REBECCA & FIONA

Swedish pop music has so much to offer lately. Last year it was Robyn that tore the dance floor, earlier this year Those Dancing Days, the sunshine and rainbow pop that lighten up every heart, and here comes again. I found these duo/sisters in myspace page back in 2010 introducing this Jane Doe song. I have very less information about them now as a foreigner all I know is this electro pop sisters are heiresses of one big name pop producer in Sweden. Now I can see them back again releasing few more singles on VEVO with harder and better late 90's electro sound and those shoes.

HAPPY TOGETHER

I'm blogging this three days after I first saw Happy Together. From the time I finished it till now, I can tell it is growing in me as it keeps getting more personal, and I still awe of Chungking Express that I watched years ago.

And that makes me want to find out what's so special about Wong Kar-Wai's movies. One thing I can recall is that he knows how to snatch perfect proportion between visual and audio to cook up urban sensation so brilliantly. It's easy to tell which is his film by those slow-motions, eye level shots, sloppy apartments, witty uses of western music, his signatures are all over the place. In many ways, his film shares a lot of resemblances to French/Italian art house films in 50s-60s, only in Cantonese language.

Happy Together is one fine piece that won him best director from Cannes and nominations back in 1997. The story about two Chinese men on the trip to see Iguazu fall in Argentina. Once they got lost, they found out their relationship did not work anymore. They ended up stuck in the middle of nowhere, one tried to escape to Hong Kong, another tried to escape the relationship. The plot is as simple as that, but through well-done psychological interpretation in each sentence, the chemical between Leslie Cheung and Leung Chiu-Wei, the scenes of Argentina (that amazingly feels like Hong Kong), to the slow corrosive ending where Happy Together by The Turtles plays, it turns out mesmerizing. 

I have watched this film three times already since the last three days. I think I'm in love with it.

This was created using old magazine scans then synch with music. very very pretty

---Nathaniel Whitcomb--- 

ALBUM REVIEW BJORK - BIOPHILIA

With the name itself, there is no need for introduction to her pure originality in her musical dictatorship. Bjork often be mentioned in the aspect of becoming one with her music and she became so respectful that the majority agrees to separate her music into an individual sub-category. She came all the way from the Debut in 1993, to high time Homogenic-Vespertine, through Medulla the non-instrument album. These achievement proves her ability to explore and experiment whatever in her head and projected them right out with her very bold confidence. Biophilia the eighth studio album came out earlier this month convinced the fact that she still continue to show what she capable of. Meanwhile, among those achievement, the question rose whether has she will be able to top her own masterpieces?

I don’t take heed about her multi-disciplinary to set her music ahead of time on turning music into an iPad apps. and, like many of us, I don’t think this is a good step at all to put Apple customer audiences first. The idea of the visual/music is great when it is optional choice for those who already fully absorbed music and wants to explore more about her “Universe”. Like it or not, I believe they should somehow release the CD/Vinyl for many of us who are left out.

In Biophilia, Bjork seems to surpassed into another level of her musical artistry. Not that she becomes so out-of-space (which she has already archived that title for so long)  but she seems not to interest about human and their emotions, beliefs and thoughts anymore and starts a revolution over those topics. Hence the main topic of Cosmology, Earth and Science that are extremely rare in any musical scenes. On her first song Moon she talks about yes, the moon but that also a melancholic way to talk about life and rebirth. The album was seems to be driven by merest progressiveness for each songs has to rely on one another to create the rises and falls, each of them slowly turns into another. Then Thunderbolt, we can hear the Tesla thunder coil, one of many experimental instruments here. Crystalline, the brightest of entire album, sprinkled by the chimes of Gamaleste and ends with the infamous 47 seconds of Drum & Bass hailstorm. It swipes the song out of the place and cannot bring us back to the same track again. There are so many experimental instruments on this album many of them works, many does not, but the best instrument still be Bjork’s voice with her personal singing style and those poetics lyrics. After Crystalline there are few more interesting tracks like Cosmonogy, the lullaby track about how the universe was created and Mutual Core where those hard beats comes back again.

Apart from these tracks, it feels like floating around in dark vast space where words fly in and out forever. Despite the fact that she is very great at writing exquisite lyrics, she often let the hollowness speaks for itself. There are some songs like Dark Matter that filled with spooky sound and Hollow which is so long that It sounds like it will never end. The story of Earth and Universe go along very well with poetic lyrics but they also create a huge space between listeners. We cannot feel gut-wrenchingly lonely the way we listen to Play Dead or like a human touch when we listen to All is full of Love. Instead, all we get to hear is Bjork and how she contemplates the surrounding then filters them inside-out.

For this album, Bjork fans (including me) were obviously polarized into those who like it and those take this as their least favorite. I don’t think I should jump down the band wagon to give it more listens in order to fully embrace the message as if Bjork was a meta-human that deserve a special way to approach. To me, I think I don’t hate it and it is not the least favorite but I just don’t like the iPad idea. I think of it as another attempt to create her conceptual art into music. Biophilia goes great when added to discography and Bjork is still as creative and genuine as she always been.

Crystalline video Bjork works with her long-time collaborator, Michel Gondry again. The song is about crystal and how it grows and the video is almost exactly like that. I like the artwork in the video, not sure who did it but let me guess it is done by M/M Paris, her top favourite art designers.

It's been a week and I can't seems to get over futuristic stuff easily. How about something ahead of time on the night like this. The track "From Here to Eternity" was produced by the Italian godfather of techno sound, Giorgio Moroder in 1977. Here in 2011 and who would've thought it still sounds like a tune from 2038.

  From Here To Eternity (12 Inch) - Giorgio Moroder

DESIGNS IN GATTACA

People seem to remember Gattaca as the sequence where Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman started their real life relationship rather than focusing on the movie itself. But despite poor reception on 1997, decade later the growing popularity as the one of the classic sci-fi movie from late 90’s has proven Gattaca its re-watchable value. I was another one in the wave of people who later discover this film (decade later). Last week I was searching indefinitely for futuristic movie with interesting plot through the every list I can find on the internet. It turned out Gattaca was on almost every one of them (along with The Fifth Element, Blade runner). What seems most appealing to me, rather than highly acclaimed storyline, is the art direction and design in the film. If you have seen this movie already, I bet you would agree with me about the art composition appeared in the film from costumes, architecture, lighting hues and those futuristic inventions like 1950 cars with hi-tech engine sound and swimming treadmill and so forth. Every bit of these fragment are enough to make the movie so gorgeous to me. Kudos to Andrew Niccol and his cinematographer, Slawomir Idziak.

Like most of dystopia plots, the film is dated in near-future (as for the fact the movie was created in 1997, it can nearly assumable that it is the year of now) where social classes are no longer classified by nationalities nor races but, even worse, by DNA. People who were conceived naturally are considered to be weak and less important while people who were born technically engineered are elite and obviously stronger. This must have something to do with George Orwell’s 1984, a pure dystopian masterpiece and a taste of Alphaville for the sci-fi-noir value (precisely, wiki stated this film as tech-noir) To add up to film noir style, instead of putting beyond-imagination designs like many of Spielberg’s, the film adopted the contemporary designs from 20th century such as turbine cars and Frank Lloyd Wright’s futurism architecture.

Back to the plot again. Vincent (Ethan Hawke), a young man who was born naturally, was doomed to be low class labor in the society due to advance biotechnology that stated his heart disease and many difficulties since he was born (Ironically enough, his name was Vincent “Freeman”). Vincent somehow determine to be an astronaut and finally disposed himself from  his bias family to work as a cleaner in space institute called Gattaca.

In Gattaca headquarter (the astronautics company in the movie where it is cleverly named after the genetic component C T G A), the director uses at least three differences locations to shot, one of them is Marin County Civic Center in California design by Frank Lloyd Wright, the father of modern architecture. Astronomer office where Vincent and Irene work is incredibly gorgeous. I’m not sure where exactly it is but it is so clean and minimal that it eliminates human touch in the building, plus the picture of officers working on each desk like robots. The warm yellow light that covers entire film is instead of giving warm feeling it offers neat and cold environment.

Not long after Vincent worked in Gattaca as a cleaner, he found a man who can provide him false identity to become an “Valid” like everyone else. He led Vincent to a man named Jerome Morrow (Jude Law) an athlete runner whose legs paralyzed from car crash, unwillingly trade his “Identity” (everything that contain DNA like blood, urine, contact-lense etc) for money. Vincent used his named and everything else to apply as an astronaut in Gattaca an officially and easily become Jerome Morrow, ready to depart to a mission in Titan. They later became friends.

The exterior shots of Jerome/Eugene apartment used CLA Building on the campus of California State Polytechnic University. I can notice the winding stairs, intentionally or not, resembles to DNA structure. This therefore continually supports the genetic concept.

CLA Building on the campus of California State Polytechnic University as exterior shots of Eugene's apartment

After the mission director was mysteriously murdered, there are investigators crawling all over the institute, collecting samples of everything they find in the scene, find out who they belongs to. Vincent, unfortunately dropped his (real) eye-lash, became murder suspect and he must use all his wits to get out of this, all for his Saturn mission.

Uma Thurman or Irene in the story is so genuinely perfect for the setting and costumes. Her blonde hair strictly coiled at the back, wearing plain grey uniform goes together with exclusively-designed brassiere that cling underneath the collar adds some feminist/perfectionist look. While all the male characters are all in 50’s inspired dapper look with clean-cut hair. Ethan Hawke and Jude Law at best!


One remarkable scene in this movie is the solar cell scene. In this scene Vincent (now as a first-class navigator aka Jerome Morrow) and Irene, his colleague was at the end of their date. Irene took him to see something amazing before dawn breaks. She took him to the sea of solar system plants gleaming the very first sunlight of the day. But Vincent, not wearing his contact lenses, was not able to fully witness the beauty. This scene should be classic in my opinion. People who watch this film usually mention it. It is possibly because it was the only romantic scene in the film. The solar cell plants depict the near-future as they suggest that soon the sea of solar cell plants will become more common source of energy. Artistically this is very creative bringing out the somber feeling at dawn. The light and the minimal composition nothing else but he and she and the sunlight reflecting all over the place.

I can go on forever but let me stop here before it gets too long. There are so many things to talk about in this film apart from design and stuff. Sorry for not covering all the details in plots. This movie is surely very underrate. It is not regular cloning thriller. It is the story of a fighting spirit defying his fate, friendship and competition, all under intelligent narration. Classics in my book.  

I would vote for Theophilus London as the leader of this Indie/Hip-Hop wave if there has to be one. Since his appearance seems to attract wider range of fashion-conscious people while his cutting-edge Hip-hop sound tops up everything. This Brooklyn-bred rapper sounds like the crash of Kid Cudi and Toro Y Moi but the result somehow reminds me of Prince in his fresh years. After releasing two earlier efforts, This Charming Mixtape and Lover's Holiday, London declared his existence world widely with the single Last Name London that includes in his first full-lenght album Timez Are Weird These Days. So down here is "Why Even Try" one of my favourite track from the album, love those old-school bass lines as much as Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara!

 Theophilus london - Why Even Try ft Sara Quinn by Vitalic Noise

There's a reason that return to my blog again to pad things out a bit.

Few weeks earlier when we went to see Miranda July's The Future, on the street, my dickhead pal wouldn't stop humming this song. "Heaven know I'm miserable now" especially this part that goes like "I was looking for the job and now I found the job and heaven knows I'm miserable now...", that successfully made me feel damn miserable now. It's a terrible song. Later I found out  it's The Smith's but that doesn't make any difference. And for some reason, I kept listening to this song since then, now didn't know how the sheer misery in this song can be so hauntingly catchy. 

So I changed my blog title because it's similar to it and I don't want to be remind how miserable my blog has been lol.

Rest In Paradise, Amy

Visual Diary by Pascal Grob

Pascal Grob, my favourite blogger, was in Bangkok last week. And this seems to be the outcome of his experience. It's kind of funny how he made my city , through his foreign eye, looks so unfamiliar to me in a good way.

Deep in the ocean, dead and cast away. Where innocence is burned, in flames

It came to my surprise to realize that this subtle piece of arts was directed by its band-former/singer himself. Then I after found out some more about this French director Yoann Lemoine, who has recently directed for few big names like Katy Perry (Teenage Dream), Mystery Jets (Dreaming of Another World), I started to believe that Woodkid is just one of his side quests. I'll admit that I am one of the million people who discovered this song through Assassins Creed new trailer, but also have to admit that this black&white slow-motion combo gem, with a little bit of Agyness Dyne with an owl on her hand, has the potential to snatch my attention from my favourite game forever. check out his works here

Killer Hair

I'm getting your hairstyle soon in not more than 4 months, Kim. Lots of love from Thailand ;)

Special Problems

Here are few more of previous psychedelic/collage video works from Special Problems studio, a creative studio from Auckland, New Zealand. Of course, it's Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali, the same people who behind The Naked and Famous' Young Blood, the video that blew my heart away (the video is in my previous entry below). They also do print works and web designs. check out their website and let these videos speak for themselves.

 

Tame Impala - Half Full Glass of Wine from Special Problems on Vimeo.


Flying Lotus - MmmHmm from Special Problems on Vimeo.



Wolfmother - New Moon Rising from Special Problems on Vimeo.



Midnight Juggernauts - This New Technology from Special Problems on Vimeo.



Kids of 88 - Downtown from Special Problems on Vimeo.

Dance Of Pales

I have listened to so many good songs in my life but if you ask me what is the sweetest tune I have ever heard, this "Game Soundtrack" surely must be somewhere around top five. Not only because it is so hauntingly beautiful but because it contains my personal memories inside. I first heard this song when I was 9 years old, It was one of my earliest impression towards classical music. This song never go anywhere ever since. Some memory is fragile enough to make you want to secure it in the place where even you yourself cannot access, with the fear of one day it will fade away. As a blog of my personal infactuation archive, I cannot keep on without it.

ALBUM REVIEW: LADY GAGA - BORN THIS WAY

It has been obvious that Lady Gaga merely uses her 2008 The Fame obsession theme, The Ms.Beautiful, Dirty Rich look, as her accession to the viewpoint where she can express herself to the pop world. It is not hard to feel rather back-stabbed if you once got caught in that look. On the standing point where every single step is noticed, making an exotic moves might get you off the window, so Lady Gaga has to make sure everyone is watching from her side. Hence the overloaded promo during these past three months, through the abundance interview, promo shows, plus resurrection of GAGAVISION-- the inch-by-inch album revelation hot served for little monsters.

Somehow, her information in the promo are sometimes misleading. Sending her remixed track played in the fashion show, calling her album "Best Album Of The Decade" or "Avant-Garde Art Pop", cast a lot lime light from critics.  But it is rather painful to see the final product is driven by overproduced sound by DJ White Shadow, repetitive themes on both lyrics and musical structure. This time she pulled out all of her guts in her profound writing ability, focus more on self-appriciation, religion, love and life. Most obviously she has to make sure everyone gets the message. By making the entire album in sheer Techno-Pop, once again, she take a huge step ahead of other mainstream pop rivals. The good thing is the whole planet is following her now.

Insteresting Tracks:

Marry The Night

A grand opening sublime, begins with melancholic synthesizer and breaks down into tribal-techno. This is a good choice for opening track and yet produces an overwhelming anticipation on the nexts.

Government Hooker

This track premiered on Thierry Mugler fashion show. I remember when it amazed me of how she literally pushed the boundaries on pop music. The final version isn't that much different from the fashion show version. Nothing special except I could hear Crystal Castles - Air War playing inside.

Scheiße

This track tends to have a stand-out musical structure and of course, different language. But still the sounds are from one of her reoccurring techno-attempts. It is fun to listen to but if you prefer pure techno then let's just stick to DJ White Shadow remix.

You & I

Finally some space for her vocal talents! This is hand-down the best track of the album. A Lady Gaga album cannot complete without an innocent and personal track like this. This is an easy down-the-road Elton John vibe soft rock track that you will love, if you are the fan of her old songs such as Speechess.

The Edge Of Glory

The uplifting Cher style swings us back to the taste of late 90s that influenced throughout the track. With the background story of her grandfather, the lyrics urges us to to enjoy live by praising death and a bit of saxophone solo sends chills down little monsters' spines.

"The Best Album of Decade"? No. "Avant-Garde Art Pop"? Nice try. "Strong and Liberating"? Not enough. Although none of these titles should be officially claimed, since the album somehow mainstream (despite the album cover lol), It is good to see an artist with strong ambition being the huge driving force to drive her fans once she reached her solid ground. However, being limitless is a good but at least one should learn to hold back. Next time try something minimal.

Do You Speak English?

JEFFREY CHAN PHOTOGRAPHY

We Only Young and Naive Still, We Require a Certain Skill

Young Blood - The Naked and Famous


My friends feel like giving me a hug when I share them this video, everyone of them. For the fact that I let them know how should we live our lives and remind ourselves of what we sometimes forget. YEAH, It's the adolescent life. Whoever reading this out there, if you are under this title please celebrate your priviledge while you still can! Thanks SPECIAL PROBLEM for awesome shots and the Kiwi wonder, THE NAKED AND FAMOUS I'm exhilarated. Now I'm in the mood of kicking some air and jumping down a pool!

                                              

We're only young and naive still

We require certain skills

The mood is changes like the wind

Hard to control when it begins

The bittersweet between my teeth

Trying to find the in-betweens

Fall back in love eventually

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Can't help myself but count the flaws

Claw my way out through these walls

One temporary escape

Feel it start to permeate

We lie beneath the stars at night

Our hands gripping each other tight

You keep my secrets hope to die

Promises, swear them to the sky

The bittersweet between my teeth

Trying to find the in-betweens

Fall back in love eventually

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

As it withers

Brittle it shakes

Can you whisper

As it crumbles and breaks

As you shiver

Count up all your mistakes

Pair of forgivers

Let go before it's too late

Can you whisper

Can you whisper

Can you whisper

Can you whisper

Never Let Me Go

I told myself to finish this book before start blogging about it, but I just can't hold it any longer. This is one of the few books that I felt totally blew away by the very first chapter. I guess it's because I have seen the movie before (which was directed by my favorite director, Mark Romanek) , so I knew the plot entirely. What blew me away is the fact that it feels completely different reading it. They are twice more compelling in the book.

This is a story about a bunch of cloned people, living in a so-called boarding school called Hailsham. They were raised with the will to sacrifice, later to be known that they were cloned and only live their short lives as normal people's walking spare organs. They'll soon be dead after the third important organ are donated. The irony is that, even if they were cloned, they were made of ordinary people who can love or can be loved. They can create arts and live up their lives. What ironically romantic is they don't feel panic with their destiny at all. Instead of dreaming about future, we'll get to read the reminiscences of these poor people about their childhood, first love and stuff, knowing the clock is ticking away and they don't have much time left.

Judged by the book appearance, you won't notice that the story is technically a Science fiction, if you count a sci-fi as a story that include the technology that does not yet exist. And that what makes it special because Never Let Me Go still can be so shockingly melancholic under that category.  

Les Amours Imaginaires

I'm one of those people who prefer lush cinematopgraphy and poetic dialogues over ones with complex plots. Sometimes I skip to a certain part of my favourite movie just to enjoy the magical cinematography it has to offer. This is what I hype so much about gay directors; they have to make sure their characters are in idealized fashion and visually acceptable angles and put so much effort on soundtracks. But i'm sure there is something special about Xavier Dolan that I can see it from his Wong-Kar-Wai's slow-motion, Almodovar's stylized hue and referenced dialogues like Woody Allen's. "Les Amours Imaginaires" may not ready to be his masterpiece but i'm sure this guy has a lot of space to grow. And if you are a style-over-substance film fan like me, you will definitely love it.

Inventory

Four be the things I am wiser to now:

Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I'd been better without;

Love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall neve attain:

Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till i die:

Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

by Dorothy Parker

Aftertaste: Black Swan

Black Swan talks about Nina Sayers, a sweet and shy young ballerina, whose life just met a turning point of being the prima ballerina for Swan Lake. While Thomas Leroy, the director and producer requires two-in-one dancer for black and white swan. Nina who fits perfectly for white swan has to track down her darkside to discover the other (as Leroy hints her to "go home and touch yourself...") During her quest of perfection, under the influence of her overprotective mother, she found herself in the verge of nervous breakdown by her lurid flash deliriums and overpressure routines. Then things just starts to get worse and worse.

As for the production, this is the Darren Aronofski's new masterpiece as everyone will call him the director of Black Swan instead of Requeim For A Dream. In my opinion, it is light year far better than other Oscar best picture's choices. We get even more than what expect from what we see in the trailer, Natalie Portman's potential performance; she has reached her supreme role now (after being remembered for Amidala for quite long time), semi-surrealistic horror scenes as much as uhm nosebleeding lesbian scene as well. This is the crash between two powerful components; high-class performance art and psychic investigation. That's the reason why the movie come out so hauntingly gorgeous. We can get to see every emotional details from faces, eyes and even the twisted crack of toes from the dances. Throughout the film, you'll fall into the verge of anxiety and fear of what's going to happen to her, even the nail clipping scene can make you pray. I once again had to praise Portman's performance, though she needs a double for her exotic ballet scenes but never at once seems lost or distracted when it comes to her part, especially when she fully portrayed the black swan. she is just not the same person. if i was a professional critic, i would give this 10 out of 10 as there is no faults i could detect. It is also hard to make a movie about ballet to be fun to watch for everyone.
        Black Swan trailer

We all have our darkside hidden deep down. We just don't know sometimes we need to use it.

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on permission of another" - Madonna

Ladies In Motel

To quench the guilt of my two-week-straight absence and desperate lack of inspiration, i decided to fill this entry with Meghan Collison, Kate Moss, Guinevere Van Seenus, Angela Lindvall, Devon Aoki, Amber Valletta, Raquel Zimmermanna et cetra, in exquisite high brands, exotic posts, pin-up look, stuck-in-a-motel, collection of W's Mert & Marcus photography. I don't know when this issue came out but enticing indeed.

First Week of 2011

My new year holiday vacation failed miserably. My time stopped during that long holiday, ended up the same place where i was last year. Now everything crashed on me like a pause and play. I've been inspired, finishing new story, working on my teacher's historical assertation, learning to write sonnets, retrieving my dream project script, on phone with friends lost for year. That's how i started off my 2011. Happy New Year!

This is the raw material of Green Day's Redundant(1998) It's called "Tango" by a polish avant-garde director Zbigniew Rybczyński...ooooh creeeeeepy.

Mon Plaisir

It's lovely.
I know, but take it off. I want a chin-lenght bob.
You don't want to go a little bit shorter? What if I cut it to here, to your ears?
You think that'd be better?
No, but then you'd be losing more than ten inches of length, and we could give it to Hair for Care. It's a charity that make wigs for kids with no hair.
Do you work for them, the charity?
No.
I think I'll stick to the bob then.
You could let it grow another inch and then come and I'll give you a bob. That way everyone wins.
No, I have to to do it today. It's the first day of my life.
Oh, I had a day like that last week.
Really? what happened?
I woke up and thought, This is the first day of the rest of my life.
Then what happened?
I drove to work.
Oh.
Yeah.
Let's get that kid some new hair.

- No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE VIDEOS SINCE 1990

#10Treat Me Like Your Mother - The Dead Weather (2009)

Romance is dead! yes, so why talking? let's RAMPAGE! these bad boys/bad girls may happen to run out of thier sweet words but they never run out of ammuntion! Jonathan Glazer cooked up this super-violent video with black leather jacket, automatic weapons, cigarette and sunset. Never knew that two crazes insanly strike bullets on each other can be this sexy, especially when they are Jake White and Alison Mosshart.


#9 Paranoid - Kanye West (2009) 

A sleepwalker named Rihanna unconsciously drove out to nowhere again tonight. The mystery spreaded around the town that she was a werewolf, some say she was just a nuts but whose house she will end up tonight, who will be the lucky one. That's my what I can manually interpreted from but however I like how the video, one way or another, tributes to Micheal Jackson's Thriller, scrambled up with cheap 70's horror films techniques but the result comes out classy as hell!

#8 Got Till It's Gone - Janet Jackson (1997)

Another award-winning piece of Mark Romanek's, introduces us a peephole to the bona fide afrocentric culture back in the day. Janet as a lounge singer in the club where people jamming blissfully to her music, harmonized with compilation of random  montages in the same tone. It simply convey vivid memory of old school nostalgia very magically. Once again this makes us wonder what happened R&B videos like this these days?

#7 Moon Theory - Miami Horror (2010)

In the video, we have a space cowboy wander aimlessly, in search of his beloved one, only the mysterious fruit that lengthen his life one by one and finally come across an alien building on top of the sand. In real life, we have stunning visual effect, meaningful comment on life that we all strive for something just for fulfilled our endless desired. This strange building is also features in another video in the same album, Sometimes. We may have to wait to find out what it is. However, this video is the most outstanding video in Miami Horror video series.

#6 This Momentary - Delphic (2007)

Besides the music that is totally brilliant, it's exhilarating to finally see that there is someone shed some lights on these poor people who has to deal with the consequence of Chernobyl nuclear explosion disaster in Ukrain. Each of these tableau-vivants depicts the life that are still moving on under the state of confusion, desparity and hope. The video carries the grey tone, symbolic expressions and breath-taking composition in the most naive way.

#5 Electric Feel - MGMT (2008)

When this came on TV years ago i was like oooooooooh, how much would the director have to get himself high to come up with all these ideas?! If you wonder, it all comes from the idea of Ray Tintori who responsible for the all videos for MGMT album, Oracular Spectacula. A bunch of hippies partying in elvish forest with the music played by cartoon mascot band as they drag the moon down and paint themselves with the acid neon liquid emitted from it. These features are not hard to draw you a instant hype or even scare you out.  

#4 What Are You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani (2005)

Gwen Stefani is the person Tim Burton should be most aware of, because if this video come out February 2010, it would severely ridicule Burton's version of Alice In Wonderland. See what we have here, exceeded lenght of music video with storyline (so Gaga wasn't the first to push this boundary), Gwen in Wonderland's drunken fantasy that illustrates far more than what's in Lewis Caroll's head plus Harajuku girls in elegant L.A.M.B fashion that doesn't have to be so weird...

#3 Cocoon - Bjork (2002)

This is what happens when the artistic veteran, Bjork, meets the surrealistic costume designer, Eiko Ishioka, as a director. The result comes out as an supreme exotic video added up her collection, Vespertine. Featuring Bjork in pale nude skin-tight body suit, gradually developed red thread from her nipple -- which we may interprete it either a kind of mother-child love or sexuality -- and interacted with it until it finally made herself a cocoon, this video, once again, reassures her powerful outlander characteristic in the music industry.

#2 Closer - Nine Inch Nails (1994)

This video is to re-emphasize that Mark Romanek is best MV director of the 90s and it would be a crime if i don't mention this marvellous piece "Closer" As you can see, this hardcore video is nothing near the word beautiful but what i adore is his creativity to put things together and keeping in the tone of darkside S&M sex. It leads us to open interpreatation to God before spinning our head around. This is not surprising to find  this video ALWAYS be mentioned on top of everyone's list of  "Best Music Video Ever Made"

#1 Bedtime Story - Madonna (1994)

This is what known for Madonna's most artistic video and officially what I claim for best video i have seen since i was born. It features Madonna taking her futuristic odyssey deep down to her subcoisciousness, half asleep, half awake. In her ravishing fantasy, we see countless of symbolic messages that inspired by female artists such as Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo. And also by eastern culture, Bjork (who collaborated on lyrics) and her own dreams. It leads to endless discussion for each of these montages, the floating cube, arabic writing on the clay mud, the birth of white doves, flying cubical object. No wonder, this video installed as a permanent display in MoMa (along with our second top, Closer) and at one point, the video comsumed the biggest budget in the history.