Literal video.
UPDATE: I've removed the link, since the video's been taken down -- as has an earlier example of "literal video," which you've probably also seen. The earlier one used "Take On Me," and the one I'd linked here used "Under the Bridge." You saw the band's original video and heard the instruments, but the song was re-sung with lyrics that told you what was happening in the video -- like "now superimpose on me someone's ugly house...." It was very funny, and in both cases, it reminded us of an excellent music video and made us re-experience song, look at the video close closely, and enjoy everything in both the old way and an inventive new way.
UPDATE 2: But wait! Reading the Wikipedia entry for "Take On Me," I find the "Funny or Die" page with the video -- which is by Dustin McLean -- and must have been done with permission. Here. And now I can get the "Under the Bridge" one: Here! Yay!
Here's a link to the DustFilms page in "Funny or Die."
December 20, 2008
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Poor, lonely blog post. The mistletoe gets all the fun.
I have two "virtuosos" kids playing the same piece of music.
Who's better?
First the Kennedy kid
http://tinyurl.com/2gfnhz
and then Levickis (from Lithuania)
http://tinyurl.com/9p3mv6
Actually, Nigel Kennedy is not a kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Kennedy
WTF? The only thing I understood was "hamburger", but then I've never been very good with other languages.
Since the video's been taken down, I can only assume you all were talking about this, although the superimposed house isn't all that ugly.
john,
Not ugly? The Wicked Witch of the East has kankles!
I'm sure if anyone is looking for a plastic surgeon in Turkey, they've come to the right thread.
Althouse has my permission to pull my comments along with the Turkish medical spam, unless, of course, it's all part of the performance.
Silly me. I now see from comments on another thread that Turkish plastic surgery IS part of the Gesamtkunstwerk that is this blog.
What next? Bulgarian ophthalmology?
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