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{{quote|''Watching this video, you will wonder, briefly, if Chris Dane Owens "means it". This is an ungenerous thought--dismiss it. You may also wonder why "Shine On Me" is modelled on early ABC and Spandau Ballet and padded out with an unnecessary layer of loud guitars. Irrelevant. What you need to know is that Mr. Owens will live forever--until the dragons rule the earth again (or the first time, whatever)--and that you are going to watch this video more times than you can imagine. You may dream of this video, but the dream won't be as good because it won't be this video.''|~'''The New Yorker'''}}

"Shine on Me" is a song by Chris Dane Owens (son of ''[[Laugh In]]'' star Gary Owens) from his album ''Blue Stone''. An 80's love song made in 2008, under most circumstances it would just be thrown in the [[Guilty Pleasures]] pile without another look. But that was before Owens, armed with a budget that he's too embarrassed to admit, footage from other movies, a green screen, [http://www.robertshort.com/ Robert Short] and a [[Porn Stache]], created an incomprehensible mess of a music video jammed with as many over-the-top fantasy cliches as possible.

Was [[Cracked.com]]'s #1 for the "6 Worst Professional Music Video" (of course Swaim ends up saying "Who am I kidding, this video is fucking amazing" at the end) and won ''The New Yorker'''s "Video Of The Year" award.

* [[All There in the Manual]]:

** ''My character is part of the witches kingdom, which is the second kingdom. I'm actually part of their army and an enforcer, a general, if you will. I meet that young lady Arra who is secretly being trained by the angels and they hand her a book. That book is the book of golden symbols which can only be understood by the spirit, by the living soul. She's being trained secretly to be the queen of this realm, to overthrow the forces of darkness. My character actually meets her and falls in love with her and decides to leave the dark side, so he has an epiphany.''