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10/24/09
10/17/09
My favorite Spike Jonze videos
As all you lovers probably already know, Where the Wild Things Are opened yesterday. It’s a lot like a waking dream. And seeing it inspired me to share my favorite video work by Spike Jonze:
Weezer – Buddy Holly
Jonze did a lot of work with Weezer which I think is all good and this is just the one I like the best. Dig the washed out graininess, the old preppy look, the random Fonzie appearence, the bewildered Asian man. Check out the videos for Island in the Sun (elastic shininess happy times) and Sweater Song too.
Praise You – Fatboy Slim
Before YouTube and before Napoleon Dynamite Jonze perfectly captures the weirdness of dancing weird people.
Electrobank – Chemical Brothers
I love how this video is graceful and dirty at the same time. It’s also the best story I’ve seen told in a music video.
Da Funk – Daft Punk
Out of everything I had read, seen, or heard about New York City before I moved here, this is what I thought my life would be like most. A true lover just doesn’t ditch the boombox. (And it works out for the better)
Drop – The Pharcyde
Everything about this video is dope. The backwards effect gives it that surreal touch which Jonze likes to drop right into the real world. I mean, how do you even rap backwards? I don't know what else to say...it's just so dope.
10/12/09
CRS - Us Placers
And as long as we're on the subject, I've always been on Kanye's side since he got real and told America about George Bush's view on black people. I think as a side effect of fame and everything that comes with it, a lot of popular artists' music loses the more grounded, sincere aspects of their first albums (a la College Dropout, Late Registration), so I've accepted the fact that just like REAL PEOPLE Kanye has changed and is not the same voice we fans of the older stuff once knew. But Graduation was still tight and I honestly give 808s the benefit of the doubt. The man's got an ego but he's talented as fuck and has practically singlehandedly produced/guest featured every big hit since forever. I mean I practically expect to hear his voice if I'm ever around a radio. So yeah, a little bit of a stale subject, but its only ever really about the good music and he makes a lot of it.
10/4/09
Highway 1 (Beach House)
The 1 is a gray snake of asphalt that lies right up against the coast of the Pacific, all the way up and down the entire span of California. For drivers, its never the most practical choice, but neither is California generally; driving with your windows down is required by law. The air is cold and fresh, brisk I guess, and a bit salty. The sun hangs pinned to a blue wall sky in your side mirror. On bad days or in the morning, there is fog that rolls over the roads, obscuring notoriously rocky terrain and sudden sharp turns. For this reason it's important not to light a bowl until after the most dangerous curves have been navigated safely, at which point it is by all means recommended to smoke, and is in fact required by law in some counties and state national parks. Eventually you reach Big Sur, the approximate center of the coastline, a towering forest of redwoods with cliff side views of the sea in the gaps between trees. Various artists have spent long months there lodged in isolation, seeking to capture its elusive essence in words and songs. Various other people just take pictures on their cell phones. And it goes on, and on, the road. One of those roads that’ll take you as far away and back again as long as you eventually remember to turn...
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