Forgive The Kids, For They Don't Know How To Live

Arthur and Naomi Quinn from Arthur, which you simply must see! Great montages, and Helen Mirren is fantastic. I WANT TO BE NAOMI QUINN. She gives illegal tours of Grand Central Station and illustrates kids books! I am going to watch this again before I got to art camp in the city this summer for inspiration. I will also spend about 60% of my time there looking for Arthur, and getting him to fall in love with me. Particularly the Russel Brand aspect of Arthur. Yes, that is precisely what I am going to do.

 

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I am an artist. Really! I'm going to go to school for it and everything! I'm partial to collages and pastel portraits, and pen and ink vignettes, and illustrations. But art isn't just something you DO. It's something that IS. Not just on flat squares or roped off sections in galleries. It's everywhere! THAT is why I'm going to be an animator! I'd rather watch a movie than read a book (UGH trying to finish Hunger Games before I see the movie... but nothing will ever replace Harry Potter! LUNA LOVEGOOD AND NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM 4EVAHHH) or go to a gallery anyways, because you're literally watching every element of the artist's thoughts/message. All at once! Books and art combined! Plus music! Oh god music. These are my favorites lately. I like these for the music AND the videos, so watch these before you read my synopses. No lazy, "I am too lazy to watch these so I will just read the crazy girl's ramblings and then go eat a taco while updating facebook." Take the time out of your day to go on my musical odyssey of sorts with me! (Except, perhaps, you might want to widescreen these, since they're so tiny on my blog! Also, forgive the formatting, it got pretty weird on this one.)You won't be sorry!  
Here is my ode to the music video:

1. St. Vincent - Cruel, and Cheerleader

The videos for these make the songs a lot more dimensional. Proves my point! IT'S LITERALLY IN AN ART GALLERY. YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN? YES. YES YOU DO. You can see it, instead of just listen! Yay! Cheerleader is just so scary and also beautiful. I love the reactions on the people's faces. They look so bored and judgmental. No one goes to help her when she falls either. She doesn't want to be a cheerleader (metaphor for a perfect girl in today's age I think) anymore, but no one listens, because of all of the things she's done that make her look shallow. The lyrics are SO AMAZING too. Listen to what she's saying/thinks of herself! This is like a literal nightmare mixed with a real-life nightmare. Fear of falling apart both literally and figuratively. Plus, the camera work in this gives you a real perspective on her supposed giant-ness. Yay! Tall girls unite! Wait, that's not what she intended? DARN. *Wears heels to prom anyway because I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE A CHEERLEADER NO MORE NOOOOO*


But wait! Cruel is just lovely. I love the beginning when she's looking over her shoulder at the girl in the wheelchair. Kind of like a "should I look or should I look away?" moment. Like in Girl by Beck, when the homeless man's sign says "Look Away." That's another great video. This family's literally captured the mother, and they BURY HER when she messes up! In real world parallel, a woman's family has taken her captive! They're cruel to her! They don't appreciate her, and they KILL HER for it. Plus, she has high waist-ed pants. EXTRA BONUS POINTS FOR FASHION!Yayy! I'm too lazy to wash mine. BOO.


More St. Vincent, you ask? I KNOW. SHE'S BRILLIANT. Check out "Actor Out of Work" for some intense-crazy (whoa that blond chiseled guy can CRY), and "Marrow" for some super cool camera-ness. ♥♥♥

2. Miike Snow - The Wave

This one is THE GREATEST random videos I EVER FOUND. The drums in the beginning remind me of Recess, the BEST CARTOON EVER of the early 2000s, which I hope to emulate in my future career as an animator. You know, playgrounds and dead grass, and WHAAA DEAD KIDS ON THE MERRY GO ROUND. NOT LIKE RECESS AT ALL. No, they aren't sleeping. [Since the aliens did it, it reminds me of Super 8, one of my favorite movies of all time! WATCH IT TODAY. The movie director kid is just like me, except tubbier and more annoying. Haha, no. No one could ever be more annoying than I. Plus, Elle Fanning!] ANYWAY. The cops look all sad and bewildered with their doughnuts and coffee. NO, they don't really give a shit, because they pick up all the little dead kiddies themselves and then bury them, and then resume their doughnuts and coffee. Isn't there like a coroner or some crap to do that? This probably isn't the first time this has happened in that town! BUT LOOK AT THE ALIENS. I love those dudes! Their cute little high heels and their black bob hair (Berries and Cream guy from the skittles commercials anyone? Another one to look up! That's like my entire eighth grade right there). And their noses! I love big noses. And their shirtless-ness! I bet they're chiseled from all that running on deserted stretches of interstate. When he waves to his friend in the grass, I LOVE the part when he starts running. I don't know, but I think it's the focus-y camera thing again. Maybe they're running away from something? GAH, why are shirtless aliens in black leather gloves and pants so adorable to me? AND WHEN THEY SING TO THE COPS (which btw, is the best part of the song and you will surely be singing this while raiding your freezer for goodies tonight and probably freaking out your cats) THEY ARE SO FUNNY. It's like a student-made movie or something! Clearly the cops love it too, as evidenced by their reckless gun shooting. LOVE IT. COPS COPS COPS. And the skipping running thing in the middle of the road is SO me. Like, I would do that, and totally get hit by a car while singing this song (probably my sister's car, since WE BOTH GOT OUR LEARNER'S PERMITS!!! I CAN DRIVE TO ART CLASS NOW! YEAH! I always sing the Need For Speed song whenever I drive, which my dad points out to me as worrying. WELL ME AND MY SISTER LIKE IT. We mix the chorus with Kumbaya. That and the window to the wall song. YEAH.) And then a random house smashes in the middle of everything. I bet it was Dorothy's house from the Wizard of Oz. DARN IT DOROTHY. YOU RUIN EVERYTHING. Okay, so, start loving Miike Snow NOW, and also STARE AT THE WAVE. ♥♥♥

3. Dry the River - The Chambers & The Valves

This song is 100% me. My room looks like this video. Which is why I'm going to throw a HUGE PARTY IN IT and only invite those who took the time to read this far! Teehee, anyway. The first line is adorable! Where does love come from!? The premise of the video is all of these monster friends getting together to have a party, after being sick of their boring lives. The styling of the whole thing (cloudy weather, drug stores, boring jobs and bored people) is really fun with monsters. The devil guy is like me, who often gets fed up with doing dishes and calls his friends to host a human-themed party every now and again. THE COSTUMES. The skeleton is my favorite. I love how forlorn he looks when he buys his shampoo! I really want to dress up as a skeleton for Halloween now. The werewolf guy is AWESOME. He reminds me of a jock pizza delivery guy for some reason. Letter jacket! For monster highschool? HA, I AM SO NERDY. I NEED HIS BIKE. It's so nerdy. The mummy's cute too. Their masks are actually their real faces! COOL! There's some more running in the street! YEAH! But in slo-mo! YEAH! Their party is so paradoxical on real people. REAL PEOPLE DON'T EAT MINI HOT DOGS AND JELLO CUBES ANYMORE. Teehee! I wish we did though. And their fireworks are totally illegal, yet still fun! Yay! I wish they would play this song at prom, since it is the perfect skipping/twirling song. I tested it with my perfect twirling/skipping dress. But our school will only play Rihanna and dubstep. Or dump-step, as my dad calls it. But not Nyan Cat, which is the best dub-steppy song out there. Only stupid WUMP WUMP WUMP allll night. Guh. Dry the River is muchos betteros than that! So turn up your speakers and twirl around your room while you listen to this one! Disco balls and sixties school dances! Hold me tight! Tell me I'm the only one! Tonight! Tonight! Let me go on loving you! (If you haven't gotten the Beatles' Hold Me Tight reference by now, shoot yourself in the leg right now. Now! No, please don't actually. That would be sad.)

Well, I hope you've enjoyed these music choices for this spring! It's SO GREEN outside where I am right now. I woke up with crazy allergies. BEH.

Music videos are my favorite thing ever. Reading this post and LOVING IT reaffirms, that yes, you are indeed a hipster. Which is grand! Hipster = 100% okay with being you, and not caring at all what people think of you, or your musical stylings. Make some art, or make some videos, you guys! We need more stuff out there like this! What music/videos would you recommend for me? Comment below!

Plus, an un-intended DIY for personalized Ray Ban plastic glasses. Dye your hair red with henna, and wear your glasses while it's on your head. The stem-things will turn gold, and the little logo looks SO COOL. Like ombre-gold. YAY! But maybe don't do this if your glasses were REALLY expensive. Yeah. MY HEAD SPARKLES RED in sunlight! YEAH!


May the odds be ever in your favor! xoxo