This is one of the coolest, most bad ass videos I've seen made in a LONG time. The video was filmed with vintage camera's and the beautiful graininess show's it wonderfully. This song has everything you need to make your day complete. Belting soul singing, growling background vocals, a drop dead premier horn section, driving vintage soul beats and rhythm that can't be touched. Get ready to be wowed. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Old Crow Medicine Show: Wagon Wheel
This is one of my VERY favorite songs. I hope you enjoy it too!
Here's a little background first:
Here's a little background first:
"Wagon Wheel" is a song by Old Crow Medicine Show.
"Wagon Wheel" is a song composed of two different parts. The chorus for the song comes from a Bob Dylan outtake from the soundtrack for the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Although never officially released, the Dylan song was released on a bootleg and is usually named after the chorus and its refrain of "Rock Me Mama." Although Dylan left the song an unfinished sketch, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show wrote verses for the song around Dylan's original chorus. Secor's additional lyrics transformed "Rock Me Mama" into "Wagon Wheel." Secor has stated the song is partially autobiographical. The song has become extremely popular since its inclusion on Old Crow Medicine Show's major label debut, O.C.M.S. in 2004, although the song appeared in earlier form on the now out of print "Troubles and Up and Down the Road" EP in 2001. The official publishing information is Dylan/Secor.
The band performed the song at the Station Inn in Nashville in 2001, as part of a series of songs commemorating Bob Dylan's 60th birthday.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
David Lynch: The Alphabet (Dub)
Credits:Directed by:
David Lynch
Writing credits:
David Lynch ... writer
Cast:
Peggy Lynch ... Girl
Produced by:
H. Barton Wasserman .... producer
Cinematography by:
David Lynch
Film Editing by:
David Lynch
Sound Department:
Robert Cullum .... sound mixer
David Lynch .... sound
Robert McDonald .... sound editor
Animation Department:
David Lynch .... animator
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Sound Remix & Music: Ky Olsen
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Plot:
(from imdb user jodiac ):
Sound Remix & Music: Ky Olsen
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Plot:
(from imdb user jodiac ):
Another Phobia Envisioned by David Lynch, 29 May 2002
Author: jodiac from Lexington, KY
David Lynch says this film was an attempt at visualizing the "fear of learning." In it, a young girl is tortured by the alphabet in a competely abstract nightmare. Lynch has always been fascinated by the darker side of dreams, the seemingly nonsensical black procession of symbols and fears, and this film simply adds another phobia to the canon.
We are shown images of a head with information going in one side, and this eventually causes the head to erupt into a black mess. Lynch juxtaposes the most innocent of subjects (the alphabet), which usually marks the beginning of our schooling, with disconcerting images of blood and vomit. Disturbing? Yes. Lynch apparently formed the idea after hearing of a girl who was found reciting the alphabet during a nightmare.
On a more profound level, the film examines a fear that perhaps appears for most later in life: the dread of knowledge. There's quite a bit of truth to the oft-repeated line "ignorance is bliss." Gradually, we realize that the more we learn, the less we understand, and therefore, the less control we have over our situations. It's a problem that has vexed people since the conception of "science." We ask questions out of curiosity, find there are no accessible answers, create a religious penumbra that satisfies a great deal with a few simple passages, and then science comes along and we are confronted once again with the inconsistencies of our faith. Thus, we fear that which turns the rock-solid black and whites of our existence to a confused mass of gray.
Also, The Alphabet hints at what linguists and intellectuals and songwriters have known for centuries; words are wholly inadequate to describe even the simplest of human perceptions. And once one has etched that list of letters into one's mind, in a sense, there is no turning back. Life becomes shapes patterned on paper, and conceptions of reality will no longer be formed purely and internally; they are immediately attached to an imperfect language and remained tethered to that which will never truly suffice.---------------------------------------
The Film:
Lynch on The Alphabet
Original Film
The Alphabet Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)
Lynch on The Alphabet
Original Film
The Alphabet Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)
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Sources:
The Alphabet on IMDB.com
The Alphabet on Lynchnet.com
David Lynch Home Page
Sources:
The Alphabet on IMDB.com
The Alphabet on Lynchnet.com
David Lynch Home Page
The Skeleton Dance (Disney 1929)
This is a great piece from Morbid Anatomy!
"The Skeleton Dance," Disney Silly Symphonies, 1929
Find out more about this animation here.
Posted by JE at 1:46 PM
Labels: animation, cartoon, Skeleton
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