Yippy ya ya. Yippe. Yippe. Yay.

[pphaneuf]

I've been sitting on this for a while, got them by way of morethanreal (also seen in jwz's jourmal, with witty comments and all).

azrhey and I once discussed how there's a few people's voices, they could just read the phone book and be awesome. For her, it's Sean Bean's. For me, it's Blixa Bargeld's, singer of Einstürzende Neubauten (which means "collapsing new buildings", the "new buildings" being actually the ugly and now-old buildings that have been hastily build after WWII in Germany).

Well, there it is. Blixa Bargeld reading from the catalog of Horbach, a German home improvement store, of all things. He reads about an electric mosquito killer, paving stones, a power drill (of course!) and paint.

I find they are in order of increasing awesomeness. cpirate gave the power drill an extra points for rhymes, but his enthusiasm for the paint is quite high. And the brush, ohh, the brush! It's big!

Comments

[sfllaw.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that my personal aesthetic doesn't have a separation between form and content. So even the sexiest voice can't mask the fact that the telephone book, although it has plenty of characterisation, lacks any hint of style.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

Saw those at the World's Best Commercials at Cinema du Parc last night. Many great ads, but the Blixas were my favourite.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

What?!? They have a "nuits de la pub"-like event back in town?!? And it was last night, meaning I missed it? Crap!

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Possibly why a catalog might be a better choice. There's actually a theme going, and marketing ensures that things chains nicely from one to the other. They walk a fine line between just describing the wares and trying to make them appealing so that you'll buy them.

I would indeed prefer some more stylish vocal works of his.

Here's some fine Blixa-related content you might be able to give some form to.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

Fear not. It's on all week, at least.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thanks!

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

I wasn't that impressed, though. The judging committee for this thing likes mega-productions with lots of effects, not comedy, so after the first half hour it was just endless Adidas commercials with basketball courts blowing up.