Figured I’d post links to/embed a bunch of videos that I thought of during our discussion in class yesterday.  It’s a pretty random bundle, but they’re all quite funny or interesting or weird.  So check them out, w/ a little blurb about each, after the jump. For some reason I’m having troubles with embedding video, and it should be super simple so I can’t fathom the reasons for that. So I’m just gonna do the links, and maybe go back and embed later when I figure out what the ()#@*% is wrong.

Here’s what I referred to as my favorite mashup of all time: Radiohead’s “High & Dry” w/ Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”.  The video is just some goofy collection of footage, it just happened to be the first hit when I searched the song.

Here’s the recut trailer for “Scary Poppins”, which makes Julie Andrews practically look like friggin Voldemort.

Here’s a funny political remix vid that watching the state of the union remix reminded me of. I first saw this quite a while ago, but it stays funny every time I watch it.

I think I actually posted this to Twitter a few days ago, but here it is again. Sort of high on the wtf spectrum of remix videos (whoever made it dubbed the silly song over the original, though what the original video was taken from I cannot fathom).

This last on is a mini-documentary (about 30 min long) in which 4 DJ’s are challenged to buy 5 records for 5 dollars and then quickly construct a beat using samples from those records. They don’t really discuss the art or the implications of sampling culture, because it’s been around for so long and discussed so much that the ideas behind it are sort of a given. But it’s a really entertaining piece of work that brings out the hilarious nerdiness of cratedigging culture (some of the records they find are really priceless–in a comic sense, not a monetary one) and the joy that these guys can find in cultural detritus.

*It’s now been removed from pitchfork, I guess it was a one week only sort of deal, but definitely check out their website