Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:36:17 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: via MakingLight: "It's like genre fantasy slush set to music."
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at panix.com> 12/10/2008 8:44 PM >>>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> 12/10/2008 4:22 PM >>>
>>>Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDyDz8WeiM4
>>>
>>>Better watched with the sound muted....
>>
>> And perhaps with eyes closed, too ..... <g>
>
>This was so strange I had to Google him but stopped with the first two
>paragraphs of a LA Times article, which pretty much summed things up.
>
>An Internet star is born: Chris Dane Owens to singlehandedly slay bad
>economy on horseback via new music video
>
>"So why all the fuss? Let's just say that Owens, along with director
>Robert Short, has made either the greatest, or the worst, music video of
>all time (that looks as if it was shot in the 1990s, and sounds straight
>out of the 1980s), depending on your taste.
>
>His YouTube video tags -- Narnia, LOTR, witches, angels, knights, Final
>Fantasy, romance, Eragon, ghosts and spirits -- pretty much tell you
>everything you need to know . Watch the video above, which was filmed
>earlier this year over five days in various California locations. Our
>interview with Owens is after the jump, wherein he reveals the secret of
>his awesomeness (hint: it's anime)."

Blame Don Wollheim.

mjw