Best Music Videos and other film thoughts
I recently (last few monthes) got obsessed with music videos and that particular art medium - I feel that once MTV realized that they would get more ratings with reality TV - they forgot the one reason why they existed in the first place. Without further ado, here are my favorite videos that are real pieces of art:
- Dan Le Sac VS scroobius pip - "Thou Shalt always Kill" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4
- Justice - "D.A.N.C.E (Version Finale)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_QVq2lGMs
- Queens of the stone age - "Go with the Flow" (favorite video ever) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGyZ5P4JlAc
- OK Go - "Here It Goes Again" (i hope you've seen this) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI
- Fatboy Slim - "Weapon Of Choice" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs
- Arcade Fire - "Wake Up" (not a cool video - just looks like a memorable time) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8QYnxIjHWg
What I'm listening to:
- Paul Simon - Concert in the Park - Obvious Child
- Buffalo Sprinfield - Greatest Hits - Kind Woman
- 50 Cent - Curtis - Curtis 187
- Beatles - White Album - Back in the USSR
Another complete non-sequiter, but I happen to be watching one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite actors - the scene in Lost Highway where Robert Loggia freaks out and almost beats a guy to death for following him to closely....gold
A scene that is analogous to that is where JT Walsh consoles Will H Macy in the Bowling Alley after Macy's dinner wasn't waiting for him in Pleasantville - a highly underrated film in my eyes - good Maguire, good, Witherspoon, good, Bridges, great Walsh, and one of the only movies that Paul Walker is good in (in fact the only one that comes to mind now - feel free to prove me wrong...)
Another strange theory that I have has to do with two actors - Ashley Judd and Peter Saarsgard. The theory is simply that Peter Saarsgard has never acted poorly in a film and Ashley Judd has never acted well. I hear that Flightplan might be a chink in this arguments armor, but after hearing the ending from my brother I decided not to watch it (although I totally will probably catch it on TNT some sunday afternoon...)
Although on the subject,is there a better doughy faced Italian that you would rather be sexually assaulted by than Bruno Kirby in the BBall Diaries? I can't come up with anyone better - either him or a young clemeza... Also I completely forgot that Christopher plays Jim's young friend with cancer earlier in the flic - all in all a decent flic - kind of a Hoosiers meets Blue Chips meets Requiem for a Dream....