And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type o...
MUSIC VIDEO
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love
Release Date: 11th December 1984
Songwriter/s: Leonard Cohen & David Campbell
Producer: John Lissauer
Label: Columbia
Music Video Release Date: 1994
Music Video Director: Mark Pellington
Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice
Album: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Released: 2000
Nominations: MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing, MORE
Genres: Alternative/Indie, Dance/Electronic
The music video, directed by Spike Jonze, features actor Christopher Walken dancing around a deserted hotel lobby
Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice (2001) IMDb
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Released: 1994
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
The music video directed by Spike Jonze and nominated in five categories at the 1994 MTV Music Video Awards.
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Released: 1980
Genre: Pop
Released: 2011
Released: 2011
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me?
Stromae - quand c'est ?
Artist: Stromae
Album: Racine Carrée
Released: 2013
Genre: Pop
Tourné à Seraing, et co-réalisé par Luc Junior Tam et Xavier Reyé, « Quand C’est ? » est le septième clip extrait de l’album √ (racine carrée).
Shot in Seraing (Belgium), and co-directed by Luc Junior and Xavier Reyé, « Quand C’est ? » is the seventh video from the stromae album, √ (racine carrée).
