Why does backwards Abba sound like some lost Brecht/Weill opera excerpt? Deeply disturbing.

 
Thanks Tony Coulter !

 
Maybe not the best idea for self-defense, ladies. I wouldn’t recommend trying this at the office.

(via fasels)

 
Do not challenge this man to a staring contest… you will lose every time. He’s rather creepy, eh? Now say, “Oh yeah!” 

 
(via HYST)

 
The Bubble Baba challenge is the world’s only blow-up doll rafting race. It takes place every year in Russia. Here’s some footage from this year’s event. I love the point of view shot from the contestant’s perspective; the doll straining to achieve victory.

From the looks of the photograph it’s a unisexual blow-up doll event. I wonder what kind of problems a fully inflated plastic cock could cause in a situation like this? Position must be very important.
 

 
Thank you Violet Blue

 
I lived in Northern New Mexico during the late 1960’s and from 2003 to 2008, right at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo (blood of Christ) mountain range. This is an area that has drawn artists, outlaws, visionaries and lost souls for decades, from D.H. Lawrence to Dennis Hopper to the New Buffalo Commune and the Rainbow Tribe. The mountains are thought to have mystical powers, both good and bad. It is said they can mess with a man’s mind. I lived in Taos, which a friend once called “the world’s largest open air mental institution”, and I saw the flow of neo-hippies coming into town blending with the old guard who had been living there for decades. It was a wild mix of 1960’s Aquarian Age values and a kind of longhair punk nihilism - a fascinating blend turning a bit moldy at the edges and slightly rotten at the core.

Dennis Hopper was busted in the mid-1960’S in Taos for walking into a town council meeting brandishing a shotgun.

Shot in New Mexico, the “fat Jew on shrooms” video (Rob Tyner, is that you?) is a comically surreal version of the kind of madness you’ll find in the high desert, on the mesas and in the bloody mountains. The altitude can turn a simple psychedelic trip into something straight out of a Castaneda book and, in this dude’s case, something gonzo from Hunter Thompson. I don’t know how ‘real’ it is, but at 10,000 feet above sea level shit happens. Whether shroom boy is having a bonafide mystical experience or just going apeshit for the camera doesn’t matter. It’s the vibe, man. And the vibe is spooky.

In New Mexico, guns, pot and longhair are totems of some new bizarre breed of hippie outlaw.

The other video included here is from a film called “Off The Grid” and is the real deal. I knew these folks in the video. I had a store not far from where they lived on the mesa and they were my customers. Many were Vietnam vets, a few were clinically insane, others were social outcasts or folks just looking to live the simple hippie life. I liked most of them. But a few had feral children that saddened me. Dirty and hungry, these little kids were living in poverty and squalor, not by their own design, but by the choices their parents, mostly quite young themselves, had made in deciding to live outside of society.

The directors of “Off The Grid” were told by the folks depicted in the film never to screen the movie in Taos. If they did, they’d regret it.

A little comedy followed by something a bit more serious. The connection between these videos is kind of tenuous; longhairs with guns. That’s something I never imagined during the Summer Of Love.
 

 
Life off the grid after the jump…

 
Tara just asked me, “Who is Paul Crik?”

I told her that she’d “find out” and so will you. Then you, too, will be killin’ it.

Achievement is like a cell phone, your success depends upon your range. — Paul Crik

Belief is the acceptance that every one else knows as little as you. — Paul Crik

First you cry, then you fly, then you cry while flying. — Paul Crik

For me life is not like a box of chocolates, it’s like a train car full of dynamite. — Paul Crik

Gravity is your only true burden, the rest are inventions of esteem. — Paul Crik

If life is an empty cup. . . Fill it, Chill it, Swill it. . . Kill it. — Paul Crik

It’s not eating that’s a problem. It’s feeding. — Paul Crik

It’s not my way, it’s not the way, it’s your way. — Paul Crik

Sometimes you have to go down low to climb up high. — Paul Crik

Stay the course only works if you know what course you’re on. — Paul Crik

There’s a fine line between being poised and being poisoned. — Paul Crik

This is my hell. There are a lot like it, but this is mine. — Paul Crik

Thoughts are just outlines… actions color them in. — Paul Crik

Vigor is the assumption that you may be right on all accounts. — Paul Crik

When you can’t see what’s around you, try to see what’s within you. — Paul Crik

You need to brace yourself before you embrace yourself. — Paul Crik

“They” is an illusion created by “you” to protect “me.” — Paul Crik

 
 
KIllin’ It! with Paul Crik(there are a few dozen of these videos there)

Via Everything is Terrible and Cinefamily

 
A least he’s being honest, right? I’d give him buck!

Also, bonus cameo from small child in white tuxedo. Inexplicable and mesmerizing.

 
Naturally.

(via KMFW)

 
From what I can gather, these beautifully odd clips are from the early 70s Soviet era Georgian film Mziuri which appears to be some sort of showcase for electric folk tunes performed soley by pre-teen girls. On a cruise ship. Can a Georgian DM reader perhaps tell me more about what’s going on here? I love the overdriven sound especially. Toasty good !
 

 
more great clips after the jump

 

 

 
It’s about TIME Internet! I can finally die a happy woman.

Album Tacos

(Thanks again, Nerdcore!)

 

 
Very interesting… Apparently Bush likes a little head every now and then.

More Bush-head-rubbing-madness after the jump…

 
The latest masterpiece by the true genius of the form, StSanders. This guy’s videos are a well known phenom for good reason and he keeps getting better. Total hilarity and it only improves with multiple viewings.

 
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(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)

 
Dr. Phero is a skit from the defunct Japanese variety show “Vermilion Pleasure Night.” The entire series is available on DVD from Amazon. It is totally weird fun.