90s Music Monday (sort of)
I actually forgot that yesterday was Monday. I can't decide if that's tragic or not. sigh
I have a soft spot for Mark Romanek videos - especially the sublime "Hurt" for Johnny Cash, "99 Problems" for Jay-Z (although for the last I couldn't really tell you quite why) and the fantastically creepy "Closer" for Nine Inch Nails. No body seems to do lurking menace quite as well as him. Two of his videos - "Closer" and "Bedtime Story" for Madonna - are in the permanent collection at MOMA in New York (although I have to admit I don't really like either the track or the video of Madonna one).
One thing about his work - it ages incredibly well.
It kind of blows my mind that that video is 11 years old - if you showed it to me blind you'd have no problems convincing me that it's was a completely contemporary promo.
And like the rest of Romanek's work it's achingly stylish - hell, I hate 70s retro chic and yet watching this I find that suddenly it looks appealing.
And Ms Apple - worryingly thin yes (the New Yorker described her as "looking like an underfed Calvin Klein model") but somehow a seamless blend of coquettish innocence and wanton knowing. It's not often that you see a someone who manages to project remorse and relish at the same time.
Tell a lie - dogs do it when you catch them eating something they shouldn't but it's not quite the same, is it?
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After reading "seamless blend of coquettish innocence and wanton knowing", I eagerly clicked play only to see "We're sorry. This video is no longer available."
WTF, I want my money back.
It is almost impossible to find. I treasure my ex-rental video copy of it. No, you can’t borrow it.
You've seen that Alex Cox is doing a sequel to Repo Man in comic book form called "Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday"?
Whilst I remember - if you haven't already seen a film called "Cashback" then do. Originally an 18 minute Oscar nominated short it was turned into a full film with the original as a sequence in it. It's absolutely fantastic.
Although given the premise of the film (supermarket worker imagines he can stop time and then sketch the female shoppers in the nude) it's possibly not one to watch with the elderly couple from next door?