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.
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.
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
#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.
