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Scooter; Weekend

15:53 / 19.02.03

has everybody seen this video?

it is one of the wierdest things i have seen on music television for a long time. the song itself is trad. squeaky anthem style, with a semi coherent rapper, and a chipmunk girl singer. not special, but it pushes predictable 'high as a kite on a wind of meth' buttons.

the video, though.....

ninjas, in orange ninja suits.
monks with strabge features, also in orange. they look like really ugly people with big ears, but could easily be the real inhabitants of shangri la.
a big fuck off boat being carried by an assortment of costume party rejects.
a blond twat in said boat(the rapper and poducer), dressed like a centurion. well, except with no hat, so he can show off his trademark blond hair.
GANESHA.
a big sinbad style strong man who seems to be having a bad cas of the horrors and an allergic reaction to his PCP.
nun-types with tear-streamed makeup, one of whom has a crown of thorns, one of whom is dead/sleeping.

and plenty more besides.

i claim this video for barbelith.

have youall seen it?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:30 / 19.02.03

Nope, I may look out for it though. Heard about thirty seconds on the radio, seems to be exactly the same as their last four or five songs. Still can't decide whether they're top stuff of the dregs of the barrel. The lead bellower (to call him a singer is I think an insult to singers everywhere, even me and I can't hold a note) looks like an arse though.

16:42 / 19.02.03

i forgot to mention...

the last lyrics the leadsinger/producer dude sings/says are 'karaoke ball bounced' with a small smiley, and they are "respect to the man with the ice cream van".

really, really mad.

and i mean mad in a similar sense a paranoid schizophrenic with obsessive compulsive disorder is mad, not in the sense that keith flint is mad.

16:48 / 19.02.03

I suspect that if schizophrenia and OCD were that visually or aurally entertaining, I'd be out of a job. Surely you're talking 'maaahhhhaaaad'?

16:49 / 19.02.03

Funnily enough, I did a google image search for some pictures and found this:

Explains a lot.

16:52 / 19.02.03

no, i just think that he is actually 'Mad', as in noit quite using the same map of reality as all of us, and not really noticing.

i just dont understand why they put that lyric up to read...

the rest of the video, however, is definitely what one might call 'maaahhhhaaaad'.

seriously, i thought of you when i saw this video, as you are in it. and youare neither a pirate nor a ninja. not even a viking, in fact.

16:54 / 19.02.03

Okay, I can accept the 'not the same map of reality' version of madness. Schizophrenia and OCD are pushing it a little...

16:55 / 19.02.03

damn your eyes, elephant man, damn them!

in the very silly sense, obviously.

16:58 / 19.02.03

Obviously.

Kerrrrrazy!

23:57 / 19.02.03

so nane o'youse goan oot the erches later?
wit, ye no like dancin? or birds? how kin ye no like 'rabirds an'e dancin?

01:36 / 20.02.03

I like Scooter a lot. For being utterly, utterly crass to the point where they're 'tinfoil-on-teeth' fucken brilliant.

That's the best phonetic Glasgow accent I've ever read, too.