ten things tagged “weird”
La Jeteé(1962)
All the usual suspects (for a movie like this at least): What is memory? Does the past exist? Where and what am I, what the heck is this, and how do I know that it is real? And so on. No worries there, standard fare so far (for a movie like this that is). What’s truly amazing is how Chris Marker cho…
Rating: B+
Superpredators
by Massive Attack
Heard this on “The Jackal” when I was about 14 or so and I was blown away. An all-time favorite
Hairy Candy
by Tobacco
Ian Gee was listening to this on the bus in Iowa City in October 2007. I fell in love with it instantly. He then told me about Black Moth Super Rainbow.
Eyeball Kid
by Tom Waits
Magnificent.
Accelerometer Overdose
by Binker and Moses Feat. Max Luthert
Heard this at a house party in Iowa City around 2010.
Shaitan Ka Saala
by Sohail Sen Feat. Vishal Dadlani
An Anglerfish
What a strange, strange creature. Those bumps remind me of rivets on a submarine. But because they are anglerfish, the bumps are even more bizarre than you’d expect: Since anglerfish are deep sea creatures, it took scientists years and years to figure this stuff out. They could never find a male…
What Did Jack Do?(2017)
Stars David Lynch, his spouse Emily Stofle, a monkey, and a chicken. The oddest and most hypnotic thing I’ve seen this year (and twice.) A mere 17 minutes in length and like if film-school students used GPT-3 to generate a script an hour before the assignment was due. Toototabon 🐓…
Rating: B
Faceshifting
Bill Hader is made to faceshift when doing his impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s weird and brilliant and I love it. Here’s another where he does Al Pacino. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhUhypV27w TIL about the term “deepfakes”.…