Here's another video for the musical I've created with my collaborator, Keith Doughty, based on The Goonies.  We got mentions in /Film, Topless Robot, JoBlo.com, Cinematical, FilmDrunk, The Nerdist, Fandango, HeyUGuys!, IMDB - so that's awesome.  Here's one of the videos, for "Tubes."  Lyrics and a repeat of background info on the project after the jump!

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"Be an astronaut?  Sure!"

NASA has discovered a bag of cocaine in one of their hangars.  Seriously?  What the hell, NASA?  The centrifuge, giant gyroscope, rockets, jets and zero-G's aren't enough excitement for you?  You have to bump rails on top of it?

Also, this case combined with this earlier report, why is Coke everywhere?  Aren't we going a bit too far with this whole retro thing?  I like Scarface as much as the next person (providing the next person doesn't really like Scarface), but come on people.  It's the 21st century.

It's meth's time.

Martin Luther King's final speech before his assassination:

A brilliant fan took the whacky and whacktastic Star Trek cartoons and placed Shatner's version of "Common People" over it.

It should be pointed out that this is a video with a clear Slash Fiction approach, and if you don't know what that is...well go google it and report to me about the results.

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I was!

Sorry I haven't been around, gang.  I've just been slammed and sickly this week.  But we're gonna have all types of stuff and shenanigans next week, including new features, more personal essays, more Goonies the Musical videos and some other surprises.

So hang in there, baby!

"When you walked a city, wherever you looked, someone had probably fallen in love there."

- Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold

Every Saturday, we here at Neurotic Monkey like to post up a cartoon for you all to enjoy.  We should point out this isn't really for kids, but whatever, they gotta grow up sometime!

This amazing short film isn't really hilarious, but would be a great animated short to play before Duncan Jones' Moon - sci-fi movies that meditate on the distance between people and how we define identity.

This short French film, entitled Skhizein, was brought to my attention by the fine folks at /Film.  It's a story about what happens when a man is struck by a meteorite and all the complications that come from that.

Enjoy!

Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Bertie on Vimeo.

This is just awesome...

This awesome statue depicting NPH as his evil (yet sympathetic) character "Dr. Horrible" will be coming out in February from Entertainment Earth.  The price for pre-order is $69.99 and there will be only 1,000 or so made, so get thee to Entertainment Earth's site post-haste nerds!

(via Topless Robot)

In the din of fireworks and native drums, of colored lights in the doorways and the clamor of the crowd yearning for peace, Florentino Ariza wandered like a sleepwalker until dawn, watching the fiesta through his tears, dazed by the hallucination that it was he and not God who had been born that night. 

-- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I peaked in sixth grade.  More precisely, I peaked athletically in the summer following sixth grade.  Well, perhaps peaked is the wrong word, as it implies that there was a steady improvement in my skill set.  Let’s just say that my athletic skills inexplicably spiked in the summer following sixth grade.

As previously mentioned, sports are not my strong suit.  My asthma put the kibosh on most running activities, relegating me to the role of embarrassed spectator in many a gym class.  My coordination wasn’t really evident—appearing less like a controlled movement of an athlete than the controlled spasms of an epileptic whenever any ball came my way. 

That's not even close to me...I never wore glasses! (From The Decemberists' album, "Picaresque)

My skills were non-existent and I was immediately branded as an outsider to the majority of my fellow male classmates.  I became an “indoor kid,” the kind that gets cheered for just finishing the race in a way that was meant to boost self esteem but really just highlighted my pathetic nature to the predators in my class.

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This video was all up in the internets last year - but I'll be damned if it doesn't immediately make me smile every time I see it. 

When I first saw it, I thought it was just some poor intern that had lost a bet at a small TV Station.  I'm pretty sure it was a local comedy show that spawned this brilliant danse macabre.  Two more videos after the jump...

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Sorry I've been away, my nonexistent audience.  I've been trying to pimp out a new group of videos I've created with my collaborator, Keith Doughty, based on The Goonies.  We got mentions in /Film, Topless Robot, JoBlo.com, Cinematical, FilmDrunk - so that's awesome.  Here's one of the videos, for Sloth's Song, below along with some background info:

In 2001, my college buddy, Keith Doughty, and I began working on a musical based on the seminal 80s film The Goonies.  I had been raised on that film, quoting from pre-adolescence onward.  I identified with the asthmatic protagonist who didn't fit in with others, especially his older sibling. 

I was watching it for probably the thousandth time during one vacation, when the scene where Mikey is alone on the porch comes on and with it came inspiration.

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…I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

-- On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Every Saturday, we here at Neurotic Monkey like to post up a cartoon for you all to enjoy.  We should point out this isn't really for kids, but whatever, they gotta grow up sometime!

Today's selection is the hilarious meet and beat between Killface and Antagone from the gone-too-soon Frisky Dingo.  Enjoy!