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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Favorite All-Time Videos |
| Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 15:57:32 -0400 |
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At 03:46 PM 5/12/2003 -0400, josh chasin wrote:
>> > What are the fave videos of other Auditeers?
>
>Todd Rundgren, "Time Heals."
>
>I can't think of any other videos I like. To paraphrase Frank Zappa, Making
>a video of a song is like painting about architecture.
>
>Favorite videos 2 through a thousand would be the videos that play in my
>head when I close my eyes and hear certain songs.
During the heyday of MTV when people kept making the "videos ruin songs
because when I hear the song I only think of the video" argument, my
response was always along the lines of "So *that's* what it's like to have
absolutely no imagination and a dearth of original thought. Huh."
When you get right down to it, videos are commercials. On the other hand,
I *like* commercials (there's quite often more technical innovation and wit
in one 30-second commercial than in an entire episode of some overhyped
pile of warthog excrement like Buffy or Six Feet Under), so I've never
bought the similar "videos are too commercial, maaaaaaaaaan, we like to
maintain our street cred" either. Don't tell me that when the Replacements
were making the video for "Bastards of Young," they didn't know full well
that it was going to be a video that people were going to be talking about,
or that it would further their whole calculated "anti-star" reputation.
S
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