{"id":1683,"date":"2008-10-15T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:41:58","slug":"stating-whats-obvious-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Stating What&#8217;s Obvious to All."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ\" title=\"\u201cYou\u2019ll be hypnotized in a minute.\u201d\"  target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/screen81.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cYou\u2019ll be hypnotized in a minute.\u201d\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ\" title=\"Why are you not reading this?\"  target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons my wife, Zakiya, and I can&#8217;t watch television together has to do with my refusal to stop talking to the TV. I&#8217;m always critiquing inconsistencies in the storyline, yakking about subtext, or adding stupid voices.<\/p>\n<p>Z usually yells at me or leaves the room, but, in fact, I love trying to crash the fourth wall, and adore media that&#8217;s self-referential in that way, whether it&#8217;s <em>Mystery Science Theater 3000<\/em>, or rudely scribbled penises and word balloons on subway ads.<\/p>\n<p>So, you knew I was gonna dig this: DustoMcNeato&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Take On Me: Literal Video Version.&#8221;<\/a> Here, the original lyrics, vocals, and even the tracks on  Norwegian power trio a-ha&#8217;s 1985 hit have been scrapped for a hilarious, subtitled imitation that blasts the once vanguard video&#8217;s now cheesy &#8220;plot.&#8221; Oh, it&#8217;s funnier than that sounds.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8HE9OQ4FnkQ?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8HE9OQ4FnkQ?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons my wife, Zakiya, and I can&#8217;t watch television together has to do with my refusal to stop talking to the TV. I&#8217;m always critiquing inconsistencies in the storyline, yakking about subtext, or adding stupid voices. Z usually yells at me or leaves the room, but, in fact, I love trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,42,39,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7153,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}