Of Movies And Music

Watched Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers the other day and loved it. I have avoided that movie for awhile since I was feeling sore for him dropping me last minute to have "a friend" spin at the production end's party some years ago. Bruised egos aside, a fantastic movie written it would seem almost as an appendix to an even better soundtrack. Then two days later I run across this:

Inexplicably, it is the second least watched video of the David Byrne's Luaka Bop label archives. The least watched? A short documentary (doubling as a compilation promo) on the mangue beat scene in Brazil's Pernambuco state. Most watched? Anna Karina dancing in perfect time to a Nouvelle Vague song - the scene is taken from Godard's Bande à part, which happens to be the title of the band's 2006 album from which the song is taken - wrap your brains around the game of signifiers while you watch this: