New at Reason
A fun feature for the new year: Reasonoids pick their favorite videos of 2007. (Updated throughout the day.)
Comments to "New at Reason":
Bingo | January 1, 2008, 12:59pm | #
My personal favoriteGay Duck in a plot to kill Borat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dhS2zXyfck
Andrew | January 1, 2008, 1:15pm | #
Not new by any means, but new to me this year: Vanilla Fudge peforming "You Keep Me Hangin' On" live in 1968. You know the music is going to be good when there are psychedelic projections in the background and multiple Marshall stacks.Gene Trosper | January 1, 2008, 1:39pm | #
Andrew: that is the best Vanilla Fudge video I have ever seen, aside from their video for Shotgun.Gene Trosper | January 1, 2008, 1:40pm | #
By the way: Vanilla Fudge is scheduled to tour in 2008, as well as Blue Cheer!Gene Trosper | January 1, 2008, 1:45pm | #
For me, the best video of 2007 is a trailer for the upcoming documentary Orange Sunshine. It's about the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.Rimfax | January 1, 2008, 2:27pm | #
I can't help being a shill for Big Wiki™, but how about the commenters compiling a companion list here.Daily Kos is a Reasonoid? Did an alternate universe coalesce sometime around midnight?
Katherine wins the thread, I'd seen that St Hill vid before, but man, it is just great.
TWC | January 1, 2008, 3:45pm | #
Rimfax, that's cool.Two nominations, both new to me in 2007.
BB King, Clapton, Jimmy Vaughn, and Buddy Guy do Rock Me Baby
Bonus: the Blasters do Roll 'em, Pete in 1982. This is truly a gem--recorded from the Uncle Floyd show on UHF back in the olden days.
And, of course The Wine Commonsewer theme song: Bloomfield and company (Electric Flag) do Drinkin' Wine live at Altamont in '68. Stellar performance even with one non-functional mike.
Brian Sorgatz | January 1, 2008, 3:54pm | #
If you want comedy rather than music, you can't beat the complete, unabridged fight sequences of Peter Griffin versus the chicken on Family Guy. This particular YouTube is so well crafted that you even get the "prequel" that explains the reason the chicken passed Peter the bad coupon to begin with.Rimfax, does the Wiki page automatically update from this page or do I need to physically log in and edit? Thanks.
ed | January 1, 2008, 4:05pm | #
the cartoon world of Second LifeBut, in all fairness, isn't all of this Hit & Run commentary "cartoonish"? Let's start the new year with a bit of honesty, shall we? Aren't we all, still, at this point, merely circle jerkers?
TLB | January 1, 2008, 4:06pm | #
Kos?My favorite videos are the ones I made. Funkier ones I made here. Another one I made for another one of my profiles is here:
youtube.com/watch?v=sbDG4pxLmWM
It's not that visible, but part of that has some nasty drop-offs on the right.
This one's pretty good:
youtube.com/watch?v=6lbvSBNLLoo
This one's so very, very bad I've only managed to make it through partway a few times:
youtube.com/watch?v=FONt47Z0KZg
This one from the early 90s is very good, as is this one from '87 or so:
youtube.com/watch?v=CPhRhCkOB8A
Randolph Carter | January 1, 2008, 4:07pm | #
the only way that Mia Farrow video could have been funnier would be if a bunch of 4chan types had bum rushed the event with dancing bears and Mario Brothers blocks.Never mind, I figured it out. Probably the slow and clumsy way, but I edited your Wiki page. :-)
Thank you Jesse Walker for making me feel less weird about how much I love that Gravel video.
TLB, isn't Markos Moulitsas the Daily Kos? I'm pretty sure but I could be wrong. Maybe I should check.
Gene Trosper | January 1, 2008, 4:27pm | #
Not to nick pits, TWC, but that performance was Saturday, June 17th 1967 at Monterey Fairgrounds.Earlier that day was Country Joe & The Fish. Here is their performance of Section 43. Groovy, man!
Sorry, I'm a geek for those old rock festivals. Monterey was peaceful and innocent compared to Altamont, which was scary beyond belief:
The Flying Burrito Brothers -- Six Days On The Road.
Jefferson Airplane -- The Other Side of This Life.
TWC | January 1, 2008, 4:29pm | #
Correction:.....Bloomfield and company (Electric Flag) do Drinkin' Wine live at
TWC | January 1, 2008, 4:30pm | #
Gene, that's a great Burritos tune. Now THAT was at Altamont.I think we should have a contest to name the best recording of SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD.
Didja see the comment on the Country Joe vid about all the hot women? Smirks and sez, yeah, no duh.
Gene Trosper | January 1, 2008, 4:53pm | #
I think we should have a contest to name the best recording of SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD.I wish the New Riders Of The Purple Sage recorded a version. I heard them in concert many years ago and they played that tune.
Who Cares? | January 1, 2008, 5:58pm | #
This must be "Post if you're 17 or younger" day.JLM | January 1, 2008, 6:10pm | #
Warty,"Fuck, Tool is awesome. Maynard for President."
I'm not sure what you're talking about (was there a Tool video linked previously?), but did you see this? Very funny. Maynard's latest project...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BY5in8JY0ao
And WTF is Moulitsas doing in that list? Is the "I don't know what the hell libertarian means, but it sounds cool so I adopted the label for myself" crowd now considered friends of Reason? Where is Bill Maher's entry?
NP | January 1, 2008, 6:24pm | #
It's New Year's and this is the best Reason can come up with? Pathetic and disappointing, I must say.Warty | January 1, 2008, 6:29pm | #
JLM:Magnificence piled on top of awesomeness. The coolest thing about Puscifer may be that Milla Jovovich guests on the album.
Tool came up because the second video was the Lateralus Fibonacci series video: here
el profesor erótico | January 1, 2008, 6:33pm | #
For some reason, I have to keep watching this:http://www.cyriak.co.uk/moo.html
I suppose that makes it my favorite for the year.
Ken | January 1, 2008, 6:43pm | #
Not new by any means, but new to me this year: Vanilla Fudge peforming "You Keep Me Hangin' On" live in 1968. You know the music is going to be good when there are psychedelic projections in the background and multiple Marshall stacks.You pedestrian feeb. Don't you know that crap is the McDonald's of music?
Andrew | January 1, 2008, 6:52pm | #
You pedestrian feeb. Don't you know that crap is the McDonald's of music?McDonald's is selling CDs now?
Ken | January 1, 2008, 6:57pm | #
McDonald's is selling CDs now?Go here to read about me letting the hoi polloi have it for daring to listen to crap and call it "music."
JLM | January 1, 2008, 7:06pm | #
Warty,Yes, I guess I should have rtfa, instead of skimmed through it...and watched the videos.
Andrew | January 1, 2008, 7:44pm | #
Go here to read about me letting the hoi polloi have it for daring to listen to crap and call it "music."No thanks. I'm not big on foreign food.
NP | January 1, 2008, 8:28pm | #
Go here to read about me letting the hoi polloi have it for daring to listen to crap and call it "music."Haha. Ken, I actually wrote another lengthy response to your response and it looks like you haven't read it yet. Do check it out; maybe it can change your attitude towards pop music a little.
NP | January 1, 2008, 8:47pm | #
For those who are interested, I defended pop/rock from the snobby classical establishment here (same thread, earlier post).Pig Mannix | January 1, 2008, 10:36pm | #
I wish I could say my favorite video of the year was the one of Eric Dondero getting kicked in the nuts. Unfortunately, it hasn't been made yet. I remain optimistic!If everyone else is gonna post old stuff, so am I...
oi vei | January 1, 2008, 10:55pm | #
the hoi polloi? My teeth hurt.Jim Anderson | January 1, 2008, 11:59pm | #
This, by far, is the worst video of the year. Do not watch it.OlderStuff | January 2, 2008, 12:17am | #
If everyone else is gonna post old stuff, so am I...Fiield Musicians of the Civil War
The Wine Commonsewer | January 2, 2008, 2:05am | #
Pig, you are the man.While I'm listening The boy walks up and says....
Dad, what's a nervous breakdown?
TWC: That's when you go crazy.
The Boy: You mean like Aunt Colleen?
TWC: Yep, and she ain't the only one.
The Boy: Huh?
TWC: Yep, half my side of the family are bat crazy. Four generations. I dunno. Maybe genetic.
The Boy: Are you going to go crazy dad?
Mrs TWC: Your dad has really bad judgement. Go to sleep.
TWC: I ain't crazy.
TWC: If I was going crazy that woulda happend long ago.
Pro Libertate | January 2, 2008, 8:50am | #
All heil das Techno Viking.Ken | January 2, 2008, 9:19am | #
Oi Vei:From the Wikipedia entry on "hoi polloi;"
"...In idiomatic English, it is no more redundant to say "the hoi polloi" than it is to say "the rabble," and most writers who use the term continue to precede it with *the* ...[13]."
If you're going to be a grammar snob at least know what you're talking about, 'k? Now excuse me, I've got to go fap to Jackson Pollock's No. 5.
oi vei | January 2, 2008, 10:13am | #
As soon as redundancy admits of degrees, I'll tow my kow to the very unique Wikipederast. But thank you for showing me the rabble's current orthodoxy.Kisses.
Warty | January 2, 2008, 10:19am | #
WikipederastDid you mean Wikipedant? Wikipederast is an awesome coinage in any case, though.
oi vei | January 2, 2008, 10:27am | #
No; -pederast, as in shameless, howsoever sincere, corruption of the innocent.Gene Trosper | January 2, 2008, 10:49am | #
This, by far, is the worst video of the year. Do not watch it.Nooooooooo.
That is NOT the worst video of the year by far. You want the worst? Really?
Google "2 girls, 1 cup".
I am NOT even going to post a link to it. If you dare watch it, you do so at your own risk.
Ken | January 2, 2008, 11:33am | #
Oi Vei:It's not redundant in any degree. I guess that's difficult to admit when you have THE EL NIÑO crammed up your rosewater-smelling patootie, but the hoi polloi in this case are correct.
But say it however you want if it makes you feel better, which by your definition is probably "at all times and in all ways superior to the hoi polloi."
PS: C WUT I DID THAR?
Mr. F. Le Mur | January 2, 2008, 11:59am | #
Fred McDowell - Goin Down to the RiverFirst person police chase
oi vei | January 2, 2008, 12:03pm | #
"...In idiomatic English, it is no more redundant" - WikipatuiMore kisses!
oi vei | January 2, 2008, 12:10pm | #
And since you're unable even to spell my name correctly, I leave you now.Respectfully submitted.
Nate | January 5, 2008, 3:42pm | #
I think the Mia Farrow comments were equal parts unfair speculation and unnecessary cynicism. The fact that a concerned person speaks from the heart about the humanity of the situation does not imply at all vain egotism, but your nasty critique does. After the first speaker established the basic political situation, what Mia said, as well as her intentions, are perfectly acceptable and seem to come from genuine compassion. It's nice to see some wealthy people and/or celebrities to spend their free time trying to help rather than seeing how much they can lavish upon themselves before they die, which is probably what you would do in her position, due to your obvious preoccupation with self-awareness.However, they were all nice videos, so thanks for sharing. Hostility invites more of the same, so I should think you would predict the sort of reaction I've just given you... as I expect more of the same (which is why I won't be bothering to read them).
Happy new year.