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Entertainment Made By North Korea
Entertainment Made By North Korea [5h30m] is an overview of... entertainment made by North Korea. It begins well before the founding of the country to give the cultural background, and then gets into post-Korean War entertainment. It's an interesting history lesson combined with a fascinating glimpse into a world not seen much outside it's own borders. [more inside]
Cake!
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Real or Cake? [37s, CW]
Blue Andrew Man Huang Group
Blue Man Group & Andrew Huang 🥁🌵 DESERT PORTAL Music Video [5m, Blue Man Group YT channel] Getting weird with Blue Man Group [11m15s Andrew Huang YT channel]
We Need To Talk About Grilled Cheeze
56 Cheeses, 56 Grilled Cheeses: Which One is Best? [25m] sounds like a stunt post from some random YouTuber, but it's actually from Epicurious, and is by a professional cheesemonger. It's more educational and entertaining than you might expect when you first start.
Bulldog Utterly Bowled Over
Videos from The Dodo are usually a bit sappy but always heartwarming. However, Bulldog Obsessed With Bowls Gets A Special Delivery [3m20s] is full of exactly the kind of WTF that leads me to post it here.
Harmontown Extended Cut
Look, Dan Harmon is a complicated person. Between Community and Rick And Morty he's done a lot. He's also incredibly self-destructive and willing to be open about that. His podcast was popular enough that he went out on a tour, and Harmontown [2014] is the film that documents that tour. This extended version runs 2h40m.
DJ Set recorded on February, 2024 on the island of Florianópolis
"I was at a party in space with creatures of all kinds and shapes you can imagine, and this was the music playing, the vibe was unbelievable. Influenced by the 1970s space disco, with its synthesizers, funky grooves, and a certain psychedelia, the space DJs know what they're doing, it's time to listen to the voice that comes from beyond, or rather, from the infinite and beyond." COSMIC GROOVES - A Funky, Disco & House Grooves MIX from Outer Space [2h]
50 years of Austin City Limits
Backstage with Austin City Limits (ACL): Five Decades of Music | SXSW 2024 [1h] is a panel of people who create the legendary music show talking about the history of the music show. [more inside]
Erma Bombeck, stand-up comedian
I don't know if the name Erma Bombeck means anything these days. For decades she epitomized a middle America observational kind of humor that was present in a lot of magazines about suburban life. While most of her material was written, she did put out one comedy album: The Family That Plays Together (Gets On Each Other's Nerves) [YT playlist, 1977]. I don't know if we have any equivalent voice in America today and maybe not all the humor works today, but this is a historical document that I got on vinyl from the Columbia House Record Club, and I'm happy to share it here today.
Out Of Thin Air
"Enjoy an evening of tap dancing and jazz music celebrating the art of improvisation. Watch as dancers and musicians improvise together and pull rhythm and melody “Out of Thin Air.” [56m] The program will feature Colburn School's talented faculty and musicians as well as an array of guest artists including tap legends Sam Weber and Josette Wiggan."
Geddy Lee's Effin' Life live on stage
In Live at Massey Hall: Geddy Lee [55m, CBC], Geddy spends some time talking to his old friend Alex, and then reads a bit from his book. If you like this kind of thing, maybe you'll like this example of this kind of thing.
Daniels: How We Pulled Off Everything Everywhere All at Once | SXSW 2024
"We should tell you that we've run out of new things to say about Everything Everywhere All At Once, so although we’ll try our best to stay on topic, we'll most likely go on a bunch of tangents about the state of the world, the impending climate crisis, the collapse of consensus truth, the rise of AI, the importance and impossibility of self care, and our collective responsibility as storytellers to confront the issues of our time, because that's probably going to be what's on our mind, but we can't make any promises, but at times we don’t feel qualified to talk about any of that stuff, anyway we hope you enjoy our SXSW keynote!" [1h] [more inside]
Detroit's Music Scene
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges [1h, 2008, BBC] Is a look at the history of Detroit through the lens of music, from John Lee Hooker to Eminem. It's a really interesting scope through which to view this city.
Something good for a chuckle or 50
They aren't all pets, and they aren't all funny, but they are all animals and they are all entertaining to watch. The FUNNIEST Pet Videos of 2023! 🤣 | BEST Compilation [1h20m]
The Nanny Meets The Icon
Fran Drescher Interviews Barbra Streisand--SAG 2024 Life Achievement Recipient [35m] Because 50 hours of autobiography audiobook might not be enough.
A story about Barbie on a quest to stop the heat death of the universe.
Maybe you remember YouTuber Ted Nivision from a previous post. Here we find him slowly dissolving his sanity in a new adventure: I Watched Every Barbie Movie Ever Made [1h50m], which culminates with the 2023 Barbie film. It doesn't go well.
Fiction. Desire. Fantasy. Power. Death. Identity. -- Twilight
ContraPoints has a new video essay out, titled simply Twilight [2h53m]. It covers quite a lot. Like a lot more than you think it's going to cover. I enjoyed it and learned things.
You know that it's the best of Cheapos
Everyone's favorite queer YouTube Marxist media analyst Alexander Avila looks back at the career of recent Grammy winner Miley Cyrus and her alter egos Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana in his video Hannah Montana's Guide to Life Under Capitalism [1h26m] And there's a LOT he will pull out of this series, and I found it all worthwhile. One small note: automated voices of famous people are used to read passages of text, and it can be a bit jarring.
We Haven't Got The Americans Here Tonight
Here's a panel of British writers for Succession, including Tony Roche, Jon Brown, Lucy Prebble, and Georgie Pritchett. Creator and show-runner Jesse Armstrong also joins, and it is hosted by Adam Buxton. Held at Southbank Centre in Sept 2023, so after the series ended. Succession: an evening with the writers [1h42m]
Venice Carnival Masks
Load your band into the van and hit the road
What Drives Us [1h30m] is a documentary about being an on-the-road rock and roll band. It's an interesting journey of self-discovery. Directed by Dave Grohl. Includes interviews with unexpected people.
Bruce has a friend named Kevin
I discovered a gem on YouTube today, and it hides much deeper treasure. Bruce & friend Kevin: Live at the Rivoli! PART 1 [45m] is two Kids who come from The Hall doing a stage show. I don't know if Part 2 will be posted, but I hope so. [more inside]
I mean, if you're going to go to the Maldives, do it in style!
THE RITZ-CARLTON MALDIVES | Phenomenal private island resort (full tour) [1h12m] is a wordless tour of the resort. You won't get any perky central casting aspiring host here; it's images and music and an extremely engineered hotel resort that is basically at one with the water. I can't afford it and am not really into oceans, but if I were and could, this could be amazing.
Stikkan
This is completely fascinating. It's the story of the biggest Swedish export to the world, told through an unexpected lens. Stig Anderson [Wikipedia] was the founder of Polar Music, was one of Sweden's most prolific songwriters, and later was entirely intertwined with ABBA. STIKKAN [2024, 1h, Swedish/multi-language with English subtitles] tells the story of his surprising life and career, and it's worth a look! [more inside]
Smartphone Pepper's Ghost
The YouTube channel Creative fest has a bunch of simple kitchen table projects, some of them little science things, some of them just fun. I was struck by their "hologram projector" projects using easy to find plastic and cell phones. The original: How To Make 3D Hologram Display with CD Cover [9m], How to make 3d Hologram Box Screen | 3d Hologram Transparent Projector [12m], More simple Way to make 3d hologram box screen [8m], How to make Transparent Hologram Screen | Hologram Projector | Easy Science Project [5m], Make a hologram projector with plastic glass cap || DIY 3D Hologram [more inside]
Notation Must Die!
Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music [1h15m] has had me fascinated and thrilled with new information since I started watching it. Even if you know nothing about musical notation, you might also find this history and evolution and dissection of those weird 🎶 fascinating.
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Old News Grey Of Whistle The Test World
An oddity that YouTube decided to share with me -- Queen, 1977, using Old Grey Whistle Test as a promotional tool for their upcoming album News Of The World. The Old Grey Whistle Test Presents Queen News Of The World [2h10m] is a lengthy look into rock and roll fame decades past.
Come to see Brian May's kitchen, stay for the lovely conversation!
I'm really not quite sure who Rosie Bennet is, but somehow she ended up sitting in Brian May's kitchen talking about all kinds of things. From fame to his astrophysics degree to AI and even a bit of music! It's a lovely gentle-voiced conversation that is one of the best musician interviews I've encountered lately! Brian May on AI, Mental Health, Fame, Plagiarism and the Internet - FRET NOT EP.2 [1h5m]
Well, here's your viewing for the week decided.
Do you like Star Wars lore? Exactly how much do you like Star Wars lore? I ask because A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and is chock full of Star Wars lore. "This is not a defence of Episode 1, nor is it an attack. The idea is a detailed, fair, and informed analysis. We'll go over the entire movie, giving credit and blame as needed."
Glitter And Doom
Back in 2008, Tom Waits went out on a tour [Wikipedia]. Not related to an album, this was a tour all about the atmosphere. "Tom Waits - Glitter And Doom Concert Experience [1h46m] is a compilation of professional footage and fan films to reconstruct an entire Tom Waits concert from his "Glitter and Doom Tour" of 2008. I used all the released soundboard audio that had footage to accompany it to make a concert film that should make a good experience of what it would have been like being in the audience." Set list in video description.
In the original book, he kills the cricket with a hammer immediately.
Pinocchio is a Story About Art and God [45m] is Jacob Geller's latest video. It draws from a great number of the popular Pinocchio depictions from the original novel to the Lies Of P. I think the title is pretty self-explanatory. I hope you watch and enjoy.
Sub Berlin : The Story Of Tresor
Sub Berlin - The Story of Tresor [1h24m, mixed language with embedded English subtitles] is a 2012 documentary about the Berlin nightclub [Wikipedia] that started before the Wall came down, and was one of the defining actors in the evolution of Techno in the early Nineties.
Getting a bit LOST in 2024
YouTuber Billiam continues his examination of television series LOST (previously, previouslier) with his new video LOST: A DEEP DIVE INTO THE UNIVERSE [6h40m]. This fourth and not final installment examines season 5, the philosophical roots of the show, ancillary material such as novels, videogames, and ARGs, and tries to untangle the time travel maze of the plot. This is a deeper dive than you're expecting, even if you've seen the previous installments, and he's finding treasures in the depths. He swears the next episode will be the last.
It's true... 1984 was 40 years ago
180 Songs That Turn 40 Years Old in 2024 [18m22s] is a cavalcade of song hooks coupled with titles. Great for making Gen X feel super old, or maybe as a reference piece for youngs who would recognize a melody but not know the title. It's a lot. I'm sorry.
I'm really not sure you can actually script this
In so funny and cute🤣!The kitten took the rooster on an outdoor trip.The happiest rooster in the world [8m11s], a cat takes a rooster on a walk down to a lakeside. I don't think you can engineer this happening. It's a cat. Once they get there, the cat begins tasting the rooster but does not horribly eat them. They seem to be friends. It's a happy video.
"how did they let Greta Gerwig make this movie"
Deconstruction is a term that has a very academic meaning but in faith circles deconstruction has a different meaning. And while this video covers a really wide range of topics that are brought up by the movie, at its center Barbie is a Deconstructionist Text [1h30m] holds forth that the destruction of previously-held personal belief systems is intrinsic to the Barbie experience. It's an in-depth look at this movie that I wasn't expecting but probably needed. [more inside]
I had enough "oh wow" moments that I just felt compelled to post
The awkwardly titled Nobody Believes But It REALLY WORKS! 15 Brilliant (+1 FREE) Chef's Secrets Work Like CRAZY Magic! is 11 minutes of things that people might find useful in the kitchen. I hadn't heard of this channel before, but apparently Websppon World has over 1M subscribers, so I'm both late to the game and the YouTube algorithm is a slacker. The different tips are chapter linked in the "more inside" part of the video description. [more inside]
Because every good marble track needs a Volcano World
BUILDING THE WORLDS BIGGEST MARBLE TRACK TO EXPLOIT THE GAME - Marble World Is Perfectly Balanced [50m] is completely entrancing. Nearly 1000 marbles begin the run, only a few will make the winner's circle, and many end up in the gutter. The Spiffing Brit has done this before [previously], but this one is even more unhinged than the first.
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Ever heard of a Googlewhack?
An artifact from a very different era of the internet, Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure is a 2004 one man show about searching two words on Google and being thrilled if only one result is returned: that's a Googlewhack. Exactly how this concept can lead to 2 hours of on-stage storytelling featuring slides and a bit of unhinged ranting in parts is an exercise I will leave up to the avid viewer. [more inside]
Well, that's quite interesting, isn't it?
Need something to put on in the background of a gathering? Not music, but not sports? Here is 5 hours of curated [by whom? no clue] QI! rounds from across its run. Guaranteed to have moments that are interesting and moments that are funny. Not sure if it will trigger your problematic drunk uncle, but everyone else should find it quite fine.
When Robert Met Barbara
I've watched a lot of these Actors On Actors videos from Variety, but none of them have felt as truly interesting to me as Cillian Murphy & Margot Robbie meeting for the first time and talking about the phenomenon that was Barbenheimer. 45m
Hardest Rug Of My Life!
There are a zillion videos like this on the internet. And even this same YouTuber has a bunch of videos labeled some variation of The Hardest Rug Ever. But this 43m epic $1 vs $100,000 Black Carpet! | The Hardest Rug of My Life! is one of those things where you wonder, is it ever going to come clean? What will it finally look like? Completely satisfying at the end, and a testament to how a truly well-made carpet can withstand nearly anything.
I continue to be thankful for Pet Shop Boys
Today Pet Shop Boys posted the last in their series of Classic Performances [YT playlist, 15 videos], a list which covers performances from 1989 [It's a sin] to 2019 [Go west] and many in between. [more inside]
Cats wedged into YouTube, I don't know how or why
The YouTube channel catw is full of videos under 10 minutes in length that are compilations of cell phone videos of cats being cats. Cats did what they shouldn't do [8m25s], I wish cats were real [10m], and Why you should have a cat [7m30s] were all posted in the past month, but there are only 21 total so far.
Decrypting the Secret Hieroglyphs: the Pyramid of Pepi II
Decoding Saqqara, the Secret Hieroglyphs of the Pyramids [50m] is a documentary that sort of takes its time. It starts with describing Egypt and pyramids, and then various burial sites, and then it gets into its meat. Cutting edge technology that are used to create views of the necropolis and many other technologies including a lot of human effort, and suddenly they're rebuilding a wall destroyed millennia ago and reading the text off of it. It's a pretty astounding use of technology to recover lost history.
Lewis Black Halloween Supercut
Lewis Black | Halloween Supercut [13m] is Lewis Black's own YouTube channel being very very Lewis Black about issues related to Halloween. If you need someone to rant amusingly for a while so you can feel better about the rants you have in your own mind, here's what you need.
*gutteral groaning noise*
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster [1h40m] is a 2021 documentary biography about the British actor who embodied so many monsters across his prolific career on screen and stage.
Getting a little more LOST
Over a year ago, YouTuber Billiam posted the second of his examinations of the television series LOST, and we discussed it here. Well, we now have the third [and not final] installment LOST Was Insane During The Writers' Strike which at a tight 3h30m summarizes the eight episodes that were aired around the 2007 WGA strike. Billiam promises the final installment will come shortly.