Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Sophisticated Side Ponytail

Do not watch this if you're the slightest bit seizure-prone

M.I.A. - Jimmy

In indirect honor of Slumdog Millionaire, which at the Academy Awards last night won best picture, director, original score, original song, adapted screenplay, cinematography, film editing, and sound mixing. Okay, so all M.I.A. did was contribute a few songs to the soundtrack (not including Jimmy--it was Paper Planes and O... Saya, which was also nominated for an Oscar but lost against the film's other nominated song Jai Ho), but... I was just looking for an excuse to post this song.

Spirit fingers!

MGMT - Time to Pretend

I'm so flipping frustrated that all of MGMT's music videos on Youtube have disabled embedding :( so here is a mild, un-trippy slideshow. The real version, like most MGMT vids, makes me feel like I'm doing some mad hallucinating; I bet this stuff could undo all the anti-drug work DARE and Truth have done for a person in a second. Its unconventionality (read: rampant freakiness) and high Message Sensation Value (seizure-inducing rainbow show) appeal so much to high sensation-seekers, aka the people who are most susceptible to regular substance abuse, that I'm sure it'd wipe out any trace of the anti-drug education they received in sixth grade (i.e. the DARE song: D, I won't do drugs! A, won't have an attitude! R, I... ooh, rainbows.)

Am writing a painfully low-sensation paper for my Comm&Persuasion class on anti-drug campaigns targeted toward adolescents, thus I must seek out electronic mental stimulation lest I fall asleep. Three pages to go...

MGMT - Electric Feel

Because 115 plays (not counting the ones in the car, on CTV, or on YouTube) and 5 months later, I am still obsessed with this song.

(I don't know wtf is up with this video but I couldn't find a version of the actual one that would let me embed. Here's the real one... it's like LOTR + LSD... and almost as addictive as the song itself haha.)