Lollipop

Jan. 7th, 2008 05:42 pm
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[livejournal.com profile] woodlander pointed me at this video for the song "Lollipop" by Mika, whom I hadn't heard of before. I can take or leave the music by itself, but mixed with this Peter Max-meets-Tex Avery animation from the French studio Bonzom, the result is three minutes of overwhelmingly positive energy (and just a little bit of naughtiness).

If you're like me, you'll watch it through, and then watch it through again, and the whole time feel a desperate need to see it through some channel other than YouTube's teeny tiny blur-o-vision. Here's one link to a less cruddy version. I ended up buying the video from iTunes for $1.50. I've vaguely wondered for a long time what would move me to spend ten bits on a music video, and now I know.



(Postscript: Have also taken to dropping two-dollah bills on Cartoon Brew Films' offerings, lately.)
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"Slackjawed astonishment."

Haven't watched them all yet, but I think my favorite so far is the video for The Chemical Brothers' Star Guitar, which almost brought me to tears when I realized what I was looking at. And then got to enjoy it for several more minutes.

Also contains another playful video for Fell in Love with a Girl. I dunno if the Lego Crystal Display version will replace the Flash kitties version as the thing I imagine when I hear the song, but the kitties didn't make me say "holy shit" despite myself several times while watching them, so.

Also also got the first two volumes from the set, including a Spike Jonze disc, but haven't really watched em yet; Gondry was the one especially recommended to me. (Well, I did dip into the Jonze just to see a full-screen version of Fatboy Slim's The Dancing Christopher Walken Song or whatever it's called, which I have seen only in Wee Bootleg Quicktime format before today. Yay yay.)
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Just ordered a collection of music video DVDs that Zarf recommends.

Tangentially learned that the Cremaster boxed set is due out this year sometime. Interesting... I haven't seen any of these films but would like to.

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