Bob Dylan’s Boots of Spanish Leather, 1964

Dario Argento’s Inferno, 1980

A beautiful, and slightly terrifying scene.

A short story by Oscar Wilde.
“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,”
cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red
rose.”

From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and
she looked out through the leaves, and wondered.

“No red rose in all my garden!” […]

“Reflection does not withdraw from the world towards the unity of consciousness as the world’s basis; it steps back to watch the forms of transcendence fly up like sparks from a fire; it slackens the intentional threads which attach us to the world and thus brings them to our notice; it alone is consciousness of […]

Marcel Duchamp + Maya Deren = Une collaboration d’artiste par excellence
This film is called Witch’s Cradle, which was made in 1943, and one of Maya Deren’s unfinished works. Hauntingly beautiful.

Howdy boys and girls, here is the official Water Curses video!

For all of you Animal Collective fans, you’ll be ecstatic to know that just shortly after dropping their awesome, most recent album, Strawberry Jam, they are already planning to release an EP! They sure do know how to git their hustle on and please their legions of fans.
Above you will see a home-made video […]

I deem today as the Twin Peaks Tribute Day! Here’s to THEE best, most interestingly strange series to ever grace television. My friend Arielle had this listed as her favorite show on MySpace, and nostalgia overwhelmed me as I remember watching Twin Peaks with my dad when I was a kid. [Side […]

Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights, 2007

A bunch of us watched this beautiful new film by Wong Kar Wai. And while it was a bit of a departure from his previous films, [i.e. it was his first American casted and set film], the cinematography was very much the same: unabashedly beautiful.
It was also very […]

Okay, clearly I’m on a mainstream hip-hop tip. But more than anything, I’m posting this particular video to illustrate a current trend that I’m noticing in mainstream pop/hip-hop; and I know I ain’t alone in this observation. There is a prevalent march towards electro/rock/dance-whatever background music, paired with some sort of pop overlay; […]