I’m all sick-in-bed girl and utterly nonplussed about a long day of watching people being jerks on blogs, and missing a party I really wanted to go to. But I’m really glad I just watched Beyonce’s video Green Light (at Vivane’s)– not a noteworthy pop song, but every single costume in the video is skin-tight latex fetishwear, the dancers are of all sizes, there’s some nice corset couture and a whole dance sequence in ballet hobble boots — and Beyonce winds up crawling on her hands and knees in them, very hot.
Update: it’s YouTube, girl-powered cheesy video night here at the Blogger Bungalow, party of one. What I’m watching here in bed after the jump.
Midnight update: just made a hot toddy for myself, as part of my videoblogging week 2007 day 8. yes, I explain the 8-day week in the video. Embedded at the tail end of this post.
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Found over at Viv‘s, the Madonna Sex Book video. According to my friend Unscathed Corpse,
Many of the photos in the book Sex are from film frames. Madonna had photographer Steven Meisel shoot many of the sessions with regular photography, but these same sessions were also shot as a movie with various film techniques by fashion photographer Fabian Baron, mostly on super 8 mm. Baron used the footage for the video for the song “Erotica,” which he directed. Madonna and Baron compiled an hour of the footage for a film that Madonna had played during a party she gave for the release of Sex at New York City’s Industria Superstudio. Madonna also had 100 copies of the film made to give to her closest friends. This film boasted a soundtrack of French music from the 1920s and ’30s of songs by such singers as Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, and Josephine Baker. At some point in the early to mid-1990s, this film leaked out to the public, and for a time copies of it were sold as The Sex Book Video or as The Making of Sex and Erotica in versions with variations in editing and soundtrack. Featured in the video, are model Naomi Campbell, actress Isabella Rossellini…
This led me to another Madonna video — lame song, but it’s the video that was directed by her husband, Snatch director Guy Ritchie: What It Feels Like For A Girl. I recall that the video was prohibited from being shown on cable networks here in the US due to its violence — I think, notably that it’s a woman on a violence spree. The end sequence is worth watching the video for.
And if you’ve never seen the video for Smack My Bitch Up, perhaps because of the title, you might want to see it anyway — more violence + nudity:
And after that, this girly video night just wouldn’t be complete without watching my friend Chriso’s awesome girls-kick-ass compilation video “Rebel Girls”, set to a Bikini Kill song — so awesome:
Ooooh, get ’em while they’re hot: Grindhouse faux trailers (thanks, Sean — come home! we miss you!):
Werewolf Women of the SS, directed by the brilliant Rob Zombie, featuring the girl I want to be/fuck/marry/killduringsex, Sheri Moon Zombie:
More murderous females! Check out The Maiden of Death, a supremely excellent trailer made for SXSW (for the Grindhouse trailer competition), about a hot Goth rock chick dealing out revenge! I want to see a whole film made of this one:
Me, 15 minutes ago:
in my kitchen making a hot toddy, explaining why videoblogging week isn't over, and my dataming plans for the weekend.
the wish you were here to share it hot toddy:
juice of one lemon
overflowing tablespoon of local honey
shot and a half of whiskey
boiling water
serve in your lucky and/or favorite mug
