In December I...

...watched the following films:
50/50 - dir. Jonathan Levine
Win Win - dir. Tom McCarthy
The Devil's Double - dir. Lee Tamahori
Jack Goes Boating - dir. Philip Seymor Hoffman
13 Assassins - dir. Takashi Miike
Unknown - dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
Take Shelter - dir. Jeff Nichols
Morning Glory - dir. Roger Michell
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - dir. Rupert Wyatt
The Tree of Life - dir. Terrence Malick
Hugo 3D - dir. Martin Scorsese
Buried - dir. Rodrigo Cortés
NEDS - dir. Peter Mullan
The Help - dir. Tate Taylor
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - dir. Guy Ritchie

...got the following music:
The Black Keys - El Camino
The Roots - Undun
We Cut Corners - Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards
Herman Dune - Strange Moosic
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Cornershop - Cornershop & The Double Groove Of

...listened to the following comedy:
Norm MacDonald - Me Doing Standup
Patton Oswalt - Werewolves and Lollipops
Steven Wright - I Have A Pony
Doug Benson - Professional Humoredian
Marc Maron - This Has To Be Funny

...also watched the following:
Breaking Bad S2
The Larry Sanders Show S2
Angelos Epithemiou & Friends Live (DVD)

...saw Aloe Blacc at the Olympia

2011 Video Roundup #6 - And The Winners Are...

Radiohead - "Lotus Flower"
-dir. Garth Jennings

"Hold me closer, tiny dancer..."



Beastie Boys - Fight For You Right (Revisited)
-dir. Adam Yauch

The "Valentine's Day"/"New Year's Eve" of music videos, but instead actually worth a watch..

2011 Video Roundup #5 - New Zealand Version

Liam Finn - "Jump Your Bones"
- dir. Derek Henderson

There's just not enough videos just featuring drumming...



Princess Chelsea - "The Cigarette Duet"
- dir. Jonathan Bree

How to be classy and hypnotic in a hot tub....

2011 Video Roundup #4 - The Oirish Edition

Jape - "The Oldest Mind" 
- dir. Brendan Canty

Let's just call this "The Tree of Life" of music videos this year, not as long obviously...



Tieranniesaur - "Here Be Monsters"
- dir. Bowsie Workshop

Kids can be so cruel...



James Vincent McMorrow - "Sparrow and the Wolf"
- dir. Tusk Prodcutions

This video was put together using outtakes from the original unseen pilot of "Hollyoaks"... only kidding...

2011 Video Roundup #3

Beirut - "Santa Fe"
- dir. Sunset Television

Love ain't cheap or financially rewarding....



The Voluntary Butler Scheme - "Do The Hand Jive"
- dir. Ryan Owen

Don't mess with these grannies.... also features Brian Hibbard of the Flying Pickets fame and from the same guy who directed Jonny's video from yesterday.



Herman Dune - Tell Me Something I Don't Know 
- dir. Toben Seymour

Jon Hamm and a blue yeti, a bit like a modern day Orville and Keith Harris

2011 Video Roundup #2

Battles - "My Machines" 
- dir. Daniels

Battles. Gary Numan. Guy falling down an escalator for four minutes. What more do you want?




Jonny - "Candyfloss" 
- dir. Ryan Owen

Miming's hard when eating.



Real Estate - "It's Real" 
- dir. Weird Days

Dogs. Lots of 'em.

2011 Video Roundup #1

So it's this time of the year again where I throw up some of the vids I've been digging over the year.

The Stepkids -"Legend In My Own Mind"
- dir. Tom Scharpling

"I like the hip hop!" Fun video with a cameo from The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac and some other "celebrities".



Mayer Hawthorne - "A Long Time" 
- dir. Henry DeMaio

Former label mate of The Stepkids (Stones Throw Records) delivers his homage/love letter to Detroit and Motown.



The Black Keys - "Lonely Boy" 
- dir. Jesse Dylan

Possibly the song of the year, gets one the biggest smile inducing videos of the year, even Ellen DeGeneres digs it.