15 posts tagged “video”

A little Christmas cheer! This is wonderful.

This song popped into my head, and I had to dig through a stack of CDs to rip it to my iPod. It still sounds great, but I actually listened to they lyrics for the first time.

When I'm watchin' you and Fidel Castro in the sand, kissin'!

She's comin on like a bicycle army

I'm not sure whether it's about a girl, a revolution, or really about nothing at all.

I really don't think I agree with Wikipedia, which says:

The topic of "Sister Havana" is one of jealousy over a hot Latina hooking up with, ultimately, Fidel Castro. "Sister Havana" is driving with a crunchy, sometimes muted riff and (in a throwback to the '70s they love to ape) a prominent cowbell track.

This song is nearly six years old now, but every time I hear it, my body stats to shudder and tears well up in my eyes. I've listened to the album version and seen it live, always the same reaction. This, in my mind, is a true gospel long in all but name. It's a profound calling out to people to come together on a deep, spiritual level — to come together and heal collective wounds — to rise out of the ashes. Of course, this song came out right after 9/11, but I believe it was written before.

I see you Mary in the garden
In the garden of a thousand sighs
There's holy pictures of our children
Dancin' in a sky filled with light
May I feel your arms around me
May I feel your blood mix with mine
A dream of life comes to me
Like a catfish dancin' on the end of the line

I've been a huge Springsteen fan since I was a kid. I think he's the last person on the lists of artists I haven't interviewed but would really, really love to. So, a new album with the E Street Band is a huge deal for me.

Stan Ridgway said it all for me:

I wanna take a two week vacation, 26 times a year.

RIP and Thank You!

What more is there to say?

This is JK Rowling's interview on Dateline.

Warning: It's filled with spoilers.

Growing up, Van Halen was the band I turned to for profundity. At 40, I'm basically no more inclined to probe "Running with the Devil" for the deeper meaning of life. But when this video came out, it really shook me. I'm a big fan of mixing text with images, and this seemed, well, very Jenny Holzer-esque. (No, she didn't direct this.)

When the video said, "Right now, blacks and whites don't eat together very much," I thought those are the kind of subtle racial divides that nobody talks about — the kinds that are hard to put into words, because they seem institutionalized and are less about what people do and more about what they don't do.

"Right now, someone is working too hard for minimum wage" combined with the image of men climbing into the back of a pickup just said everything it needed to.

And "right now your parents miss you" always made me miss my family.

Right now, you might say, this is one of those many cases where less words have more impact — where a sentence is mightier than an essay.

A little bit of background for Wikipedia:

The music video for "Right Now" won three awards at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, including the award for Video of the Year. Producer Carolyn Beug was killed on September 11, 2001 as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11 en route to Los Angeles from Boston.

In the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election, the song was used by the George W. Bush campaign as one of its theme songs, often played at rallies.

During the 2004 reunion tour, the band revived the Van Halen "Right Now" video with a few extra modern scenes, to project on a large screen behind them while the song was performed. Ironically, one of the additions was an image of George W. Bush with the caption "right now nothing is more expensive than regret."

This comes from Mikki, and it had me in stitches.