Gustavo Almodovar, a former news reporter in Orlando, FL and verbal hypnotist.
If you’re pronouncing Gustavo’s last name like “All-mo-di-var,” then slap your tongue and come correct, because that’s now how you pronounce it. Once you press play on Gustavo’s sign-off supercut, there’s no going back and you’ll learn how Gustavo pronounces his last name and it will never leave your head. I watched this at Jezebel yesterday and it’s still embedded in my brain. You know those penny press machines that press a picture into a penny? YouTube is the penny press machine, that video is the picture and my brain is the penny. (That last part was generous, because my thoughts are barely worth a damn cent.)
When he says “Gustavo” he uses his job interview voice and then he suddenly becomes Swedish or German right before he says “Ah-Meh-Doe-Var!” It’s like he’s greeting me in another language. It’s hypnotizing and it’s with me forever. Just be prepared, because for the rest of the day I might sign off all my posts with: Gu-Stah-Vo Ah-Meh-Doe-Var!
Maru has jumped out of the box for his latest cinematic YouTube and is sprawling himself out on a shag rug to get up close and personal. This is a little too intimate for me so I’ll leave you two alone. Don’t worry, I’ll be sure to cue up “Your Body Is A Wonderland” on my way out.
Just when you thought Justin Timberlake comedies were the oddest artifcacts hiding in plain sight at YouTube, along comes… this: A 40-year-old Star Trek tribute that might very well be the earliest known (and preserved) example of the fan film.
Devin Faraci suggests as much at Badass Digest, but in any case, it’s one of the more amusing fan relics in a Trekkie subculture teeming with such curios. It’s the handiwork of one Ray Glasser, who produced the short as his final project for a TV production class in 1971 at Ohio State University. (“I got an A-,” Glasser notes at the movie’s YouTube page.) Honestly, it had me at the credits (“and KEN RENKER as MR. SPOCK”), but once the action finally kicks in around 1:30, and KEN RENKER actually opens his mouth, and the meta migraine of watching Trek characters vexed by ancient TV equipment on our computers wears off, I’d say it’s something of a runaway success. Either way, it’s history.
[via Badass Digest]
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