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It’s 5 AM and You are Listening to Los Angeles

by $8 blue check mistermix|  July 15, 20117:31 am| 32 Comments

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It’s an overused genre, but I thought this was a pretty good “Hitler is pissed” video about Carmageddon. (via) Here’s an open thread.

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  1. 1.

    kdaug

    July 15, 2011 at 7:37 am

    K.A.O.S.?

  2. 2.

    stinkdaddy

    July 15, 2011 at 7:37 am

    At this point doing a Ranting Hitler video is a commentary on doing a Ranting Hitler video. I’m not usually into stuff that comments on itself (inadvertently or otherwise) but damn, that clip is classic.

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    July 15, 2011 at 7:37 am

    We are all in some way or another going to Reseda someday to die.

  4. 4.

    RossInDetroit

    July 15, 2011 at 7:38 am

    Where did my comment go? The quote is from Soul Coughing.

    FYWP!

  5. 5.

    RossInDetroit

    July 15, 2011 at 7:39 am

    Mike Doughty = cracked genius.

  6. 6.

    stuckinred

    July 15, 2011 at 7:42 am

    And I’m free
    Free fallin

  7. 7.

    stuckinred

    July 15, 2011 at 7:45 am

    My brother lives in Sherman Oaks and my sis is in Hawthorne. Should be fun!

  8. 8.

    PurpleGirl

    July 15, 2011 at 7:56 am

    Incredibly good subplot: The complaint about the woman cutting her nails while on the bus and then having one staff woman comforting another staffer (“I’m sure he doesn’t know it was you.”) really made me laugh.

  9. 9.

    jeffreyw

    July 15, 2011 at 8:06 am

    Frazz

  10. 10.

    Napoleon

    July 15, 2011 at 8:20 am

    K.A.O.S.?

    Thats the first thing I though of.

  11. 11.

    SGEW

    July 15, 2011 at 8:21 am

    Los Angeles loves love.

  12. 12.

    EdTheRed

    July 15, 2011 at 9:34 am

    *cues up the Soul Coughing in a vain attempt to slay the EarWorm that was just implanted in my brain*

  13. 13.

    lawguy

    July 15, 2011 at 9:40 am

    I listened to people talking about this on NPR yesterday. Good lord, get a grip. They are closing part of the freeway for 2 days.

  14. 14.

    Stuck on Stupid

    July 15, 2011 at 9:55 am

    Robert Reich lays out the bottom line for 2012 (hint – it’s not “deficit reduction”):

    http://titanicsailsatdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/winning-2012-jobs-not-deficit-reduction.html

  15. 15.

    handsmile

    July 15, 2011 at 10:01 am

    Whoa! That was aesthetically pleasing to find this when I turned on the Balloon Juice machine this morning. My favorite, indeed, from this desert-island disc o’mine.

    On the day when I can cry if want to, many thanks for this unexpected gift, as I will not be going to Reseda….

  16. 16.

    mike in dc

    July 15, 2011 at 10:43 am

    Sure to be the next big meme:
    George C. Scott watches (X)

  17. 17.

    PTirebiter

    July 15, 2011 at 11:07 am

    I was still living in L.A. when the ’84 Olympics came to town preceded by the same dire predictions. Half the overpasses on the Santa Ana freeway were sure to collapse, etc.
    Locals changed their driving habits a tad and the traffic was actually more tolerable than usual. Civil servants exchanged awards and L.A. Shortcuts sold like diet-cocaine. Maybe the media will insure a real catastrophe of some sort and avoid the egg facial this time around.

  18. 18.

    Seitz

    July 15, 2011 at 11:07 am

    I’m a former Angeleno, though I grew up in the Pasadena area, so I didn’t spend a lot of time on the 405. When I first heard about “Carmageddon”, I figured it was something that was going to screw up the area for months like some of the construction that we have in the Midwest (like when they screwed up the Edens in Chicago a couple years ago). Then I found out it was for like 53 hours or something. What a bunch of fucking crybabies. It’s a weekend! Take a vacation.

  19. 19.

    eastriver

    July 15, 2011 at 11:23 am

    This is the karma that is wreaked on a city that measures distance in time.

    (“How far am I from Van Nuys?” “About 45 minutes.” Not 20 miles. 45 minutes. Karmaggedon. No, better: Karmangeddon Ghia.)

  20. 20.

    catclub

    July 15, 2011 at 11:25 am

    Stuck on S @ 14

    So in other words … we’re fucked.

    Actually, I continue to take solace from the fact that three years in, there is much more blame to Bush than Obama for the economy. Talk about your weak sauce.

  21. 21.

    artem1s

    July 15, 2011 at 11:49 am

    @lawguy:

    No kidding. They have started the Inner Belt bridge project here in Cleveland. Going to last for 3 years if we’re lucky. So LA can cry me a river. I got no pity. ;)

  22. 22.

    ABL

    July 15, 2011 at 11:56 am

    a Soul Coughing reference! very nice.

  23. 23.

    opie jeanne

    July 15, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    What was the Hitler clip originally from? Ok, I know I’m lame, but I haven’t seen that movie.

  24. 24.

    Crusty Dem

    July 15, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    The only thing that makes me happier than a Soul Coughing reference is the number of Juicers who knew it. Outstanding.

  25. 25.

    Paul in KY

    July 15, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    opie jeanne, it was called ‘Downfall’.

  26. 26.

    opie jeanne

    July 15, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    Paul in KY, thanks.

  27. 27.

    Doug Kahn

    July 15, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    I think that’s what is known as a guilty pleasure. Brilliant.

  28. 28.

    burnspbesq

    July 15, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    @Doug Kahn:

    No reason for guilt about that.

    This, on the other hand, is a guilty pleasure.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Fb8XbpWMM

  29. 29.

    singfoom

    July 15, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    Bah, I thought Hitler was going to rant about the old series of games: Carmageddon, not some construction project.

    Props for the Soul Coughing framing though.

  30. 30.

    Glen Tomkins

    July 15, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    The popularity of the “Hitler is pissed” YouTubes

    Folks had misgivings about The Downfall because it protrayed Hitler as a lunatic, but a very human and understandable lunatic. You can take his over-the-top lunatic rant about the impending fall of Berlin and dub in a lunatic rant you might hear from an Angeleno about Carmageddon, and it fits right in. We knew it would from that fact that anyone would call it “Carmageddon”. That very name for closing a freeway for two days already has lunatic rant built into it.

    This bit of The Downfall is so overused because lunatic rant has become a very mainstream form of self-expression. I guess the Hitler dubs show that at least we still notice that there might be something a bit untoward about that.

  31. 31.

    BarbCat

    July 15, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    Real Angelenos don’t drive on the weekends anyway. ‘Carmageddon’ is some PR term to reinforce the stereotype, so people stop moving here. It’s 82 at the beach, and breezy. I’m on my bike and I’m rollin’, I’m rollin’.

  32. 32.

    agorabum

    July 15, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    It’s like the Big Dig. But way worse. Also, only for a weekend.

    Best part of the whole story: Jet Blue sold $4 flights from Burbank airport to Long Beach (which is by the 405. So if you have to get from the south bay (i.e. manhattan beach / Long Beach area) to the San Frenando Valley, it’ll be tough to drive but you can fly for just a few bucks more than a bus pass.

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