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YouTube/etc. Roundup #12

Youtube/etc. Roundups are where I periodically post all the most interesting online videos I’ve watched lately. Feel free to share your own finds in the comments section. For links to more videos, click here.

Kid Rock ‘Steal Everything’ PSA
Making Music Series: David Longstreth
Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Killjoy - Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
The Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource (A CAPELLA!!)
Kinderwette Star Wars
Self-Organizing Yogurt Lids
Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek
Baby’s Gang - Challenger
3 Year old crying over Justin Bieber
Jimmy Surprises Bieber Fan
Cory Arcangel - Arnold Schoenberg, op. 11 - I - Cute Kittens (process and comparison to Glenn Gould version here)
Cory Arcangel - Arnold Schoenberg, op. 11 - II - Cute Kittens (process and comparison to Glenn Gould version here)
Cory Arcangel - Arnold Schoenberg, op. 11 - III - Cute Kittens (process and comparison to Glenn Gould version here)
dave longstreth sings one line from chrisina aguilera
Scarface School Play
Psycho Mall Walker
Hevisaurus - Jee Hevisaurus
Dueling Carls, a “Talking Carl” Scream Fight
The Price is Creepy
World Record: Largest Group To Inhale Helium And Sing “I Think We’re Alone Now” While Hogtied
The Vice Guide to Film: North Korean Film Madness Part 1 of 3
The Vice Guide to Film: North Korean Film Madness Part 2 of 3
The Vice Guide to Film: North Korean Film Madness Part 3 of 3 
Surprise kitten pen attack!
Purina Animal All Stars - Tongue waggling kitty
Marble adding machine
Shaq and Krispy Kreme doughnuts
Eduard Trololo Khil address to the people of the world!
Omazing Grace
Anthony Braxton Interview - Chess, Math & Music
BIRDMAN IN LISBON, PORTUGAL - Claudio Montuori
Ants subterranean structures revealed!!!!?!
THINGS I HATE
Me Dancing and Singing to Bad Romance by Lady Gaga
Nigerian LIL WAYNE ( 2Sure 2Shizzy Amemu )
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Creepy video of talking robot mouth
hxc dance
Language
halo benders // real stories of the highway patrol
Alive Tick in the Ear -Garrapata viva en el Oido
Lil B - Feat Elliot Smith(RIP) - The Worlds Ending DIRECTED BY LIL B
The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba (cover) live and raw from two shumba-nauts
Better Marriage Blanket
peanut butter eating hot dog costume wearing persian cat
Alvin & the Chipmunks tribute to Ian Stuart and Skrewdriver (parody)
Best Cry Ever
Thanks for sabotaging me, society
Columbia Mo SWAT Raid 2/11/2010. Cops Shoot Pets With Children Present (for more information and commentary on this incident, the video, and the subsequent uproar, see here and here)
Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube
Survival Seeds - The Survival Seed Bank Provides a Lifetime Food Solution For Families
DUTCH body scanner (new system on AIRPORT)
Bill Hicks on Marketing
a BUG in your ear!
As Seen on TV - a tribute to doing it wrong
YouTube is Dying (YouTube Exposed)
Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser Strikes Again - Yo-Yo Master
K-Strass the yo-yo man on KQTV in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Chubby Baby Does Weird Tile Slide (Full Version)
Beryl Korot: “Radical Software” 1970-74 | Art21 “Exclusive”
Black Ninja Final Fight

Tonetta777

Not sure if this is old news and I just missed the boat on it, but I just found out about this guy Tonetta777. Apparently he was a brief internet sensation in 2008 before YouTube suspended his account and took down all his videos (many have since been re-upped by his fans). That’s a shame. He’s incredible! A highly talented, highly prolific, highly WEIRD middle-aged gay songwriter who accompanies his lo-fi jams with videos of himself three-quarters naked, sweaty, dancing, and lip-synching. Sometimes he’s bizarrely costumed, sometimes he surrounds the videos in day-glo diamond borders and applies odd digital effects, sometimes he merely films himself in his unadorned, poorly lit living room. The music is diverse and well written, and the lyrical topics range from slightly sleazy homoerotic love songs to enthusiastic odes to scat. I’m not joking. Check out the lyrics to “G & B Showers”:
I love what’s yellow, warm and runny
I love what’s dark and thick and chunky
I love what pours into my mouth
so that’s what life is all about
yeah that’s what life is all about
let me be your drain tonight

Few of the other songs (or videos) match that level of insanity, but after listening for a while, it’s not the ridiculousness of the lyrics that sticks with you. These actually are catchy, well written pop tunes, resting comfortably somewhere between Serge Gainsbourg and Ariel Pink (but with a higher signal to noise ratio than the latter). Really though there’s no point describing it, you just have to listen (and watch for yourself)…

No clue where this came from (I found it on a message board), but if you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard so far, you’ll be happy to know there’s an (unofficial?) 6 CD anthology available of his collected materials (I wasn’t joking when I said he was prolific!) called The Godlike Genius of Tonetta777 - Anthology Vol. 1, which you can download here:

DOWNLOAD CD 1
DOWNLOAD CD 2
DOWNLOAD CD 3
DOWNLOAD CD 4
DOWNLOAD CD 5
DOWNLOAD CD 6

I can’t remember if I’ve even mentioned this here yet or not, but I was and still am planning on making a zine on the topic of “internet outsider art” this summer, and this guy will definitely have to be a part of it. If anyone has any suggestions for that zine, or wants to help out or submit some writing (or do an interview), let me know!

YouTube/etc. Roundup #11

Youtube/etc. Roundups are where I periodically post all the most interesting online videos I’ve watched lately. Feel free to share your own finds in the comments section. For links to more videos, click here.

What English Sounds Like to Foreigners
YouTube Doubler: Goat and Alex Jones
pups and order
Thank You Dr. Zizmor!
NYUFF ‘08 Trailer Starring Dr. Zizmor by Ben Coonley
Raisin Brahms Comedy PSA Arts Education
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea cover
Sweet Child O mine (cover) Rock Mp3
santana shreds
Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga’s Poker Face
Explanation for Nazi Elves Who Mate w/ Virgins
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face (Radio Disney Version)
Greenscreen Grandmas
Noam Chomsky on 911 conspiracy par1
Noam Chomsky on 911 conspiracy part 2
Stateless earth creature burns Social Security card, proclaims love for all humankind
Guilty Puppy
Rock ‘n’ Dog
Sittin On Tha Toilet
OOBE - Out Of Body Experience
Crazy Woman Blues
Avatar Makeup Tutorial
Islington punk squatter documentary ‘83
Once In A Lifetime
Sad Kermit - Needle in the Hay
Scadusher (Read description)
Superman inflation with sound
California Raisin! James Kuhn. Face Paint in Motion!
peanut butter man
“Love Story”
Your business card is CRAP!
Distant Touch Therapy
tool - parabola (with throat singing)
Fight of spellmaster - Goultard vs Dramalius
AMOG Handshake
stefan fucked up at the jersey party
Something Big Something Small - Brendan Fowler
Soft Focus at ATP - Suicide
Soft Focus Season 3 - Steve Albini
Soft Focus Season 3 - Mike Watt
The Known Universe by AMNH
Child Drowning Prevention
Charlie Brooker - How to Report the News
Big Money Rustlas Trailer
Beyondmedia Education - Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape Promo - NEW EDIT
Rip Torn vs Norman Mailer - the infamous “Maidstone” brawl - UNCUT!
Untitled (Gunge Study)
toyn hawk 3
Italy When Three
Ray Ray Afternoon
Fair Game
Computational Wood
How to Explain It to My Parents
Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival Full Bouncer Audition Video.mov
Picard Can spell….
Making of Buzz Aldrin’s Rocket Experience w/ Snoop Dog and Talib Kweli
Accuweather.com Snowpocalypse Now! Meteorologist Freakout
I’m Not Here to Make Friends
I’m Not Here to Make Friends ‘09
Boxing Kangaroo
Creepy Kid from Back To The Future 3 points to his flux capacitor
Bill Nye Talks About Sex
Predators dancing Locking Predator (Locker Lionel Douglass aka Big D.
oo00OO00oo00OO00oo.mov
Multiple Sidosis
Johnny Space & the Flying Rockets - Dream of the West (64)
If you watch this 100 times you’ll still laugh !
советская реклама 80х
Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой
A basic lesson in snap
Tampon Tango
Origins of the Moonwalk

YouTube/etc. Roundup #10

Youtube/etc. Roundups are where I periodically post all the most interesting online videos I’ve watched lately. Feel free to share your own finds in the comments section. For links to more videos, click here.

Communities of Resistance (1/6) (Peter Lamborn Wilson aka Hakim Bey interview)
Communities of Resistance (2/6) (Peter Lamborn Wilson aka Hakim Bey interview)
Communities of Resistance (3/6) (Peter Lamborn Wilson aka Hakim Bey interview)
Communities of Resistance (4/6) (Peter Lamborn Wilson aka Hakim Bey interview)
Communities of Resistance (5/6) (Peter Lamborn Wilson aka Hakim Bey interview)
Communities of Resistance (6/6) (Peter Lamborn Wilson aka Hakim Bey interview)
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (awful quality, but great film!)
People Doing Stuff
Tuvan Internationale
Cat lady makes bags out of fur
Biz Markie Performing “Bennie and the Jets”
exmovere chariot prototype
crispin dancing
Crispin Glover on art, Werner Herzog, David Letterman snafu
Alan Moore: art is magic
Roy Road Fish Co Humingbird Hat
Sobbing Goodbye : (
Pizza Kids - “We Like Pizza (Radio Version)”
80s Video Dating Montage
The chippendiddys
Deerhoof - Spy On You
Chimp & Frog
Pamela Douglas decides to feed grizzly bear with Donna !
Radiation March
SITE BEST STORES (part 1)
SITE BEST STORES (part 2)
SITE BEST STORES (part 3)
SITE BEST STORES (part 4)
Christian Side Hug
The Devil’s Toy - English (awesome 1960s skateboarding film)
Story from North America
Snake Vore - Sexy Animation - Snakes Gone HUNGRY!
from here to ear - Céleste Boursier Mougenot - Galerie Xippas
untitled yet
Sciences at Purchase 60sec
shane sings 5 octaves on piano
Timelapse of swarming monster worms and sea stars eating a dead seal
Julia Stiles as a hacker on Ghostwriter
silent night - miau (meow)

early B-52’s

 

My friend Ben’s recent tumblr post reminded me that a while back I discovered a gold mine. Some kind soul had unloaded onto Youtube a batch of vintage videos of the B-52’s performing “at the Downtown Cafe in Atlanta, Georgia in 1978, about a month before the release of their first album”:

“Rock Lobster”
“Hero Worship”
“Devil’s In My Car”
“Downtown”
“52 Girls”
“Runnin’ Around”
“Dance This Mess Around”

The sound quality of these is astounding. And it’s interesting to compare the versions of the songs here to the versions on the album (two songs: “Runnin’ Around” and “Devil’s In My Car” wouldn’t appear on record until their second album, Wild Planet). In a certain sense, they’re just as polished and full sounding as the album versions, but live, they also have a wild punk energy that totally surpasses the album versions (or maybe it’s just the accompanying visual that gives that impression). “Dance This Mess Around” is probably the highlight, as we get to see Cindy Wilson literally screaming the lyrics at the top of her lungs (although this slightly more recent live vid is a nice treat in that respect, as well). And it’s cool to see Fred Schneider, thin as a rail, sporting a wife beater and a face full of stubble, in full on gay southern punk glory, doing the Coo-ca-choo and the Aqua-velva.

Finding these got me all excited about early B-52’s material - does anyone know if there exist even earlier bootlegs floating around out there? The band was around for a full 3 years before releasing their first album, so surely there’s at least a few documents of their beginnings, no? I’m super curious. What did they sound like? Were they more punk rock? Were they more surfy? More girl groupy? Having something akin to the Hardcore Devo comps for this band would really blow my mind.

YouTube/etc. Roundup #9

Youtube/etc. Roundups are where I periodically post all the most interesting online videos I’ve watched lately. Feel free to share your own finds in the comments section. For links to more videos, click here.

Henry Flynt in New York: 119 Bank St., La Monte Young Apt., 1 of 3
Henry Flynt in New York: 119 Bank St., La Monte Young Apt., 2 of 3
Henry Flynt in New York: 119 Bank St., La Monte Young Apt., 3 of 3
Hilariously Gruesome Work Safety Video
Greatest freak out ever (ORIGINAL VIDEO)
Beautiful scene from “The Jerk”
clover
Seeing the Aura Easily
Phil Minton
Phil Minton’s Feral Choir @ Arnolfini Venn Festival 2008
in NYC with 50 Cent
Chick picking my braces - part 2 (rubber bands)
Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers
Osaka Bang! with English sub
Barilla pasta commercial - U.S.
【初音ミク】ベースで「牛乳飲め!」演奏してみた【これはひどい】
Cargo Cult
David McDermott - Time Travel
Grease - “You’re the one that I want”
Scuba Cat
Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” dance moves explained
H1N1 Rap by Dr. Clarke
The Rapping Doctor takes on Diabetes on WGN
Fish Sticks (student film starring Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear)
Fecal Matters (student film starring Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear)
Appy Halloween (student film starring Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear)
I Will Always Love You (Edit)
Excerpt from >>Versions of Under The Bridge<<
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1/6)
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (2/6) 
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (3/6) 
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (4/6) 
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (5/6) 
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (6/6) 
Real Chance of Love 2 Animals Are Awesome
Speaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!
Jeff Goldblum Scatting
The Lost World: Jurassic Park Special Edition
Letterman - Jeff Goldblum’s Rope Tricks
I like the peach pie.
Goldblum Teaches Self-Heimlich
Apple Ad - Drunk Jeff Goldblum
Drunk Jeff Goldblum - 3 Pizzas
Jeff Goldblum’s Best Story Ever
Jeff Goldblum Death Confirmed by New Zealand Police
The Rapture & the Langoliers
The Langoliers
The Talking Goat
Henry Hills - SSS
Lawnmower Man 2: Ta-da!
Mouse in VR Maze
Mini Pops - Morning Train (9 to 5)
Zanger Bob
Jordy - Dur Dur D’etre Bebe
Candyman!
BALLOON BOY (FALCON HEENE) MUSIC VIDEO “PUSSIFIED”

YouTube/etc. Roundup #8

Youtube/etc. Roundups are where I periodically post all the most interesting online videos I’ve watched lately. Feel free to share your own finds in the comments section. For links to more videos, click here.

Little Big Cremaster 1
Little Big Cremaster 4
EXACTLY by Denny Blaze The Average Homeboy
Dove - Evolution
Charlie Patton’s ‘High Water Everywhere, part 2′
Hermine Freed: Art Herstory
Project Spectrum - Google Sketchup and Autism
William Burroughs - Do Easy by Gus Van Zant
Mr Let’s Paint takes a dump to whale sounds?
Oh Dem Watermelons
“Rap Chop” featuring Vince (Steve Porter’s Slap Chop remix)
Play him off, keyboard cat. (Christian Vs. Athiest Son)
The Century of the Self - Part 1 of 4 - By Adam Curtis
The Century of the Self - Part 2 of 4
The Century of the Self - Part 3 of 4
The Century of the self 4 of 4
The Trap - 1 - F*ck You Buddy (the sound is off, but I couldn’t find a better version)
The Trap - 2 - The Lonely Robot
The Trap - 3 - We Will Force U 2 Be Free
Crass: There Is No Authority But Yourself (English w/ Dutch Subtitels)
breakfast at sulimays wilco/dirty projectors
muskelzeigen
Shooting Back
WAYS OF SEEING (first episode) 1/4
WAYS OF SEEING (first episode) 2/4
WAYS OF SEEING (first episode) 3/4
WAYS OF SEEING (first episode) 4/4
WAYS OF SEEING (episode two - female nude) 1/4
WAYS OF SEEING (episode two - female nude) 2/4
WAYS OF SEEING (episode two - female nude) 3/4
WAYS OF SEEING (episode two - female nude) 4/4
WAYS OF SEEING (episode three - oil painting) 1/4
WAYS OF SEEING (episode three - oil painting) 2/4
WAYS OF SEEING (episode three - oil painting) 3/4
WAYS OF SEEING (episode three - oil painting) 4/4
WAYS OF SEEING (final episode - advertising) 1/4
WAYS OF SEEING (final episode - advertising) 2/4
WAYS OF SEEING (final episode - advertising) 3/4
WAYS OF SEEING (final episode - advertising) 4/4

YouTube/etc. Roundup #7

Youtube/etc. Roundups are where I periodically post all the most interesting online videos I’ve watched lately. Feel free to share your own finds in the comments section. For links to more videos, click here.

Cheers to You! - video ad #1
Robert DeNiro imagines he’s elmo!
Julie Chen-Bot
New York Art Tours: Gordon Matta-Clark & Rirkrit Tiravanija
A.J. Jacobs’ year of living biblically
Toilet making a horrible sound
Philosophy of art
Jumping on eggs without breaking them
Skate Witches
Inside a inflatable whale
Goat Yells for Mom - in ENGLISH
A Dramatic Reading of Yahh Trick Yahh
Aaron Lewis - It’s Been Awhile (eith Pauly Shore)
Sesame Street: Paul Simon Sings Me & Julio
Kaltwasser & Köbberling - autocondoom
NICE PEACE 安穂野香
Zizek on Children of Men
Dragnet Music Video City of Crime
Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrasse
mom stubs toe
TEETH TIME
787 Cliparts by Oliver Laric
Oops, I blew my sister up.
Avatar Machine
Robotic Self Healing Chair
Uwe Boll Responds to Internet-Petition (hes very mad)
Alvin and the Chipmunks Theme (Slowed Down)
Altermodern -
Cookie Monster vs. Martha Stewart
Tube Flight
Effects Of Explosive Cabin Decompression On Crew
HAM HAM HAM

YouTube/etc. Roundup #6

Youtube/etc. Roundups are where I periodically post all the most interesting online videos I’ve watched lately. Feel free to share your own finds in the comments section. For links to more videos, click here.

manualist plays bohemian rhapsody on his hands!
Balloon Fail
camcorder in balloon part 2 or inside balloon
Anarchism in America
SOFT FOCUS - PENNY RIMBAUD - VBS.TV
SOFT FOCUS - WILL OLDHAM - VBS.TV
SOFT FOCUS - GENESIS P. ORRIDGE - VBS.TV
SOFT FOCUS - MARK E. SMITH - VBS.TV
SOFT FOCUS - ANDREW WK - VBS.TV
Jeu d’échecs avec Marcel Duchamp (1963)
Face to Face with Jeremy Isaacs: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg (1995)
Paris Hilton by Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas talks about Underground Cinema. Part I
Jonas Mekas talks about Underground Cinema. Part II
Jonas Mekas Plays Accordion at Whitney Museum
1980’s wendys training video.
Three year old with the Holy Ghost…….
The Moron Brothers
Лепромаска?
Hawaii Chair Infomercial
Something I ate
CUNT FLAPS
Richard Serra - Hands Scraping
Art:21 | Janine Antoni
Big Pimpin
I Will Truck
Johannes Kreidler - Charts Music - Songsmith fed with Stock Charts
Microsoft Songsmith - Barack Obama Speech (Chicago, IL)

brokeNCYDE

This is the most awful shit ever made.

My friend Ben posted this on his blog, asking the question “Is it just me, or is America a cultural backwater all of a sudden?”

I just found an even better description. August Brown of the LA Times writes, “The ‘Albucrazy’-based band has done for MySpace emo what some think Soulja Boy did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance art that exists so far beyond the tropes of irony and sincerity that to ask ‘are they kidding?’ is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to reassemble the pieces futile.”

Other fun facts about brokenCYDE:
They have 21.7 million total song plays on MySpace.
Their name is a truncation of “broken inside.”
They are signed to the same record label as fellow musical abomination Wicked Wisdom (Jada Pinket Smith’s metal band).