This Week: Animals
I would’ve started with Spike Jonze’s version of Weezer’s Island in the Sun, but apparently Universal Music Group doesn’t like free advertising. I’m not even going to link to it out of protest. You’ll have to google it yourself.
Vitalic – Pony
This video will haunt your dreams … pleasantly.
Kate Nash – Pumpkin Soup
Hey, I never said they were going to be real animals.
Peter Fox – Alles Neu
It’s German, and it’s awesome. Germans love David Hasselhoff and I love Peter Fox.
I think the Fall movie season might be starting. Finally, some decent movies!
In Theaters:
On Video:
I almost just brushed this week aside, but with the recent props from Mooney, the pressure was on. I decided to go back to the music video roots, or at least the roots of my favorite music video director, Spike Jonze. While he hasn’t featured skateboarding in any of his videos that I’m aware of (except his first, Sonic Youth’s 100%, but I’m not much of a Sonic Youth fan), he started out making skate videos and skate videos are still at the heart of guerrilla filmmaking, which should be at the heart of any good music video. You’ll see kids with cameras at just about any skate park today, and that’s all thanks to people like Spike Jonze and amazing videos like Yeah Right (I recommend it if you have a spare 72 min).
This week: Skateboarding
Lupe Fiasco – Kick Push
This video’s pretty literal.
Coconut Records – West Coast
I know absolutely nothing about these guys, but I kind of dig their style.
Classixx – Cold Act Ill
Old school beats for old school video.
I was going to apologize for not posting this on Monday as usual, and I was going to blame it on going out of town and being busy with work, but then I looked at what comes out this week and decided I had done everyone a favor. The only thing in theaters this week is a movie I swear I’ve seen a million times before, and there’s absolutely nothing worth watching on video this week.
So do yourself a favor this weekend and catch up on your queue, or watch some football. Anything would be better than watching one of this week’s new releases. Might I suggest this recent addition to my queue:
Gotta love Netflix recommendations.
This week: Crazy-Cool Electro-Pop Mashups
Supermen Lovers vs. Delegation – You & I
Electro-pop and Soul.
Pogo – Alice
Electro-pop and Alice in Wonderland. I want to see more like this. Get on it.
John Legend Feat. Andre 3000 – Green Light
Electro-pop and R&B/Hip-hop. This is now my favorite song of the moment. Sorry about the video quality, but some record labels think it’s a wise business practice to disable the embedding of their youtube videos and this is all I could find.