Why Youtube and the Doors Suck

Recently Youtube blocked the sound on one of our home movies, "Karate Kids vs. Army of Darkness", due to a little 36 second snippet of the song “Break On Through” by the Doors as the Karate Kids runs through a graveyard.

Now it’s no secret that the certain surviving members of the Doors and their leaches are a bunch of whiny little bitches, especially John Densmore, the parents and estates of Jim Morrison and his wife Pamela Courson, and their representation.

At least Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger still want to have some fun and play some music.

The Doors’ legal interactions have been well documented through the forty or so years since they recorded this song, or any other. (If you really feel so inclined, google “doors” and “legal” and watch all the page choices pop up.)

But seriously, complaining because the home movie of a couple kids has your old song in it? They should be happy to be remembered, and for any possible exposure to their dated material.

Anyway, Youtube, without any direct email or message notification, suspended ALL the sound on our video “Karate Kids vs. Army of Darkness” due to a complaint by the Doors’ representation WMG. They made the weak “offer” of swapping one of their licensed crap audio songs into the video, but it would only attach to the beginning of the movie, and wipe out all other dialog and sound effects, too.

Two brief points to consider:

1.) If there was no copyright infringement on youtube, about 40% percent of the total content on that site would be gone.
2.) This was a non-commercial home movie by a couple of kids that wanted to share it in an easy venue with family and friends. If there are any side commercials on its page, they were put there by youtube’s choice. Frankly, I don’t want to see promotions for “Paul Blart, Mall Cop”, or any equally artistic endeavors bumping down the information box on our videos.

We have now reloaded the whole movie, again, with the Doors song removed, and a brief improvisation by Nick on the electric guitar in its place.

I apologize to anyone who tried to view it in its original entirety, only to have it spoiled due to the legal whining or others. (I wish I had staff on retainer to scour the internet for possible violations of my content. Instead I’m actually working.)

If you did have any problem trying to view our movie before, please give it another try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RinsyhZoPPE

Nostalgia, Part 37

Maybe it’s just me.

The economy is in the stinker, heating costs are up, my hours at work are down. With an impending birthday maybe I’m feeling a little nostalgic.

Remember the “good old days” when having an Oriental (not “Asian”, they were the “good old days” after all) houseboy wasn’t gay?

Like the Green Hornet or Inspector Clouseau.












Or maybe that only works in the non-gay sense if your sidekick’s name is Kato.

No, wait. The Kato thing doesn’t work for O.J.



And speaking of O.J.:


When exactly was the last time I ate corn? About three weeks ago? I just had the big “plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is”, and there it is. Was that an evacuation or an eviction? (Rimshot plays in the background)

Why Basset Brewery?

This is the name of our personal youtube production company. Usually we include this little video clip in our home movies. It’s our oldest basset hound, Freckles, sneaking some of my Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

I discovered he likes it after he knocked over the recycling bucket and starting licking a bottle of it. He doesn’t show any interest in any other brands, but he does indeed like Sierra Nevada.

Maybe it’s the Cascade hops--or he just likes sneaking a few slippery licks before Daddy comes back and unknowingly takes a sip.