this video reminded me a bit of man man's session of the takeaway shows. it's available over here in full screen. it's from when man man "...coaxed sounds out of Paris's streets."

done, done and done. one for me, one for you, and one for boingboing as a whole. thanks for the pointer, cory

@CERTRON that's exactly what i thought, too! as soon as i saw it i went trawling through the xkcd archives for it... wish i'd looked at the comments here before waisting half an hour...