dropthebeatonit: Look Down At Your Screen

Last week i got deep and melancholic about how a youtube addiction had taken years off my life, ones i would never get back. But to say those hours of hard graft were in vain is to miss the mark. Old wisdom suggests what we most need to find will be found where we least want to look. And during those long hours of staring at a screen vainly searching for some elusive thing, what that was i'm still not sure - perhaps an escape from myself - i came across many magic beans strewn here and there along the path.

I feel like i've learnt as much about the human condition from watching youtube as anything else i've done. All of life is there. And when viewed in moderation it is a gift that keeps on giving. So in no particular order and with no particular theme, here are some of my all-time favourite youtube videos.

I THOUGHT YOU COULD DO A KICKFLIP

This one is short but so sweet. Some guy displays a range of mild anger-management symptoms skateboarding in his driveway. That split-second of rage you glimpse once he screws it up for the second time is golden. I'm always left thinking what else he got up to that morning.

THE PROPER WAY TO END YOUR FILM

I would have paid an insensitive amount of money to be watching this in the cinema as the credits rolled. Although perhaps this never made it to cinema. A mate pointed out they couldn't even afford the budget for a spring mechanism on his arm device, so he has to manually slide it down. And it's a flare gun.

EXTREME JAPANESE AUDIOPHILES

As an insight into different cultures and curious psychologies, this is up there. I mean there are weirdos everywhere, but this strikes me as an especially Japanese thing to do. Passion about anything whatsoever is about the coolest thing i can think of.

WOAH.... WHAT?

How was that party the other night. An ad for a campaign against sexual violence.

I DON'T NEED TO BELIEVE

Jung being asked about his thoughts on God.

KATE METAL MOMENTS

There are two sisters called Kate and Audrey who live in Nagasaki in Japan and they're nuts about heavy metal. The older one Audrey is a next level guitar player. And the younger one Kate is a total force of nature and i'm obsessed with her.

WEATHER BOY

A news reporter investigating fireworks gets his ass handed to him.

JUST EXTRAORDINARY

A DJ of severely questionable music readies himself for the drop in a pre-rehearsed sequence that must've taken five lifetimes to dream up, and then all hell breaks loose in more ways than one. I think this is my favourite clip ever.

KICK HIS ASK

This one is up there too. A little girl telling her mum about monsters coming out of the tv and her plans to defend herself. Watch her mind whirr as she tries to figure out why her mother is laughing. Monsters are a serious business. This girl is too much.

ELETROCUTED SQUIRREL GETS CPR BY KIND MAN

I put this one in because i referenced it in the serious youtube post. This was the kind of thing i would watch when i was at my lowest ebb. The thing that made me feel even worse was that i was actually moved by it. At least i felt something i suppose.