Energyface found a bunch of ersatz Frank Black videos on YouTube which combine public domain video (like One Got Fat) with songs from his new album (as Black Francis), Bluefinger.At first glance, it's not entirely clear if they were created by fans who got their hands on the leaks or the man himself, but YouTube user comments from the videos show up in the seizuriffic flash at blackfrancis.net.Don't see anything there?If you were using Internet Explorer, this is what you'd see:
+10 points, cool random public domain footage.+5, quoting even the idiotic YouTube user comments on your site.-100, not testing your site in Firefox.3 of the 5 YouTube videos are credited to "qrickets", who's also responsible for similar videos from Arcade Fire and Iron & Wine.Superfan with taste or editor being paid to feed two of your five greedy, greedy senses?Here's a sample ("Threshold Apprehension"):
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Check out the rest:
- "Tight Black Rubber"
- "Your Mouth Into Mine" (kinda pretty NSFW)
- "Captain Pasty"
- "Test Pilot Blues" (hey, that footage looks familiar...)
FrankBlack.net says:
Earlier this month, The Man himself came forward with some bizarre posts about something called a ?bluefinger? and was posting long threads that appeared to have used some sort of online translation tool to translate from English to Dutch and back to English!
The songs are good, the weirdness is A++, but seriously: IE only?Got to fix that if you want the buzz to keep building.
