Here’s a classic music video from X.
When I was looking for a music video to share today, I discovered that the majority of the music videos had recently been uploaded to YouTube were AI. It wasn’t just that the videos were made with AI. It was that the singers and the songs were often AI as well! That was disturbing, especially since most of the AI artists didn’t sound that different from their autotuned real-life counterparts.
Needless to say, I was happy to find this from Exene and X.
Enjoy!
This October, I’m going to be doing something a little bit different with my contribution to 4 Shots From 4 Films. I’m going to be taking a little chronological tour of the history of horror cinema, moving from decade to decade.
Today, we bring our history of horror to a conclusion …. for now.
8 Shots From 8 Horror Films
The Witch (2015, dir by Robert Eggers)
Hereditary (2018, dir by Ari Aster)
Midsommar (2019, dir by Ari Aster)
Us (2019, dir by Jordan Peele)
The Lighthouse (2019, dir by Robert Eggers)
Malignant (2021, dir by James Wan)
X (2022, dir by Ti West)
Nosferatu (2024, dir by Robert Eggers)
How about starting the long weekend with X?
This video stars and was directed by Exene’s son, Henry Mortensen and co-stars her niece, Carolyn Allen. The video was shot in Cannery Row in Monterey, California.
Enjoy!
Look at Billy Zoom go!
Ever since I watched The Decline of Western Civilization earlier this year, I’ve been watching every video of X that I can find. This video was shot for a CBS show called No Holds Barred. According to the video description on YouTube, the show was “short-lived.”
Enjoy!
“The beat, the beat, the beat, the beat!”
Enjoy!
X is still here. That sort of longevity from the greatest punk band to come out of Los Angeles, that’s cause for celebration. This music video celebrates both the band and their history.
Co-director Gilbert Trejo is the son of the one and only Danny Trejo, whose longevity is also worth celebrating.
Enjoy!
June was a suck month and July was a tough month and August might be even tougher and suckier. But X has a new video out and Billy Zoom is standing proud. There are good things in the world, you just have to be willing to see them. I’m not giving up.
(As always, thank you for your patience and understanding!)
Enjoy!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on twitter. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.
Tonight, at 9 pm et, Tim Buntley will be hosting #ScarySocial! The movie? 2022’s X!
If you want to join us this Friday, just hop onto twitter, start the movie at 9 pm et, and use the #ScarySocial hashtag! I’ll be there tweeting and I imagine some other members of the TSL Crew will be there as well. It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
X is available on Prime!
See you there!
This song appeared on X’s fourth studio album, More Fun In The New World. That was the last of X’s albums to be produced by Ray Manzarek, formerly of The Doors. This was also the band’s final album before the divorce of John Doe and Exene Cervenka. Even after splitting up and marrying other people, John and Exene continued to make wonderful music together.
This video features John and Exene singing the song while Billy Zoom plays guitar and flashes his trademark smile. X was about as positive as any punk band ever would be.
Enjoy!
Today’s music video of the day comes from the seminal Los Angeles punk band, X. This video and song was a part of an effort to make X into a more “commercial” band. Burning House of Love did receive some airplay on “mainstream” radio stations and the video was nominated for a Video Music Award but it still failed to bring X their commercial breakthrough. It’s not a bad song, though.
The video was directed by Daniel Kleinman, a British music video director who also did videos for Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, and Adam Ant. (Kleinman was also a member of the punk-era band, Bazooka Joe.) In the 90s, Kleinman would be appointed title designer for the James Bond films, a position that he had filled for every film sine Goldeneye.
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 