YouTube Is the Shit!!!
As is the case with every technological fad in the past five year, I was a later comer to YouTube (I still don't have gmail). But an afternoon of aimless browsing has done nothing short of completely converting me. Ok, there are the requisite depressed-suicidal teenage girl videoblogs and Celine Dion sing-alongs. But there is also a lot of cool shit, like William Sledd "Ask a gay man", and hours upon hours of mind-numbingly funny physical comedy (fat kid on the roller-coaster, anyone?)
Even more surprisingly I came upon something other than mid brow schlock yesterday. Peter Watkins's War Game, the infamous 60s mockumentary that hypothesized an all-out nuclear attack on Britain, has been posted in its entirity in 5 parts. To think that only three years ago, people paid $20+ to go to Peter Watkins retrospectives to be able to see this movie!
Thank you YouTube for helping me discover my paranoid inner self.
2 comments:
There was an interesting pic in a war encyclopedia showing the blast radius of a 50MGT nuclear device in London. The radiation damage would have rendered half of Britain inhabitable. Drop three such devices on that small piece of land would literally make it look like burnt food off of a non-stick pan.
Sure version :)
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