Alan Watts - "Music and Life"

A short animated clip made by Trey Parker & Matt Stone featuring a small segment of an Alan Watts lecture.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• alan
• watts
• short
• film
• trey
• parker
• matt
• stone
• south
• park
• zen
• buddhism
• daoism
• taoism

[OniRecordsNZ]

This totally isn't MS+TP's work at all...it doesnt even sit anywhere between the art from spirit of xmas, the pilot of South Park or anything else from their style...

[FelizJesusbirth]

South Parks Trey Parker

"Trey Parker, one of the creators of South Park, was raised in Colorado, where his father attempted to teach him Buddhism. Now, years later, Parker and his animation pal Matt Stone have brought to life the teachings of Alan Watts, the comparative religion expert and philosopher. Under the FurryCarlos Productions banner, the two tapped two animators from South Park Studios, Chris Brion and Todd Benson to keyframe three of Watts recordings..." (quoted from source).

[FelizJesusbirth]

Wow, my inbox has been flooded with people commenting on this since yesterday and it all seems to have stemmed from a twitter by Stephen Fry. How cool is that? Great to see Alan Watts getting so much attention!

[ZenBarracuda]

I've often thought of Stephen Fry and Alan Watts as being birds of a feather.

[FelizJesusbirth]

In the "Out of your mind" series, Watts tells a story about a general and his imitation has always reminded me of General Melchett :)

[crowningbliss]

my son says, "i think what this says is the truth."

[Euroflounder]

This is the best thing ever.

[xJusteBx]

ZOMG JUST WANTS TO BE LAZY GET A REAL JOB LOLOLOL!!!....jk -_-'

[guzsaj]

why is the sound quality so low?

[SBskagod]

@SBskagod did my two favorite things really just do that?

[SBskagod]

no. fucking. way.

[DanaiyaInspire]

Love this VDO, it's so true!!!

Can I borrow your VDO to my blog?

[stargrrlie]

Very true

[karlkarlkarl1234]

@SamtheSkin

I have a theory that by keeping the above realization of life always in your mind, that you can create an entirely unique experience for yourself that doesn't follow the rat-race at all. And through this ingenuity will come whatever a success that is only defined by yourself.

[marzeens]

Does anyone know what lecture the audio was originally from ??

[SamtheSkin]

@guitarpick678 be content in the moment. Enjoy listening to the music rather than always looking forward to the end. A bit of Carpe Diem. Unfortunately the hoax is nearly impossible to avoid altogether in Western Clivilisation, you have to look forward a certain amount or else the system could well spite you. You might say that if you do not look forward a little bit because if you concentrate too much on this line of the song, you might forget to sing the next... in Western Civilisation anyway

[IpsaPaphum]

God understood Watts when he created the world out of his playfulness and made sure that what had to be achieved was always there from the beginning.