Swingline

Our latest wave of videos comes from CODENAME36.

The first entry is a traditional remake, simply titled “GARBAGE DAY!”




Is that handgun realistic enough or what?

I was really drawn in by the video’s soundtrack. This is not the urgent 80’s synth-driven score from “Silent Night, Deadly Night 2”. Rather, it sounds like the incidental music from a 70’s detective show like “Barnaby Jones” or “Cannon.”

The ominous score is offset by the cartoonish, Paul Reubens-esque delivery of “Garbage Day!”

All in all, a fine piece of re-making.


But what’s this?!

CODENAME36’s next video is a wild departture, unlike anything we’ve seen before.


GMOD ADVENTURES, PART 16



A lot to unpack here.

Let me start of by saying that I have not seen GMOD ADVENTURES parts 1-15. I’m not a video-game guy.

I kind of lost interest after the “Garbage Day!” scene.

But I was really impressed with that part. Particularly the choice to make the gunman Ronald McDonald. There’s a deep-rooted fear of clowns in this country. (Maybe even more so in other countries.)

In Douglas Coupland’s latest novel, J-POD, a group of disgruntled video-game programmers add an extensive Easter Egg in which a homocidal clown runs amock in the video game. I wonder if CODENAME36 is a Coupland fan?


I don’t follow the rest of the story. The red stapler must be an homage to Mike Judge’s “Milton” cartoon (later made into “Office Space”)

Anyway, let’s all give a big high-five to CODENAME36 for making the world a better place through “Garbage Day” videos.

You Rock!