Here are two I made a while ago. They may only make sense if you grew up watching TV in the Bay Area in the 80s:
Part One
and
Part Two

OMG, I love the L/on rap. Brilliant.

Here is Cares of a Family Man, much adapted for the format.

Your other two episodes there are quite funny.

Yeah, unfortunately, the end of the L/on one got cut off.

In case you missed it when AWB first brought up xtranormal: an excerpt from Beckett.

I did miss it. Yay!

1.1---Hey, thanks for bringing up painful childhood memories.

Apo, I played around with xtranormal yesterday to create a version of Drymala's famous "Rice, Rice, Baby," but didn't save it.

Here's mine.

Sorry.

Oh my goodness the Beckett is hilarious.

When the "Fools" thread was raging I thought of doing a xtranormal of it, but decided that was the last thing I wanted.

Microphone check.

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Link in 12 merged with post.

OT: If anyone in NY is stuck for anything to do for the next 3 nights, a friend of mine has provided some of the music for the Alan Turing play which is part of this FREE Random Acts festival at the New School for Drama. So you could go there.

My xtranormals are here (based on a conversation overheard at the Baths with Bave) and here (a bit from Zizek in The Pervert's Guide to Cinema). I also did one of a Donne sonnet to see what would happen, but it's not as entertaining. I've been meaning to do more, but haven't!

My debut as an xtranormal director. Loosely based on an actual overheard conversation.

DOING IT WITH AUTHENTICITY

Aside from "doing it with authenticity", the Zizek clip only confirms the position I always already held, to wit, Zizek isn't that interesting.

Oh, they're already even in the midst of the action observing and narrativizing? Shocking!

Another curious fact about the Levin report: a lot of the redactions are pretty obvious (chiefly where the blacked out passage is the three-letter abbreviation "CIA"), and others are not exactly obvious, but pretty suggestive (such as where it appears that a foreign ally was named).

But you know what else seems to be blacked out of all the documents released to date? The names of M.D.'s who observed the torture or who were otherwise implicated. I think it's pretty obvious that the point of the redaction was not to protect "sources and methods" or any other information with national security relevance, but to protect these doctors from having their medical credentials revoked. Or, alternatively, it could be to make sure that the doctors are never the target of a malpractice suit by any of the torture victims. This kind of lawsuit might be harder to suppress with a state secrets claim than, say, the NSA wiretapping suits.

Oops, 19 posted to the wrong thread.

I'd better post mine before I watch the others, else I'll lose my nerve.

And I'm glad I posted before that Godot short. It's like those adorable little bears were made specifically with Beckett in mind.

That's adorable, DS.

No writer better served.

Well done. I look forward to the day when Beckett's complete dramatic works are available in this format. Two, three weeks from now, I'm guessing.

Good stuff, DS.

Thanks!

I'm noticing that the comments threads on Xtra-normal consist almost entirely of link-whoring. I hope it grows out of that.

And OMFG, apo's DAS EFX video in 11 is gold. Absolute gold.

And OMFG, apo's DAS EFX video in 11 is gold. Absolute gold.

Yep. Figgedy awesome.

I'm a keep myself on the one a day plan with these things until I've kicked.

Interesting.

I really like the one in 29.

My (not safe for work) directorial debut. There are some quick cuts I didn't put into the script, but I can't seem to get rid of them. Also the pronunciation of "Apostropher" and "Unfoggedtariat" are awesome.

Love it.

I just lost my shit watching 29. Nicely done, DS.

I only just found the reference in 21.

34: Well, where was the last place you left it? I mean, your shit didn't just get up and walk away.

36: Huh. Go figure. Turns out my shit was in Satan's actual asshole. What are the odds?

What are the odds?

Shitty, I'd say.

Here's a bit of repurposed material.

39: I like it. Getting camera angles and gestures to work together with the text is a little tricky, but you did it well. I just wish they'd implement a markup language so you could fiddle with details on a finer level. I'm fighting the urge to write to them with a list of improvements I would like to see. Once you do something like that you're dragged in, never to escape.

40 - Thanks. There aren't any gestures other than pauses, and I turned off the "camera magic" thing so it's all manual camera angles. It has a strange mind of its own with only one "actor." If I had more control I'd make the "actor" look at the camera less for that particular piece, but I'd also waste a lot more time doing it too.

35: Ripped from today's headlines!

34: Thanks! I'm amazed at how smooth and natural their Generic Australian Guy sounds while delivering verbal abuse.

I pulled out and listened to that whole DAS EFX album this morning and I have to say that, seventeen (!) years later, it has held up surprisingly well.

43: That was a good era.

Is that the same album with "The Real Hip-Hop" on it, or was that a bit later? That's my favourite DAS EFX track.

45: Nope. "Mic Checka" is on their first album, Dead Serious.

"Real Hip Hop" is on their third, Hold it Down.

First album, first track.

47: I can't tell if you're agreeing with me about "Mic Checka" or refuting me about "Real Hip Hop".

45: Bet you expected me to say something like "Did Das Efx do 'Real Hip Hop'? I seem to remember it was Nas."

48: Well, you know, I didn't want to open old wounds and all...

49: Mighty white of ya!

Christ, these are awesome. Thank you for sharing.

In a way using this makes me want better voice production software, so that I can add stress and emphasis and bend syllables into the meter I want, etc.

But I also wonder whether that might make these movies really boring. Part of the attraction and fun is the flat, robotic affect of the voices in contrast to the content of what's being said.