OK Go - This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg Machine version)
Quatre ans après “Here It Goes Again” et son clip aux tapis roulant qui les a rendus célèbres, les OK GO frappent un nouveau grand coup avec une machine infernale géante.
Mais où s’arrêteront-ils ?
Extrait de “Dead Soldiers” (S03E03 de The Wire)
Ray ‘Old King’ Cole is laid out in his Sunday best on the pool table, a bottle of Jameson in one hand and a cigar in the other. Many of his colleagues in the Baltimore Police Department are there, including a scattering of the faces which have become familiar to us. One of these is oversize homicide detective Landsman, who rises to give the eulogy.
‘We are Po-leece… so no lies between us. He wasn’t the greatest detective and he wasn’t the worst. He put down some good cases and he dogged a few bad ones, but the motherfucker had his moments, yes he fucking did…’
Not much further into his speech, Landsman loses it, and in the embarrassing hiatus Freamon of the wiretap unit says, ‘For Christsake, Hugh, play the fucking song already.’ The barman presses play on the cassette deck and a banjo and tin whistle intro strikes up. Fans of the Pogues will recognise the first notes of ‘The body of an American’. The intro is craftily looped to allow Landsman to rally with a joke and finish off his speech.
‘Was he as full of shit as every other sad sack motherfucker wearing the badge of Baltimore City po-leece? Absa-fuckin-lutely. His shit was as weak as ours, no question…’ But ‘he was called. He served. He is counted – Old King Cole.
Landsman stands down and all join with the unmistakeable voice of Shane MacGowan to sing the first verse of the song.
There’s something about this song I really like, just can’t pinpoint it. Maybe it’s the way instruments drop in and out, one second it’s really busy then it’s not. Meanwhile, it builds to a powerful ending. There’s a mixture of so many sounds and styles in one song!
C’est tellement ça.
“Way Down in the Hole” par DoMaJe, version utilisée comme générique dans la saison 4 de “The Wire”.
Car-Skiing dans les rues de Burarest la nuit sur fond de Pixies (via mikropikol)
“Can’t Tell Me Nothing” with Zach Galifianakis (via atestu)
Les barbes rousses, tellement 2010.
Battlestar Rhapsody (via Geeks are Sexy)
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