Look at this astonishing music video from a Japanese breakbeat duo called Hifana. It explodes.
Category Archives: Music
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Film: World’s Most Boring Musician Proves It
I’ve always said that the world’s most boring musician is John Mayer and now the accommodating fellow has gone and proven my point. He’s made a film about his average day during a tour. From the looks of this film he could be attending a corporate seminar to give a PowerPoint presentation. Shiny hotel fixtures and breakfast buffets laid out in one’s room certainly must go far toward making exciting music. And look! Sneakers! He’s wearing sneakers! How charmingly boyish. And he finishes the film with ‘Fin.’ Just like the French do! Gosh! Fin! And look at that audience of his! My goodness! They look like they’re at a Bed Bath & Beyond shopping for a new duvet cover.
I think the best shot in the movie is the elevator man opening the doors and ushering Mr. Mayor out into the lobby. But John Mayer should stay in the elevator. And play there.
Every once in a while I like to post something I hate. It keeps things real.
Poetry: Azeem
It’s National Poetry Month and here is my favorite poet of the month. Azeem. We see a lot of writing about cute poets with education credentials and then someone like this brilliant Azeem fellow comes along and says a few things into a camera and reminds everybody that poets can shoot word bullets. I watch this video and my heart starts pumping and I get fidgety and I want to leave my chair and get to know words as well as this guy knows them. I noticed Azeem because he is one of the few subscribers to my YouTube film channel and so I checked him out. I’m extremely impressed. You want people to be interested in poetry? Show them this guy and they’ll be interested in about 5 seconds flat. I think what makes most poets uninteresting to the American reading public is that they all secretly have an image of a bookshelf in mind. Bookshelves are fine if you are browsing for a book, but they are death for anyone who’s making something. Azeem is also working with some hugely talented filmmakers who make fantastic imagery and do it with ease. If he comes to Los Angeles, I want to know about it and go see him play.
Set a Blaze:
Animation: Machine Gun
From Super Electric Video comes a music video for a new single, Machine Gun, by Noisia. Hands rule the world and get nasty and destroy everything.
Via Dangerous Minds
Bob Dylan’s Pink Christmas People
I love Bob Dylan’s recent album, Christmas in the Heart. Listened to it many times on Christmas day. This is his video for Little Drummer Boy. The people do seem awfully pink but maybe it’s just my eyes playing tricks on me.