"Meet Chris Crocker, video performance artist and sudden Internet celebrity. Or is that Jonathan Caouette, the Houston-raised acclaimed filmmaker? Or is it Seth Green, the wildly mocking comic actor?
After viewing videos of all three, your head could spin. But the one that started the whirl is Crocker (his stage name), a 19-year-old resident of Tennessee (he won't say where, due to death threats) who's shot to fame with a crazed crying-jag defense of Britney Spears shown on YouTube, MySpace and other sites.
Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone!" histrionics have received millions of views while drawing attention to dozens more videos he's made, in which he dances and dishes about gay rights, picking his nose and the fine distinctions between certain swear words.
But it's his hamming for Spears that has made the most impact, landing him a remote interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live and other national exposure.
That includes Green parodying the Spears clip on E!'s The Soup, wearing eyeliner and railing against those who won't leave Crocker alone ([url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiqkDm9UoKo[/url]).
Many other amateur parodies also are popping up online, all driven by fierce, over-the-top crying and exhortations to leave someone alone. The Net also is buzzing with "remixes" of Crocker's original clip.
In that footage, shot in closeup against what looks like a sheet, Crocker angrily confronts the camera - and his audience - while hysterically bemoaning ridicule of Spears and defending her as an artist and a person.
The clip looks hauntingly familiar to scenes in Caouette's Tarnation (2004), a self-made documentary on his turbulent childhood in Houston, which won wide acclaim from critics and film festivals and played art-house theaters.
Tarnation includes footage Caouette shot on an early video camera in the 1980s while he was 11 years old. In one scene, he pretends to be a battered Southern housewife and tearfully rants to the camera ([url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=en7ltF2kCXg[/url]).
With his tousled blond hair, Southern accent, tear-streaked cheeks and raw, soul-searing closeups, Crocker looks and sounds uncannily like Caouette in his new Spears clip.
"I know everyone here in N.Y.C. has said that," Caouette said from his home in New York. "I could easily say that there might be inspiration from this boy. Perhaps I should cast him in my next film."
He might have to wait in line. Crocker reportedly has signed a deal to develop a reality TV show in a documentary style akin to that of his videos. "
Caouette has another idea.
"I think this monologue should be copyrighted and published and a whole film should be made on the monologue, like that film on that one running secret joke (forget the name) that most comedians knew but never told." (That would be The Aristocrats.)
Caouette also has a name for the film he envisions.
"It should be called `Leave (blank) Alone - The Chris Crocker Story.' "
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Didn't this go viral years ago?
Welcome to the internet, can I take your coat?
holy shit guys, only a few more months till orange box comes out! can't wait!
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;21525318]holy shit guys, only a few more months till orange box comes out! can't wait![/QUOTE]
no its out alredy
Hey guys, I hear Valve is releasing a Zombie game called Left 4 Dead. Also, there's a black guy running for president in The States.
sup guys, i heard this meteor is gonna kill all the dinosaurs.
Its probably fake.
[QUOTE=Lord Ivan;21525291]Welcome to the internet, can I take your coat?[/QUOTE]
Sure, as long as Dane Cook come anywhere near the coat closet. His presence upsets me.
[QUOTE=Dying potato;21525370]sup guys, i heard this meteor is gonna kill all the dinosaurs.
Its probably fake.[/QUOTE]
I hear tomorrow that God character is planning on making another person out of that Adam guy's rib. Then he's going to nap or some shit the day after.
[QUOTE=Woutsie;21525329]no its out alredy[/QUOTE]
No Shit
Hey guys I heard this really big explosion thing is going to happen and create this whole big universe or something, just out of a really small dense particle thing.
Oh well, it's probably just a hoax or something put on by the media.
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OP can't be serious
nobody has ever been this late i think.
This is as late as going to first period. [sp]5 minutes before the final bell.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Woutsie;21525329]no its out alredy[/QUOTE]
omg!!!! we KNOW THAT!!! xD
OMFG, I'm back in fucking bootcamp.
[QUOTE=Woutsie;21525329]no its out alredy[/QUOTE]
um wow u idiot that was th joke
I can't believe that some people are actually considering the fact that he might be serious.
He is OBVIOUSLY joking.
I predict that a youtube user that goes by the name "Boxxy" will have all basement dwelling nerds overloading the internets trying to find out who she is!
Shit, this is scary. I was thinking of making this thread while making my dinner.
Waveleeeeegnths. :gay:
[QUOTE=Obeliskos;21529567]Shit, this is scary. I was thinking of making this thread while making my dinner.
[/QUOTE]
What the fuck were you making for dinner?!
[QUOTE=MiKeV;21530039]What the fuck were you making for dinner?![/QUOTE]
Chris Crocker, apparently. Kind of worrying.
Chris in a...
[img]http://www.slowcookerrecipes.net.au/images/slow-cooker.jpg[/img]
Must have been eating dick or something.
[QUOTE=Wheeze201;21528744]I can't believe that some people are actually considering the fact that he might be serious.
He is OBVIOUSLY joking.[/QUOTE]
um no ur a troll
[QUOTE=kootee;21526732]nobody has ever been this late i think.[/QUOTE]
Someone posted the Numa Numa guy about a month ago, but I think he thought he was funny.
Didn't you guys hear the news?! The earth is round!!
Wow where have you been?
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