Never mind the bollocks, here's New Age Miracles: The Remix EP

John Anderson hosts New Age Miracles: Fact or Fiction.

Originally released in 1989, New Age Miracles: Fact or Fraud is a low-budget, made-for-video documentary about the various tricks and schemes used by New Age practitioners in order to con gullible people into joining their movement. It is hosted by an oddly-coiffed man named John Anderson, who wears a cream-colored sport jacket over a turquoise turtleneck. With his thick beard and dramatic eyebrows, Anderson is quite an imposing figure, especially when he's eating pieces of a shattered lightbulb or having a strongman break a cement block over his chest.

Other than Anderson himself, the most intriguing aspect of New Age Miracles: Fact or Fraud is its incredibly catchy background music. Recently, the hosts of the weekly YouTube series VCR Party Live screened a montage of clips from New Age Miracles and challenged viewers to do their own remixes. Well, that's the kind of challenge I could not resist. Here, then, is a modest EP I assembled yesterday in a fit of boredom. I hope you enjoy it. The songs are very short, so the entire EP is less than five minutes long.

josephablevins · New Age Miracles: The Remix EP

(today's zomby) AND POGO! GLORIOUS POGO!

Cheer up, Zomby. You want something to look at? Just keep reading.

Video remix genius Pogo (a.k.a. Nick Bertke)

If I were ever called upon to justify the existence of the Internet with just one word, that one word would be Pogo. I don't mean the comic strip or the pogo stick (though both of those are great). Instead I'm referring to self-described "VJ and producer" Nick Bertke, creator of some of YouTube's most ingenious "remix" videos. He started out with videos based on Disney movies, but he has since branched out. It's kind of tough to describe what Pogo does, but it involves taking sounds and dialogue from a particular source and rearranging them into weirdly soothing and eerie combinations.

The videos really speak for themselves. Here are a few of my favorites:







And there are so many more! Just look for yourself. I'm not sure why this guy does this, but I'm glad that he does.

Of course Pogo has a web site!

P.S. For fans of the Pogo comic strip and its creator Walt Kelly, I offer the following:

An absurdly NSFW remix of Khia's "My Neck, My Back"

Khia meets Frank Zappa in a very odd way.

Here is my take on Khia's immortal -- and astonishingly dirty -- hit song, "My Neck, My Back." I've given it a retro-futuristic setting with a melody taken from Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia." I hope you enjoy.

josephablevins · Pussies En Regalia (Khia vs. Frank Zappa)

And if you liked that, here's a mashup of "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" by The Beastie Boys and "Friday" by Rebecca Black.

josephablevins · No Sleep Till Friday (Rebecca Black vs. Beastie Boys)