{"id":16311,"date":"2011-04-26T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=16311"},"modified":"2011-04-26T05:29:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:29:16","slug":"music-break-rocky-ed-209-peter-serafinowicz-open-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/music-break-rocky-ed-209-peter-serafinowicz-open-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Break: Rocky &#038; ED-209 &#038; Peter Serafinowicz &#038; &#8220;Open Your Eyes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pk5kZ5_NYIw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Remember when music videos were about telling 3 minute stories? Don&#8217;t strain your brains too hard. This happened back when MTV still showed videos. No one&#8217;s quite sure what point in time that actually occurred. Hell, even The Doctor would have trouble pinpointing that moment with his miraculous TARDIS.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the point: music videos with a story to tell. Here&#8217;s a video for the song  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Open Your Eyes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexmetric.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Alex Metric<\/a>.  This thing is packed full of callbacks and awesome and genius. In it, Rocky is challenged by OCP&#8217;s very own ED-209. We can&#8217;t wait for &#8220;Open Your Eyes II&#8221; when a jetpack enabled RoboCop steps up for a bit of action.<\/p>\n<p>The video was directed by Peter Serfinowicz. That&#8217;s the guy doing a damn convincing Rocky Balboa in this video. Serafinowicz was the fellow responsible for the damn hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=drE5cHe6c3s\" class=\"external external_icon\">LOOK AROUND YOU<\/a> [Adult Swim] once had in heavy rotation. <\/p>\n<p>BTW, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/serafinowicz\" class=\"external external_icon\">@Serfinowicz <\/a>is totally followable on the Twitter. You would do well to bless yourself with his funny thoughts and links.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/serafinowicz\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/openyoureyesvidoecap.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Our money&#039;s on Pete. (Please note, we should never gamble.)\" width=\"600\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/openyoureyesvidoecap.png 600w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/openyoureyesvidoecap-300x144.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdist.com\/2011\/04\/rocky-v-ed-209-v-peter-serafinowicz\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">nerdist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when music videos were about telling 3 minute stories? Don&#8217;t strain your brains too hard. This happened back when MTV still showed videos. No one&#8217;s quite sure what point in time that actually occurred. Hell, even The Doctor would have trouble pinpointing that moment with his miraculous TARDIS. Back to the point: music videos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,73,7],"tags":[1626,4247,4248,241,4246,1998,828,640,4927],"class_list":["post-16311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-versus","category-video","tag-big-damn-music","tag-ed-209","tag-everythings-better-with-robocop","tag-mashup","tag-music-break","tag-music-video","tag-peter-serafinowicz","tag-short-film","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16327,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions\/16327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}