This is a nicely atmospheric video. A woman discovers that her man is cheating and, when he returns home from a tryst, he finds a message waiting for him. The whole video covers an entire range of emotion, from the pain of betrayal to the empowerment that comes from refusing to just accept it.
“I am enough”
Hell yeah, Girl!
Enjoy!
Unless, of course, you’ve been bad, in which case you should probably fear for your life.
This is a nicely evocative video, I think. Las Vegas is the quintessential American city, a celebration of commerce and hospitality that happens to be sitting out in the middle of an inhospitable desert. Vegas could only have been founded in America and it’s only in America that it could have thrived to become the iconic city that it is today.
Of course, I should also mention that, whenever I see any clips of the Las Vegas strip, I automatically think about the movie Casino and the Ace Rothstein Dancers. If I ever go to Vegas, I’m going to let Commissioner Pat Webb know that Sam “Ace” Rothstein has nothing to hide.
Enjoy!
What happened to summer this year? Seriously, it’s just kind of flying by. We’ve got August and then the first half of September and then it’s going to be Autumn again! Get out there and enjoy yourselves while you still can!
Today’s music video of the day is all about summer. It captures a few essential truths. Number one, it’s fun to get undressed in public. Number two, if you take off enough clothes while walking down the street, some dude with a saxophone will undoubtedly start following you. What I like about this video is how everyone is both intrigued and annoyed by the saxophone player. This is a video that just captures what it’s like to be young and have your entire future ahead of you. It also captures the feeling of summer!
This video was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who apparently has directed a few films as well. No, not the Resident Evil films. That’s a different Paul Anderson, all together.
Enjoy!
Blanck Mass is back with another unsettling video!
(That’s not a surprise. Blanck Mass kinda specializes in being unsettling.)
This video, which features a retro tv studio going crazy over some sexy apples, feels like a bit of an homage to the early work of David Cronenberg. Keep your eyes open and you’ll even spot a paperback novelization of Videodrome. And, of course, just the idea of loving being a parasite is a very Cronenbergian concept.
Enjoy!
Yep, it’s another day, another rock show for your Cracked Rear Viewer. Tonight I’m heading down to New Bedford’s 105th annual Feast of the Blessed Sacrament (better known to us locals as The Portuguese Feast!). Tonight’s musical headliner will be none other than Scott Stapp, former lead singer of Creed, so I thought I’d share this cool video of their big hit from 2000, “With Arms Wide Open”, directed by Dave Meyers (who also directed the 2007 horror movie THE HITCHER):
Have a good night, and I’ll see you Saturday. Keep Calm and Feast On!
This is one of two music videos for Miike Snow’s Animal. I prefer this one because it features some moody shots of the band standing in the rain and the whole thing has a sort of end of the world, apocalyptic feel to it. The song itself has been interpreted to be about everything from addiction to ennui to the furry sub-culture. The band has been said quoted as saying that maybe we shouldn’t try to read too much into the song.
(For the record, I have never gotten the whole “furry” thing, nor have I really had any desire to understand it. I mean, to be honest, it just seems stupid. Unfortunately, I once took a creative writing class where one of my classmates was absolutely obsessed with furries and he even wrote a play about some sort of sex-obsessed space bear. And, of course, the presidential campaign of Beto O’Rourke has put furries back in the headlines.)
Miike Snow is made up of lead singer Andrew Wyatt and Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg. Karlsson and Winberg previously produced Toxic for Britney Spears. When Animal was first released as a single, there was a lot of online speculation that the band was named after director Takashi Miike but, sadly, that turned out to be false. Apparently, the band actually is named after someone named Mike Snow. The band added an extra i because …. well, just because they felt like doing it.
More power to them, say I!
Enjoy!
Bang bang bang bang….
Here to get your week off to a good start, straight from the city of Detroit, it’s …. Crud!
Seriously, this is a fun song to listen too whenever you’re stuck in Monday morning traffic.
Enjoy!
Today’s music video of the day comes from the Baltimore-born rapper and producer, Sagat.
There’s actually two versions of this song. The first one, which was released in 1993 and which is still played in the clubs on The Block to this day, was called Fuk Dat and was a list of things that annoyed Sagat in ’93 and which are still annoying today. That version became a club hit but, when it was time to release the song commercially, it was obvious that the song would need a title that wouldn’t get radio stations fined by the FCC. Hence, Fuk Dat became the slightly cleaner Funk Dat.
The music video for Funk Dat was filmed on the streets of New York. The video features not only Sagat but also a really cool kid who has it up to here with the radio playing the same five songs over and over again. This video achieved perhaps its greatest exposure when it was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butthead. This song was also played on one of MTV’s dance shows on the 90s. The dancers would all shout, “Funk dat!” in unison but everyone knew what the song was actually saying.
Enjoy!
Yesterday was the 76th birthday of Sir Michael Phillip Jagger so it seems appropriate to give him today’s music video of the day slot. Visions of Paradise was the first video off of Mick Jagger’s fourth solo album, Goddess in the Doorway.
This video was directed by Dave Meyers, who is one of those music video directors who seems to have worked with everyone. If you look over the list of videos he’s directed, you’ll see everyone from Master P to Kid Rock to Pink and Taylor Swift.
Enjoy and keep rocking, Sir Mick!
After several months hiatus, I am back just in time to see the latest San Diego Comic-Con arrive and pass by with the latest in comic book-related news whether in print, video games or tv and films. One surprise news which dropped during Marvel Studio’s popular Hall H panel this past Saturday was the surprise announcement that the character of Blade has been recast. He will be getting his own film for the ever-growing juggernaut that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
While rumors in the past had Wesley Snipes (the original actor who played the character Blade in a trilogy of films) in meetings with Marvel Studios, it would seem that Kevin Feige and his casting crew decided on a new face to reprise the role of the Daywalker. Out is Wesley Snipes and in comes two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, The Green Book).
Thus with that announcement the character of Blade has returned to the forefront of pop culture. One thing that the trilogy of films had that impressed me as a fan was the eclectic batch of licensed music that was a mixture of techno, rock and hip-hop. I’ve already featured one song from the Blade II soundtrack (“I Against I” by Massive Attack ft. Mos Def).
So, it’s no surprise that the latest Song of the Day comes from the very same soundtrack and this time it’s a collaboration from hip-hop gurus The Roots and techno legend BT.
Through the Shattered Lens 