Comments on: I want to walk up the side of the mountain

I want to walk up the side of the mountain

Mwongozi — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:10:05 -0800

By: Igor XA

Igor XA — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:40:19 -0800

what, the grandaddy song? you can find it on "below the radio" [pitchfork review]. but thanks, i only had a low quality version of this before.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:20:22 -0800

i'd never seen or heard this before, me like.

By: The Thnikkaman

The Thnikkaman — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:45:08 -0800

Crazy furries. :')

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:52:08 -0800

Well, your comments killed my joke. I hope you're happy. (It included austronauts, Bette Midler and a teeny tiny fellow named Wes).

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:01:22 -0800

Well, that was happy! Is that a famous song, or an original song?

By: gallois

gallois — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:14:28 -0800

That was very fun and cheerful!

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:24:04 -0800

Is that a famous song, or an original song? It's an original, but I doubt it'll be famous, It's good, but not up to par with the best Grandaddy songs. Check'em out if you haven't. Start with their breakthrough, "Under the Western Freeway". Fantastic album.

By: kcds

kcds — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:35:17 -0800

Grandaddy? D'oh! I look at the URL - softcitizen - gotta be a reference to The Soft Bulletin. Check. Furries? Check. Wayne Coyne-soundalike vocals? Check. So I duly file the QT movie under The Flaming Lips and then I read these comments ... I like The Sophtware Slump a lot, I'll check out Under the Western Freeway. Thanks for the tip!

By: bitpart

bitpart — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:46:51 -0800

Unadulterated happiness. The bunnies hugging the crying fish was particularly so.

By: TheGoldenOne

TheGoldenOne — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:06:12 -0800

I watched it all the way though and sang along. Loudly. I couldn't help myself. I have diabetes now.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:31:54 -0800

haha, very cute. I have diabetes now. I hear you TheGoldenOne - I am going to have to go throw darts at a bush & cheney pic to get my natural equilbrium back.

By: melissa may

melissa may — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:07:17 -0800

I totally got snowed into thinking this was a Flaming Lips masterpiece too, kcds. All that was missing were the giant balloons and a reference to mortality. Now I strangely feel like trying to be nice to everyone. Especially little kids in bunny costumes -- are these people trying to kill my poor pancreas?

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:44:14 -0800

If you repeat the same thing over, and over, and over, eventually it becomes indistinguishable from redundancy.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:46:45 -0800

The kids were having so much fun in that video. My parenting instincts lead me to rate this four stars.

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 03:39:12 -0800

What does it say about me that I was expecting all the animals to kill each other by the end of it?

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:32:21 -0800

"The kids were having so much fun in that video. My parenting instincts lead me to rate this four stars." What I thought coming away from it, too. If they could keep a shit-eating grin on their faces that long, it couldn't be that bad. And, it was nice to see the fish peacefully coexisting with everyone except man.

By: little_star_above

little_star_above — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:56:34 -0800

ha! i love this. lovely, furry, little animals dressed up like humans dressed up in animal suits. ;)

By: neuroshred

neuroshred — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:23:33 -0800

[this is amazing] i'm sending it to my little 2-year old nephew right now.

By: troybob

troybob — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:38:20 -0800

grandaddy is my very favorite band

By: berek

berek — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:00:56 -0800

This is the most erotic thing I have ever seen!

By: frecklefaerie

frecklefaerie — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:13:07 -0800

C'mon guys, quit the furry references. This is a sweet sincere piece that is just trying to spread the sunshine. Thanks for posting, Mwongozi.

By: castironskillet

castironskillet — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:17:06 -0800

This is the genuinestly goodest thing I've ever seen on the internet. It reminds me of my crunchy-granola summer camp when I was little. My word, does it go far to cleanse the palette between episodes of Deadwood.

By: CrunchyGods

CrunchyGods — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:29:18 -0800

This thing totally had me fooled--until I noticed that the raccoon had a zipper. Now I wonder if some sort of special effects were involved.

By: arakasi

arakasi — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:40:40 -0800

This makes me want to slit my wrists.

By: troybob

troybob — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:25:06 -0800

This video goes back a while...it originally appeared as a video track on Grandaddy's Sumday album, and the song underwent a slight remix for the Below the Radio release...and i believe the making of this video predates the animal-costume craze of Flaming Lips... ...it's cool to see a Grandaddy link here...their message board lured me away from constant metafiltering about a a year and a half ago...(though, of course, I check in here everyday)...

By: piskycritter

piskycritter — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:43:24 -0800

Still, I kept expecting a someone in a gorilla suit to walk through the scene from stage right.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:26:20 -0800

If you repeat the same thing over, and over, and over, eventually it becomes indistinguishable from redundancy.