For some reason I just love this ad

Tony Christie - Avenues and Alleyways

Avenues and Alleyways

Paul Giovanni - Maypole Song

 

Maypole Song

...Be Good To Me

SOS Band - Just Be Good To Me

Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me

Ennio Morricone - Man With The Harmonica

Iterations and variations and samples of the classic track.

Frankie Howerd - Mean Mr Mustard

Mean Mr Mustard

Another one of the fabulous finds you only get on north American cable television. The 1978 Bee Gees/Peter Frampton film of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was on yesterday and I was enthralled for 2hrs. 

A massive cast of musicians plus George Burns and Frankie Howerd doing the "acting".

According to the wackypedia entry, not a popular film but balls to that. I loved it.

And this was maybe my favourite section

 

Joe Fagin - That's Living Alright

I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE NEVER DONE THIS AT KARAOKE!

Joe Fagin looks like Kenny Powers. 

Better quality version.

TransX - Living On Video

Living On Video

It seems Canada churns out electronic male/female duos producing hi-nrg music, along with the best of them. See also Lime 

This sounds a little like 'Go Go Yellowscreen' by Digital Emotion but it makes me imagine a world where keytar players just regularly bump into one another. Trading keytar riffs that came to them in the night down the electronic social on a wet Wednesday morning over a cup of tea with ten sugars and a line of chaz.

Carl Orff - Gassenhauer

Gassenhauer

Always makes me think of Jack.

French Kiss - Mischief

Mischief

I feel all Matthew Burgess posting this. You should check out his record ere.

Serge Gainsbourg - Cannabis (Instrumental)

Cannabis (Instrumental)

Serge smoke da reefer.

Nocturnes

4 years after the exhibition and I am still kicking myself that I didn't go. The Tate Britain's display of nocturnes by Turner, Monet and Whistler was the blockbuster of 2005. I remember watching Newsnight Review and being captivated as Tom Paulin or Tony Parsons rhapsodized about the exhibition. Oh, sigh. I should have gone.

Turner

Monet

 

Whistler

Yo-Yo Ma - J.S. Bach: Prelude, From Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 In G Major

Paul Strand

I just returned from Expanding Horizons exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery and was struck by the photo above of Wall Street by Paul Strand.

I now need to know more about this man and can at Paul Strand photography

People chillin'... No illin'.

Chillax

You're way out of line...

Terminator Salvation, worth a watch? Nah. I just got through it. 

This is supposed to be the rebooting of a franchise? It is an appropriation of the Alien franchise and the first two Terminator films, conflated into an awful Frankenstein's monster of a film.  

Android with secret mission hangs out with humans: Alien. 
Big stupid robots that look like Transformers: Transformers.
Ending which involves sets, ideas and the look of Aliens and T2: Aliens and T2.
THE USE OF YOU COULD BE MINE BY G N' R. GET BENT.
And stop bloody growling, Christian Bale. You really are better than that. 
And hiring the dicks who wrote T3 is unforgivable.

Massive waste of time.


You Could Be Mine

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Hoedown

Hoedown

"Such a journey is not possible without roadies"

Scott Walker - Copenhagen

 

Copenhagen

A good love song to a city to accompany my previous post.

Alexander Payne's 14th Arrondissement - From 'Paris, Je T'aime'.

The Onion AV Club's Inventory section this week was 'Get omnibus: 17 salvageable segments from multiple-director anthology movies' and as every week I sat down and read/skimmed through with some interest. The Coen Brothers 'World Cinema' was a lovely little piece with Josh Brolin sort of recreating his character from No Country for Old Men. And then there was this short by Alexander Payne.  

I have heard of Paris, Je T'aime before but had ignored it because a) never been to Paris, no real interest and b) I had read that it were shite, despite some top directors being involved. 

Payne's short really spoke to me about how people often go to a city, which will be nothing like their experience of hearth and home and find that it completely enraptures them. It awakens or fulfills something in them which they didn't know they needed sating.  

I know it is specifically centred on the American experience of PARIS but I think you can substitute French/France for Japanese/Tokoyo, for Danish/Copenhagen, for Spanish/Barcelona, for American-English/New York. The moment she sits in the park and decides that Paris has fallen in love with her and her with Paris is a quite wonderful moment. Made me feel a little teary.