There are apparently two videos for I’m Shipping Up To Boston available. The one above was apparently released at the same time that The Departedmade the song famous. It features the band performing and footage from the film.
The other version is below. This version was directed by Mark Higgins and it basically involves the band, as Higgins put it on YouTube, “hanging with hooligans and runnin’ from the cops.” Personally, I prefer the version below but they’re both good.
To be honest, I was hoping this song would be a cover version of the song that Coyote Shivers and Renee Zellweger perform at the end of Empire Records but no, it’s not.
It’s still a good song, though. And I like the simplicity of the video.
I’m not sure why March 12th would be considered Alfred Hitchcock Day, seeing as how Alfred Hitchcock was born in August of 1899 and passed away in April of 1980. But no matter! It’s always a good day for Hitchcock!
So, in honor of Alfred Hitchcock Day, today’s music video of the day is Laeticia de Valer’s Hitchcock Blonde!
What exactly is happening in this video? I’ll leave that for you to interpret. All I’ll say is that it reminds me of my favorite movie about cults, Ticket to Heaven.
Then again, if you can remain happy after slipping in a pool of blood then you’ve obviously achieved something.
Well, Thirty Seconds To Mars has Jared Leto. But Afrojack is Afrojack. My money has to be on the guy who didn’t appear in the worst movie to come out of the DCEU so far.
Apparently, “think of England” is the advice that was once given to British wives who no longer enjoyed having sex with their husband, that one should simply lie back and “think of England.” Apparently, thinking of France would lead to divorce.
Yeah, this isn’t a particularly happy song. But it sounds nice and I enjoy the bleakness of the video’s black-and-white cinematography.
I can never hear MakeDamnSure without thinking about the What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost episode of Degrassi.
That’s the episode where aspiring rock star Craig Manning (played by Jake Epstein) returns to Toronto after being on tour and we discover that he’s picked up a nasty cocaine habit. Despite being coked out of his mind, Craig still gets a chance to perform during a Taking Back Sunday show. However, no sooner does Craig get on stage and start to sing then he suddenly gets the worst nosebleed in the history of nosebleeds.
AGCK!
Needless to say, the members of Taking Back Sunday are not impressed.
Of course, before everything went so terribly wrong, Craig had bragged to Taking Back Sunday’s Adam Lazzara about how he performed a “stripped down, acoustic” version of MakeDamnSure in his set. “I’d like to hear that,” Adam replied.
YOU BLEW IT, CRAIG!
Oh well. Fear not. By the time Craig returned for Degrassi Goes Hollywood, he was clean of the drugs and hopefully, he got back together with Ellie.
(Actually, as much as I love Ellie, Craig’s soulmate really was Ashley. Ellie should never have let Sean break up with her…)
(Okay, sorry, I’m getting lost in a Degrassi tangent here…FOCUS, LISA, FOCUS!)
As for the video for MakeDamnSure, it features the band performing in a wind tunnel. There’s a lot of scary and sad imagery but fear not, things work out for the best. It turns out that some people do give a damn.
Through the Shattered Lens 