Yea, so I followed you home. Date me?

New video directed by Shia Lebeouf for the Cage song “I Never Knew You.”

Two things to say here…

(1) Someone needs to incorporate the art of stalking the opposite sex into a reality show, and this video is proof. I mean how real is this shit? I’m hanging on the edge of my seat waiting to see what his next move is, or if she’ll catch him hiding behind that column. As a guy who falls in love with girls on the subway on a daily basis – and I’m for sure not alone here – I propose someone monetizes this form of creepy voyeur entertainment. No way it could ever get creepier than millions of people tuning in to see what Senator Pratt is gonna do next.

(2) Shia Lebeouf might be onto something with this directing thing. His video for Rumspringa’s “Mind’s Awake” was solid and quirky in its own way, and now we can see what he’s capable of with a real budget and a plan.

Blink, and you might miss cameos by Aesop Rock and El-P…

-$.

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Happy Birthday Earth Day

Enfuego.

New Music Video: French Kicks – Abandon

This is a music video for the band the French Kicks. My buddy Austin made it and I think it’s dope. The song and the video this time. Enjoy!

Watch it in HD or HQ!!

the people on youtube however, not big fans!!

z.

Improper Propaganda

Apparently this video is pretty old, but I had the pleasure of viewing it last week when I showed up early for the biggest head-scratcher movie of 2009, Adventureland.

Now I’ve always kept an eye on military advertising – my hat’s off to the Go Army commercials for sucking low-income minorities in to their game of mortal teatherball. They usually create legitimate advertisements that are appealing and clever, that feel patriotic and heroic. At the end of the day, we need an army, and the army needs to recruit people, so within boundaries, these ads are fine with me.

But this particular National Guard ad is sickening for several reasons, principally the way it’s disguised as your average shitty Kid Rock music video (emphasis on the SHITTY – Jesus Christ almighty in the name of the day after Easter – I couldn’t have come up with a more terrible song if I tried), oh and with Dale Jr. cameos here and there.

Don’t get me wrong: Kid Rock is the perfect spokesman for this ad. Ever since Vanilla Ice jacked his original style, Kid found he could make more money by convincing hicks they were hardcore than trying to speak for suburban white hip-hop kids (guilty as charged).

It just feels… I donno… sleazy? I guess I’d just appreciate more honesty from our military’s advertisers. If cigarette advertisers have to display on all their material “this product will kill you,” why doesn’t the army?

-$.

Cover Art XI: Deathiversary

Alice In Chains’ 1999 release “Nothing Safe“

Shit’s intense, right?

It caught my eye. Also caught my ear.

It is not your typical greatest hits album, but it sure as hell is a great one.

The cover art is just as eerie as the music found inside.

Today is the 7th anniversary of Alice In Chains’ frontman Layne Staley’s death. Another damn shame in music.

I have had this one stuck in my head for a good while now, solid vocal harmonization…

Enfuego.

Two-Track Tuesday

Two tracks this Rocksofter is feeling today…

1. Chairlift – “Evident Utensil.” This has got to be the most annoying fucking video ever made though.

2. Peter Bjorn and John – “Nothing to Worry About” Troublemaker Remix featuring U-N-I and the 87 Stick Up Kids.  The original is also very worthwhile.

-$.

I Like My Coffee How I Like My Metal…Black and Death

Duncan Hills uses only the finest beans from the hills of Columbia.

Prepare for ultimate flavor…and death.

Enfuego.

Boxfaced Destruction

Prefuse 73′s “The End of Biters – International”

Boxface kicks a skull, kicks a pylon, crushes a car, and self-destructs.

Short and sweet banger. I hope the new album has a few tracks that revisit classics like these.

Enfuego.

We be Chillin at the Holidayyyy Inn

Here is the video for the timeless rap song Holiday Inn by Chingy ft Snoop and Ludacris…. Need i say more

Rimz still spinning….

I actually like this video

Positive parts

Snoop Dogg as the bus boy

That red back drop that says Jackpot on it, looks dope

This rhyme by Chingy….

“There’s three girls on the elevator like “wassup”
I told em follow me they knew I had it cracking B
One said “ain’t you that boy that be on BET?”
“Ya that’s me, Ching-a-ling equipped wit much ding-a-ling”
Knock on the door I’m on the scene of things
Busted in, Henny bottle to the face!” (If you were staying at a holiday Inn and you are on BET “all very hypothetical” what type of skanky bogans are you picking up in the elevator.)

Chingy’s voice and his fits are siiick

The Brady Bunch effect of them telling all the bitties about the party at the Holiday Inn

Also the flashing lights in the hallway

Things that are off

If you are paying attention, but really who is, Ludacris’s rap has nothing to do with the theme of the song until the last line.

No Holiday Inn has ever looked like that hotel room they have

Why do they go to the Jamaican Beach shack party hut? That is not at the Holiday Inns I have been to.

Also that we miss this part of the song at the end… rapped by Snoop

“Luda, Luda, going hard on you hoes
Yeah bitch, bring four of ya friends
Meet me at the Holiday Inn
Bring a gang of that Hen, some VSOP
Oh wee, and light that sticky icky
And we gone do the damn thing
Now what I’m talking bout
We gon’ disturb the peace right now
Yeah we ain’t doing nothing but chillin
We chillin’ and nuttin’
Know what I’m talking bout, so push the button
You know what’s happenin’, fa shizzle, uh huh
Yeah bitch, trying to run from this pimpin’
You can’t out run the pimpin’ bitch, I done told you”

Man that’s tight

z.

P.S this song may or may not influenced me to throw a hotel room party.

Mind’s Awake

Friends of Rocksoft Cantora Records just put out their latest video, “Mind’s Awake” by the LA band Rumspringa.

The guys took a road trip out in Colorado with a 16mm camera to film this one. It’s directed by Shia LeBeouf, which has gotten the guys a lot of much-deserved publicity (30,000 hits on their Vimeo today? dayummm).

Look out for ‘springa in ’09.

-$.

And the Crusade Begins…

 

This is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time. It needs no explanation or introduction. You’re welcome.

Jsis.

F- What You Like

This is a video for this New York band A.R.E Weapons… The band is alright the song is real dope… My buddy Austin made the video its fun

give it a gander.

It looks sick in HD.

The dancing skeleton and the pie parts are dope.

z.

I Spy Video: Men At Work

In this new Rocksoft series we will highlight forgotten music videos along with a running account of I Spy items in the video that make it special. It’s a blog-adapted tribute of sorts to the greatest music video show of all time, Pop Up Video (that’s literally – criminally – the only Pop-Up Video I could find on YouTube).

Not sure how this is gonna work out, but feel free to join in the fun in the comments.

We debut the madness with one of the more charming videos I’ve seen recently, and one which I couldn’t stop watching for a two-day period in January… that’s right folkz it’s Men At Work with the saxophone-laden “Who Can It Be Now.”

0:18 – Silver spandex was all the rage in 1981 Australia, trust me.
0:40 – Is that a fake fire?? This is possibly the creepiest apartment I’ve ever seen.
0:52 – Zoom-in on white door with synchronized saxophone for dramatic effect HOT.
1:08 – Puffed Wheats cereal box getting whammied by awesome ‘startled’ move.
1:19 – What appears to be a glass eye (but in the next cut it’s mysteriously fixed)
1:38 – This peephole is strangely shaped and has impressive distance.
2:08 – Magenta concert time!
2:22 – Why are we still watching the sax player?
2:42 – Ahhh glass eye again!!

-$.

Radtacular

Sorry to break what seems to be an international theme today, but a friend just sent me this video that screams to be shared. It’s for the song “Her Morning Elegance” by Oren Lavie. Heard of him? Yeah, me neither. But now I want to be his best friend, because this is one of the cooler music videos I’ve seen in a while.

-$.

I’m Not Sick But I’m Not Well

However I am actually sick and not well … So that’s why my post numbers have been down… my blogmates on the other hand, I can not speak for them…

 So here is another blast from the past … HARVEY DANGER

I was always into this song, but for some reason never saw this video, or knew the lead singer was a mix between Rivers Cuomo from Weezer and this guy who went to my high school named Alex Black. You learn something new everyday, even when you are sick in bed. 

z.