By Jed
In light of tomorrow's more lengthy post, I'm keeping today's on the short side. That doesn't mean you shouldn't pay attention to each of these carefully selected videos (as well as to the racy photo above).
1. Here's some super exciting news: the online premiere by Video Free Silver Lake of VFSL Big Whup's single "Cover My Eyes" (directed by Matthew L. Chevlen). The video actually premiered in person on the 13th at Pehrspace, but if you didn't feel like squeezing into an art gallery next door to an El Salvadoran Pentacostal Church, here's a video you can most easily watch from the comfort of your own home. I've watched this: it's sparkly!
Big Whup - Cover My Eyes from Matthew Chevlen on Vimeo.
"You Want It" (featuring very brief cameo by yours truly):
"Dollface" and "Robot Body: live on KXLU:
And John Wahl's cover of the classic song "Blue Moon":
3. Jens Lekman, one of my favorite Swedes, played a set at the Mondrian Hotel on December 5 for KCRW (sometimes RFSL contributor Marion Hodges DJed for the event). I came this close to showing up, but couldn't make it. Thank golly for youtube:
"Black Cab" (slow version)
"Kirsten Dunst Song"
"Dandruff on Your Shoulder"
"An Argument With Myself"
"The End of the World is Bigger Than Love"
4. I don't know how I missed this, considering that I spent the entirety of my days lately "hanging out" around L.A. On November 17, 2010, OK Go took on yet another gimmicky, but actually kind of cool project (it amazes me the degree to which these guys seemed to have cornered the market on gimmick -- are they just the best at it, or is everyone else just afraid to compete at this point?) by marching 8.5 miles throughout L.A., parade-style, in such a path as to form the letters "OK Go" on a map of L.A. The video explaining is pretty cool, and features some familiar spots. Apparently this is part of their "Global GPS Art Project" in which they are "using GPS technology and our free app to turn cities into giant canvasses upon which we can draw electronically...it's like a giant Etch a Sketch":
OK Go, you've come a long way since when I saw you open for They Might Be Giants in Raleigh in 2002.
5. This montage of all of the movies of 2010 is pretty awesome, even if many of those movies were not:
6. Finally, in the spirit of always providing something Icelandic, a very pretty and fairly new performance of "Moldin" from Icelandic singer Ólöf Arnalds:
Questions? Comments? Want your video featured on the site? Email at rfsljed at gmail dot com.
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