An overview of various clips ("categorized" by genre) from last year I liked because of the clip and the accompanying music:

Indie pop
http://www.videosift.com/video/Eccentric-night-out-Risn-Murphy-Movie-Star-2008

Indie rock
*http://www.videosift.com/video/MGMT-Electric-Feel-2008DancingDrinking-from-the-Moon
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fleet-Foxes-White-Winter-Hymnal
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Notwist-Where-In-This-World-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Picture-Of-Our-Torn-Up-Praise-2008-by-Phosphorescent

Electro
http://www.videosift.com/video/Le-le-Breakfast-video-by-Parra
http://www.videosift.com/video/Le-Le-Ich-Clacque-dich
http://www.videosift.com/video/Slagsm-lsklubben-Sponsored-By-Destiny
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dim-Chris-No-Sucker-Official-Tecktonik-anthem
http://www.videosift.com/video/Necro-Stallar-Only-Moon-2008

Disco
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hercules-Love-Affair-Time-Will-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Geneva-Jacuzzi-Love-Caboose-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Rubies-I-Feel-Electric-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Moby-Disco-Lies
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cutting-edge-monster-party-Denki-Groove-Mononoke-Dance

Hiphop/rnb
*http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Tongue-feat-Dudley-Perkins-Animal-Crackers
http://www.videosift.com/video/Rapping-former-warchild-Emmanuel-Jal-Warchild-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/T-Pain-Ft-Ludacris-Chopped-N-Skrewed-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Kanye-West-Love-Lockdown

Drum'n bass
*http://www.videosift.com/video/Pendulum-Propane-Nightmares-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Squarepusher-Planet-Gear-2008

Various electronica/rock
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bomb-the-Bass-Fuzzbox-2008
*http://www.videosift.com/video/Moby-feat-Aynzil-and-the-419-Squad-Alice-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pivot-In-The-Blood-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Portishead-Machine-Gun

Once again, this exploitation of disaster for corporate gain--free money for the CEOs--gives Bush the excuse he needs to use the bailout of the automakers as collateral to get the Dems. to ratify a free trade deal with Colombia... brokered by none other than our very own Rahm Emmanuel.

Just when you thought democracy couldn't get decimated any further.. or that the cynicism couldn't rise any higher... yet so typical of the way Washington seems to work, the place where all the wealthy line up at the trough to feed on the taxpayers' expense.

AlJazeera featured this message to the UN from Emmanuel Jal on Sudan

>> ^campcaptain:
It's always looks so effortless for Tommy E. Like he could be playing the song and washing dishes at the same time.

Ain't that the sick part. His hands are hardly moving and there's all this music coming from everywhere.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Tommy-Emmanuel-Plays-Golliwoggs-Cakewalk-on-Acoustic

Vote this up, purrrty please!

You are welcome. Glad to do it!

In reply to this comment by Fjnbk:
Thank you very much.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
*promote great music!

Thank you very much.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
*promote great music!

From BoingBoing: Mauvais Rôle ("Bad Role"), a short animated film about a computer game character who gets fed up with playing the same lame villain roles all the time -- and takes matters into his own (clawed) hands.

His quest leads him to new and increasingly more ridiculous casting calls, each one weirder than the last. And they lead him somewhere he never thought he'd end up...

Mauvais Rôle was produced by a team of students at ESRA Sup' Infograph, in France. Authors: Alan Barbier, Camille Campion, Dorian Février, Frédéric Fourier, Frédéric Lafay, Min Ma, Jean Francois Macé, Emmanuel Repérant, Jérémie Rosseau and Olivier Sicot.
http://www.mauvais-role.com/

Tommy Emmanuel's a great master who's not just technically brilliant but is great at entertaining the audience. And being him, this was probbabbly improvised as he went along...a lot of people can play difficult riffs and strokes but few can arrange and entertain like Tommy has done throughout his career both in a band and not.

I realize the movies were classics, but I never really liked this one or its prequel. I guess I just dislike French cinema in general. (Well, not all French cinema. Tati is still cool.)

. . . Okay fine. Upvote cause Emmanuelle Beart is a cutie. But that's all! Not cause I liked the movie or anything.

Oh no, that's me, Emmanuel just talks in the third person.

And yea, I knew the ref stopped the round. You can't even tell Keith broke his hand.

Ah karaidl, you mean that's not you in the pic? My disappointment is palpable.

The little guy is like a slippery, nimble eel compared to Emmanuel.

I have this guy as my profile pic in several different sites, and after a while, I got to wondering just who he is. I looked him up, and turns out his name is Emmanuel Yarborough and evidently he SUCKS. In the video above, he is 6'8" tall, weighing in at just over 600 pounds, and he fights a guy who is 5'11" tall, weighing in at 200 pounds. He's nine inches taller and three times the weight, and he gets his ass kicked. The match was stopped after the first round because the smaller guy broke his hand from beating Yarborough so badly. Pwn that n00b.

I heard that after this match, he got the nickname, "The Giant Killer."

Hmmm... had no idea, but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373821/

I guess it doesn't really qualify as a "real" movie, mainstream-wise. Still pretty bad, though. Never heard of Emmanuelle movies, but there appears to be a whole lot of them.

Title is same as original on YouTube. I'm sure there are worse scenes out there. Here's the original description accompanying the video on YouTube:


This is real acting. Not to mention courageous writing. This writer doesn't bog his actors down with false eloquence, he knows that when people love each other the way these two obviously do, our vocabulary breaks down, and we're often reduced to yelling "get out, get out" repeatedly. And none of us likes to be touched when we're in such a state. "Don't touch me, don't touch me" grows in power with each successive utterance, until it reaches maximum density, becoming a black hole of primal emotions.

Note the symbolism. The boyfriend is wearing a red shirt, taunting his woman, who has been reduced to a raging bull, using her horns (the left horn is "get out" and the other horn is "don't touch me") to impale him into a figurative sort of death, his leaving the apartment representing his departure from her world into the afterlife. This is sensational writing.

And right before this scene, we see Emmanuelle standing before the world's 4th largest Jesus statue, not really praying so much as just rambling to herself in her perfect English voice. Did the spirit of Jesus help her? Was she infused with his Jewish wisdom? Think about it, what were Jesus' last word? Considering that he was crucified, it's not unreasonable to imagine that his last words might have been "don't touch me, don't touch me," the exact words Emmanuelle says. With a lesser talent, you just dismiss such connections, but with a director such as this, anything is possible.

Studies have shown that the colors yellow and red make people eat more. That's why every fast food company uses these colors in their logos, signs, and interiors. This director manipulates us in the same way, adorning his two leads with these colors, making us hungry for more of these kind of scenes that make similar scenes in movies such as A Streetcar Named Desire look like an infomercial by comparison.

My only minor gripe is that I felt this scene could have been longer.