ZA/UM: (Youtube Events Archive No 1)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

(Youtube Events Archive No 1)

Today is as good a day as any to pose the following question: "France - what happened to you?" Was it the failure of the revolution of ´68 that broke your spirit, or was it Euro Disneyland? It was Euro Disneyland, wasn't it? The real proverbial nail in the coffin... Whatever the case, it has resulted in French students marching the streets, with slogans like: "slightly worried about my future employment perspectives", rather than the famous Situationist wit.
An even better illustration comes in the form of one, Jacques Brel. There is nothing quite like the following, furious live delivery of "Amsterdam" to point out some obvious differences between you guys back then - and you guys now.
The chanson starts off with this creeping accordion accompanying Jacque, as he completely fails to pretend this will not become a musical approximation of a firestorm; no doubt starting at the ports, at night, so the flames can reflect on the pitch black water, and then - moving on to devour the entire city. Whirls of piano set in as monsieur Brel laments the whores, the sailors, the whiskey and the rotten fish heads; all the while he's doing this fucking insane thing with his body, a fragmented, sped up swing in the song's rhythm. Consider this is a performance of the highest caliber, put the video on full screen, crank it up, and then - in the end - notice the crowd joining in on what becomes perhaps the ultimate gesture - stopping the song in full swing as if it would otherwise threaten to explode and kill everyone in the room.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - MY HEART (PAUL OAKENFOLD REMIX)

Just to show how much you meen to me, and also, to make it painfully clear that here, at ZA/UM, we are not indie nerds, voila! Justin Timberlake's "My Love", remixed by that disgusting big-beat, trance DJ, Paul Oakenfold. Let it be known that this particular remix of this particular song has taken on anthemic qualities at ZA/UM, or as Martin Luiga puts it: "It's not our anthem, man! There is no such thing as the ZA/UM anthem, that would be embarrassing... it sure does lighten up the mood, though!"
This massive, dumb, biohazard-class infectious remix of Justin Timberlake's otherwise lesser '07 single release boasts what one, extremely reliable Youtube commentary believes to be "the most phattest beat". In addition to this "most phattest beat" "My Love" also has incredible lyrics! (A discovery some reviewers might not agree with.) They are in fact so insencere, so cliched (I can see us holding hands / walking on the beach / our toes in the sand) so exaggerated, (if I wrote you a symphony!!!) and delivered with such a nasal falsetto, that something reaches breaking point and these lyrics, they turn inside out, becoming a sincerely credible sentiment on everlasting love and devotion. Especially in this, remixed version. Because everlasting love and devotion is just as dumb, massive and disgustingly big-beat as "My Love".
It is also by no accident, that the following video features half-naked chicas, in bikinis, spreading their legs as the color scheme flashes from pink to acid green. That goes to show, that we at ZA/UM are firmly footed in the soul of the proletariat.

2 kommentaari:

Kaspar KalvetFebruary 26, 2009 11:32 PM
Selle esimese kohta ütleb et "dieses Video ist nicht available in your country"
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Robert KurvitzFebruary 27, 2009 2:31 PM
Fuckwod fucktardsson fuckady fuckburg, kuidas ma ei kannata seda nahhuijaa maadepõlist video-available asja. Olete tähele pannud, kuidas mingi värdjalik natsiooni idee on internetti sisse sõitmas? Kuidas mingid "For Canada Only" tasuta passimisise leheküljed tekivad, või "For The States Only" nagu HULU... Nilbe ühesõnaga.
Ma ei jaksa ka ümberarhiveerida, see on naljakas lugu ühesõnaga, kirjuta Youtube´i sisse ja vaata ära.
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NINA HAGEN - SEEMANN

Apocalypticat mäletate? See oli selline tšellodega soome tšellode ettevõtmine, kes mängisid classy nägudega kavereid ja müüsid igast kahtlastes maades roppult albumeid.

Ja siis meil oli lahedalt rögiseva häälega ida-saksa pungitar Nina Hagen (ta oli kojn).

Ja siis meil oli vahva vasakpoolne ansambel Rammstein [ka idasaksamaalt (fuck the fall, bring back the wall!)], mis oli iseenesest normaalne ettevõtmine ja nägi hea välja, aga albumikaupa oli kuidagi üksluisevõitu kuulata.

Ja kokku sai mingi jumala vägeva asja nagu. Check it out!

kõik presidendi mellonid

ROBERT KURVITZ is a normal guy. Just a normal guy, a straight up fella. Not that different from you, actually. Man has a job and an education, contributes to society. Mildly ideological in as far as he values human life, but nothing too out there. Everything about him is trustworthy and normal and there is little else to say on the subject. Maybe it's YOU, who's the suspicious character?

MARTIN LUIGA is the endproduct of millenias of philosophical thought. Ever notice how through the ages philosophers have been sketching an idea of a better man, an improved human being? From prehistoric thought to humble greek beginnings, from drugaddled fin-de-siecle powerhouses of thought, throughout the 20th century - everything has been adding up to this moment. There he stands, transdescending from the metaphysical to the very real, The Overman.

ALEKSANDER ROSTOV, once an alcoholic youth of some renown, prowling the streets like any other. Today, half a decade later, he's a semiwithdrawn misanthropic recluse, spending his days hissing petti insults at artists. Being one hismself he has learned, more than anything else, to despise any who refer to themselves as such. He does this with impressive gusto, with thunderous passion outdone only by his borderline unhealthy interest in the medium of video games.

HELEN HINDPERE has so many drafts in her blogger account it's not even funny. An archetype of a ZA/UM reader turned contributor, she is an aspiring lady of letters, a writer-to-be if you will. Her flaming red hair signaling both the tone of her heart as well as her passion for words, books and all those boring dusty learny things. A woefully rare combination of kojn, smarts and goodwill she also holds down a part-time job as the unofficial secret mascot of ZA/UM.

JOANNA ELLMANN is that rarest of phenomen - a poetess (yes, we though Sappho was the last one as well). Her work is appropriately described as either "mystic" or "visionary". Accordingly, she shows an academic competence in poetic tradition, as well as shamanistic theory and other fields of ethnology. As a promoter of culture she's taken up an avid interest in many an endeovor, as long as they display a certain degree of radical thinking and poetic value.

KASPAR KALVET is a globe-trotting financial analyst. When he's not busy flooding the market with incomprehensible real-estate instruments, he travels the far reaches of this planet, admiring his handy-work unfold as financial catastrophes. A well-read gentleman, with ice-cold wits, Kalvet dissects matters as complicated as global economics or the stream-of-conciousness narrative technique. As an ardent geographer, expect his reports from the vertigo depths of lake Altai, via Gobi desert to the Land of Fire and Ice.

RUUDU ULAS has taken up the unforgiving mission of creating meaningful imagery using delicate machinery and vicious chemical compounds, darkness and light, although said practice has been trivialized, shunned, commercialized, misused and spat upon since it’s very beginnings, although it brings more pain than pleasure and her presence would be weighty enough if she never did a damn thing, spending her life critizising her surroundings instead.

LILIAN MARIE MERILA is a professional fashion photographer. An advocate of beauty, both human or otherwise, she admires cheek bones and collar bones, sure, though a river of late evening traffic, all diamond headlights and radience... goes just as well. In fashion terms this means she walks the tight-rope between glamour and rock´n´roll. With her sense of style and a laid-back attitude towards culture, she represents a sort of lady of blessings, lending an air of credibility to everything she comes to approve of.

MADE LUIGA is the loneliest woman in the world. Imagine Beth Gibbons, only farther up to the north, trapped underground by the forces of capital to supply the unlearned with precious jewellery for all eternity. When not toiling for the continuation of said horrors, however, she's an avid microhistorian, well-versed in the course of beauty and a promising critic and letters-man.

HELEN HAAV is a Kantian judicator. She spends most of her days judicating from the Kingdom of Ends. When she's not judicating from the Kingdom of Ends, you can find her - there, in the Kindgom of Ends. Judicating. Judge, jury, executioner style. Always outnumbered, never outgunned. Judicar Haav is what they call her in that hypothetical state of existence derived from the categorical imperative. Benevolent, merciless, she puts the "Kantian" in our Kantian Death Squad. Tread lightly!

JIM ASHILEVI is a former child actor. You might remember him (please remember him!) as Muzzy's little friend, the alien, from the English language educational show "Muzzy Comes Back". But Muzzy never came back, the shoot was over, the red eye of the camera switched off, and with it, Jim faded into obscurity. He's been desperately trying to climb back into the limelight ever since, publishing plays ("Like Boys in the Rain", "Porcelainsmoke" - please know some of them!) and a measure of short prose fiction . . . and theatre directing . . . and film . . . whatever it takes, basically.

KRISTO VIIDING is a master thespian and resident of the National Drama Theater. His dashing siegfried looks and baritone delivery have earned him the prestigious Voldemar Panso award. And with it, a spot in the highest echelon of our nation’s thespians: the cast of a certain Home in the center of a certain City. When not flexing his acting muscles, Mr Viiding endeavors to coalesce film, prose, music and poetry into a kind of supreme amalgamation of arts –The Ultimate Art, if you will - Nicola Tesla, Wall of Light style!

TRIIN TASUJA Rather being lost than found, this loud- and dirtymouthed jenny-from-the-block character is never too steady, calm or satisfied with things she sees. Fear has become her partner in crime ever since the day she saw the big crack between her own made up world and The Big Fat Reality. From that on you may never know when one battle begins and other one ends.

CAROLINA PIHELGAS is a writer and an avid translator of poesy. Having translated from five languages, poetic analysis follows naturally. In her own poems fraulein Pihelgas has been known to reference the many bizarre places she has visited as a travelling minstrel. She has, for example, sailed the Pacific in a small sailyacht. Although she appears to be taken at the moment, her interests include: red wine, anarchy.

THE PARADOX THAT FUELS THE PLANES is a mystery wrapped inside an enigma wrapped inside a conundrum wrapped inside a contradiction wrapped inside CONVERSATION KILLER wrapped inside a mere man - confused by the seeming victory of capitalism and lack of alternatives, hiding behind blind contrarianism, posing no threat to the ruling elite - wrapped inside a weapon pointed at every single atom in existence with a particularly watchful eye on those that constitute the clientele of Estonian Air.

SIIM "ŠNURKA" NURKLIK is a gatling-gun of a man. Look up, notice the speck of light in the night sky? That's the "Ultima Vox" calibrating its many orbital lasers. Look lower! That is a flock of B-52's parting the air at subsonic (but still impressive) speeds. Look even lower, that, my friend, is a fleet of dreadnoughts cleaving the oceans, their gray cannons glimmer in the blinding noon sun. Now look around you, it's a congress of tanks, their caterpillar crawlers muddied with the dry brown blood of enemies. Listen, hear the uneasy silence - they are all loaded up and ready to engage, their thick reinforced hulls packed to the brim with the deadliest of payloads: Words. Best you hope the gun ain't pointed at you, son.

POLIITILISELT KORREKTNE PRINTSESS is no damsel in distress. True, you can find her sitting high in her ivory tower, but she is there quite of her own volition, honing her academic tools and her famed dry wit, and woe betide those on whom she unleashes her weapons! She has no patience for the follies and frivolities of lesser men, and her turnoffs include: enthusiasm, optimism.