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Tag Archives: Musical Variations
Monthly Music Monday: “I Will Possess Your Heart” by Death Cab for Cutie
Unlike Justice’s video for “Stress,” the video for Death Cab for Cutie’s “I Will Possess Your Heart” doesn’t really pretend to be a film, at least not a cinema-vérité documentary. Instead, it might actually be an account of one singer’s … Continue reading
Monthly Music Monday: “Stress” by Justice
I want to point out that this video is a mini-movie, and one that I find very, very disturbing. The first dozen times I watched it I found myself crying–it’s such a perfect distillation of people’s inhumanity to one another, … Continue reading
Monthly Music Monday: “Secular Haze” by Ghost B.C.
One of the posters on Absolute Write has a picture of Ghost B.C.’s lead singer as their avatar, and eventually I tracked down who the crazy guy dressed in bishop robes was. I have to say, I love all things … Continue reading
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Tagged Experiments Recorded, Ghost B.C., Musical Variations, Secular Haze
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Monthly Music Monday: “Reagan” by Killer Mike
I don’t remember where I found this, but what captured my mind was the combination of the music and the animation. It’s a beautiful, disturbing video even without the rap laying out a horrifying view of the world. The quotes … Continue reading
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Tagged Experiments Recorded, Killer Mike, Musical Variations, Reagan
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Monthly Music Monday: “Guillotine” by The Coup
Tracy Jo Barnwell introduced me to this video, though I’d already heard of The Coup and been entranced by Boots Riley’s lyrics and the music infusing them. The social consciousness of the lyrics appeals to me–artists making political statements–though of … Continue reading
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Tagged Experiments Recorded, Guillotine, Musical Variations, The Coup
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I am French! I am musical!
In my regular trolling of the internets (as in fishing, not as in purposely making enemies, though I suppose those fishing boats do make enemies of the ocean’s wildlife and one day, mark my fishy word, the finned and gilled … Continue reading
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Tagged Linguistic Experiments: Poetry, Musical Variations, Samuel Rochery, Writing
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I want your soul, and so does everyone else
There’s a show called Off the Air. You should watch it. Watching it is quite easy. All the episodes are available in ten-minute chunks on YouTube. Ten-minute chunks because that is how long they are. The episodes. I’m not sure … Continue reading