Video Digest: March 16, 2007
Scary clowns: the Christian clown training video; scary dancing clown, Crispin “Hellion” Glover’s “Clowny Clown Clown”; Anna Nicole Smith at home; the clown in charge of the Russian cat circus
Sarah Hepola
SXSW 2007: The Very First Review
The South by Southwest Music Festival is a never-ending stream of bands, booze, and laminates that barrels through Austin, Texas, each spring. Just because you’re not going doesn’t mean you can’t review it.
Video Digest: March 9, 2007
Guns, guns, guns: Weapons for rent; Wham gets violent; Ali G visits the NRA; lightsabers for safe fighting.
Video Digest: March 2, 2007
Ah, youth: Television shows from the psychedelic days, when Sid and Marty Krofft brought us Land of the Lost, HR Pufnstuf, Sigmund and Sea Monsters, The Bugaloos, and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
Video Digest: February 23, 2007
Regional ads, global fascination: Dallas’s Trophy Nissan and Chicago’s Eagleman; Houston’s Gallery Furniture and New Jersey’s Carvel ice cream; New York’s Mount Airy Lodge; and then, ooh Sabine, the Overstock woman; finally, Select Dental.
Video Digest: February 16, 2007
Sarah comes clean about her ability to see into the future: the never-ending Idol juggernaut; the perhaps-funny career of Carlos Mencia; self-defense in New Orleans (not funny!); Osama Teen Hunger Force; Metal Skool.
Video Digest: February 9, 2007
A Valentine stuffed with videos: An anatomically correct power ballad about the heart; diamonds in a blender; the dot and the line make love (and Sarah makes a killer pun); centipede eats a tarantula; and yes, as ever, Sarah hearts sushi.
Video Digest: February 2, 2007
Laughing at tragedy: Piñatas get the vendetta treatment; Zarf, daytime’s most British transsexual ever; OK Go in a high-school talent show; music videos reach new lows (or highs?) on YouTube; “Faces of Death”, the muppet version.
Run for the Hills
The world MTV depicts is anything but real. But we don’t watch to escape, we watch because we can’t look away.
Video Digest: January 26, 2007
Golden fluff remade: Estelle Getty gets the Beyoncé makeover; an X-wing fighter looks better made out of hands; rap fit for crying and cleaning; weathermen, saints of television, swearing and fighting; Norman Mailer wrestling with Rip Torn; and Brigitte Bardot singing you a lullaby.