This week Micah W. coupled the jangly Stevie Nicks-esque pop gem Mr. Shaking And Pills To Judge with clips from the animated short “Satiemania” by obscure Croatian animator Zdenko Gašparović. We think you’ll agree that the results are pretty magical. And you can follow the magical thread to Cakeshop tomorrow night, where Dream Band will be making their first ever appearance in America (info below).
This week Alex R. paired up the song “Wasn’t It Time?” by Bermuda Triangle with trembling newsreel footage of the Weather Underground he found in a Queens Salvation Army basement. We sent the video to Bermuda Triangle, who enjoyed it so much that we’ve been given permission to offer Take the Handle readers a free download of their debut album One Year In How Many.
Have you ever found realized that you’ve planned a date that happens to fall on an obscure holiday or otherwise significant day which you did not intend? Today’s INSTRUMINGLE falls into such a trap. Alex, Chris and Lori have set up an Instrumingle for the song “Too Many Birds” by Bill Callahan with the video “Flowers and Trees” (Disney’s Silly Symphonies, 1932). It turns out that TODAY is the one year anniversary of the release of this song on Callahan’s transcendent album Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle. It’s a bit awkward to have your first date on your birthday but from the looks of things, the two are getting along like the Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd.
Welcome to Instrumingle, the new TTH column where YOU play the matchup-maker. Your goal: to set up lonely songs with their perfect video dates for some hot Instrumingling!
This week Stefan Marolachakis takes a look back at one of his/our favorite bands, The Replacements. Watch the drama unfold, as a tight-knit cast of characters weaves their way in and out of the trials of high school. You won’t believe the twist ending on this one! If you’re single, it’s time…to instrumingle.
Feel like playing matchup-maker? Send your cut and screwed matchup videos to instrumingle@takethehandle.com. Don’t have time to twist the knobs yourself? Send along links to videos and songs that you think would Instrumingle well and we’ll do the cutting and screwing for you!
Welcome to Instrumingle, the TTH column where YOU play the matchup-maker. Your goal: to set up lonely songs with their perfect video dates for some hot Instrumingling!
When the Take the Handle book club convened last week, it was obvious that none of the staff had actually read the week’s novel, S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. In an effort to outdo each other they raced to the video store to rent the movie. The DVD was checked out but the VHS version, made in 1994, was highly edutaining.
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Welcome to Instrumingle, the new TTH column where YOU play the matchup-maker. Your goal: to set up lonely songs with their perfect video dates for some hot Instrumingling!
This week TTH Contributor Basho Chaki Suzuki brings us the first in his “Meditations” series. He has synched the following video to the song “Auntie’s Lock/Infinitum” by Flying Lotus. He offers the following explanation:
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Welcome to Instrumingle, the new TTH column where YOU play the matchup-maker. Your goal: to set up lonely songs with their perfect video dates for some hot Instrumingling!
This week TTH Contributor Robert Saenz De Viteri sets an old fashioned rendez vous: Sam Cooke’s “Jesus Gave Me Water” with Thomas Edison’s Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge from East River 1903.
Although Thomas Edison died just ten months after Sam Cooke was born, Cooke was inspired by the inventor’s accomplishments and supposedly wrote several letters to Edison’s address. Here is an excerpt from one such letter which helps explain this week’s Instrumingle:
I’ve been reading Moby Dick. The whole thing starts with Ishmael walking around the battery along the East River, staring at ships, talking about God, men, and the sea. In particular, he muses about man’s constant desire to be close to a body of water. I’m always entertained by that in myself. When people come to visit from out of town, I want to take them somewhere along the East River to show them the water. They are usually more interested in the skyline. Eventually, I become more interested in the skyline too. But it’s the water that draws me.
Welcome to Instrumingle, the new TTH column where YOU play the matchup-maker. Your goal: to set up lonely songs with their perfect video dates for some hot Instrumingling!
This week BC Smith celebrates the great UGK (and the late Pimp C) by chopping and screwing scenes from Jim Henson’s puppetry masterpiece The Dark Crystal to Instrumingle with UGK’s unheralded southern classic “Front, Back & Side To Side (Chopped & Screwed).” Bump this in your trunk, or on your office computer if your boss can’t sizzee. (Full screen recommended.)
Welcome to Instrumingle, the new TTH column where YOU play the matchup-maker. Your goal: to set up lonely songs with their perfect video dates for some hot Instrumingling!
This week Alex Reeves set up an Instrumingle for a beautiful melody who doesn’t get out of the house much, the song “homebody,” by the Joggers’ wonderful side-project, The Cajun Gems. He found an ideal video mate, a fuzzy homemade super-8 film with a great sense of humor known as “Death Race 86.” Looks like they’re getting along well, what do you think?
Feel like playing matchup-maker? Send your cut and screwed matchup videos to instrumingle@takethehandle.com. Don’t have time to twist the knobs yourself? Send along links to videos and songs that you think would Instrumingle well and we’ll do the cutting and screwing for you!
