Iron Curtain Camp
4/2/2008 6:34:28 PM
Here’s your daily dose of Iron Curtain camp.
The Leningrad Cowboys (who are neither from Leningrad nor are they cowboys …discuss) teamed up with the Soviet Red Army Choir, official chorus of the Soviet Army from 1928 until the whole shebang went up in pseudo-capitalist flames, to sing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s bro-fest-ready classic “Sweet Home Alabama.” I officially declare this version my favorite, as it is the least likely to be played at some beer-pong barbecue that I’ll likely be dragged to once the weather clears up.
— Caitlin MacRae
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Cuter Than Freakin' Dumbo
4/2/2008 12:12:23 PM
The Internet is abuzz with this clip of an elephant painting his own self-portrait, with a flower and everything! Some nay-sayers are saying this painting is staged, but elephants are amongst the most intelligent species in the animal kingdom. I totes believe it.
Real or fake? Does it matter? This is freaking adorable.
--JGH
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A very full house.
4/2/2008 12:09:00 PM
Way down in Dallas, Texas, a "multimedia artist" named Paul Slocum spent three years... recreating a ten-second scene from the sitcom "Full House."
Using actors that he found on Craigslist, Slocum recreated the scene, and layered each take on top of the other, creating a, oh, let's say, bizarre, mesmerizing, hypnotic effect.
Hundreds of takes and thousands of dollars later, we have the following result. You're Not My Father, by Paul Slocum. Look upon his work, ye mighty, and despair...
If you'd like to take part in the You're Not My Father project, here's how.
And thanks to the Onion A.V. Club for the clip.
--Oliver
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Poodle Exercise…for Humans
4/2/2008 12:08:09 PM
Why oh why is this happening? Sometimes, I encounter things on this here interweb that make me want to swear off computers forever. Poodle exercise is one of those things.
— Caitlin MacRae
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The E. U. Brings the Kitsch, the Costumes, the Awesomeness
4/2/2008 12:04:33 PM
Hey, know what’s totally freaking awesome? Two otherwise respectable nations selecting singing turkey puppets and pirate kitsch, respectively, to represent them across the European Union, in bizarrely choreographed song and dance numbers! The same contest that brought us Ukrainian Drag Queens from Space now finds Ireland and Latvia competing for most ridiculous national representation from folks in silly costumes.
— Caitlin MacRae
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Movie Trailer: "War, Inc."
4/1/2008 2:58:32 PM
You know how major studios have been releasing Iraq War movies, and how they've been tanking at the box office? See "In the Valley of Elah," "Lions for Lambs," etc, etc... Well, it turns out that all those movies needed was a good dose of John Cusack! Watch in appalled fascination as he stars in the world's first ever Iraq War comedy -- "War, Inc.":
Eeeegh. New York Magazine calls the movie "Grosse Pointe Iraq," which is a good joke, but I've got a better one: "Ishtar: The Next Generation." ...Um. Is this the worst idea for a movie -- ever? Assasinations! Kidnapped female reporters! Hillary Duff! Oh, my funny bone!
...Though I must give a belated shout-out for the fact that "Grosse Pointe Blank" is indeed a very funny movie. And... special bonus note: I have met John Cusack in real life. Unfortunately -- especially for all of us who like him from his movies -- he's a dick.
--Oliver Miller
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More Rick Astley, seriously... (sort of).
4/1/2008 1:07:00 PM
While I'm not a big fan of April Fools' Day, I am a big fan of two things:
1) Music.
2) Video Games.
...Which makes me very excited for the release of the game "AudioSurf." Check it out:
..."AudioSurf" looks similar to one of my favorite games of all time, the late, lamented "Amplitude" for the Playstation 2. With the valuable difference that "AudioSurf" works directly on your PC, and will convert any of your audio files into a playable video game. Yes! That's right! Just take one of your MP3s, upload it, and within seconds, you can be sailing through your favorite song in a tiny... spaceship thing. Yay!
It's an understatement to say that I'm excited to play this game, not only so that I can fly through and zap things in a Rick Astley song, but also so that I can upload my entire mope-rock collection and turn those songs into video games as well... which is awesome, because 95% of my music collection consists of Depressing Shit. For example:
I am excited. Nick Cave + Zappy Spaceships = Awesome. Anyway, I'm downloading "AudioSurf" right now, and it's taking a punishingly long time... but I'm sure it'll be great. If you'd like to download the free demo yourself, go here. Or you can just pay ten bucks and get the complete game... yay.
--Oilver Miller
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Baby Mama, Baby Love
4/1/2008 12:06:35 PM
Who says women-centered comedies can't make it in Hollywood? Tina Fey and Amy Poehler bust the Judd Apatow frat-pack paradigm with this trailer for Baby Mama, a girl buddy flick about a wanna-be mama and her surrogate.
Bitch is the new blockbuster!
--JGH
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The Video Blog does not approve of April Fools' Day.
4/1/2008 11:44:37 AM
1) Have the French ever been funny?
2) How did you get the fish to stay on the back of someone's shirt, since the invention of, say, tape, was several centuries in the future?
3) Why weren't people in the past funny?
4) What did you carry the fish around in? Seriously. When you look at pictures of the past, they don't really have backpacks or briefcases or anything. Did you just throw the fish in a burlap sack and carry that around? Wouldn't it be noticeable that you were walking around with a large, fish-smelling burlap sack?
5) Seriously, why weren't people in the past funny? And by "the past," I mean anywhere from 10,000 B.C. to ten years ago. Seriously. Go and watch an episode of "The Simpsons" from ten years ago. ...Not very funny now, is it? Or "Cheers." ...Or go and watch an episode of "Cheers." Horrendous. And as a final experiment, try watching a skit from Saturday Night Live from, say, 1978. Not only will it not be funny, but you will become queasy and nauseous with embarrassment, and you'll have to turn it off within thirty seconds. I swear to God.
6) For example:
7) Agh.
8) For real, the "why weren't people funny in the past" question has bothered me for my whole entire life. Is humor just relentlessly topical? Is it relentlessly evolutionary? I mean, I guess the first time that you stuck a dead fish on someone's back, it would seem pretty crazy and hysterical. But by the 2,000th time, not so much.
9) Anyway, anyone who has a solution to the "past" = "not funny" conundrum, please write in to the video blog.
10) Besides the Rick Astley, here's the other thing that fooled me today:
...It was the vomiting at the end that tipped me off, pretty much. Anyway, so that's it for the moment, I guess...
--Oliver Miller
...But coming next: More Rick Astley. Seriously.
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In lieu of April Fools...
4/1/2008 9:17:40 AM
This video blogger leaves you with the most surreal offering on YouTube.
Even more surreal than this gem.
-Jessica "Never Gonna Give You Up" Haralson
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