things I liked in '99

Sticking with the highschool theme - Artist, Justin Van Genderen, whose cool Zissou/Adidas mashup I came across a few weeks ago, just posted these awesome wall scroll homages to Ghost in the Shell and Princess Mononoke, numbered one and two on my all-time-favourites list of anime films (I had a Mononoke patch sewn onto my purse in senior year, that's geek devotion).

song to go back to school to

This has been out for a while, but it's the perfect day for it - Summer Camp's music vid for 'Round the Moon' is made almost entirely of footage from an obscure Euro new wave 70s movie called 'A Swedish Love Story' where the two leads spend pretty much the entire film lusting after one another through silent hormonal teen sign language [a shot of the band actually performing this tune was intercut in the 'club' scene].

You couldn't PAY me to go back to highschool. But the new love part had its moments.

long in the tooth weekend

Happy Labour Day!
I'll be lacing up the running kicks and hitting the road all weekend long.
I think this'll need to be in playlist.
Remember the shit you did when you were seventeen and you felt so stupidly invincible you thought you'd live forever?
So does Underworld, except they asked themselves what would happen if those adolescent feelings never went away.
Answer = grandpa hijinks in Always Loved a Film



See you next week.

ballerina vs breaker

I wonder if Groove Armada stole their idea for Dance it Up from this lovely 2007 Nike spot by LA Director, Shearer?

They made it more 'ha ha', less 'how pretty'.

boom go the curves

Thank you, Matthew Weiner, from the bottom of my not-a-size-zero behind for making normally sized women everywhere feel like bodacious sex bombs again.

Christina Hendricks is a weapon.



More from behind the screens on the set of Mad Men in Rolling Stone.

ilike

Alex Roulette's near photoreal paintings, eerily evocative of growing up in nowheresville, Canada like I did.

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drop dead drama

AMC ready to bat another drama series out of the park [blow another hole in one's undead skull?] with The Walking Dead.

The trailer makes it look.... freakily awesome akshully.

cee lo versus cee lo

A couple weeks back I posted Cee Lo Green's 'Fuck You' done to hilarious effect with awesome simplicity in an all-typography vid.

Apparently that wasn't the official version - it dropped this week and here it is in all its live action [and some type] glory - which one do you like better?

look at this cute cyclops turtle!

Just look at it.
It's from Taiwan, where all the cute things in the world are made.

your parlour needs a crystal stallion

What would your one completely superficial, refuckulous, over-the-top purchase be if you could purchase anything?

Behold mine.

It's called 'Lucky Spot' from designer, Stella McCartney of all people, and it's returned by popular demand to Northumberland, UK's Belsay Castle after hanging there in an exhibit back in '04.

Is it for sale as a matter of fact? Layaway anybody?

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