Archive of August 2008
Santogold, Lights Out, my favourite song of the year so far.
13 August 2008 - 20:52 | Tags: santogold, music, musicvideoYou know when you look at “The Wire” and you look on the corners, that’s a culture that you’re looking at. You’re privileged to see another way of being. And if you’re interested in that, you have a dire obligation to make that as real as possible and to give the details for viewers to begin to see how this is shaped, why it’s shaped that way, why people act the way they do.
— Ed Burns, the writer of “The Wire” and “Generation Kill” in a Salon article.
Director Tony Kaye talks about how he was influenced by Stanley Kubrick.
8 August 2008 - 23:30 | Tags: kubrick, film, tonykayeDamn that Mother Chucker (notice Madchen Amick from Twin Peaks!)
6 August 2008 - 23:15 | Tags: gossipgirl, tv“Kim and Jessie” from M83’s “Saturdays = Youth”. The 80s rollerskating fits perfectly into the album’s mixture of the 80s and today.
5 August 2008 - 23:08 | Tags: musicvideo, m83, musicJC Penny taking an 80s icon, The Breakfast Club, and… unfortunately not really doing enough to update it or put their own spin.
5 August 2008 - 10:03 | Tags: breakfastclub, advertising, jcpenny