What a great video! It’s amazing the difference when someone with actual filmmaking chops is at the helm. The initial faux newsclip perfectly captures the feel of those 1980s and 1990s local color segments that used to be ubiquitous.
Music Video
Rising Appalachia – Chance at Wholesome
This is excellent. What great harmony.
MOOMINISUN – Autumn Home
Dreampop fun. Love it.
Ella Woolsey – winner
This definitively answers the question, “What if Beck, but a woman?”
Love it.
Swannanoa Town – Murphy Campbell
I have a rule: If I see a Murphy Campbell video, I click on it and I watch it. Never regretted it yet. She plays the banjo so beautifully. And that setting; makes me miss North Carolina.
Vid Too
I’ve started noticing a change in tattoos on women. It appears they are no longer considered cool or appealing by or on the most attractive women. The most desirable women are always at the vanguard of style so the rest will follow. Thank the fucking gods. What an aesthetic blight omnipresent tattoos have been.
I watch so, so many music videos. And like in the one below, in which you can see most of Belize’s skin, she has no visible tattoos. And the same for Sarah in the Pamela. video below that one.
Both Sarah and Belize are obviously extremely attractive women — easily in the top 0.01% there — and both have no tattoos. (In fact, both of the people in the band Pamela. — Sarah and Josh — are so absurdly good-looking I thought they were hired models and not the actual band the first time I watched one of their vids.) This lack of disfigurement would not have been true even a few years ago.
So as I pointed out at the start, where attractive women lead others will soon follow. I’ve also been seeing more Reddit posts and such where people (usually women) are talking about trying to find the money to get their much-regretted tattoos lasered off.
All good signs. Along with GLP-1s, it’s likely that soon so many people won’t walk around looking like fucking graffitied dumpsters again.
That benny blanco and Bb trickz video starts off kind of slow but the end is a banger (literally). I’m glad I watched the whole thing.
Lucy Dacus – Planting Tomatoes
Great song.
“Now I’m older than you’ll ever be
On a day you will never see”
Now why’d you have to go and write something like that. Reminds me of dead friends and past times, all in a place I no longer belong and never really did.
Hen Ogledd – End of the rhythm
Leftists usually cannot make great art. Sometimes, though, they can. Regardless of what you think of the political messaging this is amazing. And I love her Geordie accent.
Camille Schmidt – Stanley
And let’s close out tonight’s music selections with a good song by a funny weirdo.
Squirrel Flower – Not Me
A new song I quite like.
Samida – Chichovite Konye
And that right there is Bulgarian, y’all.
LADANIVA – Saraiman
And that my friends is Romanian (though the band might be Armenian?).
Emma Ogier – Baby Don’t Hurt Me
I really like the dreamlike melancholy neo-country twang of this little song.
mary in the junkyard – Blood (live session recording)
“mary in the junkyard” is one of my favorite bands I’ve discovered lately. They are great musicians (sound amazing for a three-piece!) and have wit and intelligence. Hard to ask for more.
MUSA DAGH – Beggars Banquet
Wow that’s pretty great. If you do not like thrash, you will certainly hate that, though.