Youtube for G&T English Class

featuring "Hoffman Estates High School Extreme Ninja Kazoo TKAM!!!"

Man, when I think back to being 15, there's so much shit I'm glad only I've got the evidence of.  Tapes can be baked, pictures can be burnt, home movies only happened around rich kids with a Betamax at home; you & me, the normal kids, could hide our histories with nothing more than the removal of a rock down at the local quarry, ravine, or sewer system.  Kids these days, um... how can I say this??  They fuk'd.

What follows is a sampling of my current fave youtube subgenre: the AP English class's rendition of the AP English class literary classics.  They're all here!  Salinger, Flannery O'Connor, Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Metamorphosis, Lord of the Flies, even some James Joyce!  I'm sure I'm forgetting a thousand worthy contenders, so your input is quite welcome here. 

 Catcher in the (Ghetto) (JD Salinger)

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

Siddhartha (Hesse)

A Good Man is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)

Lolita (gets pwned) (Nabokov)

Of Mice & Men / A Steinbeck Mystery

The Killers (Hemingway)

The Crucible  (Arthur Miller)

A Rose For Emily (Wm. Faulkner)

Hands  (Sherwood Anderson)

As I Lay Dying (Wm. Faulkner)

Metamorphosis (Kafka)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) 

The Lottery, and The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)

Comments

[quirk]

Love these. Makes me want to dive into my VHS collection.

Here's an adaptation of The Metamorphosis I did last Summer. Only slightly better than anything I could have come up with at age 15.
http://www.vimeo.com/746673

[Ampex 486]

This Kurt Vonnegut/Joseph Heller hip-hop video is particularly excruciating:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Se_N8kDUKzc

[jeff]

how'd ya like to be this dude? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_9tw1jFkTA&feature=related

[Gary Terrell]

looking for "them dirty blues" by various artists, in particular please warm my wiener and whats that smells like fish