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Music Video of the Day: Off My Mind by Hazel English (2020, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Now seems like as good a time as any to take a trip back to the 60s or the 70s and here to help us do just that is today’s music video of the day!

Myself, I always love these retro videos.  My personal theory is that it’s because I was born a few decades too late.  I love to dance and I love to have a good time and I used to love a few other things that were popular back in the 70s but I won’t go too much into too much of that here.  It’s hard for me not to feel that I should have been born earlier so that I could have hit the discos or the go-go clubs or whatever else there was to hit back then.  Hell, I probably would have even tried the whole punk thing.  Sure, why not?

For the record, if I had been born like in the 50s or the 40s (or even the 30s, who knows), I probably would have voted for Kennedy in 1960 because he was Catholic and then I would have had to vote for LBJ in ’64 because he was a Texan.  And I probably would have voted for Nixon twice and Ford once because why not?  After the election of 1976, I probably would have said, “Forget voting, let’s dance!”

(Of course, if I had been born back then, I’d be like really old and bitter today so I guess I should just be happy that I was born when I was.)

Anyway, I like this video and I like this song.  Good work all around!

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Physical by Dua Lipa (2020, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

So this video starts out with a good beat and two people getting close and really, that’s what we need in the world.  There’s so many angry and bitter and angst-filled people out there that sometimes, we need a video to remind us that love is the best thing that there is and that there’s nothing wrong with getting close to one another and that….

OH MY GOD, DID SHE JUST RIP OUT HIS HEART!?

Well, maybe.  She definitely removed something from his chest but he doesn’t look like he minds.  I kind of think of this video gives us an opportunity to see what Grease would have been like it had been directed by David Cronenberg.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Boneless by Steve Aoki, Chris Lake & Tujamo (2013, dir by Peter Falloon)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Watch this video and learn from it!

When these two fashionably-clad gangs had a disagreement in the 1980s, they didn’t settle things with violence.  Well, okay — they probably did sometimes.  In fact, things get a little bit heated in this video and I’m sure some people would argue that the only reason things didn’t get bad (I mean like, West Side Story bad) is because everyone knew that they were being filmed for prosperity.

Anyway, instead of having a rumble (which may sound silly but is still a lot of fun to say), they had a skate-off!  And then they all jumped up into the air!  Yay!  Everyone’s a winner even though we know that can’t be true because, just by definition, no one can win unless someone else loses.  That’s just the way it goes.

Anyway, this is a fun little video and all the gang members look crazy hot with their skateboards and their headbands and their whole neon attitude.  This video was shot in Venice Beach and the director was Peter Falloon, who apparently directed a lot of skating videos back in the 80s.  My favorite thing about this video is that it really does look like something that was taken off of a crappy VHS tape.  You can even tell when the tape’s owner rewound certain scenes and then watched them over and over again.

Anyway, what more can I say about this one?  It’s fun and really, for me, that’ the most important thing about any music video.  Did I enjoy watching it?  Did I actually force myself to concentrate on only doing one thing for three minute so that I could enjoy the video?  In this case, the answer is yes.

So, yay!

Enjoy!

 

Music Video of the Day: Casino Queen by Jackie Lynn (2020, dir by Haley Fohr and Krzys Piotrowski)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

One minute, you’re running through the desert.

The next minute, you’re winning everyone’s money.

Such is life, when you’re a Casino Queen.

Actually, I don’t know if that interpretation is correct or not.  This seems to be a video that’s open to multiple interpretations.  I guess a lot of how you react to it will depend on how you feel about casinos in general.  I find casinos to be depressing places, where people inevitably gamble away their futures while the local Elvis impersonator begs someone to drop a quarter in his guitar case.  Other people tend to see casinos as being a place where anyone can strike it big, if they just have the right combination of luck and skill.  I’m not sure if this video depicts someone getting lucky or cheating.  Maybe it’s a little of both.

Myself, I’ve never been much of a gambler.  For instance, I would never be able to do well at poker because I would constantly be asking the person sitting next to me if I had a good hand or not.  Blackjack is a lot more easier to play since all you have to do is just try not to go over 21.  Actually, if I ever did go on a gambling spree, I’d probably just hit the slot machines.  Or maybe the roulette wheel.

To be honest, whenever I hear the word “casino,” I think about Robert De Niro critiquing the blueberry muffins in the Martin Scorsese film of the same name.  The Ace Rothstein Dancers were my favorite part of that movie and I think they would appreciate this song because you can dance to it.

This video has a 70s-version-of-the-future feel to it, which I like.  If Logan’s Run had taken place in a casino, it probably would have looked a lot like Casino Queen.

Enjoy!

Lisa Marie’s Top 10 Songs of 2019

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10) All Of My Friends Are Rich by UPSAHL

9) Got To Keep On by The Chemical Brothers

8) You by Adi Ulmansky

7) Unglued by Big Data

6) Sisters by Saint Motel

5) Live Forever by Big Data (feat. MNDR)

4) Sky Kisses by Kedr Livanskiy

3) Eve of Destruction by The Chemical Brothers

2) Van Horn by Saint Motel

1)  Drugs by UPSAHL

Music Video Of The Day: Psych Ward by Okay Kaya (2020, dir by Kaya Wilkins & Adinah Dancyger)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

When I first watched this video, it took me a while to figure what it was reminding me of.  I finally realized that the film was making me think of an 80s zombie film called The Dead Pit, in which an amnesia victim finds herself locked up in a mental hospital that is so overrun by zombies.

Visually, the video really does have a retro feel to it.  With the grainy cinematography and the relatively small group of patients, it’s easy to imagine that this video could be an old Italian or French horror film from the early 80s.  One could easily imagine bits and pieces of the video appearing in one of Lucio Fulci’s post-Zombi, pre-Manhattan Baby films or perhaps one of the films that Jean Rollin did around the time that he directed The Night of the Hunted.  For a while there, psych wards were a very popular film setting.  I imagine that had something to do with the success of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

Enjoy!

Music Video Of The Day: Everything Has Changed by Best Coast (2020, dir by Ryan Baxley)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Really, everything?

Well, maybe not everything.  This video, for instance, suggests that some things have changed but that it might not have been as easy a change as the lyrics suggest.  The thing I like about this video is that, even though the subject matter is change, it still has this weird retro feel.  So, it’s like, “Everything’s changed …. back!”

I do have to say, though, things have certainly changed for me over the past few years.  I was just thinking about it earlier today.  Way back in 2010, when I first started writing for this site, I was a neurotic and self-destructive and maybe just a little bit insecure.  I was one of those people who would specifically start arguments and fights with people just so I could revel in the drama.  It was my way of acting out at the world, largely because I was just in a really angry place at the time.

But the years have passed and the times have changed and I’m in a much better place today.  A lot of it, I know, had to do with just growing up and discovering that being an immature brat wasn’t as fulfilling (or as cute) as I had been led to believe.  A lot of it had to do with writing for this site and discovering that I didn’t have to act out to get attention.  I could just state my opinions and make my arguments and people would actually respond.  That was a big lesson for me and it played a big role in me gaining the confidence necessary to become a …. well, I wouldn’t say a grown-up.  I still don’t consider myself to be a grown-up.  I’ve still got a lot of maturing to do.  But I’m definitely a much happier person today than I was in 2009.

So remember!  Be supportive of the writers and film reviewers in your life because, in a way, you’re helping them become better people.

Anyway, where was I?  Oh yeah!  Good video!

Enjoy!