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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
A fun, (probably) obscure example of art I like to come back to from time to time is Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' "20 Minutes of Oxygen":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11yPWeBYqQc
I love everything about it, and when I later learned they made that campy video, I loved it even more.
The lines:
"If I had the brains, that's what I'd do
Build that time door and poke my head through
It's too late now and I'm still dumb
Twenty minutes of oxygen"Speaks to me... You know, in a metaphorical way.
IMPORTANT NOTE: the channel hosting the video appears to have gone slop for some reason, but I know the video and the song predate the current slopageddon. The Thickets' actual channel is here if you choose to explore their work more:
https://www.youtube.com/@thedarkestofthehillside/videos
And they are on bandcamp: