msm, December 19, 2008 10:46:06 PM CET
Arthur Russell - A Little Lost (Dir. R. Zelma)

Amazing song by Arthur Russell, released posthum 2004 on Soul Jazz Records. Plus: there's an Arthur Russell Movie.
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so_hot, December 19, 2008 10:04:05 PM CET
Whatever happened to MuchMusic?


Interesting article on the evolution of Canadian music station MuchMusic.
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podcaster, December 19, 2008 5:17:00 PM CET
Meat Loaf - Rock´N´Roll Dreams Come Through


angelina jolie in a meatloaf MTV
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progosk, December 19, 2008 1:54:24 PM CET
antville Music Video Awards 2008

The Winners !



Heeding no obstacles, here are the true, hive-polled winners, the crème de la crème of music videos of 2008:


MOST FUN VIDEO

The BPA (feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal) - Toe Jam
Keith Schofield, director
Streetgang Films, prod co


BEST ANIMATED VIDEO

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Sean Pecknold, director
Grandchildren, prod co


BEST PERFORMANCE VIDEO

White Denim - Shake Shake Shake
Tom Haines, director
Factory Films, prod co


BEST NARRATIVE VIDEO

Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul?
Chris Milk, director
Radical Media, prod co


BEST URBAN* VIDEO
* includes rap, hiphop and rural.

Kanye West - Flashing Lights
Spike Jonze/Kanye, directors
G.O.O.D Pictures/Bucks Boys Productions, prod co's


BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

JaQuel Knight & Frank Gatson, Jr.
for Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Jake Nava, director
Anonymous Content, prod co
awesome tho it is, Omaha Bitch's Orgasmic Troopers received a disproportionate swell of votes on day 3 of polling, causing its unappealable disqualification; sorry!


BEST ART DIRECTION

Björk - Wanderlust
Encyclopedia Pictura, directors
Ghost Robot, prod co


BEST EDITING

Romain Gavras for Justice - Stress
Romain Gavras, director
el niño, prod co


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Mike Ragen for Damien Jurado - Caskets
Matt Daniels, director
Thinklab Inc., prod co

and


André Chemetoff for Justice - Stress
Romain Gavras, director
el niño, prod co
the ex-aequo is to acknowledge a slight direct influence on voting due to thinklab's brief ingenuity - nothing a bona fide voting-irregularities-observation-committee can't handle ;-)


BEST UNKNOWN/UNSIGNED DIRECTOR
Jesse Ewles

and

That Go


BEST NEW DIRECTOR
Romain Gavras


DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Keith Schofield


BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Björk - Wanderlust
Encyclopedia Pictura, director
Ghost Robot, prod co
awesome tho it is, Kraak&Smaak's Squeeze Me received a disproportionate swell of votes after a Dutch call to arms, causing its unappealable disqualification; sorry!


Stay tuned - "Winners say hi!" posts coming up...
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bigiphone site, December 19, 2008 1:54:17 AM CET
Dido - "Sand in My Shoes" (Director Alex DeRackoff)


AVI 45MB:

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Prontialpeggio, December 19, 2008 12:08:57 AM CET
Pronti Al Peggio: Amari - Drinking In L.A. (Bran Van 3000 cover)

set in Cadorna train station in Milan. Commuters just left to come back to their houses in the outskirts and we profited to shot this sort of metropolitan blues.
Prontialpeggio from Italy with hope.
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