Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Weekly Review: "Insomnia Olympics" Music Video

So, my original goal with this blog was to write almost exclusively articles pertaining to gaming and game development and to do so at least weekly. So far, I've done a terrible job at that--I underestimate how long it will take me to make a post, I generate extremely long posts, and my personal disparities at time management has resulted in large gaps between posts. To address this, I'm going to try to make a quasi-random review of some obscure item I've discovered. Hopefully this will encourage me to be a little more responsible in my posting as well as provide some more interesting (albeit off-topic) material to readers.

Today, I'm reviewing a music video, "Insomnia Olympics" by Blockhead. The song alone is very impressive--it's a techno blend of a horn section, piano, and a slow-but-strong drum beat that just sounds appropriate for a song with this title. But video is what makes it truely amazing. The footage is in black&white, and it features a lone man in a small room who is dealing with his insomnia--trying to read, trying to sleep, flicking playing cards around aimlessly, etc. It's very captivating.



I'm experimenting here with the embedded youtube like; I hope it works...

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