Zombies In Plain English
Heima
"Heima" means home. And home is where the heart is. Yeah, whatever. Sigur Ros is an Icelandic band and "Heima" is a there visual presentation of playing at home. And maybe it's because I am in an 'autumnesk' mood, or maybe it is that I always have a weak spot for barren, surreal landscapes, and yes, sure it helps I physically tune in well with the eerie sound of Sigur Ros, even picked a song of theirs to play at my one someday day event funeral, so anyway, point is, even though my objective judgments are faltering as ever, I just think the trailer looks beautiful.
No Escape
A collective of young Dutch artists known as Studio Smack were commissioned to put together a video reflecting the enormous amount of visuals that plague us every day. They stripped away everything in our path but commercial and graphical messages leaving us with a very dark and sad truth.
Here is the YouTube video.
Chemical Brothers
So far the latest single "Do it again" from the Chemical Bothers. Before you start bashing me for a bad musical taste, let me point out it's not exactly my fav kinda music, though the Chemical Brothers did make some good songs in the old days. I am thinking about classics like "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" to which I once danced, late at night on the rooftop of a pension in downtown Istanbul, plugged into my discman, sorta happy and drunk on raki. But this is not one of them.
Anyway, thing is, as you smart globetrotters all must have noticed, the clip is set in Morocco, examining the footage, somewhere on the roads and mountains south of Marrakech . And hey, it's been awhile I have been there, but seeing the images, the landscapes, the people, the goats, I think it's about time I go back there and break that silly (but oh so meant, so tired of that country, pretty much on the rebound after a true love at first sight) promise not to go the Maghreb for a long long time. Also, jeez, I have been 6 times in Morocco and never ever visited Marrakech (or area), kinda stupid not? I can do better, sure.
*ps. Also it's good to see Allah/God loves music. I remember a movie where he once did send a bottle of coke. He is improving.
Future Foes
I am not a fan of The Strokes, they're ok though, but hey I am big sucker for doomsday scenarios. Born in the same year of the Cuba crisis (does anyone remember?), getting into teen adulthood in the 'No Nukes' Eighties (aw... volatile pity, soddy character me, always prone to expect the inevitable in the very soon future with the grandeur of instant annihilation, so why bother to study, so why getting a career, why grow up, all that no future crap that still makes me kinda nostalgic for firm what's the point, lets get over with it believes, the 'better be red then dead' mumbles, the easy new wave shrug of nothing matters that for some reason made me quite attractive on friday 'no way I am dancing' evenings) so yeah, what else to expect?
Ah well, of course this video is heavily based on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ('68), which is kinda the only nice SciFi film (the original Solaris ('68) and Soylent Green ('73) as a nice backup) they ever made.
Capturing The Tick Tock In The Clock
So instead a musical intermezzo, Bright Eyes, a fav fab.
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