Starring Nathan Wind as COCHESE

I actually got a birthday present that was not a CD. (Gasp! Shock! Horror!)
Relax! It was a DVD of music videos.
I received a DVD of Spike Jonze music videos, to be exact.
Jonze became a true auteur of the genre and many people are familiar with his story: real name Adam Spiegel (heir to the Spiegel catalog fortune)... started photographing and filming skateboarders... filmed the skateboard segments for Sonic Youth's "100%" video... parlayed that experience into his own video-making career... wed then divorced Sofia Coppola... now makes movies.
My DVD contains all the highlights -- The Breeders' "Cannonball," Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" and "Weapon of Choice" (with Christopher Walken dancing/flying around the empty hotel lobby), Pharcyde's "Drop" ("that backwards one," as most people remember it), Weezer's "Buddy Holly" and The Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (pictured above).
Jonze advanced into film, of course, with "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation."
You can see the seeds of his future work in the videos, and last night the four of us (Jill, Kerstin, Annika and I) gathered around the TV, munched pizza and reveled in the work of a man who helped elevate music videos to an art form.
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