The Mad Genius of Brian Atene

Among my loves in life currently are satellite radio (regardless of the merger crap, having a good electronica station when you're passing through Itasca, Texas is a godsend) and YouTube. Imagine my delight when those collided on one of my favorite satrad talk shows, "Ron and Fez". With their characteristic sadistic glee, they ran a bit on a YouTube video that has been making its way round the user community there - that of a 1983 audition tape for Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket". The man in question, Brian Atene, goes through an audition that I can only describe as wonderfully horrible. I seriously don't think I could possibly look at "The Outsiders" again with a straight face. His original video is here; after the video gained more publicity (and people started making parodies of it), he got onto YouTube as julliardropout (nice!) and posted a reply. A good sport.