For better or worse, this blog has largely become about looking backwards. I've made this observation before, as it's something that I sometimes worry about -- am I too consumed by the past? I suppose it goes hand-in-hand with my age and station in life. As a married father of two with a boatload of adult responsibilities, my opportunities to explore the cutting edge have been rather pointedly curtailed. In terms of my extracurricular interests -- music and its surrounding culture -- I'm afraid I've become less of a seeker and more of a settler. I'm still curious about new bands, new sounds, new scenes and so forth, but too often am either too busy, too lazy or too dismissive of the newer stuff to give it a proper chance.
Luckily I have a couple of friends who remain pretty plugged in and hip me to the newer music they think I'd dig. My colleague Drew -- a "cutting edge that never seems to dull" (as a former elder colleague once described my similarly-inclined younger self, many centuries ago before I became a cranky, middle-aged schlub) -- sent me the clip below, thinking it'd be right up my alley. Check it out...
Look familiar? Of course it does -- Skye's clip is basically an homage to the opening scene of Tony Scott's "The Hunger," (wherein youthful punkette Anne Magnuson vamps around Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie's pad, oblivious to the fact that she's about to have her throat slashed and sucked dry). I've posted that clip before (quite recently, actually), but here it is again for compare-and-contrast purposes.
Similarly, EV Grieve posted a clip by a band called Au Revoir Simone this week that pays slavish, detailed tribute to my favorite film of all time, Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" (a film I've written about here several times). Check it out.
Here's a glimpse of the original...
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