https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1UhzcJrtw&feature=player_embedded
Brilliant!
Al’s lipsyncing of the intro is horrendously unconvincing.
Cartoon Skeleton Al and the Ghouldigger birds look kinda cool, I guess. I was surprised to see them, anyway. If they could afford a decent frame rate on the animation they could have got a good video out of this concept.
The Nazi-style Ministry logo is really uncomfortable here with no political context. 
The fake Ministry CDs that the Ghouldigger is imagining look no less absurd than “The Very Best of Fixes and Remixes.”
Overall, better than the 99% video.
My server is slow as heck loading videos so I’ve only gotten to see the voice over lead in part so far.
Shame on whoever “directed” this portion of the video. First off, the lip synching is horrible (and unforgivable if it’s YOUR song). But that was really retarded to let him chew gum during the thing. It looks like he’s saying other words that don’t make sounds. I even SEE the gum. It’s gross as well as being retarded and distracting.
It’s like watching a really bad kung fu movie.
A lot of these crappy videos really suffer from lack of clear theme and concept.
Crappy crude animation COULD work well for a video, and, honestly, I think the little Gorey-esque cartoons are kind of cool and work well with the overall vibe and feel of the song. But then it goes from some haunting Halloween cartoons to a cheesy computer graphic of some dollar signs, or a CGI Ministry logo with some money falling. And Al pantomiming his angst and aggression. Ouch.
If they’re going to have live shot angry Al footage, they should have just got someone’s old trailer from the junkyard, furnished it like a junkie pad and had him sit down at a little table, do his speech while surveying the wreckage of his life and stacks of bills and subpoenas and then just launch into a full scale destruction of the place, smashing lamps, breaking windows, tearing up furniture. Shoot it in grainy Super 8 or something like an old slasher flick.
Or just . . . I don’t know. Anything. These stupid videos look like they were made in one of those “make a video” booths at the local funcenter.
Okay, I just upgraded it’s rating for the kickass Mikey solo clip (I’m getting this video in 30 second increments every 10 minutes).
Anyway, I just now realized why these videos piss me off so much. I’m watching them on YouTube and they look so much like the crappy DIY vids that regular jagoffs throw together for their favorite songs. "Hey, guys! Look at this video I made for my favorite song by Nine Inch Nails! There’s pictures of Trent and I also put in some cool twister footage from the weather channel and also when he says ‘God, Money’ I put up these graphics of some churches and stuff and made crosses out of dollar bills and . . . . "
Yeah, yeah, go back to school, Jerk!
Angie making a big appearance
I think she’s been in every video of the last 7 years.
Has anyone ever noticed that Al’s voice went from a fake British accent to a fake Southern accent?
Has anyone ever noticed that Al’s voice went from a fake British accent to a fake Southern accent?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Really Ghouldiggers? The intro is so retarded I didn’t bother to watch the rest.
All that shit in Al’s eyes must be really bad for his vision…
Yeah,the whole fake southern accent thing is really odd…I’ve lived in Miami for 37 years and I’ve never heard a Cuban with an accent like that[:|]
Al seems to pick up accents that don’t actually belong to him. Some people are like that - Wempathy, did he develop a Boston accent at all while y’all were briefly based there? Did he ever have a “da Bears” style Chicago accent?
As for the video, everyone else has already said all the things I would have - cool cartoon characters, not so much with the other stuff.
Except that I kinda dig the Naziesque Ministry logo.
Al seems to pick up accents that don’t actually belong to him. Some people are like that - Wempathy, did he develop a Boston accent at all while y’all were briefly based there? Did he ever have a “da Bears” style Chicago accent?
As I recall, he enjoyed playing around with different dialects all the time. He used to speak in an Eastern-European accent when we first started because he spent a lot of time at 950 and the owner was Croatian, I believe. So Al picked that up but it was for humorous purposes only.
Not everyone here in Chicago has a “da Bears” accent and if they do they’re Southsiders and Al was from the North Suburbs/Northside.
I do recall though that when I got to Boston after having been separated from Al for a couple of months that he commented on my nasally Chicago accent compared to Bostonians.
He’s been in Texas a long time though. It’s inevitable. Even I used to say y’all occasionally when I lived there.
I really never understood the English accent rap. Not many singers speak like their singing voice anyway.
HAHA!!! I can’t help but assimilate accents from wherever I am as well, but really quickly. Australia, UK, Texas . . . after a week anywhere I start talking like them. But it’s gone within a day of my return back to CA.
When I did a study abroad thing in England for a couple of months I came back saying “tomahto”. It didn’t stick.
I must admit that I liked my accents when I pick one up. At least twice, though, I actually made an effort to keep the one I’d picked up. Of course, I looked like a total jackass intentionally using an accent that (at least once I’m back) didn’t come naturally.
I think one of the reasons that I’m so quick to adopt accents is I really hate the one that I’m genetically wired for . . . . the O.C. idiot stoned surfer accent. It’s lampooned on many a crappy 80’s and 90’s TV show or movie with the likes of Bill and Ted, Spicolli (“Fast Times”), Cody (“Step by Step”), Turtle, and countless others.
There are really people that talk like that all the time, though. And, if I get lazy in constructing my social facades I can easily slip back into it. So I guess, since subconsciously I NEVER really want to use my natural dialect I just assimilate whatever is closest and easiest to steal.
There are really people that talk like that all the time, though. And, if I get lazy in constructing my social facades I can easily slip back into it. So I guess, since subconsciously I NEVER really want to use my natural dialect I just assimilate whatever is closest and easiest to steal.
i can dig that. i have a nasty thick new Jersey accent. i tried to shake it for a while, and for the most part i have bumped most of it off, but certain words still catch me, and in a lot of my live performing i slip right back into it. its kinda cool though, gives my west coast bands an east coast cred. haha
coffee, off, mirror, crayon, light bulb, dog, brother, there are a lot of others, but these ones really stick me up.
Cody (“Step by Step”)
Didn’t his career pretty much get killed by him abusing his wife?
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I think his career was killed by his lack of ability to do anything other than a 99cent Keanu impersonation. Once Step by Step was finished, so was the Code-man.
I do kind of recall him getting busted for something, though. I sort of think he may’ve had a drugs charge on him too. I’ll have to look up Wiki and see what it says on this dude.
HAHA!!! I didn’t realize he was on a solid DALLAS run prior to Step by Step.
Anyway, it doesn’t say he was ever arrested but cops were sent to his and his wife’s house a number of times.
Looks like his career (other than Dallas and Step by Step) was always spotty. I’m guessing he’s probably now living in that same van he lived in while on the show.