We Recommend: Your Friday Freebies
Junkee-endorsed bits and bobs to make your weekend better. Includes short films, GTAV easter eggs, and some incredible thing called 'Dinovember'.
Each Friday, our contributors send in a bunch of (legally) free stuff they’ve come across this week to help you waste your weekend. You’re welcome.
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Short film: ‘The Mind Job’
Recommended by: Andy Huang (‘Before She Wrote Girls, Lena Dunham Used To Write Weird Sex Poetry‘)
For giggles and neocortical stimulation, watch a man (who will always be known as the Youi guy) hopelessly attempt to justify the concept of a ‘wank bank’ to his dismayed girlfriend in this sci-fi comedy. Set in a world where crimes can be solved by advanced technology which allows people’s memories to be downloaded onto computer, the film’s mastermind is JJ Winlove, an Australian director who’s also planning to do this cool project, where he is going to make a short a month for the whole year.
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YouTube: ‘Crybaby Learns To Swim’
Recommended by: Estelle Tang
This may be unpleasant for y’all to see, but essentially this video of a leopard seal being indignant about getting into the water is my life (except the bit where he humps the ice).
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Comic: Louis CK’s ‘Why?’, illustrated by Jaeil Cho
Recommended by: Rob Moran
Maybe you’re familiar with this classic comedy bit from Louis CK, in which his daughter’s merciless questioning leads to existential despair (“I don’t know any more things! Those are all the things I know!”). Well, illustrator Jaeil Cho‘s drawn it.
Read the rest of it here, and head to Cho’s page for other fun stuff like this scene from The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, where Geoffrey turns Carlton into a sandwich.
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Music video: ‘Permanent Hesitation’, by Born Ruffians
Recommended by: Paul Dalla Rosa (‘Can The Upcoming Marvel And Netflix Hook-Up Compete With TV’s Best Shows?‘)
Last week, Canadian band Born Ruffians — who are coming to Aus late next month for a couple of headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney — premiered their video clip for ‘Permanent Hesitation’, a single off their new album, Birthmarks. The video is the first music clip to be shot using eight separate cameras to create a composite moving image, which means you get eight angles of frontman Luke Lalonde at once. Pretty damn fly.
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Video: ‘Grand Theft Auto V Mythbusters’
Recommended by: Alasdair Duncan (‘A Chilean Presidential Candidate Used Jinja Safari’s Song Without Asking‘)
The world of Grand Theft Auto V offers plenty of opportunities for unbridled mayhem: mid-air hijackings, bullet-ridden bank robberies, fist-fights with juiced-up jock bros on Vespucci Beach. The YouTube series Grand Theft Auto V Mythbusters takes things a step further, exploring glitches and hidden secrets that push the game’s capacity for wanton destruction even further. For instance, did you know that if you aim just right, you can shoot someone’s grenade back at them? Or that you can attach sticky bombs to a yoga ball and turn it into a rolling orb of fiery death?
After watching a few episodes, you’ll be dying to try some of these things for yourself. I know I’ll be going back to GTA V this weekend to drive my jet ski into the middle of the ocean and try to tase a great white shark.
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Music: ‘Best Drops Ever’
Recommended by: Cameron Tyeson (‘How To Throw A Prohibition Party‘)
These are the best drops ever. Don’t even think about trying to top them, because you will not succeed. Go home. It’s over. It’s done. That’s it. Impeccably crafted and immaculately named, these drops are so good, so magnificent, so utterly breathtaking, that your sides will literally hurt from the sheer resplendence of it all.
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Short film: Super Mario Bros short films
Recommended by: Matt Banham (‘In Praise Of Tom Hanks’ Forgotten Comedy Classics‘)
Some people have made some short Super Mario Bros movies. They’re pretty good! I could watch a feature-length movie of this stuff. If you’ve ever wanted to see Mario and Luigi in a dark gritty world full of drug addicts and hang overs, then this is for you. There are two installments up right now, and the rest will be out soon.
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Thing: Dinovember
Recommended by: Elizabeth Flux (‘Junk Explained: What Is This ‘BitStrips’ Thing All About?‘)
While everyone was getting their facial hair happening, these parents were placing toy dinosaurs in different elaborate (and messy) scenarios around their house in order to make their children believe they were coming to life overnight. Named ‘Dinovember’, they are now encouraging other parents to join them “Because in the age of iPads and Netflix, we don’t want our kids to lose their sense of wonder and imagination.”
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Drag show: ‘Dear Peggy’, by Panti
Recommended by: Jack Arthur Smith
World-renowned (by us queers at least) and utterly divine Irish drag artist, Panti, channels yet another diva of epic proportions, Peggy Mitchell, from the BBC’s hit show, Eastenders. Here Panti/Peggy/Pegti sits astride her own Dublin bar top and regales the bustling crowd with one of the finest scenes ever to hit TV screens in all of Britannia. Anglophiles, eat your sequinned hearts out, and keep your eyes peeled for 3:23.