Perhaps I should occasionally attempt an appearance of thoughtfulness?

Documentaries

Greg Ginn apparently doesn't want you to see this 1986 documentary of Black Flag's last tour. So, y'know, respect his feeeeelings, y'all.

Here are three docs on DIY culture. Enjoy

A small assortment of Situationists

I didn't realize how important primary-color subtitles on black-and-white videos were, until they were taken away. Anyway, here's more on Society of the Spectacle and Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, and here are additional pictures and words.

NSFW - Manual of Evasion

From Rudy Rucker's website: "In 1994 Portuguese filmmaker Edgar Pera made a wonderful dadaistic movie called “Manual of Evasion” featuring me [Rucker], Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. My character was called the Lord of Chaos."





And here's a proto-Subgenius vid thingy, dimly related on a conceptual level.

Spedaamo Archives

Spedaamo Corflanctal Teledormonobono Flengette Analysis Report started out as a repository for hallucinatory animated works, but I occasionally added particularly eye-catching non-psychedelia. It's much easier now to segregate animations by type, so nowadays, the Spedaamo posts are strictly visual psychedelia I've found (and remembered about) online.For impressionable minds and molecular-level dumbasses, allow the first vid to assuage your discomfort at finding a large cache of colorized, flashing pixels on a computer screen.



I don't know of any way to combine YouTube and Vimeo clips into one playlist, so the Vimeo vids are hiding after the jump.

Super-creepy animated weirdness

Here's a one-day batch of bad-acid visuals. They start out relatively mild and get progressively freakier.




Also:

A CHALLENGER APPEARS

...with an eye towards dethroning Daniel Johnston. Read a bit more about Paul Bourre here.




Discovered this via some George R. R. Martin novel. Rather creepy.

NSFW - Comedy stuffs

There are far too many post-Bill Hicks comedians who borrowed his over-the-top sex obscenities and cussin' about Republicans, without really searching for and finding their own voice. Watch how Doug Stanhope does it. I liked Bill Hicks and all, but choked with rage as he was, his arguments always seemed disjointed and sort of out-of-focus. The measured, structured stand-up shown here is where I hoped he'd get to someday.



Here's a bit of Chris Morris

Starts out bad and gets worse quick, so if you're not into excruciatingly dark humor, pass this by. I'm not sure I could say that "Gun" is the creepiest thing I've heard from Chris Morris, but the dissociative nature of that monolgue give me some big-time creepy-crawlies.



I like books. Not everyone does.

NSFW - Laddies 'n' gennlemens, here's Irish silliness

First in English...



...then in... derp I dunno -- Mexican or something?




I never would have guessed that I'd enjoy hearing that 90's NKOTB sound -- but life is full of surprises, innit?




Not quite as great as The Rubberbandits...

NSFW - Emily Youcis.

Music is involved, somehow.



This, too.

NSFW - Not for the easily offended homophobe

My goodness, no.

NSFW - To enjoy this Sonseed discussion...

...it helps if you're not a fundamentalist.

Matthew: I'm all over that chick with those HOTT glasses.
Jamie: takin it downtown..imma knock em off.
Matthew: Gonna be knockin' dem boots. Those patent leather spinster boots.
Jamie: sonseed gets down on it.
Jamie: he is like a mountie, he always gets his man,hell zap you any way he can...zap.
Jamie: zap.
Matthew: Wait a minute -- that patent leather spinster boots chick's a dude? Yo, that shit ain't right, yo. I was gonna be all up IN THAT SHIT. But he's got a bug zapper on his junk? Yo, I ain't fallin' for THAT shit again!
Jamie: those are words to the song..ill bet shes all woman...all woman.
Matthew: Never noticed the words. Just the boots. And those succulent jowls.
Jamie: ugh.
Matthew: Sounds like you threw in the towel. JOWLS FOR THE WIN!!!
Jamie: i was definitely using a towel.
Matthew: If there wasn't a medical-grade toilet plunger involved, I don't wanna hear about it.
Jamie: the plunger is old news..ive moved on to the scrubber.
Matthew: Scrubbers ain't bad, but you get the real kicks from custom-built cheese graters.
Jamie: ive lost two ounces of taint this year!!!
Matthew: Yeah, that necrotic bowel cancer topical ointment is a swell location-specific weight-loss method. Did you get yours from the special packet in the Weight Watchers® Smart Ones® frozen entree too?
Jamie: i bought mine from a guy downtown...he even applied it for me.
Jamie: he did make me look him in the eyes...and call him by name...thats costly enough.
Matthew: What, for no extra charge?! The agency I use usually at least adds a gratuity to cover the egg-beater technician's fees.
Matthew: Good to see that Asheville's tourist-based service industry is there to anticipate the needs of the world-weary traveler. Time was when you couldn't find an ass-ointment masseuse on every corner in town. Thankfully, developers were there to lead us out of such appalling barbarism.
Jamie: true that sir, i love this new age when i can be molested by a total stranger in public without feeling invaded.
Matthew: I'm especially appreciative that they've taken to heart the lessons of the local hospitality industry. Service techs in A'ville have developed that charming mix of proper servility and menacing psychotic rambling that I've come to rely on, while still retaining that unique Asheville flair.
Jamie: we do have standards.
Matthew: And tourist dollars.
Jamie: and needs..oh the needs...





Now, to enjoy this, it helps if you're not a fundamentalist, and don't have to puke at the mere sight of anything resembling Tenacious D.

Okay, okay -- last this become an unmitigated hatefest...

And thus we come to the end of the Blogger line

No more artsy videos left on this blog. Anywhere. So why not create some art of your own? Here are links to some click-and-drag finger candy.

Scribbler 2 - - Silk - - Flame Painter

Dust - - Biolab - - Magic Effect

Fluid Fire Simulation 3 - - Sand Game

Keep in mind while you doodle on those windows that it's all infinitely less permanent than anything ever assembled by a three-year-old kid. Have fun!

Older music posts can be found at the abandoned Facebook page. I don't maintain or view it anymore, so your comments will go unanswered. Sorry about that, I guess.

And you can check this stuff out, if you so desire.

• Did you know that Liquid Television is still a thing? It sure is!
• RPG-playing porn stars.
• Gabor Csupo has a channel on YouTube.
• Profoundly irreverent b-movie reviews, from the archly cynical fellow responsible for the Rudy Schwartz Project.
• If you ever need a decent overview of the blues, you can find some killer playlists here.
• If you're a reader who likes podcasts, you need to know about The Bat Segundo Show. Get goin'. Here's a trio of Bat Segundo interviews that I've particularly enjoyed.enjoyedenjoyedenjoyedenjoyed
  China Mieville on Un Lun Dun, Alison Bechdel on Are You My Mother? and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez on a bunch of stuff.