The Price Master reigns supreme over his garage sale. Any one who wishes to buy something must ask him for the price, and he will respond with a preposterous number. Something created by the group known as Fast House to both make a statement about capitalism, but mostly I think just to bother anyone trying to buy their stuff. Either way it is funny, and has lived on the internet for the better part of two decades. Reemerging every few years to be sent around groups of friends, so they all have another inside joke to repeat after too many beers.

The short film opens up with a simple message:

Saturday, February 10, 2001

Denton, Texas

“Environments are not passive wrappings, but are rather active processes which are invisible. The ground rules, pervasive structure and overall patterns of environments elude easy perception.

Anti-governments, or counter situations made by artists, provide means of direct attention and enable us to see and understand more clearly.

Humor as a system of communications, and as a probe of our environments- of what’s really going on- affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It does not deal in theory but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide in changing perceptions.”

-Marshall McLuhan

“The Medium is the Message”

What more do you want? Weird music, great costumes, and bothering people who just want to give someone their money.

Written in the video description, "Everything is for sale." "Make me an offer!" . . . the wonderful mantras of the prophet of Captive Market Capitalism (i.e. American Style Corporate Capitalism) echo pertinently on a crisp winter day in Denton, TX in the newborn hours of the great decisive 21st Century. Members of the hallowed Fast House look on and document the unfolding.

Here are a few of my favorite moments: