Butt-Head: You know what might make it different is, like, you know, if you were really dizzy when you’re watching it.
Beavis: Yeah, yeah, if you were all, like, dizzy in the head and you’re watching this.
Butt-Head: Yeah. Want me to strike you?
Beavis: No, I know how to make myself dizzy, check it out. I learned this one time, check this out. [plugs mouth with thumb; struggles to breathe] [gasps] I think that the problem with this video is it is highly derivative of many popular bands within the genre. Although when viewed on its own merits, it does have a deep groove.
Butt-Head: Uh, Beavis?
Beavis: However, what it has in groove, it lacks in originality.
Butt-Head: What’s your problem?
Beavis: One can’t help but be reminded of such bands as Pearl Jam, White Zombie, Suicidal Tendencies, and other bands that bear the mantle of so-called “alternative rock.”
Butt-Head: You’re talking like a dork, Beavis.
Beavis: One is even reminded of Laurie Anderson when she wore curlers. This video speaks less to the heart and more to the sphincter. In closing, I think Korn —
Butt-Head: Beavis!
Beavis: — would do well to learn more from — [Butt-Head smacks him] Ahh! Oww! Heh! Whoa! What happened?
Butt-Head: You got all dizzy and then you started talking like a dumbass.
Beavis: Whoa, really? Wow.
Butt-Head: Yeah. But then you did say “sphinxter.”
Beavis: Oh, yeah. It’s pronounced “sphinxter,” Butt-Head.
Yo-Yo Ma - “Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007/Prélude”
from Bach: Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites
Originally composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, ca. 1717-1723
On the penultimate day of Amanda’s Pre-Christmas Music Spam, we come to a selection that, as a “Christmas-ish” song, might not make too much sense unless you’ve watched The West Wing, specifically the second season’s Christmas episode, “Noel.”
Personally, I hate that episode. It’s all about Josh, and I don’t like Josh unless he’s making a spectacular ass of himself (“Celestial Navigation,” “Take This Sabbath Day”). But the hour is made worthwhile by two things: Toby trying to get into the Christmas spirit and Yo-Yo Ma’s performance of this piece.
It automatically makes me think of Christmas now, and I imagine it always will.
(P.S. to classical music virgins: it’s under three minutes long. Listen to it. It won’t kill you. You’ll thank me later.)
Previously (pre-Christmas music spam): My Favorite Things / Linus and Lucy
Vince Guaraldi Trio - “Linus and Lucy”
from A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan
- Potter: Making yourself at home, Flagg?
- Flagg: I have no home. I'm the wind.
- Hawkeye: I told you he was the wind. You said he was the stars!
- BJ: No, I said he was the moon!
Oh yes. More.
“Beavis’s dad!”
Butt-Head: Look, this video has cymbals.
Beavis: Yeah. Is that what they mean when they say videos have “symbolism”?
Butt-Head: Heh heh, you said “ism.”
I’m going to blame Mac for the fact that I went looking for this and others like it.
Beavis: I think these guys played at the state fair last year.
Butt-Head: Yeah, they won a blue ribbon in the pig contest.
“Stop! In the name of all that which does not suck!”
In re: a certain commercial
- Mike: Jack, I got a good one for you. What do you think of when I say "water balloons"?
- Jack: Parking lot vasectomy!
(The video’s not letting me embed it, so here’s the link.)
Oh, The Instigators. The new season starts tonight, and I am way more excited than I should be about the prospect of watching Jack Edwards and Mike Milbury fight with each other while Andy Brickley plays moderator (which is ostensibly Mike’s role on the program).
This commercial is amusing, not just because Jack gets nailed in the huevos with a water balloon, but because — aside from the “Kick Me” sign Mike puts on his back — Brick escapes abuse. That must’ve been Jack’s idea.
David Ortiz in the NESN booth.^BISH
