Many thanks to John Fell Ryan for showing me this one. As Davy Rothbart, of Found Magazine, says on the back of the cassette, "Memorial Day 2000 is the finest find in the history of found stuff." Twig Harper and Carly Ptak apparently found this home video at a Michigan yard sale of a memorial day bender in the woods. Watch drunk hicks drive around in the mud in their trucks, jump over fire, set things on fire, wrestle in the mud, force each other to puke...every moment is magical....oh yes. Twig and Carly, of course, are Baltimore's noisegods Nautical Almanac, and used to sell this video at their merch table. Watch this one again and again, "the fuckin whip shit of all fuckin shitter bongers".
Uhhhh.....NSFW.
Crap...this was on my side of the state. Friggin' tourists.
Posted by: Brian | June 27, 2011 at 07:58 PM
Nat: thanks, awesome video. Subjects: Please die ASAP.
Posted by: boil | June 27, 2011 at 11:45 PM
I am so glad everyone associated with WFMU is so much cooler than these provincial scumbags. Who the fuck do they think they are, having fun like that? I know I've never got drunk with my friends. Losers.
Posted by: Finn McCool | June 28, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Hicks? Seems a little harsh, and patronizing. These just seem like people having fun.
Posted by: Dave | June 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Dave and Finn -- Did you actually *watch* any part of this video? I stopped a few minutes in, when the dumb scumbag hicks started thrusting their penises into a dog crate (with dog inside), after which they started rolling the crate.
If that's your idea of fun, too, then you too should DIAF.
Posted by: krull | June 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM
It's not a dog in the cage, it's their friend named "Tom".
I believe his friends are peeing on him.
Posted by: Fin McCool | June 28, 2011 at 01:28 PM
Remember, late 20's early 30's age people, it's only cool to act like you're still in college if you live in Brooklyn.
Posted by: Fin McCool | June 28, 2011 at 02:39 PM
Burn the Couch! Burn the Couch! Burn the Couch!'
Also coming from a lineage of roughnecks getting drunk and doing stupid things is not the sole criteria of being a hick but running raw sewage on the ground certainly places one into the spectrum.
Posted by: Zombek | June 28, 2011 at 02:51 PM
whooooa. i was waiting for comments. i never knew this culture existed until i moved out of brooklyn inadvertently taking bedbugs with me thus had to lecture (because no one cared! 'if you can't see them' they said.) my neighbors one of whom said 'i'm just a hillbilly'. he is such a dear! i mean, he's v. talented and what's that word for full of feeling? but yes, this is his paradise and he's my age, early 40's. very lovable guy and his brother is just like him except looks like a Shakespearean actor. but his sister is a bitch.
Posted by: faaangface | June 28, 2011 at 03:00 PM
How come when I show my butt-hole, pee on my friends, and prance around with my mangina, I'm called a perv, yet these guys get cheered? Clearly, I'm going to the wrong parties.
Posted by: Jezebel of the Mountains | June 28, 2011 at 04:29 PM
How awful! Some artsy farts got hold of these people's home video... and judged them. If they annoy you, don't go party with them. Chances are a home video of you and your friends would be as off-putting to them as this is to a lot of you.
Just what the intenet needed, thanks a fucking bunch.
Posted by: Mogambo | June 29, 2011 at 09:22 PM
who made this? twig?
Posted by: alsley | June 30, 2011 at 03:17 AM
These were my brothers neighbors in Michigan he passed it on to us, Carly edited it down and we distributed it via shows + mailorder, until they asked us to stop. we make no judgements, edited true to life.
Posted by: twig | July 01, 2011 at 02:57 PM
...And then Americans get angry when they're called morons. This is exactly the kind of behaviour I would expect from any "red-neck" american. You guys are floating JOKES! Grow up or please kill yourselves!
Posted by: Direct Axis | July 05, 2011 at 09:32 AM
It's like the Gathering of the Juggalos without clown makeup. Or helicopter rides.
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