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.
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.
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.
I like today’s music video of the day because it has a perverse retro feel to it. Like if you go to a cabin in the woods and find a dusty old VHS tape sitting in the back of a cubbyhole, this is probably what you would see after watching the tape. And then I assume that little girl from The Ring would show up.
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.
I like this video because it has a creepy, end-of-the-world feel to it and that seems like the perfect way to start off Tuesday. It’s not Halloween yet but it’s never too early to start getting into the mood.
Let’s get this week off to a good start with this video from Saint Motel!
If this video doesn’t make you want to dance, I don’t know what to tell you.
That is Miles Brown, also known as Baby Boogaloo, dancing. At the time of this video, he was around eight years old. He’s currently a part of the cast of Black-ish, playing Jack Johnson.
Through the Shattered Lens 