Bug Video

I will be checking out some music videos at BUG next week which is run by Adam Buxton(from Adam & Joe). It's on at the BFI on the Southbank.

www.bugmusicvideos.com

Lucozade do Drum N Bass and skating

Lucozade Advert - Sport Lite - Feat Louder - 2011 found on Dance

May - Red Marks play!!!

If you like rock then you will love these beasts. Red Marks growl and make ladies giggle, they are hairy and big and manly and play the guitar with their teeth. If you can handle a bit of blues rock and are not scared of powerful guitar solos then get involved.

They play:

18th May Elixir Bar , 162 Eversholt Street, Camden, London, NW1 1BL
21st May Urban Bar, 176 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BJ.

More dates TBA.

www.redmarksrock.com

Chris Cunningham

I really like his work. I'm a fan of Windowlicker which is a video he did for Aphex Twin. He collaborates with Aphex Twin quite a bit and they mostly do the music to his work.

I really like contradiction and there is quite a bit in this video. He puts disgusting faces on hot cheerleaders which is pretty funny. The faces are actually caricatures of Richard D. James's face, who is the Aphex Twin dude.

You may not know that he directed Madonna's 'Frozen' video too. You can see some idiosyncrasies that are classic of his work in this and it definitely has a bit of a sinister edge.

He likes to freak his audience out and seems to like the scariness of insanity and weirdness. It makes for compelling viewing anyway, whatever he's up to!

I'm loving this...

but it's not long enough.

Californication

I love a bit of Foxy Mulder. Well it's not actually Fox Mulder, it is David Duchovny playing Hank Moody, a talented but down and out writer living in LA, a rouge with a heart and a penchant for the booze and the ladies.

There are quite a few naked women and smutty jokes in each episode but as long as you can handle that then you can sit back and enjoy the ride! The writing is really good and the one liners are pretty sharp.

I think he plays the character convincingly. You don't feel as though some alien abduction is about to take place or that Scully will swing by any second to investigate the paranormal activity happening in some women's fake breasts. Although the parties he goes to do seem out of this world!! (wah, wah, wah). He wrote it and starred in it, just like Paul Hogan did with Crocodile Dundee!!!

They are playing the fourth series in the States on HBO right now so it seems to be going down a treat. Watch and enjoy.

Charlie Kaufman

Is the man! I love his screenplay. He stretches your mind's ability to comprehend what the hell is going on.

He's done films such as Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind which featured Kate Winslet and Jim Carey, it's one of the few films where Carey plays a straight role. He can do more than slapstick which is good. The story is really orignial and compelling. I loved it.

He's also done Being John Malkovich, Adaption and Synecdoche, New York; which are all fairly trippy and mind bending films. I suppose they are a bit Alice in Wonderlandesque but for adults. All weird and wonderful. I would lap up anything he wrote. He's a very playful and intriguing playwright.