Set the Ray to Mayonaise

I am keeping a close eye on the thin line of water along the edge of the basement wall. It's raining again. It's supposed to rain all night tonight, and into tomorrow. Better take those countermeasures I failed to take Tuesday night.

YouTube Weekend time again! This time it's two fan-made videos for songs by the Smashing Pumpkins.

The first is for a hauntingly beautiful song with an extremely bizarre title. "Set the Ray to Jerry" is subtle and simple: the bass line is a six-second long repeated pattern, the guitars are ethereal, and the drums...well, it reminds me of how Douglas Adams described watching a two-ton Northern White Rhinoceros (now probably extinct in the wild) nibbling on grass in his book Last Chance to See: "It was like watching a JCB excavator quietly getting on with a little weeding." Jimmy Chamberlain's drumming is subtle and complex. Like "Stand Inside Your Love", this is from the Judas O rarities and B-sides album. It's the B-side of "1979."


The other fan-made video is for an old favorite from Siamese Dream. I always thought "Mayonaise" (spelled with one "n" for some reason) would make an excellent first-dance song at a wedding. Just need to have pyrotechnics ready to go off at the 53 second mark.


Enjoy!