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This video is brilliant, and made on a dime. The song is pretty catchy too, it reminds me of the early 80's post punk from New Zealand.

Melody

Via Flashcube, here's an impressive film adaptation of Serge Gainsbourg's "Melody", arguably one of the most sexually charged songs ever written about a car accident.



Think what you want about lines like " J'aperçus une roue de vélo à l'avant/ Qui continuait de rouler en roue libre/Et comme une poupée qui perdait l'équilibre/ La jupe retroussée sur ses pantalons blancs" (english translation), but even if you're not a big fan of Gainsbourg's kind of creepy, sometimes borderline-misogynist lyrics, it's hard to deny the almost-perfection of pretty everything else about this song. I'm much too tired to think of anything insightful to say about this video right now, but I especially love how Melody Nelson can't help but smile seductively at the extremely smarmy-looking guy that just ran her over.

Discussion On Making All Things Equal

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Nina Nastasia - Bird of Cuzco [buy]

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"Now I am going to make a statement here. I don't know whether it fits into the category of other people's statements or not. But whether it fits into their category or whether it doesn't, it obviously fits into some category. So in that respect it is no different from their statements. However, let me try making my statement.

"There is a beginning. There is a not yet beginning to be beginning. There is a not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be a beginning. There is being. There is nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be nonbeing . Suddenly there is being and nonbeing. But between this being and nonbeing, I don't really know which is being and which is nonbeing. Now I have just said something. But I don't know whether what I have said has really said something or whether it hasn't said something."

- Chuang Tzu, from Basic Writings (Columbia University Press: 1964)

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My friend Jamie recently made this blog entry

" Why the seventies were a good time to grow up, part 1."

I don't need to say anymore.