And it's not limited to anime. There are thousands of fan videos where, for example, a pop song is played against those many heartrending moments on House when Hugh Laurie's veneer of sarcastic indifference relents for a moment and he gazes soulfully into the void with a look of wounded sarcastic indifference — usually a pop song Dr. House would doubtless hate, like Bryan Adams balladeerage or some hip-pastorism from dudeo-Christian jeezbros Switchfoot. These House videos are heavy, man, and their heart-aflutter sincerity attracts thousands of House-struck viewers. Jot a note in the margin of your dictionary: this represents the cutting-edge '08 definition of "white people."
On occasion things get a little more bizarre. While looking for some footage of the Donovan track "Hampstead Incident" (to educate a friend whose entire conception of Donovan was Atlantis-based), I ran across a dude who seems to have spent quite a bit of time setting classic Donovan tunes to clips from Starsky and Hutch. Troubling as it was that he'd cut together more than a dozen Donovan/Starsky crossover clips, I was even more disturbed to find that they often worked very well — it's as if Donovan had constructed his music in anticipation of a groovy cop duo yet to come. Worse yet, I took a peek at the dude's YouTube channel page and found that he'd produced hundreds of videos of Starsky and Hutch set to pop songs: everything from Muse to the Bee Gees has been expertly Starkified by a man whose love of buddy-cop dramas is matched only by his perverse amount of free time. It was almost infuriating how well he'd managed to make the clips work; I'd start watching them in awed horror, only to find myself kinda getting into the way Pet Shop Boys lined up to a car chase. I resent being made complicit in someone else's insanity.
And for you who thought I was just making that up, well, the dude's YouTube username is "troth71." See for yourself.
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