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Techno Viking and Saving Rave

  • Me: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1dJwODowvVY
  • M.A. Turner: i don’t get it.
  • Me: Techo-Viking is interesting, nonetheless
  • M.A. Turner: there’s not really a lot of humorous human activity i don’t understand, it’s the way i am wired, even the most arbitrary of things makes me smile, but this (especially the original) i just don’t understand. it’s so surreal. was this some sort of parade? is the techno track being played on a loud speaker, did these people just show up and start dancing and the audio was dubbed later? is this a joke and preplanned?
  • M.A. Turner: it makes my head hurt
  • Me: In my world, it is a techno parade, spontanteously appearing on a city street
  • Me: and there is a large black man with the world’s biggest boombox strapped to his shoulders in front of the cameraman
  • M.A. Turner: so, ok, i guess i could see that. sort of like, the techno-viking appears from the future like the terminator, and then people just start raving
  • M.A. Turner: he’s not going all jesus, wanting to save the world, he’s not going all terminator wanting to save man, he’s going all german and wanting to save rave
  • Me: yes.
  • Me: YES.

Thu 10.04.07

Tagged: Conversation, Web Culture

There are 8 comments on this post. Add your own comment.

    Brilliant!

    said Noah

    at 12:43pm on Thursday

    Save Rave - coming to a t-shirt near you.

    said Joshua

    This is too much. The video was comedy enough, but the accompanying conversation and now PNFF design makes my cheeks ache. Did you happen to read some of the comments? Normally YouTube Comments aren’t worth the time it take my finger to scroll down to them, but this time it is different.

    “its keith jardine”

    “When Techno Viking points, you f’ing listen.”

    “he even had the decency to take that leaflet and read it, ultimately tearing it up…”

    “This isn’t actually Keith Jardine”

    said Nick

    at 1:18pm on Thursday

    Raving and pillaging.

    I stole that, but it was so shiny and pretty and funny. Techno Viking restores my faith in not just rave, but in the natural order of the universe.

    said Anthony

    at 1:33pm on Thursday

    The original video is one of the most surreal things I have ever seen in my life. It’s like a pied piper (replace pipe/insert techno boom-box) who resembles an opponent from Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Bloodsport.

    said David

    at 3:28pm on Thursday

    Someone needs to find this guy to see if he’s still going all viking style. This video was taken back in 2000 at Fuck Parade in Germany.

    said Daniel

    at 6:42pm on Tuesday

    i say this and thought it was so outta place in like daylight with no outstanders seeming shocked or surprised so i been tracing a few things linked from the vid itself, seems this was something called berlin fuck parade opposing the berlin love parade.

    the guy filming did this hidden, an artist and under the section experimental from his site, just a random madhead from a daylight rave.

    said james gale

    at 7:40pm on Wednesday

    I dunno what to say…when I first started hitting parties in Chicago back in ‘92 I used to think guys like this were a spectacle. Not long after they became the subject of jokes and what not. Now that I’m older (and this is one of those situations where everyone stops and realizes the reality of “with age comes wisdom” types of sayings) I’m starting to realize guys like this were among the few who really knew what it was all about. I wore baggy Qs, silver sunglasses and popped pills which was fun…but guys like Viking show up in their work gear drinking water and dancing and having fun without needing to fall into any category or trend, and that suits them fine. He looks a little older, maybe he was just like me at one point and experienced the same revelations and is finally on the right path. I hope so, because it gives me reason to believe I’d be fortunate enough to have the same second chance.

    said chris

    at 8:32am on Wednesday

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