Difficult viewing but an amazing track.
Videos
Blackalicious: The Blowup
Oh how I wish this were authorized.
Momoiro Clover Z vs KISS - Yumeno Ukiyoni Saitemina
Can’t think of much to say except I dig the incongruity and admire the chutzpah. (My enthusiasm was mitigated somewhat by the current “blackface” controversy.) Some of the members of this Japanese “idol” girl group are apparently in a new movie, The Curtain Rises.
Yellow Flicker Beat
I think of her as a kind of spiritual successor to Kate Bush, but there’s something special about Lorde’s stage and screen presence — an introspective yet theatrical witchiness that suggests a public persona still sorting itself out. It’s highlighted well in Emily Kai Bock’s music video for “Yellow Flicker Beat,” from a forthcoming Lorde-curated Hunger Games soundtrack.
DJ Snake & Lil Jon “Turn Down for What”
No further comment is necessary.
Trailer: Maps to the Stars
I spent some time looking under rocks online, trying to scare up a higher-quality version of this, but it’s the new David Cronenberg film and it looks … well, it looks pretty solid. Also, I love everyone in it except Robert Pattinson and, hell, he might even turn out OK if he keeps hanging out with the right people.
Trailer: Gone Girl
The tone of this trailer seems a little … off … somehow (what, publishing rights to Nilsson’s “Without You” were too expensive?), but I think Fincher & Co. are attempting to speak in a kind of (cynical, ironic) code to the legions who have read the (cynical, ironic) book.
Buckwheat Groats: “Tom Hanks”
Totally NSFW but the absurdity is delicious.