A slice of some music in my life

YouTube - Kid Cudi - Pursuit Of Happiness ft. MGMT

PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO

The song and video concept is pretty fantastic, inspiring even. It made me jealous and ashamed at the honesty of it. The music is well translated into those slowed down shots of glit and glamour.

Really cool.

Here is a another few versions of the song's video:

Click here for Megaforce Version

Click here for Live Performance on Letterman with Ratatat

I like that Ratatat composed the music and beat for this track. They really own, don't they. Katherine and I saw Ratatat play at Crystal recently. It really blew us away.

The visuals were incredible. Calculated to time, shot multiplied bird video projections. Translucent screens at the forefront of the stage reflected 3D images of a ghostly Victorian string quartet and spinning busts of Beethoven.

Seeing Ratatat in concert, really paying attention to them, is interesting. Just to see that music performed, to have it proven possible, is humbling. 

The energy was a lot larger than the time I saw them at Holocene. That show was also incredible. The venue is pretty small, so it was intimate. A crowd of just a few hundred. Andrew Nelson and I had to wait out on the sidewalk two hours the day of the show to guarantee our place.

That show had great visuals as well. Since their sound is so epic, so a fog machine was only natural. This was the LP3 tour and all of their new songs had videos that were projected behind them as they played. Here's an example, and one of my favorites they played:

Mirando Video

I've also been really into Kanye lately. Especially now since he's been through a sort of rock bottom this year. I love the rock bottoms. I think this video shows that his confidence is back:

Power Video

How crazy is this video? It's so Salvador Dali