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“Summertime,” DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince (1991; directed by Jim Swaffield)
“While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.” (Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities) September 25: It’s Will Smith’s 56th birthday today. In a book where I’ve sometimes overextended myself trying to connect the videos I’m writing about to the news of…
“I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” Wilco (2002; directed by Toren Hardee) / “Inspector Norse,” Todd Terje (2010; directed by Kristoffer Borgli)
Way back at the beginning of this blog, writing about the Bangles’ “Going Down to Liverpool,” I mentioned how a poll I had conducted on a message board was what initially got this whole project underway. Looking up my own list of videos for that poll, I see that these two were high: I had…
“Tomorrow,” Morrissey (1992; directed by Zack Snyder) / “He Would Have Laughed,” Deerhunter (2010; uploaded by Lazarus Taxon)
A difficult subject for me to write about: friendship. At the age of 62, it’s not supposed to be that way. You’re supposed to be happily retired, just entering your years as a doting grandparent, focussed on family and travel, and living out your days (to quote R.E.M., which is quite possibly the sorriest thing…
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