dancing girls (updated!)


Posted: October 12th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: music | Tags: , | 1 Comment »


I was thinking about a job I used to have, where I sat in a carpeted cubicle, in a fluorescent lit-hallway, in a tall office building in midtown. My job was mind-numbing stuff like counting things and opening envelopes. The best way to get through the day was drinking lots of free powdered sugary beverages from the kitchenette and watching videos on launch.com in one corner of my screen, while typing on my spreadsheet or counting things or opening envelopes or whatever. My favorite then was Kylie Minogue, can’t get you out of my mind. In honor of Kylie, and that summer, I have tried to collect here some of my all-time favorite dancing girls music videos. Sometimes a screen full of dancing girls can really cheer up a boring day.

Walk It Out ladies

Alizée!

Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walking
http://scopitones.blogs.com/scopitonescom/files/boots.mov

France Gall, Les Sucettes.
oh my god, this is weird.

another Scopitone: Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Bittersweet Samba

Ladytron, Seventeen

Kylie Minogue, Can’t Get You Out of My Head

MIA, galang

Beyonce, Crazy in Love

Daft Bodies
as soon as I watched this I had to come back to my blog and replace the Francoise Hardy video (which didn’t actually include any dancing) with this dancealicious creation.


Caetano Veloso


Posted: September 14th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: music | No Comments »


for my birthday mike got us tickets to go see caetano veloso! he put on a great show. lots of enthusiasm all around, and beautiful music. what a voice.
i took a video but it came out pretty awful. i like my camera okay (Sony DSC-T9) but I do not like the video it takes because it always goes horribly out of focus.


Juana Molina, Nuevos Aires


Posted: June 22nd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: music | No Comments »



Juana Molina, Nuevos Aires
Originally uploaded by elizajanecurtis

we went to see Juana Molina as part of the Nuevos Aires folk festival at La Trastienda in San Telmo. It was a crazy journey trying to get there (see taxistas post below) but it was fun and the mystery opening guest was awesome!! Later research revealed that (I think) he was TheFormado, an amazing one-man-band with laptops, accordion, trumpet, keyboard, and maybe some other stuff too.


Juana Molina also did a beautiful set but the video i took came out super awful. At the end she played “Salvese Quien Pueden” and it was very nice.


anaflex


Posted: June 18th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: music | No Comments »


this is my favorite ad here which is always on the TV and always playing on the TVs in the subway stations while you wait for the train. I am not sick of it yet because it’s kind of awesome. The old guy loves to rock out because his arthritis doesn’t hurt!

it’s an ad for arthritis medicine and I am told the tagline translates “Anyone is a tough guy, when he has what it takes.”


listening


Posted: March 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: music | No Comments »


Some albums me and the pups have been singing along to.
Old favorites and new ones.


sally shapiro. disco romance
cansei de ser sexy. CSS


death from above 1979. you’re a woman, i’m a machine
the presets. beams


lansing dreiden. the dividing island


john cale. paris 1919
peter, bjorn and john. writer’s block


the innocence mission. birds of my neighborhood
charlotte gainsbourg. 5:55


the rapture. pieces of the people we love
tapes n tapes. the loon


band of horses. everything all the time
my morning jacket. it still moves


gillian welch. revival
chico buarque. construção


sui generis. confesiones de invierno
seu jorge. carolina


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