Gotta call for Phil Mccracken? Somebody, please? Phil McCracken?

July 4, 2008 8:05 AM

Canada's own Phil McCracken offers a guitar tutorial for folks just starting out. If guitar isn't your thing, how about keyboards? Bodybuilding? Also, ladies, he's available!
posted by stupidsexyFlanders (18 comments total)

His face near the end of that first video, when he's rockin' out, is pretty priceless.
posted by arcticwoman at 8:16 AM on July 4, 2008

Dimitri's really let himself go, hasn't he?
posted by maudlin at 8:16 AM on July 4, 2008

This guy is a wonderful advertisement for the percussion industry!
posted by malter51 at 8:31 AM on July 4, 2008

There really is a Phil McCracken?

Next you'll be telling me that there really are two gay roommates called William Fitzrobert and Robert Fitzwilliam.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 8:36 AM on July 4, 2008

And has anyone seen Mike Hunt lately?
posted by PeterMcDermott at 8:37 AM on July 4, 2008

mike's been hanging out with the dover twins...ben, and ilene.
posted by billybobtoo at 9:06 AM on July 4, 2008

We're gonna blow the house off this sucker

I really hope this is a genius parody.
posted by tylermoody at 9:21 AM on July 4, 2008

Also, you missed one.
posted by tylermoody at 9:23 AM on July 4, 2008

tylermoody wrote: We're gonna blow the house off this sucker

I really hope this is a genius parody.

It's pretty obviously mediocre parody. Almost funny in places.
posted by jack_mo at 9:58 AM on July 4, 2008

Mediocre, jack_mo? My vote is for genius.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 10:03 AM on July 4, 2008

I dunno, for me, he just kept threatening to be funny without quite managing it. (The guitar faces did cause me to smirk slightly, admittedly.)
posted by jack_mo at 10:43 AM on July 4, 2008

I mostly enjoyed how deeply he got into the character. Also, his Ontario accented speech and mannerisms make him resemble a male, gay-confused version of my aunt. Which, trust me, is a concept that is funny indeed.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 10:59 AM on July 4, 2008 [1 favorite]

I didn't quite appreciate this until I watched the bodybuilding one. "I don't take steroids... but I do have corn flakes every morning."
posted by loiseau at 11:24 AM on July 4, 2008

There's a certain Crispin Glover as a young George McFly aspect to the character that is really quite lovely.
posted by Saxon Kane at 12:42 PM on July 4, 2008

This is great stuff, and it's nice to see some realness after reading the FISA-Obama thread.
posted by ageispolis at 12:44 PM on July 4, 2008

Actually, I love how understated it is. Sweet.
posted by lumpenprole at 8:58 PM on July 4, 2008

Dude can SHRED!
posted by raider at 9:01 PM on July 4, 2008

Comic genius...had me going when I fired up the guitar video, and I only realized it was really comedy when he started playing. It was too painful to watch all the way, though. I had to look again, and I about died when he called the keyboard a "Ya-ma-ha...keyboard..."

Too much, it's too rich, like dark chocolate, or a really thick porter ale. Best enjoyed slowly and in small amounts.
posted by Xoebe at 9:25 PM on July 5, 2008