Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Everything is the worst: Saddest videos ever + Amanda Palmer breaks music again somehow



I imagine it might be kind of annoying for most of the posts here lately to just be blurbs to things I did elsewhere, but shoot, I am basically EFFING KILLING it at Bullett this week, so kind of want to share. I'M REALLY GOOD AT BLOGGING.

Family Band’s New Video is the Most Romantic Zombie Love Story Ever

If you haven't yet, go watch this video for Family Band's "Moonbeams." It is the saddest, prettiest video and song I have seen in a long time, and if it doesn't make you cry and want to hug the one you love then you have no soul.

Have you ever been staring at the face of the person you love —really staring, drinking it in, waves of wonder and joy and lust and friendship washing over you—and thought to yourself, “Oh weird, there’s a skeleton under that person’s face meat”? You probably will next time. “Welp, I guess I’m in love with a skeleton now,” you say. “Let me just press my head bones into hers.”...read the rest



Heartbreaking Documentary About Model Scouts in Siberia Is Really, Really Sad 

Oh wait, never mind, this is the saddest thing ever. “I find the girl when she’s the most raw. Talent. Fresh beauty untainted by the world,” explains model scout Ashley Arbaugh, herself a former model, in this excerpt from the Girl Model documentary by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon. And then I taint the fuck out of them, she said. Implied, I mean. “Really, a model after 18, they’re finished. We’re looking for girls that are 13 and 14.”...read the rest



Amanda Palmer Crowd-funds Touring Band, Is Rock Game Mitt Romney

Amanda Palmer, the avant-garde folk punk (or whatever), most recently famous for breaking open the Kickstarter model for crowd-funded musical projects when she raised $1.2 million dollars from fans to pay for the release of an album, has let her new found riches go to her head, transforming over night into a predatory capitalist with no respect for the rights of workers, and is probably using sweatshop child labor to stitch together the notes of her next song as we speak right now. ROCK GAME MITT ROMNEY...read the rest


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