Massive Attack. Angel

This is a scene from a 1932 film, "Vampyr" that I thought fit nicely with Massive Attack's song, "Angel." FAN VIDEO by Enduserundead. When i watched this video by Massive attack i didn't understand what the video at all, from a guy lying in the coffin with his eyes open and this old man putting the lid on top of the coffin. then there was this old man smoking a cigar and behind him was these 3 black shadows which i thought was death. the guy that was in the coffin could see everything when people were taking him away to be buried. after he was buried an old man started digging him up, another man saw him and started to help him after the got to the coffin they had taken the top of and he was a skeleton.

i think the man in the coffin suffered cataplexy. (Cataplexy manifests itself as muscular weakness which may range from a barely perceptible slackening of the facial muscles to the dropping of the jaw or head, weakness at the knees, or a total collapse. Usually the speech is slurred, vision is impaired (double vision, inability to focus), but hearing and awareness remain normal. These attacks are triggered by strong emotions such as exhilaration, anger, fear, surprise, orgasm, embarrassment, and laughter. Cataplexy may be partial or complete, affecting a range of muscle groups, from those controlling facial features to (less commonly) those controlling the entire body.)

i like how they chose to do the video in black and white to make it old fashioned.

Peter Gabriel. Sledge hammer

The song sledge hammer was influenced by 1960s soul music, as evident by the use of horns and a general stax sound. The distinctive Horn section was provided by the memphis horns, the house musicians for Stax records. The song also features a synthesized shakuhachi flute.

The lyrics include references such as a steam train, bumper cars, a Big Dipper, roller coaster and a fruit cage. It also includes references to the reproduction of plants, mentioning pollination, fruit and bees.

"Sledgehammer" spawned a widely popular and influential music video directed by Stephen R.Johnson. Aardman animations and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song. The video ended with a large group of extras jerkily rotating around Gabriel, among them: Gabriel's daughters Anna and Melanie, the animators themselves, and director Stephen Johnson's girlfriend. Also included were six women who posed as the back-up singers of the song. Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time.

In 1987, it won nine MTV video music awards, a record which still stands as of 2008. It ranked at number four on MTV's 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made (1999). MTV later announced that "Sledgehammer" is the most played music video in the history of the station. "Sledgehammer" has also been declared to be MTV's number one animated video of all time.

The video was also voted number seven on TMF's Ultimate 50 Videos You Must See - first aired 24 june 2006. It ranked at number 2 on VH1's "Top 20 Videos of the 80's" as well as being named the (1) "Amazing Moment in Music" on the Australian TV show 20 to 1 in 2007.

The portion of the song featuring the synthesized flute solo was realized in the video by first one and then two oven-ready chickens, headless and featherless, animated using stop-motion. These were animated by Nick Park (of Wallace and Gromit fame) who, at that time was refining his work in plasticine animation.

This video is amazing it couldn't of been any better. it must of taken them ages to create the video taking pictures all the way thru. every frame is eye-catching, i would say his target audience is everyone, who would not love a great video with bright colours and a catchy song to go with it.

Marilyn Manson. The beautiful people

The beautiful people is a song from Marilyn Mansons's second full length album, Antichrist superstar, released as a single in September, 1996. An alternative metal hit written by Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez, and produced by Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie and Manson, its lyrics discuss two major themes: what Manson refers to as (the culture of beauty), and that culture's connection to Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of master slave mortality, the song's (weak ones), who are (always wrong), are oppressed by and exist solely to (justify [the existence of] the strong) (the so-called beautiful people).

When i watched the video of The beautiful people i had no idea what Marilyn Manson was trying to communicate to the audience. The video looked like something like of a horror movie gone wrong, but i found it really interesting to watch and i couldn't take my eyes of the video.

Bat for lashes. Daniel. lyrics

Daniel, when I first saw you
I knew that you had a flame in your heart
And under wild blue skies
Marlboro ruby skies
I found a home in your eyes
And we'd never be apart

And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed

And in the golden blue
Car you took me to
The darkest place you knew
Set fire to my heart

When I run in the dark
Daniel
Into a place that's vast
Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
Daniel
I dream of home

But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our mouths our tears crept
Just kids in the eye of the storm
And as the house spun round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the faith
For home again
For home again

Ernest Hemingway. Along with youth

A porcupine skin, Stiff with bad tanning, It must have ended somewhere. Stuffed horned owl Pompous Yellow eyed; Chuck-wills-widow on a biassed twig Sooted with dust. Piles of old magazines, Drawers of boy's letters And the line of love They must have ended somewhere. Yesterday's Tribune is gone Along with youth And the canoe that went to pieces on the beach The year of the big storm When the hotel burned down At Seney, Michigan.

Fitzisaac Maliya. The sun

They exhaled air with might
Driving the loathed clouds away
That concealed the SUN
For they had enough
Of darkness, penetrating coldness
Enough of anguish.

The clouds forcibly blown away
The new day came into view
Mirth gripped the masses
As the naked sun rose vividly
Sunbathing era for all had come.
Amazement holds them mute
As the sun emits fatal heat
Faces perspire, contort with pain
Vegetation, streams, rivers dry
Huts turn into infernos
Providing sanctuary to none.

Tongues spit regrets
Of what use in the sun?
We loathed the clouds
For darkness, coldness, sufferance.
We loathe the sun
For its unbearable hotness
What a sad dilemma! !


Dedication: To Hodges Chatepa,
Tras Nampota, Henry Njolomole
and Grey Nkungula for this poem
is a birth child of their intellectual
stimulation.

Fitzisaac Maliya. Food

Food food absolutely appetising Food food absolutely tantalising The way it makes your stomach jump at its mention The way it melts on your tongue when you go to taste it The way the mouth waters at its mention or sighting The uncontrollable breathing for some impatient people As the food is prepared the intensity of its appeal The race to the table to secure a seat at the buffet The enjoyment as the food passes down the throat With a nice cold drink to was it down with How quickly everyone disappears at the sight of empty dirty dishes Food food absolutely appetising Food food absolutely tantalising