(my video collage) "Stabbing a soda bottles is dangerous"

I used two random video clips and a random audio clip to put this one together.

(favorite show of the week) "I Survived" (S05E02)

This lady, Susan (the one you see in the thumbnail), is one of the most amazing, courageous individuals I've ever seen. She's talking about how she survived an assassination attempt. There are a few other individuals talking about their near death experiences on this show as well.

"Life is But a Shadow"

I excerpted this beautiful work of art from "Listen to Me" a 2015 documentary about actor Marlon Brando's autobiographical audio tapes which he released posthumously. This part of the film is Marlon Brando reading a quote from famous classical writer William Shakespeare's "MacBeth" where the character Macbeth says

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." -- "Macbeth", a play Macbeth by William Shakespeare from the approx. year of 1600

(my video/music collage) "I found meaning in your destruction"

A collage of videos and sounds I put together in a meaningful, intentional, and unique way.

Video: "Taxi Driver" movie (1976) excerpts
Song1: "Too Late for the Sky" by Jackson Browne (1974)
Song2: "Damask Rose" soundtrack for the movie Blade Runner (1982)
Song3: "Video Girl" by FKA Twigs (recent)

(my music video) "Into Dust"

A collage of videos and sounds I put together in a meaningful, intentional, and unique way.

Music: Mazzy Star's "Into Dust" remix by John O'Callaghan + "Call Me Maybe" song slowed down 1,000 times
Lyrics: Mazzy Star's "Into Dust" remix by John O'Callaghan + Xandria's "Forevermore" (the last half)
Video clip source: I normally cite where they came from, and who made them, but I no longer have the info or remember.

Mazzy Star "Into Dust"

lyrics

Around, broken in two
Till your eyes shed
Into dust
Like two strangers
Turning into dust
Till my hand shook
With the way I fear

I could possibly be fading
Or have something more to gain
I could feel myself growing colder
I could feel myself under your fate
Under your fate

Still falling
Breathless and on again
Inside today
Beside me today

Around, broken in two
Till your eyes shed
Into dust
Like two strangers
Turning into dust
Till my hand shook
With the way I fear

I could feel my eyes turning into dust
Like two strangers turning into dust
I could feel my eyes turning into dust

I could possibly be fading
Or have something more to gain
I could feel myself growing colder
I could feel myself under your fate
Under...

Korn "Good God"

LYRICS

"GoodGod"

You came into my life without a single thing
I gave into your ways, but you left me with nothing
I've given into smiles, I've dealt with all your games
I wish you're happy now, I had to let you win

Why don't you get the fuck out of my face, now!!
Why don't you get the fuck out of my face, now!!

Korn "Chi"

LYRICS (sections that I liked in bold)

"Chi"

Pain!
Buried so far away
Enter my life of nothing

Sick of the same ol' thing,
so I dig a hole, bury, pain!
Sick of the same ol' thing,
so I dig a hole, bury, pain!

Roxette "Listen To Your Heart"

LYRICS (sections that I liked in bold)

"Listen To Your Heart"

I know there's something in the wake of your smile.
I get a notion from the look in your eyes, yea.
You've built a love but that love falls apart.
Your little piece of heaven turns too dark.

Berlin "Pink and Velvet"

This song poleaxes me every time.

Lucie Silvas "Breathe In"

LUCIE SILVAS LYRICS
"Breathe In"

I feel like I'm dragging you down a one way street
I don't know which ways up
All I ask of you is to stay on your feet
That should be enough
If we stand around it could pass us by
We could give up now, and never even try

Russian drunk's friend kicks open the bathroom door and...

Has to be seen to be believed. His friends hopefully helped him avoid any back injury soon after by removing him from that position.

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Man miraculously escapes mob justice TWICE!!!

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Airsoft BB guns: Kill or be killed

Oh my god I want to be this airsoft sniper. These are guns that shoot BB pellets -- not too painful and no permanent damage. Would love doing this instead of paintball because I don't like how innaccurate paintballs are.

Original uploader: novritsch's channel on Youtube

Original video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXqppZv7cjM

"Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace"

The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions.

By JODI KANTOR and DAVID STREITFELD

AUG. 15, 2015

SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working.

They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs, one employee recalled. When they “hit the wall” from the unrelenting pace, there is only one solution: “Climb the wall,” others reported. To be the best Amazonians they can be, they should be guided by the leadership principles, 14 rules inscribed on handy laminated cards. When quizzed days later, those with perfect scores earn a virtual award proclaiming, “I’m Peculiar” — the company’s proud phrase for overturning workplace conventions.

At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered), and held to standards that the company boasts are “unreasonably high.” The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others. (The tool offers sample texts, including this: “I felt concerned about his inflexibility and openly complaining about minor tasks.”)

Amazon is building new offices in Seattle and, in about three years, will have enough space for about 50,000 employees. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Many of the newcomers filing in on Mondays may not be there in a few years. The company’s winners dream up innovations that they roll out to a quarter-billion customers and accrue small fortunes in soaring stock. Losers leave or are fired in annual cullings of the staff — “purposeful Darwinism,” one former Amazon human resources director said. Some workers who suffered from cancer, miscarriages and other personal crises said they had been evaluated unfairly or edged out rather than given time to recover.

(my music video) "To Those Who Feel and Understand Rain"

The song "A Thousand Letters" by Xandria  + a video compilation by someone named Emeric Le Bars on Youtube.

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"A Day in the Life of Jack the Fox"

There's not a lot of info on Google about this guy and his fox. I'm sure if you take your time you'll find more info, though. I think this is a good one-time upload to add to my video archives for your pleasure / perusal.

Original Source: https://vimeo.com/6759993 by Andy Langley / Ipscreativemedia.com (2000)

(my music video) "Forevermore"

The song "Forevermore" by Xandria  + a video compilation by someone named Sieswell under the file name "The World is Beautiful (Timelapse & Hyperlapse)".

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(my music video) "Carefree Highway"

An old 1970s song called "Carefree Highway" by Gordon Lightfoot + my favorite car crashes from Russia.

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The Terror Strategist: Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State

By Christoph Reuter

Aloof. Polite. Cajoling. Extremely attentive. Restrained. Dishonest. Inscrutable. Malicious. The rebels from northern Syria, remembering encounters with him months later, recall completely different facets of the man. But they agree on one thing: "We never knew exactly who we were sitting across from."

In fact, not even those who shot and killed him after a brief firefight in the town of Tal Rifaat on a January morning in 2014 knew the true identity of the tall man in his late fifties. They were unaware that they had killed the strategic head of the group calling itself "Islamic State" (IS). The fact that this could have happened at all was the result of a rare but fatal miscalculation by the brilliant planner. The local rebels placed the body into a refrigerator, in which they intended to bury him. Only later, when they realized how important the man was, did they lift his body out again.

My 25 years as a prostitute

Brenda Myers-Powell was just a child when she became a prostitute in the early 1970s. Here she describes how she was pulled into working on the streets and why, three decades later, she devoted her life to making sure other girls don't fall into the same trap. Some people will find Brenda's account upsetting.