Direct mp4 download or play: Goth Guy VS. Clothes Dryer
Here is a video that was brought back from the Negativland 2000 tour. I don’t know much about it, but it’s very funny to me to see someone like that beat up on an old household appliance. I laugh every time I see this video. Obviously, the title is something else, but somehow the words “Goth” and “Clothes Dryer” in the same phrase cause me to chuckle. By the way, if that is actually Velcro burning at the beginning and ending, it must have smelled really awful! Or maybe not, due to microgravity.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhat a strange, strange, strange video.
ditto
she looks hungry & tired after all that, give her a cheeseburger
I really would love to know where these kids (?) are today. Hopefully continuing to film themselves destroying appliances to a lively keyboard demo. Rock on, Marty and Gannon. Wherever you are.
I think I know the fellow who made this. This was shown to me in 1995 in Chicago. The phrase “Particle Burning in Microgravity” has always stuck with me.
Marty Downs is the fellow’s name. He’s a writer now: http://www.mfdowns.com/
He was really into Negativland when I knew him. You should contact him, Mr. Weatherman, sir.
Of course it’s “Velcro Burning”. Whoops. Carry on.
The music backing this video is a piece known as “Cielito Lindo”, a demo tune from an old Yamaha toy keyboard called the TYU-30. I only know this because I was listening to various demo tunes on a website dedicated to cheesy old keyboards, and came across it by accident. Here’s a link to info on the keyboard itself:
http://www.crumblenet.co.uk/keyb/tyu-30.html
And here’s a direct link to the recording of the demo tune (Music Cartridge B, Song 4):
http://www.zen13412.zen.co.uk/keyb/tyu-30-b-4.mp3
Just figured I’d pass it along to whoever might care…