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The week in a minute: 10/21/05
A compilation of some of the past week's video gems, brought to you by the Download.com Video team. This week's minute brings you bird flu, Tupac, a boat of speed, and the Nirvana baby.
1.) Spencer Davis Group: "Gimme Some Lovin'" live
2.) The Daily Show looks at the avain flu
3.) "The Big Lebowski" DVD clip: "That creep can roll"
4.) Trigger Trippy
5.) Jesus: The Action Figure
6.) Family Guy: A-ha
7.) Saute flipping tip
7.) Tupac: How Do You Want It"
8.) Luis Guzman's freak out
9.) The making of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album cover
10.) Chinese kids doing Backstreet
11.) 17-year-old Biggie Smalls
12.) "How to Dance LIke a White Guy" infomercial
13.) "Brokeback Mountain" trailer
14.) Malaysian Michael
15.) 12-year-old wiz drummer
16.) Simple Sun commercial: "Boat of Speed"
17.) Filmmaker pukes on newsdesk
18.) Electric Light Orchestra: "Do Ya"
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SF IndieFest trailer: "Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher"
This documentary by David Di Sabatino is a part of the SF Indie Film Festival. What do you do when the Jesus freak who started your church dies from AIDS? Simple, erase him from history.
Lonnie Frisbee was a young hippie seeker fully immersed in the 1960s counterculture when he claimed to have experienced an encounter with God while on an acid trip. The event so transformed him that Lonnie became an itinerant Christian evangelist, something of a John the Baptist of Southern California who compelled thousands toward a profession of faith in Jesus Christ.
Fascinatingly, his call into Christian ministry came while deeply involved in the Laguna Beach homosexual scene. And because he died as a result of AIDS in 1993, he's been marginalized from history by the very men whom he helped establish with their evangelistic ministries.
Controversial throughout his life, the brief but dynamic career of evangelist Lonnie Frisbee is a powerful story of biblical proportions. "Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher" captures the dramatic journey of this spiritual seeker turned Jesus freak who thousands remember as the agent through whom they experienced spiritual transformation.
This is a part of the SF IndieFest.
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My God, My God have you just left me? Behind the Music: For me this album came at a very difficult time in my life. A time where I was forced to face my failures. This was a time where my breaths were shallow and each morning my dreams would end to stare cold hard reality in the face. This was a time where I needed God and the raw, eternal hope in his promises found in the words he has spoken through mortals. I turned to the Psalms and found David venting his own times of being caught between a rock and hard place, expressing his fear, his doubt, his hope in God and his promises amidst the struggles of his life. Then I ran across Psalm 22, a vivid prophetic scriptural account of Christ when he is hanging on the cross. A moment in eternity where I feel Christ most relates to my own humanity... and when God turned his face away. A place where I find myself feeling like I've fallen out of fellowship with Jesus. For me this recording chronicles the struggle, the doubt, the scratching and stretching for hope, for truth, for salvation. Welcome to my side of the journey we call Village Thrift. Lyrics:: My God, My God have you just left me? Why are you so far, so far from helping me? My God, I cry I Cry in the daytime, but do you hear? And in the night, I am not silent, but do you hear? I?ll cry out to you, but will you deliver? If I trusted you, would you take care of me? Would you care for me? My God, my God why have you left me? Why are you so far, so far from helping me? My God, I cry, I cry in the daytime, but do you hear? I?ll cry out to you, but will you deliver? If I trusted you, would you take care of me? I?ll cry out to you, but will you deliver? If I trusted you, would you take care of me? Would you care for me? Take care of me Take care of me Take care of me
It is Monday morning - a golden beam of sunlight illuminates a bedside table. On this table we see a stack of prayer cards, books about the lives of the Saints, a Child's Catholic Pictionary, a picture of St. Rita, a rosary and a small statue of Mother Teresa. This room is Jessica's - she is 12 years old and wants to be a nun. Her alarm rings an electronic version of "Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring". She gets up and today, like every other day, she goes to St. Mary's church to say her prayers before school. As she's walking to class, she sees a boy she has never seen in her neighborhood before. He...is beautiful. Her eyes are locked onto him as she walks right into her friends. Her prayer cards go flying into the air. The girls stop to help her pick them up - all the time poking fun at her for wanting to be a nun, as they usually do - and of course all nuns are virgins - so she'll have to stay a virgin for the rest of her life. They tell her what they think she'll be missing, but they really don't have a clue about sex and she doesn't believe them...they can't possibly be right. Jessica's friends run off when the school bell rings, but the young BOY comes over to help her pick up her prayer cards. He is more beautiful than she thought; she finds herself staring at him. He touches her hand; Jessica doesn't know what to do, so she runs away. The next morning, instead of going to church, she walks to the bookstore. She purchases a book about sex and brings it to the playground. As she's showing her friends the pictures in the book, the principal walks up to them. Alarmed, Jessica's friends run off and the book falls to the ground - the principal, seeing this interesting book, quizzically looks at Jessica...She is busted. Now go watch the movie to see what happens!
A compilation of some of the past week's best videos, brought to you by the Download.com Video team. This week we have loads of snarling punk, a stranded British girl, and a raver's thoughts on Jesus.
1.) Batman by Your Side
2.) Jin: "Top 5 (Dead or Alive)"
3.) "The Greatest Game Ever Played" trailer
4.) Bad Brains: "Soul Craft"
5.) Get Inspired
6.) Dead Kennedys: "Hyperactive Child"
7.) John Roberts can't answer that
8.) Ok Go: "1 Million Ways"
9.) Qbert
10.) Looting cops
11.) He Man does 4-non-blondes
12.) Murder City Devils: "18 Wheels"
13.) Nutrigrain commercial: "I Feel Great"
14.) Iggy Pop: "Some Weird Sin"
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Girls Against Boys: "Basstation"
Formed in 1990 from the ashes of legendary DC hardcore bands (most notably Soulside), Girls Against Boys have released six albums on such varied labels as Adult Swim, Touch & Go and Geffen, in addition to numerous singles and EPs. They have also contributed to soundtracks for the movies: Clerks, Mallrats, Permanent Midnight, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Suburbia and 200 Cigarettes. GVSB have toured the world extensively by themselves and with bands such as Fugazi, the Jesus Lizard, Rage Against the Machine, Garbage, Hole and Jawbox, as well as appearing in such festivals as Lollapalooza, Reading, Mt. Fuji and SXSW
St. Vincent: "Jesus Saving, I Spend"
Directed by Bucky Fukumoto and Andy Bruntel with the Directors Bureau, "Jesus Saves, I Spend" is a sort of quirky, intelligently filmed interpretation of this song.
DragChrist returns with a new record and a video to match.
Federal Agent Derrick Vann (Samuel L. Jackson) walks the walk, while affable dental supply salesman Andy Fidler (Eugene Levy) talks and talks in the odd couple action comedy The Man. A case of mistaken identity forces the mismatched duo to team up and sets off an intense and hilarious adventure as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a sting operation and solve the murder of Vann's former partner. Along the way, they uncover much more than they could have ever anticipated.
This music and short interview is from the DVD "Rise - The Story of Rave Outlaw Disco Donnie". In it, one girl says that Jesus was probably a raver who smoked weed.
