... mostly about movies and music -- and with a shout-out to Scanners in the middle! The band is lo-fi is sci-fi, the song is "The Script You Wrote is Terrible" (great line: "The script you wrote is terrible/But I like you anyway"), and the video is clever and funny and magnificently deadpan (as is the one for "March to the Sky"). It would make a good Opening Shot contribution. After all, it's just one shot. I love the way it starts, with a white screen -- and just a little piece of black (the edge of the white background) in the upper left corner. Perfect.
"Hi-fi" version here.
Thanks to Mike for passing this along.
Oh, man, if only Armond White were this deadpan and funny! ("Yes, weve seen Don't Look Back" "Donovan was the best part") And congratulations on your very own >, Jim! You deserve it!
Pudgy Dude in Polo Shirt is totally %5000 percent right about The Modern Lovers, Alphaville, Herzog, Full Metal Jacket, Vangelis, Donovan and, of course, Scanners. The world would be a better place if more people communicated through pithy phrases on white sheets of paper.
Alphaville was the only reference I didn't get, although I'm certainly old enough. (I know it only as a 1965 noir/sci-fi Godard film with Eddie Constantine.) But I avoided all that early MTV synth/hair pop like the plague. And that includes Depeche Mode and Duran Duran and whatever. I remember Flock of Seagulls, of course, but I couldn't name any of their songs. I kind of liked ABC's "The Look of Love" (and "The Lexicon of Love"), though -- even if it had nothing to do with Burt Bacharach. (Who, by the way, just turned 79! Happy b-day, Burt!)
jim,
alphaville released that song "forever young" that played during the prom in Napoleon Dynamite.
been missing your insightful posts lately...my condolences on the passing of your father. as we Orthodox Christians say, Memory Eternal!
-Nicholas Garklavs
It was hard to disagree with him even when he was wrong...so adorable that dead pan face. The first half of "Full Metal" is much more powerful than the 2nd, and for the love of all that is holy "Children of Men" was a beautiful film.
"Herzog > Everything."
"Everything > Peter Jackson."
Even though I disagree with the latter ... I have to admit the quick juxtaposition of the two statements is hilarious.
I love how he paused before putting up the Herzog statement, giving it a little more emphasis and then quickly followed it up with the Peter Jackson one as if to say "yeah, while we're on the subject of 'everything' ..."
Re: Children of Men
Oh thank god, I thought I was the only one. I was (and remain) utterly baffled at how so many intelligent people can worship such a clumsy, stupid movie.
I thought Children of Men was brilliant, but that goes to show how we can all have different tastes and opinions without resorting to condescension and derision.
:)
I think that was the point of this video . . .
While I definitely disagreed with him on a lot of his points, there's certainly one thing I can't dispute: "Breeders > The Pixies" I love both, but the Breeders really were a better band.
Doc at the Radar Station > Trout Mask Replica
Bringing Out the Dead > Taxi Driver
Wait a second...wasn't there a song playing over the video?