Ben Sisto’s five favorite YouTube videos
By BEN SISTO | July 3, 2007
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- The Yacoubian Building
A massive Arabic soap opera, a Cairo-based Gone with the Wind.
- Marketing magic
When you dial the Disney Channel headquarters in Burbank and ask to be transferred, the operator will cheerily instruct you to have a “magical day.”
- El cantante
Unlike Lopez, he digs beneath the soap-opera dialogue and bares his character’s soul.
- Where everything is meant to be seen
So I’ve been reading Introducing Baudrillard (Verso).
- La Mujer de mi Hermano
This silly would-be soap opera directed by Ricardo de Montreuil takes a steamy premise and drains all the fun out of it.
- Live Free or Die
Seinfeld writers Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin conceived this project as a TV series, which is where it should have stayed.
- Ghost hunters and God chasers
How quaintly reverent it now seems, The Blair Witch Project .
- I ruined Stephen Colbert's coffee
It’s 11:39 pm on June 26, and my cell phone is about to explode.
- The Big Hurt: Jacko solvent! Boyle swelling! Lupus dissed!
If you had your heart set on picking up a gently used chimp tuxedo or a suspicious child skeleton, you're outta luck
- Steel, blowtorches, and a little trash talk
At the Steel Yard, arts center and business incubator for the metal-minded, a molten hot contest this past weekend. It was the second annual Iron Chef Competition -- a game pitting artist against artist, blowtorches in hand, in a breakneck race to produce the snazziest sculpture.
- Pink Martini | Splendor in the Grass
The members of Portland’s Pink Martini have covered plenty of well-known songs in their decade and a half together, like “Que Sera, Sera” on their 1997 debut, and the theme from I Dream of Jeannie in their early live shows.
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