If you’re feeling a little guilty about the amount of time you spend on Youtube watching pandas sneezing or Mike Patton laughing at Wolfmother or whatever, here’s something a bit more edifying.

I only found this site last night, and already it has blown my mind. Just look at this list! And - although I don’t want to tell you what to watch, because there’s so much here - I’d advise you click on Charlemagne Palestine’s Island Song. Give it a few minutes to get going. At first, it’s just a camera strapped to a motorcyle veering down the empty streets of a monochrome seaside town with a guy growling and exclaiming to himself as he swings around corners and past holiday cottages. Then - it’s still that. It continues to be that. But as the film progresses you hear Palestine’s voice smooth out and extend, until the growls have become drones, harmonising with the whirr and buzz of the motorcycle engine, and then full-throated hollers that soar over the thrum of the machinery, part prison work-song or yodel, part hymn to motion. But before it gets too blissed, the uneasy rider intersperses the singing with a chant of “gotta get outta here…gotta get away…” It’s funny, simple, completely un-self conscious and a really awesome realization of what the mind does when the body’s moving really fast: a layer of transcendent calm disrupted by everyday loops of stress and need. The houses are left behind; we follow the motorcycle’s jerky progress to the cliffs. The film ends looking out across the sea, Palestine singing along with a distant foghorn and the hiss of the waves.

The film stuff’s only part of the site - there are also tons of brilliant MP3s and even, you know, things to read. It is amazing. Get addicted. Watch some Maya Deren. If you want funny stuff involving animals, there’s an MP3 of Marcel Broodthaers interviewing a cat somewhere which made me do a laugh even though I’m not sure how the cat feels about it all.