…but what if we change a few letters and add the empty noggin of a dangerous but determined man?

(In January, I posted a great Absolut riff by my pal Rob Harrell.)

This grainy amateur footage of half a dozen young drunkards is one of my favorite underground video clips ever. It’s bloody, it’s patriotic, it’s a disturbing window into the existentialist mindset of America’s intellectual underclass. The clip, which is probably about ten years old, captures a group of bored nonvaledictorians as they conduct experiments regarding the breakability of beer bottles when smashed against the human head. The footage is mesmerizing for lots of reasons, not the least of which is the sounds on the audio track: the triumphant yelps, the mournful howls, the shattering of glass, the dull thud of intact beer bottles caroming off of empty human heads.

As usual, this is from one of my Media Shower tapes. When Jamie Greenberg, Media Shower’s host, introduced this clip on his (now defunct) show four or five years ago, he described it as “kind of Blair Witch meets Animal House, with a touch of the Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter thrown in.” I can’t imagine a more apt description than that.

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These guys are numbskulls.