just posting this so i'm reminded to watch it again and again

cuz i read my own blog like daily.

"must get to france so we can french kiss some french girls."

(whatever hulu, this is what i'm talking about

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2009: A Recession Odyssey

From the fjords of Helsinki strode the trio of LAPKO, alt-rock national treasures of Finland.
"You will make our next music video," they bellowed.
"No problem," was our polite reply, "What are you into?"
"David Lynch meets Lars von Trier."
Thus...

LAPKO - I Shot The Sheriff from LAPKO OFFICIAL on Vimeo.
Produced, Directed, & Edited by Sam Winter & Bryan Parker
Photography by Gregg Conde
Effects Makeup by Meagan Hester

The shoot was a journey from Times Square to Chinatown to "The Location", an oasis of post-industrial wilderness situated on the banks of the Gowanus Canal.

During pre-production we used the following 3 music vids to describe to the band the look and feel we were after.

White Denim - Shake Shake Shake


Blind Melon - No Rain

Blind Melon |MTV Music

Motel Motel - Coffee

Everyday I'm Hustlin, Every-Everyday I'm Hustlin

"In a decade when institutions failed us one after the other—Bush was arguably the worst president in history; Wall Street was revealed (again) largely as a semi-legal cabal—opportunities went to the self-reliant, the self-starters, the hustlers."
Michael Hirschorn on Why This Was the Decade Without Authority - New York Magazine

Fuck it. Sharpen a stick and go find your own food.

But beware, the man be lurking......

Fads can be fun.

why am I sorta taken in by all this neo-garage-surf?

Are these bands capitalizing on a fascination with a classicly American ethos on the part of Europe and places that absorb their culture from everywhere else like North Brooklyn? Is that what's happening?

What is all this irresistible nonsense actually being referred to anyway?


I actually think i like like Beach Fossils.

This Week In Lo-Fi Vol. 1: Overmodulated Bass

Reminds me of riding around Topeka in a friend's $3,000 mazda with a $600 "system" that included a box made in shop class, bassing the shit out of Sonic Drive-In as we cruised through the parking lot.

here's what Sleigh Bells look like live (any similarity to The Kills is purely coincidental).

This video was produced and uploaded to Youtube by ABCNews during CMJ. There are already butt loads of sources for live music on the web in a myriad of different formats that range in quality from Shitty to Clever. If mainstream media starts putting this kind of music content out there, in a few years will live music be to the internet what Dunkin Donuts is to Boston? Would there be any downside to this instance of oversaturation? There's probably some fluky explanation for this particular video but it's great to see ABC just setting the content free: barely branding the video, and not trying to assign some newsy authority to the coverage....just a video of a rock band. I support.

It's Interactive

Partnering with CurrentTV, Common solicited viewer created music vid's for this collaboration with Cee-Lo. If you don't care about the web 2.0-ness, it's still a good song.