Film, TV & Radio Goodness, Video
This trailer is not quite as funny as the cast and subject matter led me to hope for. I don’t suppose Ang Lee’s especially well known for his comedies though, is he…
Taking Woodstock trailer verdict: meh"/>
Taking Woodstock is released in the UK on November 13th
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AlternaVids, Top 5s / Top 10s, Video
When I was a child I used to sing along to records of Disney movie soundtracks. I remember when George Michael’s “I Want Your Sex” was deemed too risqué for radio. How times done changed, my kittens, how times done changed.
These days YouTube is littered with videos of little kids being filmed singing and dancing along to songs with delightfully inappropriate lyrics. You’ll see them singing along to Akon and Fergie, wondering if the parents - who are nearly always behind the camera egging them on - will next enter them into one of those icky child beauty pageants.
You just know somewhere there’s a blog or a forum of paedos sharing this stuff with “like-minded” souls, too. So let’s join them! Here are five cute/disturbing/funny/miserable clips of children singing Flo Rida’s “Low”, the poignant tale of a lady - in possession of a big booty, of course - being plied with alcohol, drugs and stacks of dollar bills by Mr Rida one evening in a local nitespot.
Take it away, kids! :(
What a moment. What a MOMENT! This post is about Ronika, who I had never heard of until about twenty-five minutes ago when I remembered I have a SoundCloud Dropbox (that orange thing in the sidebar labelled “SoundCloud DropBox”) and decided to have a rummage.
Ronika, you are the first artist to feature on this site as a result of my DropBox.
I think. My memory’s not all that. And it did take me about a month to get round to listening to it.
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Free Downloads And Streams, Up-And-Coming Acts, Video
This site’s esteemed illustrator, Mr Phil Martin, has been touting Mayer Hawthorne for many months now. While I thought “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”, the first track to emerge from his forthcoming album A Strange Arrangement, had pleasingly meaty, vintage soul-inspired production, the track didn’t do a whole lot for me.
I think the video adds a certain something though, partly due to the shock that the guy producing the sounds - and apparently he’s a one-man operation - is a geeky white guy. A geeky white guy you’re going to be hearing a lot about in the next month or so.
Mewonders whether a certain Mr West pilfered that heart-badge motif, too…
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I know, I know. You could quite happily live the rest of your miserable life without hearing Duffy’s “Mercy” ever again. And I know, I know, Mark Ronson has taken 60s soul-style production and made it yawnsomely ubiquitous.
But there’s something about The Third Degree’s cover of “Mercy” that has the ability to silence that over-analytical part of one’s brain. It gives a glimpse of what Duffy could have sounded like with a slightly rougher edge. She’d almost certainly be worse off financially, mind you.
Buy The Third Degree’s “Mercy” at 7digital
I meant to write a thing about “daggering” a while back, but then I got a text or something. For the uninitiated, daggering is a style of dancing which involves fully-clothed people getting as close to having sex as possible. Often violent, genital-slamming sex. I’m not exaggerating - people have snapped their cocks. It looks like tremendous fun, if that’s your cup of fuck.
Anyway, Major Lazer - a collaboration between Diplo and Switch - have incorporated daggering into their new video “Pon De Floor”, alongside art direction that appears to take inspiration from Teletubbies or Lazytown.
There’s something wrongly, fascinatingly hilarious about the whole affair, and you may come away wondering whether the director (Eric Wareheim of the very amusing Tim & Eric) breakfasted on a big vat of Viagra-laced cupcake frosting and crayons.
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This is thevideo for The Cribs’ new single, “Cheat On Me”. I’ve literally only heard this song twice at the time of writing, but I loves it, I do.
Or at least, I loves the second half of it. The first half I spent thinking “hmm, this isn’t as good as the stuff from the last album, which I enjoyed enormously and made me feel reasonably cool when I dropped it into conversation with people much younger than I.”
But stick around - once the neck vein-bursting “cheeeat on me” bit makes an appearance it all becomes much more engaging.
That bloke from The Smiths is in the video too, because he’s part of The Cribs now. His presence may distract you from the presence of a modern trouser-related phenomenon known as “parsnip-leggedness”, which can be spotted on other members of the band.
Buy The Cribs’ “Cheat On Me” at 7digital
Digital Love/Hate/Indifference, Video
Do you miss Popworld? I do. It was a chucklesome nuggetoid of TV pop silliness with the ability to bring on the hungover gigglies, and it hasn’t really been replaced.
On television, anyway. But that doesn’t matter because only your gran watches TV nowadays, and even then it’s just when Antiques Ladder is on. For amusant pop-related funtimes these days one looks to the web, and once there one finds things like Sony Ericsson’s Pocket TV.
Taking the Popworld template of asking stupid questions to pop stars, Pocket TV is helmed by Holy Moly Amstell-lite talking person Matt Edmondson, and a jolly good job he does posing questions to people like The Enemy such as: “Have you ever fingered a kebab?”
It’s called Pocket TV because we’re all supposed to be watching video on our telephones these days, but you’re also allowed to watch it on your common-or-garden “home computing machine” as well. You should give it a go - you might see Lethal Bizzle shooting clay pigeons, N-Dubz being face invaded or, as below, dreadful “normal lad” dullards The Enemy pretending to be halfway interesting.
There are people out there who will say that no Joy Division song could ever put a smile on someone’s face. This is for them.
From Manchester Procession; video by nicktrash
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The Priscillas@ Left 4 Dead 2 launch, Old Blue Last, London 19.11.09