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According to the video, this song is called “Gravity,” but I think a more appropriate name would be “Space Sandals.” No matter! This is very romantic. Good faces. Romantic faces. Beautiful beach, can’t believe they had the budget to shoot all those love scenes on a real beach. Play this on your dates this weekend. Fall BACK in love. Get married. Have children. Build a life together. Renew your vows. Take a vacation. Retire. Learn everything that you possibly can about another human being and still realize there are some things you’ll never understand. And then, you know, heaven. TGIFFFFFF!
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Wait why is he suddenly so sweaty at the 3 minute mark?!!
“I just had a hot flash there for a bit” Russ Mainesopause.
Re-entering Earth’s atmosphere
It’s stressful, this guy knows what I’m talking about:
I’m worried about David Gilmour, you guys.
this video is pretty cool if you watch it with no sound with the new Justice record playing.
Regular Joe 3.0 fixes the sweaty issue.
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Guys. Guys! How is he singing in space? What dark magic does Russ Maines wield? Be he angel or demon?
He be Bowie.
I like the way he holds his arms out to the sides when he’s soaring through the vacuum of space on solar winds or something. I also enjoy the way this “Bowie” (as superglue named him) gets all warm and moist later (as Freshie Pointed out) probably due to achieving terminal velocity as he re-entered earth’s atmosphere and caught on fire
Good points all. Clearly, if anything, this video just makes too much sense. Carry on, Russ Maines!
sorry, DS3M, accidentally plagiarized you above
When he’s space sideways he looks dead up like Vince Vaughn. Who is this mysterious face morphing man?
He’s Regular Joe 2.0 and/or Russ Maines. He’s from the uncharted zone, and he passes along word that you need to Love it like you Should
I think this is Leonard Cohen’s lesser known cousin, Denny Cohen.
“Nailed it!” – Regular Joe 1.0
Sandals, Khakis and a black short sleeved Polo are interesting Space Suit choices. It’s like a Hegelian antithesis to everything that precedes it.
And if anyone should know proper space-wear it’s our very own astronaut, Brian!
Sometime I forget that I’m an astronaut when I comment!
I believe that’s from The Uncharted Zone a television show is on the Blab Television cable station based in the Gulf Coast of Florida.You might remember the Uncharted Zone for Mark Gormley who Lindsay Robertson called “your dad.” Internet Personalities.
Two things disconcert me:
1) Why is the UZ pronounced “the woozy?”
2) I don’t like the vibe I get from the tagline, “Love it like you should.”
The only think I can think of when I watch this is this adult dude going up to this woman (I’m guessing wife or girlfriend, whatever) and asking her to be in his music video. When she agrees, I’m guessing he knows she really loves him. Maybe that’s all this is: a modern day test of true love.
I’m totally spoiled now and expect every subject of our discussion to make an entrance…
Hey, Russ Maines here. (Really.)
I had no idea this little video was going to go viral, but after reading the comments here, I wanted to clarify a couple things.
1. The idea for this came to me while looking at a few pretty great music videos online…one with Lady Gaga, another with the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I realized I hadn’t yet seen a real video along those lines of being in space, and saw a golden opportunity. My thinking was that this video worked regardless of ideology–it’s not necessarily for or against Outer Space…it’s more of an absurdist joke about the idea of reframing a ballad about missing someone in the context of being in space. I’m not easily offended myself, and therefore not a big believer in “Too soon!” objections to most kinds of jokes, given the recent cancellation of manned space shuttles.
2. THAT SAID…my sympathies are very much with the Outer Space folks and so called “astronauts”. I almost didn’t post the video when I realized it could be taken as trivializing space travel, so I ended up titling the video “Gravity” (in all seriousness) and posting it with a message about how happy I was this week when I watched the last space flight. I honestly think these conversations about space travel and its accompanying loneliness are incredibly important, and we wouldn’t be having them without the NASA folks. One postscript: taken in terms of body sweat, I am squarely in the 99%. That’s how crazy music videos are in this country, folks: a guy can have not one but TWO takes in a single video shoot…and still be sweating more than all but 1% of people. That’s just crazy. Obviously I’ve been a little more better insulated for space travel than a lot of people, and I would never trivialize their plight. But really, we’re all in this together.
PS: Also, I didn’t donate to Prop 8.
What an out of this world response. What’s it doing here down on earth?
Sweating
You know Russ, one blogger writes something about your space video and you rush to comment. Yet, a guy who has been writing to you for years about getting Tang for wholesale hears space-bupkis. Real space-nice.
His body posture is exactly that of an action figure as you guide it through space with your hand.
Makes some sense. But this guys r under investigation, cuz the nasa thinks tht they discover how to deal with no gravity. http://goo.gl/XZFrz
I dug this song. U2 could cover it and it would be a big hit. #nosarcasmgum
Russ from regular JOE 2.0 here. I wrote this song for my wife. When I’m out playing gigs with the band, I sometimes have very long nights. I miss my wife when I’m on the road. I don’t know why I’m attracted to her, I just am. And I can’t escape her effect on me.
Regarding sweat, we thought some going through the clouds would make me have some condensation. I look at it now, I think it is not so great. But at the time it seemed right at the time. And it’s nearly viral, so who am I to judge?
I just thank you all for having fun on this idea that being in love with someone is like gravity. Nothing can stop your endless fall.
Thanks everyone.