reminded me of….
Category: Video
No, not that song from the Eurovision years ago. It’s Peter Gabriel and it’s fantastic. Watch:
This deserves to have more than the thousand-odd views it has on Youtube. It’s the London Symphony Orchestra with The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter”. Love it.
To mark the release of 500 Days of Summer in the US last week, Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt shot this bank heist/musical number. Helmed by 500’s director, Marc Webb, it features a track by She & Him, Zooey Deschanel’s collaboration with M. Ward, called ‘Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?’. It’s an awesome couple of minutes and I’ve watched it a few times since the weekend. Enjoy:
Hat tip: Niamh found it on Saturday and featured it on culch.ie
Had a serious childhood flashback yesterday when my cousin played a particular tune on the piano. Myself and brother re-called it from a kids film we saw back in the day. Turns out it was called ‘The American Rabbit‘. I googled it this morning and have found that some guy has uploaded it all to Youtube in 20 odd parts. 😮 Watching back a couple of the clips is weird as I would have been 6-7 at the time I saw it. The critics certainly didn’t like it with Charles Solomon saying ‘Both the writing and the animation in The Adventures of the American Rabbit are so inept that the viewer expects the governor to interrupt the film and declare the theater a disaster area!’.
Anyone remember it? Here’s the trailer: