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Underwear Goes Inside the Pants

The video for the song (in this week’s HV hour) with comedian Greg Giraldo and musicians Lazyboy, from their 2004 CD TV, “Underwear Goes Inside the Pants:”

Hulu

Had to check out Hulu.com after reading about it. It’s kind of like YouTube Pro. Given that they’re doing limited commercials and putting things on there that people actually want to watch without being hunched over the screen, the TV industry might avoid the RIAA’s fate. The video quality is pretty good. At full-screen, I could sit back six feet and it looked fine. Want to watch Saturday Night Live clips or full-length The Simpsons or whole movies like “The Big Lebowski” or “The Usual Suspects.” Hulu is “joint venture owned by NBC Universal and News Corp [Fox]:”

Hulu offers U.S. consumers a vast selection of premium video content, on demand, free and ad-supported: full episodes of TV shows, both current and classic, full-length movies, thousands of clips, and much more.

There’s also short films, like from the Sundance series The Art of Seduction, “Not Pretty, Really:”

My Name is Lisa

It’s already had 1.7M views and was the YouTube 2007 Best Short Film, but I hadn’t seen it so maybe you haven’t either. If you know someone who has… well, you’ll see, “My Name is Lisa:”

Godfather and Tenor

James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) and Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 — September 6, 2007) perform live on stage in Modena, Italy on May 28, 2002, “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World:”

McLaughlin Groove

PRI’s Fair Game asked Andrew W. K. to write a rocker based on words from TV’s shout-fest The McLaughlin Group, “The McLaughlin Groove” (0:47 mp3):

“The next man on the moon will be Chinese.” Who know the pundit was a poet?

Gotta say, tho, Msr. W.K. has fallen mightily in subject-matter, reduced to covering shlock like TV’s punditocracy; especially considering his previous high-culture accomplishments, not least of which is Jackass’s “We Want Fun:”

via Current.

2008 US Prez- Winner Announced

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early:

Like Hope

In response to will.i.am’s obama-nation, here’s john.he.is with a viral video response, “McCain 08, Like Hope But Different:”

yet again, via Puddles of Thought.

Movement Soul- video

In 1963-4 two Atlanta residents collected live recordings at freedom movement events in the deep south, mass meetings, sermons, rallies, interviews. Their collection, now at the Library of Congress, is called “Movement Soul.” This interview is with one of the recordists, David Baker; slideshow sequenced by Max Darham. “Movement Soul: Civil Rights- Live:”

Antonioni Explodes

Bombs become the beat in this final scene of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film “Zabriskie Point”. Music by Pink Floyd:

rx- MLK (rise again)

For Black History Month here’s Rev Dr MLK, Jr, backed with a music mix by rx, one of the best pol cut-up artists out there. “MLK (rise again)” (9:57 mp3):

rx seems also to be a Mike Gravel supporter. Here’s one of his videos, “power to the people vs give peace a chance:”

Yes, We Can

If you’ve the overwhelming desire to have pretty celebrities tell ya who to vote for, watch this well-done politimusic video Mr Dippy (aka, Black-Eyed Pea’s will.i.am). He calls it “Yes, We Can.” I call it an obama-nation.

via the Program Doctor.

JerryTime

Its JerryTime! True tales from the life of Jerry is an Emmy awarded webseries by Jerry and Orrin Zucker. These animated videos are fictionalized stories of real events from the life of Jerry.

His latest “B Train Blues” is a musical journey with help from sound designer David Grimes.

Rock the Junta

An audio slideshow about the Burmese political rock band, Iron Cross. Photos, text and audio by Scott Carrier (from his HV/NPR story); music by Iron Cross; slideshow sequenced by Max Darham. “Rock the Junta: Iron Cross- Burma:”

Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard spent a decade researching where our consumer stuff comes from, how its made, who it effects, and where it ends up. Among the results is a 20min. video, The Story of Stuff (also in chapters on YouTube), made by Free Range Studios, the same folk who exposed The Meatrix.

via Puddles of Thought.

Cage- Speech

From the PBS American Masters doc, “I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It” (1990), John Cage prepares for a 1982 performance his 1955 composition for twirling radio dials, “Speech:”

Willy Vlautin- Northline

A new video for a new book by Willy Vlautin (sing/song/git for the band Richmond Fontaine). WV’s first book, The Motel Life, had critics shedding streams of shimmering ink. Northline is his new novel:

Vegetable Orchestra

The Vegetable Orchestra “performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos:”
via Mountain Music Project.

Supreme Evil Vid- GHP

Mashups were first conjured millennia ago. Upon their initial public hearing, the people arose as one shouting “WTF?” and “Cut-teth thee shite.”

These forced couplings of different races of songs and styles were deemed unholy alliances. Moses requested “Thou Shalt Not Mashup” as an Eleventh Commandment, but G-d felt the tablets were already crowded. So due to design concerns, mashups persisted thru the ages, reviled, outcast, and living only in the dark places: teenagers’ harddrives and eclectic radio playlists.

Until recently. Now a new threat has emerged. Mashups have crawled out of their audio underworlds and slithered into the video realm. Witness, friends, how the hour is again at hand for G-d to consider an anti-mashup memo. From Mark Vidler’s Go Home Productions “Supreme Evil” (ELO vs Diana Ross & Supremes):

The audio– GHP “Supreme Evil” (3:05 mp3):

Xmas Light Shows

Christmas in Frisco Square 2007 Light Show:
Jeff Trykoski‘s 65,000 computer-controlled music-synced lights are in Frisco, TX. The music is broadcast to passing vehicles over a low-power FM transmitter. More xmas moving lights after the jump. More…

Bolly Words

Turns out all those Bollywood dance videos were in English all along. You just haven’t been listening close enuf to the lyrics. YouTuber- buffalax trascribed for us this “Crazy Indian Video… Buffalaxed!”:
“Have you been high today?”