yay marching band.

except the singer's jacket is way way too small and his wrists should NOT be showing.

also it would kind of suck to have to be a swamp thing for this video.

oh and here is the actual marching band doing the field show. they do a 'man on a treadmill' formation. wow.

L-O-V-E kanye's new video

I do not even care if he has the biggest ego on Earth, the music video preview for "power" is SICK.

I lovee the way visual media is heading -- it looks like a moving painting and just look at the way the girls' arms move at :24. so cool.





reminds me of this:

baby i'm yours

a pretty sweet video. beautiful, actually. i feel medium about the song.

down with the clown

please do yourself a favor all you juggalos and juggalettes and watch the new ICP video:




I can't even talk about all the amazingness that is there.

now watch this (quick before SNL takes it down):

nice try kiki, but stick to your day job.

....you may want to watch this on mute.


i like the murakami flower ball suit at the end.

a kiss with a fist is better than none!

I am loving this song right now. even if in the video she is wearing weird 90s tights. also, I am thinking this is one of those songs that everybody already knows about for months and then I just find it and get obsessed. I hate when that happens





florence and the machine.

and here is their version of a beyonce song that I love, too (halo, but b's version is obvi superior)
don't hate. I fuckin love queen B.

i just touch my princess

i am lonely now that my lovely americans have left europe. but i think there is a remedy to my situation:



my favorite part about this video is that for the entire first half i thought it was a gay video (hello, it's the village people) and then when it just gets to the point of being OTT homoerotic, they bring in the babes, who are also OTT and are so lust driven they can't help but grind parking meters, which in a way makes the men seem even more gay.

i also like the package on the guy with the fringe-y suede suit. check it out when he is doing his thrusts at 0:40. i think he has a semi.


it's so fulfilling.

horrible/hardcore college (HC)

when the fuck did i become 'not a college student'? i feel old now. here is a video about being in college and one someone made with pictures of drunk people. both are quite poignant.

she's real.

I don't really have feelings about j. lo one way or another. I mean I guess she sucks, but I don't really care enough to not like her. that said, I really liked this video and song from like 2001 she did w/ ja rule. seriously. I know all the words. I didn't have cable so whenever I was at my friends' houses and mtv was on and this video played I would make everybody shut up, put my baby hairs down on my forehead, and sing. (the video won't let me embed, so just go to the link)



here are some gems from this little goody:
-- j. lo singing (aka autotune) "and when I'm feelin sexy, whose gonna comfort me?"
-- ja rule sayin "I'm nastay" (and then my vagina seals itself up)
-- j. lo saying "nigga" in a baby voice b/c that makes it okay?
-- ja rule looking like a downie the whole time (but I think that is just how his face is)

whaaaaaat.....

this is some rusian metal ban's music video. enjoy.

GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO - BIGGER AND RUSSIANER from Tom Stern on Vimeo.

i like the twinkie rain at the end.

"aren't asians great?" by gwen stefani

omg hilarious. i love bobby lee so much

like it or not

architecture in helsinki just came out w/ a new song and video, and while the song, as mr. jones says, is "questionable in goodness," the video is amazing.


Architecture in Helsinki - Like It Or Not from helsinkids on Vimeo.

debwa loves...

grace jones! she has a new album coming out in october, "hurricane," and this is her first released track in 19 years. holla.

CSS

even though css is kinda played out, I still think lovefoxxx is adorable -- they have a new album dropping July 21, "Donkey" and below is a video for "Rat Is Dead (Rage)"

i hate the ting tings

i really hate the ting tings. i think their songs are horrible and their singer looks like a dragged out crack whore. with bad styling. and their videos are horrible as well! Their newest one for 'Shut-up and Let Me Go' is especially bad as it reminds me a bit too much of the vid for 'Seven Nation Army' by the White stripes (which is a million times a better song, too).

ghostland observatory

this duo is right up debwa's alley. we should have a dance-off.

kd if you aren't into this band then I don't know you at all. definitely listen to more than just this song to fully get the sound. apparently they are a duo from austin, texas, and describe their sound as "A robot making love to a tree!!" maybe everybody has heard of them already they have been around since 2004 but I suck at the new music thing and just listened to them this weekend

a friend saw them live playing at some san francisco party or something I don't remember where she said but she said they are the most amazing live band eva. and I don't think she's even into this type of music! that means they are incredible.

here is the first song my friend played for me by them but the asshole who uploaded it disabled embedding. check it out anyways.

hahahahaaaaa

trapped in the closet is the best thing I've ever seen

So last night I had the undeniable pleasure of viewing r. kelly’s hip-hopera “trapped in the closet,” although I would explain it as a “conversational musical narrative with r. kelly singing all the parts and playing different characters.” Yes, it was as good as it sounds. It basically was 22 chapters aka music videos that follow the most crazy storyline I have ever seen (basically it was as illogical as the craziest soap opera), and was 1 ½ hours long.

Let me just give a highlight of all of the best parts:

-everybody is cheating on everybody and r. kelly gets busted at his jump-off’s house. Her husband finds him, but it’s okay b/c it turns out he’s a pastor and won’t kill him, but he DOES have a gay lover that shows up

-a bp cop that r. kelly’s wife boned comes home to find his fat white trash wife (that r. kelly tries to give her a southern accent. It doesn’t work) acting weird, and it turns out there is a midget under his sink that the wife’s been banging. Oh, and then the midge says he shitted himself b/c the cop is trying to beat him up. Oh, and she’s pregnant and it’s the midge’s baby. oh, and sometimes the midge faints b/c so much is going on.

-r. kelly pulls out his gun probably every 3 minutes. And then they go to an Italian mobster who calls r. kelly a “moolie” or however you spell the Italian derogatory word for a black person, and then calls r. kelly’s brother in law “LL Fool J”

-these oldies (one of which is r. kelly dressed up w/ cotton glued on his face for a white beard) yell at each other and the old bp reveals he was hiding in the closet (a running theme here, obvi) and heard the pastor’s lover call from the hospital. Apparently, he has the “package.” They never say what the package is, but it’s pretty evident that it’s HIV. So, the pastor presumably has it, so his wife has it, so r. kelly has it, so HIS wife has it, so the cop has it, so the white trash wife has it, so the midge has it. The end.

this ny times article talks about it a bit more in depth and basically says that r. kelly is aware of how utterly ridiculous (and wonderful) it is. anyone who hasn't seen this, please netflix this now.

more bollywood.

This is Indian surf music from the 1965 in the film Gumnaam. This is clip is also in the movie Ghostworld.



Apparently the movie, Gumnaam, is about a group of dance contest winners that go to a remote island with a mansion and a crazy butler, only to be killed one by one. I especially like this dancing because it's amazing but i think i could do it without screwing it up really badly or looking autistic. but it's sort of a dance a downy might do, so maybe not.

This movie is also amazing:


it's called Tears of the Black Tiger in English, or Fah talai jone "heaven strike the thief" in thai. It's a thai western. It's very retro looking and until just now i thought it was. Turns out it was made in 2000. The colors are really amazing and everything is over the top and stylized and beautiful.



It kind of makes me sad that it's modern and intentionally over the top and not just another culture over-interpreting an american thing.

This post + the japabillies teaches us that anything america can do (surf music, rockabilly style, westerns) the far east can take it and make it 5 times more amazing.

lil weeezzzzyyyy!!!!!!!!!!

mmm. I love this shit.