There’s just something beautiful about the cultural dissonance created when something saccharine and innocent meets something…well… not.
Case in point - these stellar YouTube mashups, which pair old Muppet Show and Sesame Street footage with death metal songs:
Chocolate meets peanut butter. Lightning hits Frankenstein. Bonzo meets Page.
Every so often the universe conspires to bring together disparate awesome elements that combine into something so incredible that the brain’s pleasure centers hemorrhage with white, blinding joy. This video for Zombie Zombie’s “Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free” is a deep soul tickle from God’s favorite finger. It’s an homage to John Carpenter’s “The Thing” — both the movie AND the soundtrack — reenacted with G.I. Joe figures. The song is rocking, repetitive and minimalist earworm, and the video, well … have a look for yourselves.
You can see a sharper, higher-res version here.
This would be one of the best scenes in Carpenter’s film, an absolute motherload of surprise, suspense, and incredible special effects.
It’s always cracked me up, the way that head skitters away like that. Happy Friday, friends.
I lived in Baltimore for a couple of years after grad school, so when someone sent me this video, it truly warmed my heart: (NSFW)
