poverty jet-set: music videos

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8th

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rym6rGHAJg

so that's the video for "forever" with drake, lil wayne, kanye, and eminem. it is a mess. first of all, it's for lebron james' documentary more than a game so i guess the photos and home movie stuff is cute. however, it's cut with this crazy slick pop video type footage of all four rappers, who never appear on the screen at the same time, superimposed over themselves and dancing in front of giant sparklers. i mean does hype williams just sneeze on a piece of paper when he hands in treatments? (probably.) it opens with lebron playing online poker. is that some sort of metaphor? kanye is doing some kind of violent interpretive dance, he's clearly doing a breaststroke right before the 3-minute mark, and drake has clearly taken some tips from him. oh, sweet mushroom clouds, are those real or vfx? because either way they look fucking stupid. and eminem inexplicably has approximately 200 black men standing behind him. why does lil wayne call himself a martian? any clues?

that said, i kind of like the song. classic lines like "swimmin in the money, come and find me- nemo." eminem is against all odds a really good rapper. go figure. oh, and i would drake.

24th

can't sleep here in the uk, in the mornings. just at night and afternoons.

too many good things to comment on. too much fun, too much necessary emoting, too much fixing our insides, too much poisoning our insides, too much love. never enough. how much is enough? how long is too long?

go here and watch a great video that my talented, amazing, original friends made:
http://www.ghosttownmedia.com/videos/heartbreak/
so so good. someday i will make you proud too.

13th

"I'm either going to kill myself or go to London." -josh forbes
"SAMESIES!!!"- me

i mean i don't exactly have to spell it out now, do i? let's just say i'm truer to my word than he is.

30th

i accept payment in the form of glory.

i'm watching the edit right now and i will be just as stoked when this bad boy is finished.

24th

"this chapter of my life is called 'big riff and the snakes'"

-josh forbes, music video director and profound observer.

10th

Diablo Cody is such a good writer that even her myspace blog is well written and fun to read. even her twitter is! do you know how frustrating that is? it's making me wonder if i'm good at anything, if i have any talents to speak of. i can't write for shit, i don't birth ideas... i can tell you what line number parking tolls and gas is and i can let you know your rate on a 8k/15k/40k/100k (curiously, on the last two it probably wouldn't differ much) job, but that's boring. i was under the impression that i had some sort of creative skill and i'm suddenly terrified that i've been wrong all this time.

23rd

unfortunately i can't embed this because it's been disabled but this video for lenka (track: the show) was produced by my friend steve buchanan, and i think it's adorable and i love watching it. it gave me a little bit of a crush on lenka and i can't wait to work with steve again... knowing the budget on the video, he is basically a wizard.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTSU-mFWGs

21st

phil is one year old:

he really appreciated our efforts at celebration.

metro station was a month ago, but here are some pictures from it anyway:

billy ray and some bumper cars.

performance and a dirt bike.

i'd be so cute if someone could just carry a 1k on my good side constantly.

it's a problem when i'm blogging pictures a month later and my bank account still doesn't know the shoot happened.