If you've visited us at any time over the past two months, you'll have noticed that this place has been dead as a dormouse with a doornail through its cold, dead head. We apologize that MeLaughsMeEyes has been on a long hiatus.
We value your call.
We're in the middle of making a film right now, which is keeping our bees exceptionally busy. We'll be back to full operational order in about a month and a half. At that point we'll return to the blistering pace of posting about once a week or so.
Probably.
For the present, here's a little cartoon for you to silently peruse, think nothing of, and then click away to a different website.
So, the dudes who did the hilarious Literal Version of 'Take On Me' have been at it again, this time with 'Head Over Heels' by Tears For Fears. I just about chuckled my guts up over this.
Last night my friend Al Doyle showed me the best thing ever.From BBC's excellent 'Video Nation' series, this is part one of Loughborough teenager Chris Needham's 1992 video diary - which intimately and unflinchingly records the progress of his band 'Manslaughter' toward their first gig. Along the way, the enormously likable, borderline adorable Chris Needham grapples with well founded doubts about the talent of his band, about his relationships with people around him, the future, politics, war and death.
This film is a completely perfect time capsule. Watching it is like stepping lightly through a door into the world of 1992 - you can smell it, you can taste it. This is why documentary is the best, most vivid and stimulating, deepest and most important artistic medium on Earth. (Yeah - fuck you, painting. Right up your arse, installation art.) In 100 years, Chris Needham's life, character, values and humanity will remain as tangible for our great-grandchildren as they are here for us. In 1000 years, people in silver jumpsuits with jet-packs on their backs will still be able to meet, laugh and empathize with the long-dead Needham. The moving image, still so new, changes the way people are going to think about the past and the temporal context of their lives. Long live film, long live documentary.
Anyway, that's a real tangent. All I really want to say is that this is a wonderful, wonderful half-hour of film. It was uploaded by some guy called Kristian Goddard and I thank him. In the comments I found a couple of people who knew Needham at the time. One said - "Thank you for this! It's hair bleachingly embarrasing as it is, never mind that I was just the same at 17!! I used to see him around Loughborough when I was at college......poor boy - that program ended his social life faster than a place on the child offenders' register....." I hope that Chris didn't suffer too much off the back of this program. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see today that Needham was the coolest guy around - an iconoclast, and a damn nice guy to boot. Wherever he is today, good luck to him. Rock and roll.
Here's part 2 to keep you rolling - after that, the other five parts can be found on YouTube.Additional - thank you, "Hot", for commenting this and providing the following link to a modern day interview with Chris. Sounds like he's keeping it pretty damn real.
Do you collect gun knives? I certainly do, and if you're a discerning collector such as what I most am certainly, you should know that every detail is perfect on this particular piece, right down to the illustration of Billy the Kid on the butt. How apt! Well, half apt. The gun aspect is apt. The knife aspect is sort of not related at all, but let's not split hairs.You must agree, it's an inspired piece. It shits class. Thank you to Jimbo for bringing it to my attention.
Here's a really enjoyable hour-long interview with sex & relationship advice columnist Dan Savage. He's smart, witty, profane and brilliant, and I wish I could employ him to run my personal life for me because he's so on it. This is the gay man straight people should totally be listening to, because after following his column and podcast for a couple of years I have to acknowledge that we're all fucking nuts and we're just making one another deeply, deeply unhappy. Dan explains how weekly here. He also crops up sometimes on the awesome This American Life, and he's written some entertaining books (the best one is 'The Kid', about him and his boyfriend adopting a baby). If you're speculating that I have a great big gender-confused-man-crush on him, you're probably guessing right. But if you haven't already, reading his column, listening to his podcast & this interview should clarify why. He's one of my favourite awesome people of goodness.
The interview itself is from the Sound of Young America. It's another Public Radio International production (like This American Life) and from what I've heard so far has a lot to offer. Check out the interview with Louis CK for example - funny, funny stuff. Between these radio programs and Barack Obama, England is starting once again to look like the pallid, second rate cultural asshole it really is. Oh, hey, what's this? David Cameron waving a DVD box-set of Little Britain? Yeah... cheers.
(Good grief, this was funny. from Felix via Al via Pat or James - I can't remember who, but I thank them for bringing this silly lIzard into my life. No way. Yeah right.)
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