Sunday Had Been a Feist Kind of Day That Day

Still listening for favorites from her latest "Metals" - the single in "How Come You Never Go There" is good, but I think there's better tracks on there.

Sing

This may be dating me a little bit but whatever - it is what it is.

wake up, slowly.

I think I get spikes now.

I love a music video that's set to a beautiful, tender song and someone out there's so moved by it that they make their own visual.



I also love a video that looks like it was homemade on iMovie. New, relevant subject + old film style = nice/instant cred.

Hibi no Neiro [Tone of Everyday]

Crazy Cryin'.

Yesterday, while lounging and watching VH1s Top 20 countdown (I know, the shame, but I tried to make it interactive by guffawing at the TV) I saw a video with Alicia Silverstone in it ("Her Diamonds" by Rob Thomas - pretty/angsty/forgettable.) Anyways, it reminded me of two other videos with her that made an impression on me in the oh-so-angsty and grungeful early-90s: "Crazy" and "Cryin'" by Aerosmith. Both are great for a kick if not a little indulgent but the former in particular: it's romantic and sexy what with the ditching school in a convertible, the dusty country roads, and the irreverance of the young girls that were the main characters of the videos, not just video hos...like I said, Silverstone, young Liv Tyler and the kind of meta-production of it definitely made an impression on my impressionable 11 year-old self. Also, the fact that my parents adamantly prohibited watching MTV, VH1, and BET, music TV of any sort so I was most definitely "sneaking it" when I watched, thereby heightening the experience. Ha.

I could get into a whole diatribe about how exploitative the industry is towards women (though I think it's gotten much more balanced in the last couple of years, more a accepting, honest meritocracy than a glass box to climb into if you want to be a popular female musician) but there's no need to waste more words on an already apparent truth. With that, here they be, mateys:

Aerosmith - Crazy @ Yahoo! Video

"Who, who said that? Are you everybody?"