James vs. The Snowy Apocalypse

James was like fuckin' king of the mountain when he went to Niseko last week, but even he could fall afoul of the deep powder snow. Tara took this incredible video of him dragging himself out, and I immediately pictured it as some epic journey, or perhaps the soundtrack to the end of the world:

That was ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead soundtracking that one, and next:

Danny Elfman's score to Nightbreed. Seriously, I could fill up about 2 and a half years of this here blog with these, there's just so much to work with: the lighting, the pacing, the human struggle... It's epic.

Hokkaido No. 5

Double posting today, as in both here and on Loom, because I'm pleased with how this came out:

I used a neat little hack to make youtube stream in a slightly better quality, I hope it worked.

Also, I guess this is another opportunity to shout out for Loom, which is the... what do you call it? Artblog? Create-o-sphere? that I post on every week, along with people called Ben, Paul, Renee and Juan. Music, videos, drawings, whatever - I create something and upload it every Thursday, so have a look.

Let's put a smile back on that face!

My day today, as they say, both sucked and blew at the same time. I'm lucky I found this thread on one of my internet haunts with so much music and video... that'd be music video, joy. Click to commence smiling.

Not a proper music video, but a scene from The American Astronaut, a movie that just rocketed to the top of my want-to-see list (N.B. I don't actually have a want to see list):

Just one big smile:

You know, why does anyone even remember that he was in the Sex Pistols when he did stuff like this for PIL?

This one is even better if you remember that the actual idea was that the car was the pop-star here, possibly the car was singing the song:

Ah, man... that feels better.

Friday night with Nipponia Electronica - HiVision

Nipponia Electronica - HiVision

Go here to read my previous post about seeing Nipponia live. Man's a stone genius.