Can’t think of anything to blog about at the moment. Not even something silly and fluffy.

Hmmm. Maybe I will post some of my old vids.

Never mind, apparently there is no way for me to go to the list of my own files, the ones I have uploaded to YouTube, any more. I am completely lost. Why do I keep finding things where the most basic functions are the hardest to find?

These people don’t know crap about interface design.

I can, however, access my playlists, and I have one where I list some of my favorite funny videos of all time.

So let’s try sharing some of THOSE, assuming any of them are still there.

I am feeling so old-guy cranky right now.

Definitely one of my all time fave Internet videos. The music is meh – fun but generic, like most ska, but the animation if superb and does a very good job of tellling its little story of interspecies “love” using only visuals, with a bit of help from the music.

I say “love” because, watching the thing now, I can see it has not aged as well as I might have thought. The message in a modern context is “relentlessly and even violently stalk the one you love with Terminator-like singlemindedness and eventually they will surrender and love you. ”

And there is so much wrong with that.

She gets away with it only because she’s a cute little bunny girl. That’s why it doesn’t necessarily trip the This Is Bad alarm right away. She is cute and harmless looking and that means she can relentlessly hound poor Cat Dude in a way that would obviously be wrong if you changed anything about her.

Like, if you flipped the genders and it was a male bunny relentlessly pursuing a lady cat, The bunny boy would come across as cross between Pepe LePew and Hannibal Lector. The ending would be absolutely horrifying. And nothing about it would be “cute”.

Or change species. If it was a lady cat pursuing a male bunny with all the subtlety of a mid-frenzy pirahna, we would all assume, not unreasonably, that she wants to eat the poor bunny boy.

Or at least do a lot of things to him whether he wants them or not.

The past becomes a foreign country when you are Woke, doesn’t it? The innocent things of our younger days suddenly seem creepy as hell.

Oh well,. Moving on.

Here is the first Bowser and Blue song I ever heard :

I still love the song and find it highly amusing, although of course, to people who did not grow up in the 80’s,it would be nigh on incomprehensible.

Imagine coming across this when you had never even heard the word “Rambo” before and think of Sylvester Stallone as “that guy from the Expendables movies, maybe”. \

At one point, I had an entire slew of their tracks that I had taped off the radio. And it was great stuff, and very hip at the time. It has a song making fun of Aussie mania, for instance. It was sharp stuff, and some of it was quite daring.

There was a song with the nuanced and sensitive title “Captain Hindgrinder” which was a very long series of nautical/homosexuality innuendos, with lines like “Grab hold of this here tiller, boy, heave ho and up she rises!” and “Have you ever been to sea, Billy Boy, Billy Boy/ have you felt the waves a-crashin’ at your door?” and ending with the Captain saying “We’ll make a seaman of you yet, Billy boy. ”

Look, I never said it was highbrow, I just said it was funny. And kinda hot.

But that was way back in the 80’s, when Bowser and Blue were a hip young comedy duo playing chic clubs in Montreal.

Check out the crap those assholes put out now.

Now it’s the kind of comedy that might give Joe Clark a small chuckle and that your parents embarrass you by being WAY too into it.

What else have we got here?

This one is not exactly funny, but a lot of fun anyhow :

To be honest, I had totally forgotten this little gem. I saw something called “Nursery Rhyme” on the list and I wondered what the hell is that?

Turns out to be a very cute and clever little confection, with great performances of some very cunningly arranged rhymes. They manage to deliver the lines in a more or less naturalistic style despite the fact that they were delivering rhyming couplets, and that takes a good deal of skill.

Plus I love how the cast of characters keeps expanding. Gives me a good “amateur production so we want as many people as possible to get a credit” feeling.

And I know I already said this, but it’s just so damned clever!

Plus Tom is pretty hot, in a douche-y kind of way.

I just posted it to my Facebook with this introduction :

A clever confection of humor and verse
About a poor girl whose day gets worse and worse
But never you worry, it all ends quite happily
With melodious couplets that go off quite snappily
And I know that some people mind find it a bit twee
But others will enjoy it – people like me
So enjoy this small tale where things get worse and worse
(Not safe if you hate people speaking in verse.

What can I say, the rhyming’s contagious.
It makes me do things completely outrag-

No. I can stop,. I am stopping now. This is me, stopping.

Phew. That was a close one.

Anyhow, hope you enjoyed the videos as much as I enjoyed sharing them!

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.