Sufjan Steven's "It's christmas! Let's be glad"

FUN! :). Terrible quality, but such a yum song. Look for it on one of those free listen sites if you want to hear a better version.

Two Notes to the Below Song

(1) Like most lyrics, these don't really hold up apart from the music -- their magic is in the way they are sung. SO, listen to the song, don't just read. (2) Music videos detract from the personal experience of songs, giving concrete imagery and associations to otherwise ambiguous lyrical content; while that's not necessarily a terrible thing, sometimes its nice to go for the pure encounter (in the below case, it's highly recommended).

:)

On top of being a decent song, Grolandic Edit has some great lyrics:

(The surrealists were just) nihilists with good imaginations

I am satisfied hiding in our friend's apartment,
Only leaving once a day to buy some groceries;
Daylight, I'm so absent minded, nighttime meeting new anxieties.
So am I erasing myself? Hope I'm not erasing myself...

I guess it would be nice
to give my heart to a God
But which one, which one do I choose?
Oh the church is filled with losers, psycho or confused
I just want to hold the divine in mine and forget all of the beauty's wasted...

Pretty Terrific

From my Google Reader feed:

Top 10 Bad Messages From Good Movies

Quality doesn’t generally come into play when it comes to messages in movies: There are plenty of bad movies whose messages are perfectly benign, and plenty of good movies that have messages you definitely wouldn’t want your kids to take to heart. Here is a countdown of the top ten bad messages in good (and at least somewhat geeky) movies.

I always wondered how they made this....

I discovered a "making of" video for one of my favorite music videos of all time.

Here's the original in case you've never seen it:



Here's the "making of":