This is the video for The Prodigy’s new single, Warrior’s Dance.
From now on I want all music videos to be as good as this.
If you’ve not got nasty little warrior men made out of cigarette packets setting fire to things, I don’t want to see it.
Monthly Archive for May, 2009
Genius short film, even if it is an advert.
See if you can guess what it’s advertising – amazingly it’s both blatant and quiet subtle – and then checkout similar subliminal works here at said product’s Short Film Festival.
Or alternatively see some of my other favourite short films by clicking the Short Film tag, in the tag cloud over on the right.
I am now officially to be found on RocksBackpages.com.
For those who don’t know RocksBackpages.com is the biggest and most prestigious archieve of music journalism to be found anywhere on the internet. Which means that I’m now sharing server space with some of the finest words from the likes of Lester Bangs, Nick Kent, Danny Baker, Felix Dennis, Nick Logan, Nick Hornby, Neil Tennant – yes, that Neil Tennant – Toby Young, Will Self, John Robb, Charles Shaar Murray, Andrew Mueller, Stuart Maconie, Dorian Lynskey, Paul Morley, Steven ‘Swells’ Wells, Phil Sutcliffe, Paolo Hewitt and saucy Loyd Grossman. Distinguished company I’m sure you’ll agree, although I like to think I hold my own.
Over the coming months my features, interviews and reviews will be added to the RocksBackpages.com library, making it the most exhaustive record of my journalism online and as if that wasn’t reason enough to pay the site a visit and sign-up for a reasonably priced subscription, I’ll also be posting witty, insightful and well argued music related pieces on my RocksBackpages.com writer’s blog – or more likely rambling semi-coherently about the twin and not completley incompatible joys of pop and downtempom cinematic jazz.
How could you even think of missing it?
I’ve been reading Sun Tzu’s The Art of War – the legendary War For Dummies guide, written in 500 B.C., now worshipped by aspiring business types of the kind who go on The Apprentice and say things like, ‘No guts, no glory’ and ‘I’m a natural closer’.
Not that I’m after a job in middle management. Just curious.
Sun Tzu was clearly a very wise man who’d given much thought to the nature of conflict/competition and how best to succeed. Sun Tzu says… well he says a lot and most of it in slighty Yoda-esque backwards speak, but in a nutshell…
- Plan like buggery. Come up with a watertight strategy… and a couple of other watertight strategies in case the first develops holes.
- Research. Know your market, know your enemy, know yourself.
- Make the most of your resources, by focusing your strengths against opponents weaknesses.
- The best way to win a war is without fighting. Outsmarting your opponent is painless.
- Only fight battles you can win. When you’re dead, you’re dead.
Makes sense. So there you go, 2500 years worth of tried and testest strategic wisdom reduced to five bullet points. Now you too are ready to be a business samurai. Show me the money. Lunch is for whimps. Etc, etc.
