The way you see yourself and the way others do differs drastically. I (re)learned this the hard way.
It all started with a friend who obviously has enough storage space on her cellphone to have a photo for everyone in her contact list. Max, I want to see your face when you phone me! Nice one. Nice one...
So without asking, she took her phone out of her bag and held it in front of my face to make that goddamn picture. EDIT: I hate when people want to make photos of me, because whenever they wanna do that, I look like sh*t. Literally, sh*t! ... Well, little did I know, her phone came with a camera that has a light next to it. And this very light was flashing so brightly that I had to squint my eyes. Just get this over with!, I thought, while she was finally making the picture. Thinking about how the photo turned out, I had a certain image in mind: a strained but cute smile and squinty eyes.
Yeah...
Turns out her phone had an HD camera (what the ?? how can this even ?? SCIENCE! O.O). A cruel, nasty camera that makes the most unfortunate photos ever.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!!!
Willy Moon - Yeah Yeah

The Zolas - Knot In My Heart

Bat For Lashes

Brick&Mortar - Bangs

Last Lynx - Killing Switch




Hope you enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed making it! :)

Greetings
~Maximiwax'*

As some of you* might know (*those 7 or 8 people that actually read my blog posts now and then), I had a poll on which topic my next post/s should be about. One of these topics was "Best Music Videos" and, in retrospect, there were more votes than I expected. Almost as many as for "personal blog post" (I still don't get why you chose this but hey... You want it, you get it!)
There have been some amazing music videos over the last few years and I want to show you my personal favorites. Of course, these videos also represent what I like to listen to, so feel free to see this list as every other song list at the end of my posts. I will add a very brief explanation about why this or that video is in the list and why it is so special to me.
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Just so you know: This is my personal taste and my sense of esthetics. This list will not include videos like "Thriller", "Wicked Game" or Daft Punk videos - not because they aren't awesome enough but because it would be kind of stale to name them again. Right? :)

[no particular order]

1. The Hundred In The Hands - Pigeons
This girl knows how to act! Never seen such a convincing interpretation of a drunk party chick. Plus: How awesome is firework vomit?! - But seriously, this video creates many great images which make it (and the band, too) so unique.


2. Bloc Party - The Prayer
Again, a video that amazed me with its visuals back then when I first saw it. The effect of burning through layers of space and memory and the distorting effects are what I like the most about this video. Plus the song gets so extremely easily stuck in your head!




3.  Trentemøller - Moan (Trentemøller Vocal Mix ft. Ane Trolle)
A singing dog. In space. AAAAND Trentemøller. Duh!


4. Björk - All Is Full Of Love
Maybe the most calming song ever. Whenever I was mad at my ex for being a dickhead, I just needed to listen to this song for 2 or 3 times and my world was perfect and fluffy and bright again... Also think about when this video was taken/produced!: 1999!! I think it looks like a current production as far as graphics are concerned. A true masterpiece!


5. UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights
As a kiddo, I once read through teletext profiles of MTV VJs that hosted MTV (when the "M" still stood for MUSIC and not for MASS) and I found out that several of these VJs listed their favorite video. And they all chose this one. Many years later I remembered doing this and found the video they were talking about. Just watch it. Phe-no-me-nalllll!! (I also was inspired by UNKLE's Burn My Shadow video when I wrote a post about the "Kübler-Ross-moments" of my life back then...ooooh Unkle...)


6. Philip Selway - By Some Miracle
I just love videos with a clear idea which is realised with simple but powerful images. This is a perfect example. And of course, slow motions! :)


HONORABLE MENTION:

Keaton Henson - Sweetheart, What Have You Done To Us
It may not be one of the best videos ever, but I just recently found it - or, more precisely, him - and it just moved me. Not to tears but to something-like-"internal-tears"-or-so. Because of this effect, I had to add it to the list.


That's it. If you know a video that NEEDS to be added to the list, feel free to leave it in the comment section below! :)

And I'm sorry that I don't have any pictures for this post. But what could I draw about music videos?? o.O So here is a little pic where I ride a magical, handicapped unicorn while making a purry cat face and doing the arm wave dance move. I hope this makes up for it. :)

Before I upload a list of my favorite music videos, I wanted to make a quick post with very short songs (songs that are no more than 2:30 minutes long). And also a little update on my current situation - because I'm kind of doing fine :) Yeah, weird, right? Last week's (and month's) posts were more or less marked by melancholy and maybe the bitter taste of loneliness, but I got a grip on myself and dealt with the difficulties that came up with the new semester. This weekend, I had a moment of doing-nothing-and-feeling-good-about-it where, normally, I would feel like I'm not seizing the opportunity of using my time... I had my homework done, my room was clean, I got some monaaaay, everything was at its place and organized. So I just leaned back with a glass of red wine, listened to some French song that played on my iTunes (shuffle, ooooh shuffle... :-*) and enjoyed the moment.
Because I'm classy like that.
Well, maybe I'm not that classy after all, but I sure like to pretend! ;)
So let's come to a little list of songs that are of special interest for me because of their length.. I don't know why but the fact that they are so short is what makes them different from songs with a normal length (like 3:40 or so). And the monotony it gets when you repeat the song over and over again has something soothing and meditative, I think, which gives the song a whole new quality and a way of listening to it.

Camille - Vous


Oscar and Martin - Recognise


The Raconteurs - Level


The Hives - Abra Cadaver


Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River (Kaytradamus Remix)


That's it for now... Hope, these song choices are not too out of the box for some of you :)
Next time, there'll be more bad-ass electro/indie songs, for sure!
Greetings
~Maximiwax'*