John Daker
This video I first saw on wtfpeople.com, and I nearly choked once it started playing. This John Daker guy is fucking hilarious! I love the way he'd introduce his name right when the piano plays, and how he segues into Dean Martin's "Thats Amore" which is a song that I sometimes mumble to myself. But not like this! Not THE JOHN DAKER WAY! This guy completely and totally ANNIHILATES the original version! He hums over certain lines, incoherently mumbles over words and has these funny as fuck facial expressions throughout the entire thing. Notice his apologetic grin near the end of his set, I LOVE IT!
Its one thing to appreciate bad singing, its another to be caught up in the mystery of wondering who these people are. What lives do they lead? Are they doctors, nurses, garbagemen, unemployed heroin addicts? Do they have family?
So I went out on the prowl for more information about John Daker. This is the first time I've ever shown real interest in knowing the story behind those intranet videos. I'm sure a lot of people watch video clips that they get from friends over the internet or on web sites, but those people never really consider the story behind any of those. Which is a shame, since I think those videos are really something quite special.
So I found this:
My Name is John Daker
Thats like the unofficial, official website dedicated to that video. I was amazed and close to creaming my pants when I discovered that I watched just a small CLIP of John Daker, and that on that website, was the ENTIRE show in DiVX format! Anyone know how to convert from .wmv to a dvd video file format? heh.
America We Stand As One...
As I watched this video, I was uh.. baffled. After a while it got a little addictive to watch as its sitting right here on the desktop awaiting that double-click of my mouse. So it grew on me, and I went to see if there was any more stuff by the band/guy.
Lo and behold! I ended up finding the official website! Here I go to play the song, wtf.. the song is completely different! There's no "fuck yeah!" in the chorus, its cut differently, I smelled a rat. Turns out this was the ORIGINAL version of the video which can actually be purchased via a donation (of any amount, got ten cents?). And that the "fuck yeah!" was really a video made by an ambitious bunch of guys with too much time on their hands. Not only did they re-edit the video to sync their own music to, but they recorded a completely different song for it as well! Nice job.
edit: after further sleuthing, I have discovered that the parody song is from Team America: World Police. By the Orgazmo guys!
And in addition to the official website, I found this flash spoof OF the spoof! Check this out, its got Dubya! And yet another flash spoof (awesomely done).
Yay for school, its tomorrow morning :P
