My favorite Saint Etienne song (and its source)

I just discovered that it came from "Silver Dagger" (a folk song, sung on the Dylan album by Joan Baez), but this makes me like it even more--especially when you listen to how the lyrics play ("trope," to be more pretentious but also more exact) on the original.

Boris Vian...

and his amazing guitar:



and more:

"A philosophic catastrophe..."

"...the regression of philosophy... an assasination of philosophy." Deleuze on Wittgenstein:


I don't know if I 100% agree with him (maybe only 95%--ok, 96%), but it's nice that somebody said it.

La complainte de la butte

Cora Vaucaire in Renoir's "French Can-Can," 1954:



Mouloudji, 1955 Scopitone:



Patrick Bruel and Francis Cabrel (the homemade anime video adds a certain je ne sais quoi):

French Can-Can

I was just going to post the last sequence of Renoir's film, but then I found this--apparently filmed in the U.K. ca. 1943:

Wall-painted animation by BLU

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Thanks to Peter Schwartz who pointed this out to me!