I love youtube. Where else can a person relive their wayward teenage years by watching favourite snippets of TV from an era when not everyone had a VCR?

I guess I wasn't a typical teen in some respects. My favourite TV was usually to be found on SBS (the Aussie multicultural TV network, not always in English) and the ABC. I devoured any art and history documentaries that could be found (especially ones where lesbian feminist writers from previous centuries ran off to live in Paris with their girlfriends. I wanted to be them), watched classic science fiction films like Fantastic Planet

(click through to youtube for the remaining parts)

and could occasionally be found wishing that we could get records from cool French and German bands that I could only watch in the bad-signal low-budget-station cheap-aerial grainy, snowy interference that was my SBS TV watching experience most of the time...

More typically for a teenager I couldn't live without the ABC's comedy show, The Big Gig and the Doug Anthony All-Stars. Don't watch any of these videos if you are offended by rude and off-colour comedy or have children in earshot :)

The Doug Anthony All-Stars sang every Australian teenager's favourite song and ruined their reputations as serious comedians by singing pretty :)

Here's the original by Hunters & Collectors:

I never missed an episode of D.A.A.S Kapital. A strange show in which the Doug Anthony All Stars have been put in charge of keeping the world's art treasures safe in a submarine called the Titanic, unfortunately also populated by the very psychotic "Bob".

They occasionally sang poignant songs

Here's an episode (click through to youtube for the other parts).

So what am I into now?

The Sideshow,

(I have a crush on Mel Fyfe)

the musical comedy of Tim Minchin,

science fiction, philosophy, art and Rammstein.

I guess people don't change that much after all...

PS: An extra treat: Tim Minchin ruining his reputation by singing pretty :)