Fatboy Slim’s video for The Joker (Steve Miller Band cover; YouTube video) is performed by kittens. Maybe a bit too cute, but fun…
Fatboy Slim – The Joker
OK Go – Here It Goes Again
The video for OK Go’s Here It Goes Again (YouTube video) is entirely performed on six treadmills. It’s a lot cooler than it sounds. Really. ๐
Classic Tom Petty Opening Lines
In honor of Tom Petty’s latest release, Highway Companion, The Onion’s A.V. Club presents 14 Classic Tom Petty Opening Lines.
Scorched 3D
Speaking of nostalgic drunken college computer games, check out Scorched 3D, an extremely faithful three-dimensional rendering of the Scorched Earth (which you can download here) tank shooting game. This version has a lot more eye candy, but they retained the cheesy quotes the computer tanks utter after getting destroyed as well as the different types of explosions/implosions. And it’s free!
Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager (Episode 2)
Check out the hilarious Episode 2 (YouTube video) of Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager.
Weekly Echo
Part of a hopefully regular feature stolen from inspired by Norman Roberts’ blog innings.
You should definitely visit the Weekly Echo site, as the images have hyperlinks to pertinent news stories of the week…
Mountain Dew: Master
I really like this recent Mountain Dew commercial (embedded QuickTime video).
For Your Consideration… South Park.
It should come as no surprise that after garnering an Emmy Nomination for the episode Trapped In The Closet, South Park ran a somewhat controversial “For Your Consideration” ad in Variety. Check out the full-size version here… ๐
The White, The Black
The White, The Black (Flash video) is an extremely surrealistic Russian video depicting a demented portrayal of a chess game. You’ll just have to go and watch, because I can’t explain it other than to say it reminded me of ะกะคะะ ะะข ะ ะะ ะะะ (supposedly Worker and Parasite, roughly transcribed as sfir yet seronzh if the Unicode characters don’t show up), the quasi-Eastern European cartoon shown in place of The Itchy & Scratchy Show in the The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Kancelled. Wow, I spent way too much time on that. ;-p
“Endut! Hoch Hech!” ๐
The Genius of W
As you might guess the Google Video The Genius of George Bush celebrates the ineptitude of W with a series of video clips…
