one of the many reasons to swing by the website of russ lichter is not just to check out his rad & funny blog, but also to see his video editing skills. one of my favorites on his site is the dumb+good needy girl by chromeo. so dumb, so good. make more please! if you have more time to kill (and i know you do ’cause your here), check out russ’s other music videos or commercials or other work. dooo it!
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belated birthday wishes to the jazz greatness of john coltrane on what would have been his 80th birthday. john coltrane was born on september 23rd, 1926. a quick search on youtube will pull up a lot of coltrane vids. posted below is a performance of the heavy song alabama, written by coltrane in 1963 after the bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama. also below are a few tracks posted (right-click & save-as, please) from the albums Standard Coltrane, Giant Steps, and Impressions. happy birthday, mr john coltrane, and many many thanks for your music!
download:
John-Coltrane-music-sampler.zip (17.8 megabytes)
ye mighty track listing:
John Coltrane - Invitation
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - After the Rain
wow. if this next clip is a commercial, i’m buying one of everything. please watch the rad and perplexing (making it more rad) youtube gold titled baby octopus. it’s either a wacky japanese show or a wacky japanese commerical for a really terrible daycare service. seems to need the yakety sax theme from benny hill. any live action show with people running around in creepy monster suits is great with me. plus, that there octopus has got a sexy mouth. thanks to the devious minds at cobracreative for the clip. enjoy!
youtube keeps and giving. for some nonsensical joy, witness the tiniest lil’ breakdancer with the whitest teeth & widest smile bust several moves in this youtube vid titled little superstar. special! i like the rag-tag group of crime fighters in the background, obviously led by the large lounging fella with the dope casio tape deck. enjoy! & thanks derek for the link!
umm, yeah. more goodness, or perhaps disturbing-ness, from youtube. a video on feminine hygiene called ‘jill‘ starring an inquisitive girl with down-syndrome and family with poor taste in wall paper that just loves to talk about getting their periods. yes, all of what i typed is true. that’s what makes it disturbing. you’ll just have to watch it and see.
when you haven’t posted for a while, it’s time to roll out the heavy hitters. ladies & gentlemen, we are happy to present an all-time giantmonster favorite: nick nolte - again - losing his fucking mind. but luckily, this time, video cameras are there. rather than settling for just a crusty mugshot, you can now watch the semi-impervious nolte preach the benefits of living a healthy life. yes, i too love irony, don’t you? i had seen this on tv a long while back. so happy to see it emerge again! i think my favorite line from the whole video is the phrase ‘meticulously monitoring nolte‘ which can apply to so many things, really. youtube just keeps on giving and giving. anyway, breath deep and enjoy. nolte carnage via fast hugs.
oh, social commentary via rad graffiti artists! so nice! i’m really liking the banksy VS paris hilton prank. the best post i’ve seen on it is via dork magazine, titled banksy versus paris, complete with youtube video of banksy creating his custom paris hilton CDs. really really great. thanks banksy!
i had an amazing time at burning man this year. please peruse & browse the giantmonster burning man 2006 photos up on flickr now. despite while on the road to black rock city getting a text that my website went down (thanks ethos for the headsup!), my truck’s transmission dying way outside of sacramento, waiting 3+ hours to rent a minivan, and arriving much later than expected to the playa, i am fortunate and lucky. it was an absolutely great year! 2006 had the best evening weather i’ve experienced (yes, better than 2002), great music, and great art too! i really only wish i took more photos (i took much less than in previous years). luckily there’s 538 incredible pics in the a burning man 2006 flickr set by !HabitForming to make up for it. and plenty more too. and much love to the tea temple crew this year!
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wanna see 200 lbs (roughly 90 kilograms) of gasoline exploding? yes? okay! then watch the clip below. i filmed the explosion footage on friday, september 1st, 2006 at burning man. the video has no sound, so please fill in with your own sound effects, if you please.
few video clips have me laughing out loud as much as this one titled turkish star wars training montage. oh. my. god. soo great! how can it not be? could have easily been titled ‘dude, i fucking hate rocks.’ but whatever the title, it’s pure cinematic gold - perhaps platinum. and the giantmonster staff agrees that it contains the best montage theme music ever in the history of movie montages. push it to the limit!! it’s also nice to know that when you fuck your hands up from punching rocks all day, your hot lady friend will rub salad all over your bloody fists and make them all better. many thanks to derek for the link. enough talk - get onto the magic!!!
giantmonster hearts classic arcade video games and stop motion. if you feel the same, then you’ll be smiling ear to ear after watching the little quicktime video titled game over by the insanely talented eatpes. soo great! baked goods centipede & fossil rock asteroids & pizza pac man. soo good. buggy space invaders too. it’s just great! lots to see at the eatpes site too! link sent in from the genius minds at cobracreative. thank you!
this clip sent in from brit, a highly rad stop motion animation short film from milkfat dot com called baked goods. clever, nicely animated, and semi-educational. funny, i always added the butter in with the water (no double boiler/separate pan type action). i also use the same kitchen aid mixer too. baking is fun. enjoy!
hella bollywood be up in this piece, yo! it’s a little dance routine called solla solla enna perumai. the time has come to shelve your inihibitions, oil up your chest (ever so slightly), and dust off your gold lamme high heel boots. from a 1981 movie called Ellam Inba Mayam … it’s just totally, absolutely rad. (thanks brad & thanks cari!)
though it’s been out for a while, take some time to check out this great & expressive CG animated short called burning safari. well worth a viewing, maybe several. created by french animation school students vincent aupetit, jeanne irzenski, maxime maleo, florent de la talle, aurélien predal, and claude-william trebutien.
youtube clip of the fiesty george galloway VS a talking head from UK’s sky news. teleprompter-reading skills don’t come in too handy with the out spoken george galloway (see previous clip of galloway speaking before the US senate). despite getting his microphone turned down halfway through the interview, it’s galloway by a landslide …
see, it’s a merry-go-round. it’s goes around and around. kind of fun, huh? then someone said ‘wouldn’t it be neat if …?’ and right there is the premise for comedy in this real-live youtube vid titled crawley kids in a tilgate park Tilgate Park Roundabout Girls. i also can’t help but be reminded of the very first happy tree friends episode ‘spin fun knowin’ ya‘ when i watch it. both vids are funny and both vids feature a stellar performance from a merry-go-round. see - it’s a merry-go-round, what could go wrong? special!
sent in from brad, a link titled “dogs floating in space.” it could have meant anything really. but this time it actually meant ‘dogs floating in space’. or more specifically, a new video titled ‘birds’ from the lovely creatives at pleix. the birds video is funny to watch. something about the slo-motion over building electro rock equates with sexy doggie models in 1980’s nagel print setting (now with lasers!). reminds me a bit of the brilliant the aphex twin video ‘windowlicker‘ (windowlicker link NSFW, but soo worth it). oh, & check out the other films at pleix. many good things in there.
i am thankful in between sweating and seeking air conditioned rooms for the gift of laughter. this time it’s provided by the dialy show via onegoodmove.org. if you enjoy the sweet sweet nectar of baby embryos as much as i do, then please watch jon stewart deliver the goods with this great daily show clip of the war on terror-ble diseases.
this is great! the classic arcade video game space invaders like you never seen it before. it’s space invaders performed live in a theater by the not-so-noisy group. great!!! same space invader sounds too. very fun to watch. check out the website for more info (website is in french).
something for the ladies browsing giantmonster … big balls. yes, big balls. do you wanna see those testicals without spectacles? then you’re not alone. our sacks really do hang down so low that they put on a little show! from goodie bag TV (great site for rad original videos & shorts).
my friend goose sent me a link to rad pilot episode on the sci-fi channel called the amazing screw on head (direct link to video viewer/player here). it’s really really good. based on the comic book by mike mignola, who also did the art direction. developed & written by brian fuller. main characters are voiced by paul giamatti (screw on head, the hero), david hyde-pierce (rad & bratty villain), and molly shannon (ex-girlfriend, vampire). the look, story setting, and character styles are superb and the dialogue and story is well written and funny too. please check it out. i love the line ‘you make me feel alive and full bodied!’ and ‘i’m going smoke you … any last words before i spark it?’ so good.
i keep watching this clip from the daily show segment called snakes on a plame and laughing. so good. novak is such a pet reporter for the white house, but combined with the rove and the cheney, it’s deadly. just watch. thanks crooks and liars for the post! & thank you jon stewart and crew for the laughs.
my friend derek introduced me to the very funny and addictive cartoon The Venture Brothers on adult swim. i am hooked. a bit of a parody of the johnny quest cartoon, venture brothers seems to get better and better as i watch it. as a card carrying member of the nerd, gomer, & geek community (with an emphasis on the sci-fi) i doubt any one fellow nerd could resist the strong comedic gravitational pull that the venture brothers provides. a sample of such pull can be found in the venture brothers season 2 opener. so dumb, yet soo good. and i tip my hat at the duran duran ‘hungry like the wolf’ video reference. very nice.
nice scratch track video of james earl jones doing the first pass of dialogue for darth vader. the vader sessions. or maybe this is the the real dialogue, as it was meant to be seen & heard? hmmm. funny video created by the kids at akjak & link sent in from the derekmonster. please watch the vid below & enjoy! remember, daddy is the breadwinner.
finally america grasps the concept of yoga! dude - it’s yoga .. yoga for dudes, dude! deep spiritual practice be gone with this addition to the non-working out workouts, a.k.a coyote ugly yoga. dude, it feels like i’m watching an SNL skit & waiting for the will ferrel voice over. i’m a big fan of the ass n’ titties, but dude, hello! this might be sexy if it wasn’t for it’s inherent retardedness. and yes dude, there’s more! is it safe to do yoga with so much silicone packed in your chest? i’d better watch it again to make sure it really is dumb. jerry bruckheimer, dude, you’re next movie premise is waiting …
a link sent in from my friend leigh, there’s a brand new history lesson about america’s first president, george washington. not just that old ‘i cannot tell a lie/chop down the cherry tree’ bullshit. no. this was important stuff. like how he rode a crystal horse, grew to 12 stories tall, invented cocaine. lots of stuff. just watch brad neely’s animation below and learn …
science time! from eepybird comes the The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments. a series of beautiful scientific tests that combines 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos (the freshmaker) mints. the results are lovely and messy. and there’s lots of other videos to watch of experiments (or is it experi-mints?) from eepybird as well. well done lads - well done!
Experiment #6
Experiment #137
it’s friday! and it seems to be summer too. time to head down to the lake and get some fishing in! but if you want to actually catch fish, leave this guy at home. please enjoy the fish-less fishing adventures on how not to fish with these bill dance fishing bloopers. he actually says ‘dag-gummit!’ awesome!
movie mash-up moments make me laugh. the last really good one was the re-take on The Shining. now, such crafty powers have been unleashed on a more biblical scale. time to pre-order tickets to that awesome new teen comedy drama religious flick called 10 things i hate about commandments.
eventually, all ads will be like this. for now, it’s an iPod spoof. a good one at that. witness & enjoy iPorn (featuring daft punk). good stuff.
my friend alex roy is racing once again in the gumball 3000 rally. what is the gumball 3000? did you ever see the movie cannonball run? it’s the same thing (sort of). anyway, mr. alex roy races for/with team polizei, 3 time gumball rally winners. their car is a tricked out bmw M5. you can watch a clip of alex talking about team polizei and some of their winning strategies. or you can watch an infamous video of the team polizei’s italian police escort, where alex and team polizei somehow convinced the italian police to give them an escort through the streets of florence during 2005’s gumball 3000 race. go alex go! you can also track & watch the progress of the race via live.gumball3000.com. do it!