Hate it when this happens… a funny/interesting/scary/cool pic catches my attention as I’m cruising through the ‘tubes, I download the picture to post later (I prefer not to scrape bandwidth when possible) but I forget to bookmark where I found it in the first place. Weeks or months go by, my “Pics2Post” file builds up, eventually I remember to share my bounty with you and…… crap. I hate not being able to give credit where it’s due.
If anyone knows who’s work these are, please let me know and I’ll update the post.
Batman, meet Prince’s dirty mind. Prince’s dirty mind, meet Batman. I’m sure you’ll have a lot to talk about! Man, try to imagine modern-day Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan turning over the soundtrack for their ponderous Batman Begins to, I dunno, OutKast and you’ll have some idea of how freaking crazy it is that this song and video ever even happened. Torn between his brother-in-mononymhood Batman and his fellow purple enthusiast the Joker, Prince created a hybrid character called Gemini, who presides over a berserk interpretive dance involving women in batsuits, a parade of Vicki Vales led by a woman in a shirt reading “ALL THIS AND BRAINS TOO ” (an homage to Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns!), cheeky references to the ’60s TV-show theme that still have over-serious Bat-fans sputtering with fury, collage-style lyrics culled from all of Prince’s other Batman soundtrack songs, and a fucking vicious guitar solo. The end result is a ballsy slab of industrial-dance-funk-rock-madness that proves superhero soundtrack music doesn’t have to be kid-tested and mother-approved.
Once again, it took me months to finally try, and about 10 seconds to fall in love with it. I only have so much time in the day to waste on bull-$#!t self-aggrandizement, what’s next??
I love these Improv Everywhere people… huge-scale, amazing, public displays of unexpected craziness. All harmless, fun, and good-spirited. There’s enough prank-type shows out there that are all about embarrassing people, uncomfortable and awkward situations. Just never been my particular brand of funny.
These guys though, right up my alley. I just might have to see what I can do about a “scene” or two here in the River City!
A Finnish new-wave band… called The Leningrad Cowboys… backed up by the Soviet Red Army Choir… singing “Sweet Home Alabama“…
Yes.
I don’t know when this concert was held, but I really hope it was in cold war times because I would have to give serious credit to this geo-political anachronism for knocking down the Berlin Wall by sheer force of irony alone.
I wonder if the choir singers knew what they were singing, or if they were just following along phonetically.
May 9, 2008 at 7:31pm
by Mike 
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