Get Your Dance On

This video makes me happy -- and love human beings. We are pretty amazing creatures. Silly, but wonderful.

On People Movers

I flew into SFO today. Tom and I rode the people mover to the rental car center after I claimed my suitcase.



Watch this while listening to the song by Servotron. It'll be a kick!

(If the video's not ready now, it will be soon.)

The City As Video Game

Jim Munroe's promotional video for the video game N makes me want to go outside and run around.

It's like parkour crossed with Pac Manhattan.

Burn to Shine: Seattle

I can think of few better ways to spend a welcome, sunny but cold Saturday afternoon than watching the fifth DVD in the Burn to Shine series. Produced by Brendan Canty and Christoph Green, the series is impressive on multiple levels. One, each edition meets the needs of the best mix tape or compilation record: They turn you on to great new music, while including and introducing some elements you might not seek out on your own. Two, it's a fun concept: Gather a bunch of local musicians who represent a given scene in a certain state in time, and film them in a house that's about to be destroyed; then film the demolition. And three, visually and musically, the DVDs show a love and care for music that's not precious or protective; they're pure celebration.

Thanks to Deb, who turned me on to a previous edition, I ordered the Seattle DVD, which was recorded on Jan. 27, 2007. There's nothing on here that's bad, and what's good is great. I especially appreciated the performances by Harvey Danger, Dave Bazan, Benjamin Gibbard (who organized the musicians who performed), and the Long Winters. I was a little surprised by how much I enjoyed the Eddie Vedder selection, and it was really Gibbard who emerged as my favorite. He's a songwriter and performer to follow.

This is a wonderful project -- elegant in its simplicity and beautiful in its execution... if not sheer existence.

Video Game Warden

This video is a little long at five minutes but still made me smile several times.



My Animated World - video powered by Metacafe

While the life as video game aspect is intriguing, the ambient sound as life soundtrack is even more interesting. What would life be like if there were mood music to match happenstance?

Video-A-Go-Go-Away XII

Iron Feather Journal Presents:

Commodore 64 Cracker Screens Video

100+ minutes, audio + video =
of cracker intro screens, phreak toolz and demos
from the C-64 underground of 1980's and early 90's

Produced by Towne Club (c)2003 by Iron Feather
Iron Feather Journal POB 1905, Boulder, Colorado, 80306

www.ironfeather.com
www.globalgoodys.com

Video-A-Go-Go-Away XI

Cigarette Commercials
from the Golden Age of Television

Something Weird Video

VHS

Synopsis

Cigarette Commercials from the Golden Age of Television

There was a time when it was A-o.k. to have cigarette advertising on television, and here's some of those old commercials that should satisfy that nicotine craving for at least an hour!

You get these brands and many more: Old Gold, Muriel, Marlboro, Kool, Camels, Kents, Winstons, Newports, Tareytons, & Salems. #5236

Package, Design, Summary 1996
Something Weird Video
All Rights Reserved
Recorded in SP mode on high-quality tape
For a complete catalog send $5 to:
SWV CATALOG
PO Box 33664 Seattle, WA 98133
Please state with signature that you are 18 or older!

7 60513 52363 1

Video-A-Go-Go-Away X

Something Weird Video

Teen-Age Schlock Trailers

#14

"Previews of coming attractions"

VHS

Rock All Night
The Cool and the Crazy
Hot Car Girl
Young and Wild
Hot Rod Gang
High School Hellcats
Go, Johnny, Go!
Manbait
Because They're Young
The Choppers
Ride the Wild Surf
Racing Fever
Having a Wild Weekend
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Go-Go Mania
Beach Ball
Winter A-Go-Go
Teenage Gang Debs
Girls on the Beach
Riot on Sunset Strip
Wild in the Streets
The Love-Ins
Let It Be
Woodstock

Reform School
Hey, Let's Twist!
Born Reckless
Senior Prom
Rockabilly Baby
Cry Baby Killer
Going Steady
Live Fast, Die Young
Unwed Mother
Life Begins at 17
Blackboard Jungle
Joy Ride
Sorority Girl
Teen-Age Monster
Speed Crazy
Too Soon to Love
Beatniks
Gidget
Beach Party
Bikini Beach
Muscle Beach Party
Pajama Party
Ski Party
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Dragstrip Girl

Package, Design, Summary 1996
Something Weird Video
All Rights Reserved
Recorded in SP mode on high-quality tape
For a complete catalog send $5 to:
SWV CATALOG
PO Box 33664 Seattle, WA 98133
Please state with signature that you are 18 or older!

7 6051 3 49303 3

Video-A-Go-Go-Away VIII

The Best of Flipside Video
#1
Live!
Circle Jerks
Bad Religion
(New Improved Re-release)

VHS
H-Fi
60 mins.

Live in L.A./1984!

Bad Religion:

Damned to Be Free*
Along the Way/Frogger*
Drastic Action
Fuck Armageddon/New Leaf
Bad Religion/Politics
Voice of God Is Government
Latch Key Kids/Slaves

Circle Jerks:

I Just Want Some Skank
Beverly Hills/Operation
Leave Me Alone/Coup d'Etat*
Junk Mail/Stars and Stripes*
Behind the Door
Wild in the Streets*
Red Tape/Wasted
Backs Against the Wall
Question Authority
Political Stu
Letter Bomb/In Your Eyes
Murder the Disturbed
Under the Gun
When the Shit Hits the Fan*
Parade of the Horribles
I Don't Care/Live Fast Die Young
Put a Little Love in Your Heart*

(*Not included on previous release)

All rights reserved. Copyright 1995 Flipside Video. Made in USA!

Send S.A.S.E. for a catalog of videos, CDs, mags, etc.

Flipside, POB 60790
Pasadena, CA 91116

Video-A-Go-Go-Away VII

Trolleys of New England
Volume Two
Southern New England

Trolleys in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
From films taken between 1936 and 1962

A Production of the
Seashore Trolley Museum

63 Minutes
B/W & Color

This video presents many of the trolley lines that ran in southern New England during the 1930s.

We start at New Haven, Connecticut to see the open cars in Yale Bowl Service in the 1930s. We head north to Hartford to see trolley operations in the capital city before conversion to buses in 1941. Check out an unusual freight move on the Glastonbury line. We also stop in New Britain in 1937 for the last day of streetcar operations.

We proceed north into Massachusetts for visits to Springfield, Worcester, Boston and New Bedford. We also see operations of the American Car Sprinkler Company, the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, the Grafton and Upton Railroad and the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway.

We then pay a brief visit to Providence, Rhode Island for a look at trolley operations there in the 1930s.

This video features black & white and color film in 8 and 16 mm., accompanied by music and narration.

This program runs for approximately 63 minutes.

This program is produced for the New England Electric Railway Historical Society Inc., owner and operator of the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.

(c) 2000, NEERHS, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
No portion of this program may be used without the expressed written permission of the NEERHS.

For information on the Seashore Trolley Museum or our other video titles, please write to the Seashore Trolley Museum, P.O. Box A, Kennebunkport, ME 04046-1690, or telephone the Museum at (207) 967-2712. On the Web visit www.trolleymuseum.org

$24.95

Video-A-Go-Go-Away VI

Teenage A Go-Go

Teenage related television show openings/closings, clips & commercials from the 60's and early 70's.

Hullabaloo (Brylcream)
Rice Krispies (Partridge Family)
Cover Girl (Susan Dey)
Ultra-Bright (Farrah)
Kool-Aid (Monkees)
Happening '69 (Cover Girl)
Beech-Nut Gum (Four Seasons)
Summer Blonde
Code 10
Secret Agent (Pillsbury)
Score
Old Spice
Groom & Clean
American Bandstand '64
7-Up
QT
Clark's Teaberry Gum
Tammy
Margie
Karen (Coke)
Gidget
Patty Duke Show (Breck)
Raisin Bran (Pixie, Dixie & Mr. Jinx)
Ipana
Where The Action Is (Bit-O-Honey)
Twister
Great Shakes
Pepsi
Intermission
Pepsi
Vespa Motor Scooters
Coke
Sprite
Intermission
Hollywood A Go-Go
Ultra-Bright
Funyuns
English Leather
Shivaree
Rice Krispies (Monkees)
Ultra-Bright (Maud Adams)
Swingin' Together
Breck Shampoo (Patty Duke)
Cover Girl (Dorothea McGowan)
Monkees (Kellogg's)
Slickers
Eyelighter
Shindig! (Str-dex)
Sea & Ski
Something Else (American Dairy)
Wildroot
Where The Action Is (Closing)

Running Time: 1 hour

I think I got mine from Cool Stuff Toys and Videos.

Video-A-Go-Go-Away V

Dame Darcy
The celebrated artiste is now appearing in
Turn of the Century
May we suggest you attend?

The House of Luxury

Join Meatcake cartoonist Dame Darcy at the strangest variety show of all time on Turn of the Century. With ghosts, frying feet, crooners, doppelgangers, and cryptic film making, this cult hit program from late night NYC will pull your leg and twist your mind with its delirious vision of Victorianism run amok. Turn of the Century is relentlessly bizarre -- and relentlessly fun!

"Dame Darcy -- (her) Turn of the Century obsessions make her the cutest and cuddliest corpse that's ever walked the earth." NY Press

A Thrilling spectacle direct from Gotham!
You must be witness to this fracas!

Dame Darcy

reputed scion of the assassin booth
and artiste long associated
with the comic series

Meatcake

now starring in an amusing program of
high stepping action you will not forget!

Hi Jink

of a most extraordinary nature via that
marvel of today ie television!

Cartoons

suitable for both gents and the ladies
no touts or rough sports need attend!
Miss her feats and friends at your own

Peril!

See the dolls living and otherwise!
For those with a taste for fancy goods
A non pareil of song, burlesque and mayhem
from the latenight NYC variety show
"Turn of the Century"!

Will you dare too look?

Running time: 90 minutes
(c) 1997 Dame Darcy
Produced by Blessed Elysium
Published by The House of Luxury
Manufactured in the U.S.A.
Cover Photo: Rustyn Birch
Package Creative: Devon!
Package Production: Amy Hayes
For quantity discounts contact:
The House of Luxury,
Box 763. Lyons, CO 80540
To order single copies send
$21.95 to: Dame Darcy, Box 730,
New York, NY 10009

ISBN: 1-56455-2756

Handwritten on tape shell:

Turn of the Century
"Best of"
Vol. 1 & 2
Dame Darcy (c) 1997

Video-A-Go-Go-Away IV

A film but Alistair Banks Griffin and Sean Sullivan

Dear Julia,

A darkly comic tale of a man standing on the edge of sanity...

VHS

Boyd Soloman (Christian De Rezendes) believes he can fly and is eight floors above a street intending to prove it. Based on the highly acclaimed graphic novel by Brian Biggs, "Dear Julia," is the story of how he got there. Boyd's vivid memory of the past and shaky comprehension of the present give clues to the events that lead him to the edge: his childhood, his parents, and a particular trip to the country where everything began to go terribly awry.

An Influence Machine production
in association with Top Shelf Productions
present Dear Julia,
staring Christian De Rezendes, John Los Michael Grando
based on the original graphic novel by Brian Biggs
produced by Sean Sullivan and Alistair Banks Griffin
directed by Alistair Banks Griffin

(c) 2001 Influence Machine Productions. All rights reserved. Art and design copyright (c) 2001. Influence Machine Productions, 248 McKibbin St. #1G, Brooklyn, NY 11206. email:agriffin90@hotmail.com

Video-A-Go-Go-Away III

Atomic TV Vol. 2
A media maxi-pad absorbing the continual flow of pop culture

A Tom Warner/Scott Huffines Production
"Best Worst TV... One of the most disturbed wee-hours offerings on Baltimore City's cable-access channel... in-your-shocked-face amateurism is what Atomic TV is all about!" -- Baltimore City Paper

Episode #3
The "Viewer Discretion Is Strongly Advised" Episode

If you are easily offended, don't watch this episode that's hosted by Todd Stachowski, Rock Star and his lovely lady Gina, taped in the men's room at a Heavy Metal bar... Enjoy "Making Art with Tape," by filmmaker Lee Boot... See highlights from the blaxploitation film career of The Man Called Dolemite, Rudy Ray Moore... Musical appearances by the thought-provoking (well... at least provoking) Rock Stars, Baltimore's lamented, late-great purveyors of punk-pop, Berserk, and reigning bargain-bin masters of melodious moxie, Garage Sale. (60 min.)

Episode #4
"Videoscramble"

A Videoscrambled omelette... Ham-fisted and extra-cheesy bits and pieces from the Atomic TV Archives... easy on the eyes like the picture menu at Denny's, and just as intellectually filling, passing through you as easy as the liquid bowel movement you have after a greasy spoon breakfast with extra onions. Watch vintage retro kids commercials, celebrity pitchmen Liberace and Jack Webb, General Motors' dream of a mechanized utopia, short film work from local artiste Bump Stadelman, trains-planes-automobiles and ammo-blammo boy toys, incredibly strange music videos, strippers, white trash karaoke rituals, and more! (60 min.)

Atomic Books
Literary Finds for Mutated Minds

1018 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
atomicbk@atomicbooks.com
http://www.atomicbooks.com

Video-A-Go-Go-Away II

Atomic TV Vol. 1
A media maxi-pad absorbing the continual flow of pop culture

Episode #1
The Grape Ape Episode

This episode's better than the titillating touch of a doting Doberman's tongue... You'll meet Grape Ape, a hippie burnout who survived an atomic blast to become the Magilla Gorilla of rock and roll... Do the Scoliosis Dance... Learn Good Posture Habits... Dip into the tasty hip-hop aural treats of Japanese musical duo Cibo Matto... Surrender to local heart-throbs, The Put-Outs, in their "Sky Is Falling" video... And, as always, thrill to our classic "It's Intermission Time" snackbar ads and "Coming Attractions" trailers and retro commercials... (60 min.)

Episode #2
Jim Rose Circus Sideshow

We interviewed Jim Rose and filmed highlights of his latest freakshow -- Mexican Transvestite Wrestlers, Sumo Wrasslin' She-Babes, The Enigma, Mr. Lifto, The Armenian Rubber Man... See 60s strippers shaking their shag-a-delic money-makers!... See Pouty Beatniks sulk to John Barry jazz riffs... See the Archies cover the Sex Pistols... Lezzie Lick Flick Movie Trailers!... Skizz Cyzyk's animated short My Little Pickle Love Song... Plus, we'll throw in our buxotic go-go Disclaimer Girl, Mychelle! (60 min.)

Atomic Books
Literary Finds for Mutated Minds

1018 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
atomicbk@atomicbooks.com
http://www.atomicbooks.com

Video-A-Go-Go-Away

Using my new Sony Disc Burner, I'm recording old VHS tapes to DVD for personal archival use. This series of posts will document the tapes I'm transferring.

The Best of Flipside Video #5
Seven Seconds
Youth Brigade
Live!

Youth Brigade

Sink with California
Boys in the Brigade
Violence
Fight to Unite
Men in Blue
Sound & Fury
Did You Wanna Die
What're You Fighting For
You Don't Understand

Seven Seconds

Choice
Fuck Your America
Drug Control
Anti-Klan
Out of Touch
Young Til I Die
In Your Face
Regress, No Way!
99 Red Balloons
Bottomless Pit
Out of Touch
Spread It
Fight Against the Lies
Not Just Boys Fun
Put These Words to Music
How D'ya Think You'd Feel?
Colorblind
New Wind
Fight or Unite

Live in L.A.!
VHS
Hi-Fi
60 mins.

Send S.A.S.E. for catalog of videos, CDs, mags, etc.
Flipside, POB 60790
Pasadena, CA 91116

7 59528 30173 0

Music Video-A-Go-Go: Spoilsport

My friend Craig told me about this video last fall. I'm just now seeing that email during my Gmail spring cleaning. It's good! Check it out.



To learn more about the band, go here.

Video Cuties

This is one of my favorite videos in recent days.






Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo