 at 10:08 PM
I watched the stabilized Zapruder film probably fifty times yesterday and can't get it out of my mind. Now somebody needs to stabilize Dave's head in the stargate sequence from 2001. Pretty please!
Posted by: Clayton Counts | January 03, 2006 at 03:33 PM
as for the michael palin bit, i havent really the time to sit down and translate it word for word but it seems to be something of a coming of age story about a boy named Kenta who ahs just turned 10. It's also a bit of a linguistics story, since the boy's dillemma is that he wants to be polite and use the honorific, higher language cases talk about the act of f#&king but that doesnt exist... he keeps appealing to his father i believe.. i kind of get lost after that part and theres a sing gony part in teh middle where he calls off "north! east! south! west! sex in honorific language!" in fact that last bit seems to be the chorus of sorts as he later repreats it again after a similar call off, "spring! summer! fall! winter! sex in honorific language!"
On another note, Andy Warhol is stumbling through his basic colors, "blue, red, green..."
minoru = torihada (very strange, what does it all mean?)
Posted by: zachery | January 03, 2006 at 06:09 PM
Yes yes... I asked a girl in Japan what he was saying and this was her response:
"my ten year old son Kenda said to me. Dad, can you stop using respect language when you have sex with my mom? " blah blah blah...
I don't wanna continue!!
you are naughty!!!!
Posted by: mexist | January 03, 2006 at 07:36 PM
my bad... you see very often the subject assumed in a very off handed, abstract way that most languages care to avoid...
Posted by: zachery | January 03, 2006 at 11:32 PM
RE: the BBC doc. Very cool, but that long-haired guy coming into and out of the background is going to haunt me. Anybody have any clue about him?
Posted by: Mac | January 03, 2006 at 11:44 PM
Me too. Looks like David Crosby and he's definitely screwing around- grinning, slowly moving in and out of the shadow... and what's with the clock in the forground? The same clock showing 7:56 or so in every shot.
The Crosby/Clock conundrum is hounding me
Posted by: Attis | January 04, 2006 at 09:46 PM
re: beard guy and clock
below are excerpts of a review of the documentary. the reasoning for the clock seems good, but i'd still better about the beard guy.
"The rather quirky presentation of the documentary was also interesting. Clocks set to 7:58 adorned the sets where interviewees were sat, whilst a strange bearded man lurked in the shadows. The clocks were an interesting visual metaphor - 7:58pm being 19:58, 1958 being the year the Radiophonic Workshop was created. No doubt the bearded man was another metaphor, although a bit too clever for me."
"After writing this review, I read elsewhere what the bearded man was. Apparently he's a metaphor for the ever watchful, but usually disinterested BBC management - the people who set up the Workshop, watched it with disinterest over the years, and then closed it down without a care in the world. So there you go."
whole review here: http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/7days/cyclops/20031019ab.htm
Posted by: Doris in Rego Park | January 05, 2006 at 05:58 AM
Very interesting site and certainly eye catching.
Lucy xx
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