2 Things I've Fallen In Love With

So, this is a rarity, but in just the last 2 days, I've fallen in love with 2 new things in the entertainment industry. One music video, and one TV show.

First, lets go with the music video.

At the end of each year, pitchforkmedia.com does their 40 best videos of the year article, where you can watch each video. Last night, I went through each video and one stood out. The song is called Toe Jam by The BPA. The BPA is Fatboy Slim's new project. The song features Dizzee Rascal (I'm not really into rap and hip-hop so I have no idea who that is), and David Byrne. Yes that David Byrne of The Talking Heads! Every year there is one amazing video that comes out that just totally enhances a song, that is usually already pretty darn good by itself. Think Weezer's Buddy Holly or Beastie Boy's Sabotage. Well The BPA's Toe Jam is that video for 2008. Basically there is a large group of young men and women who look like they are from the 70s who strip down naked for what seems to be a swingers "gathering". For most people, this is already pretty enticing. However, those pesky black csensor bars are up covering all the essential bits. What is amazing is that the director choreographed everything so those balck censor bars "dance" throughout the video. I don't really know how to explain it, but check it out. Here's a link:  http://www.keithschofield.com   you'll see a link for the video in the upper left corner: 

The other thing I fell in love with was a new TV show. To preface, there was this awesome underground game we played in High School called Assassination, about 200-500 or so students would play depending on who was organizing. Whoever organizes the game, takes all the people registered to play, and organizes their name in one giant circle or loop. Whoever's name is in front of theirs is who they are trying to assassinate (with water) and nobody knows who each other has going after them. So player A tries to assassinate player B, B is after C, C is after D, etc. Once player A gets B he gets all of C's cards and goes after his target. Lets say A just assassinated B, and B had already assassinated C and D. Now A would be going after player E. The game goes on until the final two players try to assassinate each other to win all the money. The game is so much fun and for those couple of months a quarter of the student body is absolutely paranoid, trying not to be assassinated. Anyways, I was flipping through channels 2 nights ago when I hear on the Sci Fi network (which I never watch) they are playing a real-live action video game to win over 25,000 dollars,, called Cha$e. Instantly, I was hooked. The premise of the game is similar to Assassination, which hooked me even more. Their are 10 contestants called runners. They are let loose in part of a city, ie the warehouse district of LA, or Universal Studios in LA. Throughout the next hour, they are being tracked down by Hunters, who try to tag them. If they last for the first 55 minutes or so (only a few of the 10 do) the finish gate opens, and whoever gets their first wins the game and the money. That may not sound interesting to you, but watch one episode, I never have seen a gameshow that is so intense! Watch episodes for free here: http://www.hulu.com/chae