No More Blank Tapes archive, vol. 1

The wonderful thing about vids is that you can play them over and over and over again, FOREVER – until, of course, they stretch, and lag, and shed oxide, and delaminate, and, well, show’s over quicker than you can say ‘Ghost of Christmas special past’.
I’m in the ungainly process of moving continents, so won’t be [...]

Vids featuring slipping between the covers (by which I mean books, squire)

As suggested in the Carry On-esque title, here are some vids featuring slipping between the covers (by which I mean books, squire).
OK – Shitdisco

I work in publishing, and, I can tell you, this paper engineering seriously gets my motor running. Possibly, one of the cleverest videos I’ve seen in a long [...]

Vids featuring junk food (looking like the unappealing trash it truly is)

This morning I sneezed and, before you can say “Goes the weasel!”, the fly button on my city shorts went POP! and catapulted across the room.
Evidently, this was my wardrobe’s snide way of advising:
“Oi. Ease up on them there potato chips, Slim!”
And, because I am nothing if not vengeful, here follows a moderate-sized serving of [...]

Vids featuring bombs

Remember kids: bombs totally aren’t da bomb.
Jezebel – The Drones

A lot of arresting images here… stark, horrid, and lovely. Like the music, the video moves full of darkness, scattered with light… and has that awesome tendency to make you gasp a little… or a lot.
Galang – M.I.A.

Let’s [...]

Vids featuring the use and abuse of a smoke machine

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire… or at least a handy smoke machine. I turned You Tube upside down searching for the video where everyone gets engulfed by smoke, and, at the bitter, choking end, somebody rasps over their ventolin inhaler:
“TURN THAT SHIT OFF, YOU CAN’T HAVE A SMOKE MACHINE IN A SMALL FLAT!”
Then, it dawned [...]

Segue: 1975 promo for the Sony Betamax VTR

“The Sony Betamax – its only purpose is to serve you. This totally new concept in home entertainment will expand your enjoyment of television viewing to a level that was, a short time ago, nothing more than an ambitious dream…”

You say Betamax, I say Bizarre-a-max.
(No, not really. That was just a [...]

Vids featuring gathering round a table

Breakfast, dinner, a cup of tea with grandpoppy, shuffling furniture, or raising the dead – here follows a few vids featuring gathering round a table.
Over and over again – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Never let me down again – Depeche Mode

There’s no other way – Blur
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Vids featuring office space

[Insert own introduction regarding "office space". Feel free to alliterate all allegorically, stretch truuuuuuuth, opunly pun, and employ other shameless and overly labourious attention-grabbing devices. Like writing "MOTHERFUCKER!!!" for no real reason, MOTHERFUCKER!!! Streams of adjectives are useful, handy, convenient space-fillers. Possibly, hark back to your own experience of offices and/or space. At a stretch, [...]