4 November 2008Video 2000!
My Dad bought a Philips Video 2000 system in the early eighties. It came with a groovy little video that showed you how to use it, y’know program it and such.
The one abiding memory I have of this video is a little fella in a hat, that spoke gibberish and had the most amazing bendy fingertips. In fact I sometimes think I imagined the whole thing.
No more though! Now, thanks to the miracle of YouTube, I’ve found the actual video! Rejoice in its bizarre splendour.
Freaky, huh? Made all the more freaky by the weird alien thing that it makes you imagine actually starts your recordings when you’re out and the music towards the end (a cross between Jean Michel-Jarre and a bad trip in a fairground). Amazing stuff.
Trippy. I had a similar issue with Sport Billy untill I discovered it was real!
November 4th, 2008 at 09:38
Someone even suspected that Sport Billy wasn’t real?
November 5th, 2008 at 22:24
Sport Billy is not real. Sport Billy is a character in an animated television program. However, I’m sure they have invented an omni-sack. I guess it would be kind of like Doctor Who’s TARDIS. Which of course is not real but has only been animated a few times.
November 6th, 2008 at 16:15
And here I was thinking that the video was the most fucked up thing on this page…
November 7th, 2008 at 01:10