Amazing song by Arthur Russell, released posthum 2004 on Soul Jazz Records. Plus: there's an Arthur Russell Movie. youtube

Interesting article on the evolution of Canadian music station MuchMusic.

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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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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.