Bizarro Video: Friday On My Mind

Here's a blast from the past, Dedicated Readers. I just recently watched a fantastic movie, entitled "The Boat That Rocked," featuring the ingenious talents of none other than Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy and Nick Frost. It's about a pirate rock radio station that broadcasted from a ship in the North Sea off the coast of the British Isles in the 1960s. It's a wonderful movie.

But even better than the movie is the soundtrack, which features the talents of bands such as The Troggs, The Kinks, Cream, Procol Harum, and The Bystanders.

Perhaps the most treasured gem on this soundtrack (to me, at least), however, is the one by the mostly-forgotten-by-now EasyBeats, entitled Friday On My Mind.

Here it is, in all its glory. Please, take a listen. It's better than anything that's been on rock radio in the past 2 years. There's that, at least.

How is it Bizarro, you ask? Just watch the singer.

Bizarro Video: Dokken Versus Chicken

Sorry it's been awhile, Dedicated Readers. I wanted that crazy Czech video to be in the spotlight for awhile. Still makes me laugh every time.

Anyway, here's some more Norton Antivirus madness. This one's awesome, though, perhaps the antithesis to their GI Joe crossover. This video features now-geriatric rockers Dokken, representing a virus, threatening a raw chicken, which represents your computer. I don't get it either. But it's pretty damn funny, and more than worthy of the Bizarro Video name.

Run, don't walk, to...Dokken Versus Chicken.

Bizarro Video: Czech Your Head

Dedicated Readers, I just found this, and still can't stop laughing at it. Thanks to the wonders of the Interweb, this video has come back to haunt the world from 1978. This is why I try to avoid being videotaped.

Of note here is the BEST DANCER EVER. I love how the camera pulls back every time the chorus comes up, and he for some reason runs up on the stage every time. What was he doing back there? Also, by the third chorus, even the stoic, emotionless singer can't take it, and begins laughing, anticipating the running up and goofy dancing of this guy. Then there's the weirdo near the end that just walks onscreen, does a scary/funny face, and just walks off. Wha? Why?

Anyway, this entertains me to no end, so in a spectacular return to the true spirit of Bizarro Video, I give you...Czech Your Head.

The joys of cross-marketing.

I'm always entertained to see goofy, unrelated things inexplicably branded with something I like. Such is the case with the new Norton Internet Security, which has Snake Eyes on it, and is being likened to the GI Joe team. I found this over at Topless Robot.



From Buy.com's product description:

Norton and G.I. Joe Team Up
G.I. Joes secret team of highly trained experts is organized to defend humankind against global domination whenever and wherever theres a mission. As part of the teams special ops, the Joes always know about the evil doings of the Cobra organization before it takes over the world.

Likewise, Norton is always working to detect emerging threats before they take over your computer. Nortons speed and strength is a smart and ready defense that goes unnoticed but is incredibly effective when it makes a preemptive move.

Together, Norton and G.I. Joe will strike first before online evils do.

Oh, but it gets better. Norton is having a sweepstakes, which you can enter here.

So it appears that they've fully integrated Norton with the GI Joe image. They have a comparison page that likens GI Joe to Norton Security, character by character. My favorite bit:

Like Snake Eyes, Norton Internet Security 2009 nimbly anticipates malware's next moves, proactively blocking threats to stop online identity theft, viruses, spyware and other enemy threats dead in their tracks.

Because that's exactly what Snake Eyes does.

Bizarro...picture?

Yep. Found this one over at Cracked.com, a site that's much funnier than its magazine namesake (and far funnier than I'd actually like to admit), and just had to throw it up here.
The Ghostbusters could have just done this, thereby avoiding that messy "sequel" business.