Video

Haunted

Chill Video (other), War

There are a lot of dead people in this video. If you can’t handle that, don’t watch it.

That said, if I were Israel and this had happened to my country I’d have been even less restrained than they are. Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations and they hide among civilians. Their goal is get their own people killed to whip up sympathy. Pretty fucking slimy. And it’s not that Israel has done everything right, but I understand the rage and the tactics they use. Given the opposition, their choices are narrow.

By the way, butchering civilians at a music festival is indeed a war crime.

Live a Little

Chill Music Video, Video

I know I embedded this one on the old iteration of my blog, but I think this music video is one of the best of the last 20 years. It’s a masterclass of compositing and using CGI invisibly to achieve a thematic goal (not just for being flashy). It’s perfectly lit, it’s fun, and it never gets boring despite being extremely (by design) repetitive. It’s just great film-making all around.

And importantly for me, it shows a lot of Florrie playing drums. She is the real deal there; she was a professional session drummer for years. (And if you don’t know what that means, you have to be really fucking good to be a studio session drummer.)