WOW!!! I was digging even further into the Wir Sind Helden website, and (Dorothy is pretty cute, by the way) I found some music videos that they put together. One of real life (the one for Denkmal) and another that’s a Flash animation…absolutely wonderful music, absolutely amazing videos.

Although the Denkmal song seems pretty laid back to me, in the video hundreds of people are shouting out a chorus in German and raising their arms and headbanging…the song must rile up sort of feeling!!!!! Dorothy sure knows how to rock (I have no idea what her real name is, but Dorothy seems as good as any) and you get to see Jesus naked. A little scary, but… *shrugs*

Ah. Found links just now. See the Denkmal video hier und die Aurélie video hier.

I was talking to a complete stranger tonight on the Interweb, and he pointed me to a couple of very good songs in German. One song is about a guy who was walking on the beach, when all of a sudden he finds a whale. The chorus of the song is “Push the whale back into the sea” or something like that. The other…well, I’m not quite sure. Here are the songs and the people that made them:

Walkampf - Die Toten Hosen
Denkmal - Wir Sind Helden

…while writing this entry, I was looking for the Denkmal makers, and the link to their site to give them proper credit. I visited the site, saw the choice between HTML and Flash, chose Flash…and my first impression of the page was this:

Dorothy, from the Wizard of Oz, meets Jesus, a Jehovah’s Witness, and Jeff Foxworthy. I sense the beginning of some sort of strange joke there…