Category: Videos (Page 59 of 96)

DMed’s Video of the Week: Pittsburgh Slim, “Girls Kiss Girls”

A publicist sent this to me yesterday, and I found it amusing on a number of levels. For starters, Pittsburgh Slim looks like Zach Braff in a do rag, and when they show him lip syncing “I like when girls kiss girls,” that low voice coming from this DJ Jazzy Trevor, it looks hilariously unrealistic. Second, the actual song, if you can call it that, is three keyboard squawks laid to a drum machine. Not a new trend, but it does amaze me how music-free music is slowly becoming. Lastly, I must confess, the girl, Penthouse pet Krista Ayne, does a damn good striptease.

So yeah, the song has little to no redeeming value. But sometimes that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

To view the video, click here.

Video Vault – The Cult

Having had the good fortune to speak to The Cult’s lead singer, Ian Astbury, earlier this afternoon (I’d originally been scheduled to talk with guitarist Billy Duffy, but, what, like talking to Astbury instead is complaint-worthy?), I thought I’d favor ESDM’s readers with a video from the album he declares to be his favorite of all the band’s works. As is so often the case, it turned out to be one of their least successful, but one should always be true to oneself. I mean, the label won’t buy into it, but, still, you’ll feel better in the long run.

There are bad interviews…and, then, there’s Sigur Ros.

I count myself fortunate that, in my two decades as a journalist, I’ve had precious few interviews that were just really, really bad…although, for the record, whenever anyone asks me about my personal worst, however, I invariably cite a conversation that I had with Juliana Hatfield:

It started two hours later than I’d been told that it’d been scheduled, no-one had told her that it had been scheduled at all, and she clearly had no interest in talking to me at all, based on her general indifference to every question I had to offer and the constant stream of one-word answers that served as her responses. And to top it off, the most memorable part of the entire conversation – such as it was – came about only because I dared to close by asking the God-awful question, “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be, and why?” Her horrified response: “I don’t want to be a tree!” (Okay, keep your cool, Juliana. It was hypothetical.)

Still, as excruciating as that experience was for me…and the fact that it occurred in 1992 and it’s still tops on my list speaks volumes as to the level of excruciation, I think…it still doesn’t come anywhere close to this:

Luke Burbank’s recent conversation with Sigur Ros.

Wow.

Luke, brother, I feel for you.

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