aug 20
Time for another progression. On some monitors you may not be able to see anything, but tomorrow I will post again, further along. In the meantime, here are videos I was looking at yesterday:
You know you loved Donnie Darko, and that the ending scene was a moment of great audio-visual pairing. But until yesterday, I hadn’t seen the “real” video for the Gary Jules cover of “Mad World.” So thanks to a long string of postings that started with Tumblr:
And then, when the best art students go and actually make some money, or maybe were even smarter and avoided art school altogether:
part 2, + when they take hot bands that I actually kind of like:
and then, finally, the same Killers song but in a funnier context:
August 20th, 2008 15:24
Oh, god….them!
August 20th, 2008 15:32
them?
August 20th, 2008 17:42
Don’t be coy. Sawyer and Kate of course. Is it me or does Sawyer give off Kid Rock vibes? That whole relationship I find unnerving and unsettling for all sorts of personal past history reasons. But of course I watch. In the words of LOST IN SPACE’S Dr. Smith: “the pain, the pain”.
August 20th, 2008 17:43
thought you meant the killers…
August 20th, 2008 19:20
Der Killers. I like the Killers. And I really like the vid that goes with that song. a not so subtle tribute to Pussy Cat: Kill! Kill!
DER Darko. I also like the darko, but I cannot figure out exactly why. Probably it’s as simple as the bunny mask and the dark cloud.
August 20th, 2008 19:21
My eyes! The song in Mark’s video could be a song-poem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_poem
The balloons one is terrific. I only know the Killers by name, but they’re evidently in Southland Tales, which I haven’t seen/want to see and kind of dread seeing — the reviews were so bad. Donnie Darko is about the most deeply troubling movie I can think of. It’s just caricaturish and just realistic enough: there’s no nihilism like feeling that your particular reality is no more worthy or enduring than any of infinite others.
August 20th, 2008 21:03
All this music floating around makes me think I should start up Radio Free Toronto (now Radio Free Providence) again:
1) RFT runs for a month, so people sign up in groups of 7 or 14.
2) Based on the number of people, you either claim a day of the week for your own (Mark takes every Monday) or alternate a day of the week with someone (Jesse takes the first and third Thursdays, Cathy takes the second and fourth).
3) When it’s your day, you’re responsible for making a song available to everybody in RFT. (We used Yahoo Briefcase, but that was a long time ago.) The entire idea is that it’s something you love and people are unlikely to have heard yet.
4) At the end of the month, everyone votes on a certain number of favorites in some sort of way that spares people’s feelings. (For example, we said that you had to pick your two favorite songs submitted by each person.)
5) Someone burns a CD of the favorites and distributes it to everybody.
August 20th, 2008 21:27
Music! Primates! I’m such an idiot for not thinking of this before. Don’t bother watching the video, but I love the song beyond words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbpG999Smc
Nuff happiness listening to this Friday after Friday….
August 21st, 2008 14:54
“One April Morning” (typically nonpareil arrangement and performance from a Revels CD) just came up on the iTunes randomizer. I’m going to forget this one by the time you go back to birds, Cathy, so I’d better share it now:
“‘Twas on one April morning just as the sun was rising
‘Twas on one April morning, I heard the small birds sing
They were singing Lovely Nancy, for love it is a fancy,
And sweet were the notes that I heard the small birds sing.
For young men are false and are full of all deceiving
Young men are false and seldom do prove true
For they’re roving and they’re ranging, and their hearts are always changing,
They are hunting to find out some pretty girl that’s new.
And oh, if I had but my own heart in keeping,
Oh, if I had but my own heart back again
Close to my bosom I would lock it up forever
And it would never, never stray so far from me again.
Young men, why do you spend all your long, long time in courting?
Young men, why do you spend all your long, long time in vain?
For I don’t intend to marry; I would far rather tarry
So young men, don’t you spend all your long, long time in vain.”
I have so many other good ones, too!
August 21st, 2008 15:25
RE: GORILLAZ: Here is an indication what a geek I am: I own a limited edition set of action figures of the whole conceptual band. They are HUGE and have movable parts and are really well made. They hang with my Takashi Murakami “Mr. D.O.B.” plushie and my Avengers (nb: Mrs Peel and Mr. Steed, NOT Antman and Submariner) set and reclining Ganesha. So, Catherine, NEVER be apologetic for watching Animal Planet.