If you're into Earth's music, spanking, wrestling, nude chicks on horseback, or military and surgical footage, this is your dream video. Kurt Cobain appears as a guest guitarist, but is not seen. In fact, no scenes of the band are included.
The VHS cassette is generic looking with two computer-generated stickers being the only distinguishable features. The top sticker has the band name and is labeled "bureaucratic desire for revenge," despite the fact that all three songs from the CD are included and that items appears to have a different title. The side sticker has the band name, catalog number, and is hand-numbered with a red marker. Only 100 copies were made and the video was packaged in a plain, white case. (The "case" may actually just be a regular slip sleeve, or whatever you call it. The video I had on loan did not have the "case.")
The video is divided into three sections. You really need to see this to fully appreciate the visuals, but here's a brief description (times are approximate):
It takes about 40 seconds for the opening titles to appear:
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Earth
Extra-Capsular Extraction
:58 to 8:19 A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge, Part One
Have you ever seen the film Ed Wood? The scene where Johnny Depp goes to the old man for random stock footage is what came to mind as I started to watch this video. Old, scratchy, black & white footage is used for the most part. Anyway, this segment starts out with a storm at the beach, then shifts to a large woman spanking another woman, both wearing very little. A few shots of a battleship are mixed in as well. Another scene, featuring a woman being tied up, also airs in this segment. I forget where in the time line it belongs, though.
8:19 to 14:55 A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge, Part Two
The spanking continues, this time with a ping pong paddle. The smaller woman finally gets fed up and starts to wrestle for control of the paddle. This is the only part I can remember with vocals, and they're limited to a brief portion of the song.
15:02 to 33:15 Ouroboros Is Broken
Military footage is followed by two nude women riding a horse. Quick cuts of surgical footage, in color, flash every so often. Next is nude sunbathing and several repeated shots of a projectile being fired into liquid.
The next scene starts with a man reading a magazine. A woman enters the room and clearly objects to his periodical selection. She leaves the room, takes most of her clothes off, then returns to wrestle the magazine away. The struggle continues until she starts to take control, which leads to more spanking. Eventually she briefly ties him up only to free him so he can kiss her feet. The last part of this segment depicts a blonde reading until a brunette enters the room and -- guess what? -- starts to wrestle around with her.
Afterwards, the band credits appear:
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Dylan Carlson: guitar, vocal
Dave Harwell: bass
Joe Preston: bass, percussion
with specialists: Kurt Kobain & Kelly Canary
The total length of the tape is 47 minutes, but only about 34 minutes is used.
