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February 29 2008

"Common Rotation - Wasted Words" - a music video directed by Amber Benson. The song has a really cool mellow 60s vibe to it. And of course there's the sheer gloriousness of watching Adam Busch's band being directed by our Amber.

Simon | Cast&Crew | 22:55 CET | 10 comments total | tags: amber benson, adam busch, wasted words. common rotation

Thanks Simon, that's one of my favourite Co-Ro songs and a lovely vid

debw | March 01, 00:07 CET

Thats one of my favourite songs from Isalie too. The video really suited it! Well done Amber and well done the lads! Good effort!

Pauljt29 | March 01, 00:23 CET

Joining in with the CoRo love. That was a lovely video for one of my favorite songs.

syd | March 01, 00:35 CET

I have checked their web site, myspace, and iTunes for a downloadable, higher res version of the video, but found one I have not. (Which could be survigational inaptitude on mypart).

Pointy | March 01, 02:34 CET

Very well done, Common Rotation and Amber! Definite 60s vibe. I should know, I was around back then.

quantumac | March 01, 03:44 CET

Not bad at all, I agree there's a sort of Simon and Garfunkel/Cat Stevens 60s/70s vibe to it and the video (with its "cue cards") is a fairly explicit nod to Bob Dylan and 'Subterranean Homesick Blues', surely ?

And what is it about snow ? The stuff is just poetic, no matter what you do with it (pure as the driven, every flake unique, virgin, expansive - it's kind of a blank canvas, no wonder Miss Smilla had a feeling for it ;).

(if I have even a tiny complaint it's that the mixing sometimes seemed a bit off-balance to me so that I couldn't always make out the words as clearly as i'd have liked)

Saje | March 01, 05:40 CET

I agree, Saje, the mixing was problematic. Perhaps it sounds better not coming out of You Tube...

I'd have to hear it in a more hi-fi version to really get a bead on the song, but it's pleasant enough.

[ edited by Raggedy Edge on 2008-03-01 05:09 ]

Raggedy Edge | March 01, 08:08 CET

That was great. I felt more of a Shins/Sufjan vibe, with a twinge of early REM. Which is good stuff indeed. And Amber continues to blow me away with her multitalentuosity.

SoddingNancyTribe | March 01, 08:18 CET

Ooh, new word :)

zeitgeist | March 01, 21:51 CET

I like the word, as well. And I'm glad she gets to show it off.

I haven't played this yet, I grant.

Maybe if I get going on my screenplay and it gets made by a major studio she can be the AD as well as playing "the small but crucial part of Sue, Kim's exasperated schoolteacher girlfriend."

ETA; Just watched it, library computer, no sound...I think I missed the point as a result. Still e njoyed it.

[ edited by DaddyCatALSO on 2008-03-01 22:28 ]

DaddyCatALSO | March 01, 22:16 CET

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