December 2009
13 posts
Introducing The Bacon Review
Please check out my new blog, The Bacon Review, to which I will be posting all future music-related content to. On it, you will find my written content that is published elsewhere, as well as my new annual event, the Musical Advent Calendar:
Welcome. This is the inaugural Musical Advent Calendar, an annual event chronicling the year’s music and paring it down to the top 31 releases of the...
November 2009
18 posts
WatchA wild music video created by Fluorescent Hill for the N.A.S.A. Project (“North America South America”), a music collaboration project assembled by Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel, brother of Spike Jonze) and DJ Zegon (Ze Gonzales, professional skateboarder). The song itself is quite an anomaly, featuring Tom Waits and Kool Keith on vocals. But the video just puts the whole thing over the top....
WatchI’ve seen better use of this style of motion graphics, but the Taylor Mali monologue that Ronnie Bruce uses as his base material is very cool. (via Swiss Miss)
WatchI want a Boombox. Edison — “Tonka Truck” (via @feltron)
WatchI’m really looking forward to this collaboration between Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck. This song, “Heaven Can Wait,” is the first video from the pending album. I think this video may have been directed by one of my favorite photographers, William Hundley (as evidenced by the skateboard on cheeseburgers shot in the middle of the video which is very similar to his cheeseburger series) —...
“We all knew it was coming. Surely they wouldn’t not play it. But after their...”
– Me, from my first foray into a new hobby. Or, rather, a new spin on an old hobby. Look mom, I’m a music writer! Expect a lot more from me soon at Click & Dagger.
WatchThe Most Serene Republic — Heavens to Purgatory. This is so cool. From the Jetsons invoking song name, to the video treatment, and even to the song itself, it’s a fun thing to watch. (via MBV)
WatchI’m not sure what this video is trying to say, but I do like the type treatments throughout. Especially the large block letters resting within the video segments. Watch to find out what I mean. (via Nice Type)
The case for a pay cap →
When people say to me “the Yankees bought the World Series again,” my initial reaction is always, “but they had the same payroll last year, and they didn’t even make the playoffs.” But with 27 World Series wins, WAY more than any other team in all of baseball, Joe Posnanski makes some very good points about their payroll and how it affects the game. (via @drewpickard)
“Where there is happiness — friendship, adventure, affection, security — there is...”
– A. O. Scott, NYTimes Film Critic, from his article, Unleashing Life’s Wild Things on Screen, a great review of a fantastic movie, as well as a full genre of complicated kids’ movies that I feel the world needs a lot more of.
Michel Gondry is god. →
Kottke has embeds from Gondry’s treatment for the Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar video, as well as the making of it. I wish I thought like Michel does.
(via @zephyrbunny)