Truckasaurus Synaesthesia

While browsing the sometimes interesting, sometimes infuriating pitchfork site, I came across the following video for the song "Fak!!!" by the electronic music group Truckasaurus:


The stock footage used in the video is of course from the golden era of WWF professional wrestling, an era I remember vividly from my childhood. It shows a match between Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior, two of my favorite wrestlers from that time period. I am certain that this footage was intended simply to be humorous by virtue of its juxtaposition to the music and its overwhelming homoeroticism (a fact that I can honestly say I was completely oblivious to when I was seven years old). For me though, the video isn't simply humorous nostalgia, it is a pretty good encapsulation of my childhood.

You see, from about 1990 until about 1995 my young life was consumed primarily by two things, professional wrestling and the Nintendo Entertainment System. In those days when free time seemed like a never ending resource, Sunday mornings were spent in front of the television watching WWF and the rest of the week was spent playing Super Mario Bros. 3. If you are my same age, you will no doubt remember the 8-bit digital soundtracks on NES video games, the kind that offered a wide array of synthesized bleeps and bloops as the closest possible approximation of real instruments.

And so, of course, when I heard the l0-fi sythesizer sounds of "Fak!!!" my mind immediately jumped to video games. Which immediately caused a synaesthetic mind fuck explosion when coupled with the oiled Hulkster in all muscled mustachioed glory, a visual already inextricably linked with video games in my mind. Such is the way with music, a techno song by a band I don't know or care to know anything about causes me to get all drippy nosed and nostalgic....and makes me want to play some Excite Bike.