Hello,
Next week I am not at work! Which is cool. I have just today wrapped things up and now I get some days off.
I am starting to get that feeling, perhaps you know it, when it feels like your brain is shifting into some dreamy resting state. It's always difficult to know what brain chemicals are associated with subjective states, but I recently heard that dopamine is characterised by that feeling you get when you're just about to edge past your friend at the finish of lap 3 on Mario Kart. Anyway, opposite of that.
So this is going to be pretty chill. I'm gonna share some more music videos I somehow have memories of. Feel like when a certain set of us succumbs to whatever comes of us, we'll be pacified in rooms with early '00s MTV, and honestly I can not wait.
Do you remember this? What really was going on here. Did you know one of them is a girl?? And apparently has "shown herself to be very pensive and reflective over the years, often contemplating on the state of the world around her". Really? This makes me so angry and I don't know why. WHY ARE THEY CARTOONS??
This is a very sexy video. I can actually recall how viscerally uncomfortable it made me at the time, where the implied sex is somehow even sexier than real sex would be. Also is the main guy the sun or is this a sort of cheating on ur bf with the sun situation?
It's hard to convincingly search substack so... did I mention this before? Apparently Christopher Walken only agreed to do this on condition he could do ALL the dancing. No doubles. Because he loves to dance and only does acting so he can dance more?? I watch it over and over again for this reason.
This is real commercial radio in the car vibes for me. You know what the best part is though? It has a story. A message. Breath of fresh air honestly. "I have a blue house with a blue window." Know the feeling my friend.
Spot the baby-driver style diegetic sound too when the guy who I think... I always thought was slim shady?? is punching the aliens.
This felt like a REVELATION at the time. A significant chunk of my personality is probably down to watching this one too many times. It's happy that the bird and monkey make friends at the end. It's also, in hindsight, interesting how the deeply appropriative nature of sampling comes through in quite a holistic way, both good and bad.
oh my god literally crying watching this one again. it's SO SAD. And is that a Pina Bausch homage or am I reading too much into it?
This video literally TERRIFIED me as a child. I probably mentioned before that one of my favourite films is based on the premise of being a horror film about things that are actually scary in real life — and the sort of medical/research environment in this video is just TOO realistic. I mean the place depicted in this video really exists doesn't it!! And the monkeys get so angry!!! It's so scary!!!!
This guy, finally, is having a great time. Sometimes I watch this and I imagine it's me at work and you know, it's not super far from the truth.
I realised a little while ago that one of the reasons I love assemblage and intertextuality as a creator is that it allows me to speak through others rather than my own voice. When I'm doing that I feel freest, because I control the words but don't take on an authorial voice (which scares me). It feels safer. Anyway now I'm seeing it everywhere.
Have a good week! I know I will.
K