Originally shared by superworkfriend Nicola Yates

Now in GIF form! Sorry this just never gets old. If you don't know where it's from, this was a promo for a Japanese Happy Meal toy promotion for Spongebob.

Just came back from the Chris Cunningham show at the Opera House as part of the Vivid Sydney Festival; in short it was a great way to spend a Sunday evening. He opened with his audiovisual mix of Gil Scott-Heron's New York is Killing Me (as above) which, after seeing it in the Opera House, has become one of my favourites.

However I felt like there was something missing once the lights were back on; I asked myself 'was that it?' I was psyching myself to sit on the edges of my seat for at least another hour of it, but that was not fulfilled. A lot of purists would've been disappointed in this show since he was rehashing his old material, but in the spirit of Vivid and a mild desperation for more interesting names coming over to Australia, I think it would've been quite the feat just to get the fella to come over to the other side of the world. A dark theatre with great sound acoustics, large motherfucking speakers and lasers and video mashups of creepy shit. Sure, why the hell not?

I've been having a bit of a shitty-gigs streak in the past year, and this has somewhat made it better.

P.S. Did he create that video for that Boards of Canada track?

Not an official video, but digging the footage used alongside one of my favourites from BOC. Apparently came from some rare Japanese experimental short film about a woman and a boy playing on a staircase. Totally DEEP.

No-one has anything on these dancers; they are the real deal.

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It's a good idea to be inspired by your favourite music.

What if she puts her tongue too far into my mouth? What if I throw up? What if I throw up all over her? What if I throw up in her mouth?

Plasmo, a little alien, risks his life by flying his spacecraft into an oncoming comet to deflect it. In doing so, the core of a certain planet gets filled by a naturalistic/ forest-like utopia. In his last seconds, he sends a photo of himself and Pasty, as a gesture that she was probably the last thing on his mind before he hurls himself and his spaceship into the comet.

To think 4 year olds watch this straight after school and digest it within minutes. Nevertheless, 'epic' still isn't adequate enough a word to describe the density of that episode.

N.B. My blog's name is partially inspired by this series

I was going to write up some review, talk about some of the ideas, appreciate some of the artists, love the characters, etc.

But it is wrong because this movie provided a canvas for anti-establishment, and writing anything remotely about the movie's ideas would prove its point.

So don't watch it because you should.