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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Burn stuff!



Thursday, October 05, 2006  

Burn stuff!


Sorry about the lack of posts lately, but I've been painfully busy with real life stuff and lots of non-Internet writing that I can't talk about just yet. At any rate, I happened over something very cool this evening that I wanted to share.

I had one of those "remember an old song you haven't heard in 10 years" moments tonight, as the chorus to that, "let the motherfucker burn, burn motherfucker, burn" song sunk its withered hooks into my parietal lobe and would not be dislodged. So I did what anyone would; I googled the lyrics to see what long-forgotten novelty band recorded it, found it was the Bloodhound Gang, and headed to YouTube, where I immediately found 50 uploaded verions of the song, most of them from Mtv and therefore gelded by censorship. Happily, there were plenty of user versions chock full of profanity, just like mom used to bake them, and the first one I clicked was this one.

I didn't expect to watch the video, just listen to the song with that browser window minimized, but I did, and not only did I watch it, I sat riveted and without blinking through the entire 4:49. It's a compilation video of short movies from MicrowaveCam.com, a site I can't believe I had never before visited. Their premise is simple, and if you're like most young men you're probably already giggling with glee as you wait for me to that yes, they stick stuff in microwave ovens and film it blowing up.

The lightbulbs and aluminum foil are fun, I now know how to destroy a CD beyond any hope of reconstruction, and it's nice to see that grapes really do send up ball lighting when nuked. My favorite? It comes at around 2:05 in the video. I'll let you discover it for yourself, but my thought while watching was, "It's like the pet store window in Auschwitz!"

If you're worried, no, of course they don't nuke anything alive. Just lots of mustard packets and oreo cookies and cds and bars and soap and such; usually with pretty spectacular and often surprising results.

As for my original purpose, to flush the song from my head? It worked nicely. I only remembered the chorus, and had forgotten how slow and annoyingly Beck-wannabe all the laconic witty white boy rap verses were, and about half a listen was more than enough to cleanse me, like a sorbet between courses.

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Hate that song. Although I'm embarrassed to admit that as soon as you said the lyrics, my brain immediately registered "Bloodhound Gang."


 

ahaha...I love what happens to soap when they nuke it.


 

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