Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Brilliant to find this double DVD again!



This is what the Wire magazine said in their review (Cross Platforms) December 2003.


Michel Gondry (The Work Of Director Michel Gondry, Director’s Label 5990419 DVD) is perhaps the most engaging, also the least subversive of these three directors. He introduces his own DVD with a re-enactment of an awards ceremony at which he “stiffed”. A drummer with his own group, Oui Oui, whose fetchingly infantile videos are included in this collection, he first got his break working with Björk. She’s also a client of Jonze and Cunningham, incidentally, but she has a particular affinity with Gondry, as an interview in the documentary I’ve Been 12 Forever suggests. He directed “Human Behaviour” and “Army Of Me” among others, both of which are synergetic exercises in what you might call formidable whimsy. It’s to Björk’s credit, incidentally, that she is so bold in her choice of videos – if we must have them, then at least let’s make them good – but it’s perhaps also an indication of her high maintenance as a singer. Unorthodox her vocal style maybe, but those mannerisms get awfully familiar after a while – hence her need for a voluminous, continual stream of musical reinvention and visual variety. Gondr y is an innovator, though his ideas were quickly subsumed into insurance ads and The Matrix. The Rolling Stones employed him for a hip makeover and he obliged. If all that leaves a bland taste in the mouth, then all is redeemed by his video for Daft Punk’s “Around The World”, a sort of robo-Busby Berkeley routine which reduces choreography to emotionless geometry. The result is one of the most addictively odd and teasingly sexy videos ever made.

His video for Daft Punk - Around The World



and this classic Cibo Matto song  Sugar Water -



Love both these artists as well as Bjork.

Enjoy.

This was posted by rbfvid to You Tube. I think it is brilliant, a tribute to that other Sunnydale babe Cordelia Chase as played by Charisma Carpenter.



We love you Cordy!

It still guts me that she passed away after being in a coma in the last season of Angel  but managing to give Angel one last vision before doing so by kissing him. 

http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/video/McLuhan-Marshall_CBC_Life-and-Times.avi

Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan (1999)"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media with which people communicate than by the content of the communication." - Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan, one of Canada's most influential and controversial figures, burst into the centre of media circles in North America with his strange and prophetic pronouncements - "electric light is pure information" - on advertising, television and the emerging computer age.

Known for his imaginative descriptions of the media environment, McLuhan coined the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'the global village.' These two aphorisms still linger on the tongues of critics, philosophers and pop-culture makers as McLuhan's predictions and revelations continue to be proven true over and over again.

Initially celebrated, later doubted and recently resurrected, McLuhan has stood the test of time as one of the truly innovative minds of this century. Some of his statements are as fresh today as they must have been when he first appeared on North American televisions in the 1960s. "Where advertising is heading is quite simply into a world where the ad will become a substitute for the product," said McLuhan.

With the help of family, friends, and theorists, McLuhan is revealed. Deeply conservative, reserved, difficult, uncomfortable with the fame he sought, this very private man remained an enigma for most of his life. The documentary charts the course of McLuhan's life and work, his successes and failures, paying careful attention to the central principle of his work - the medium. Out Of Orbit also pays tribute to McLuhan, his message, and the way in which his theories and words have penetrated and influenced the consciousness of today's media literate society.

Today going to that awfully drab town of Crawley - avoided going yesterday but a job has to be done there in one of those dreary suburbs which look all the sme to me. Totally charecterless town. Even Dave B says the charity shops aren't much cop either but if i  get a chance ,and enough time,i will go round them to ascertain myself how crap or not they are for vinyl fetishers likes myself.

Found a copy of the film "Scandal" in video format for 

coming42yesterday as he was trawling Amazon for it and saw the CD soundtrack for a staggering £30,and asked if i could find eiher the Cd,DVD or VHS tape of it for him.

My searches on my travels for the DVD of the movie has turned up nothing nor the Soundtrack CD,so it was luck that  I found it in a London Road charity shop for £5. I think even the VHS of it is difficult to find hence the price as most videos are now cheap as chips, around a  pound a throw!

However on my next visit to London i will look out for the soundtrack on CD,and maybe the DVD as it's a film i would like to watch again.

GC has had a busy period and  work coming out of her ears ,but hopefully we might meet up for a chat later this week,and perhaps try out Riddle and Finns fish restaurant.

Last night L and myelf visited Nando's as we were too lazy to cook. I had a hot chciken liver with portuguese roll and the sauce the liver was in just got hotter and hotter with all the chilli in it. I was glad to have a whole bottle of white wine,which i finished offf. Phew! Hot and spicy but yummy.