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Another year, another competition.

This is my entry for Adam & Joe’s Video Wars competition. They do the Saturday morning radio show on BBC 6 Music and one of the more popular features on the show (out of a grand total of two) is Song Wars, where Adam and Joe create a song each based on a theme suggested by a listener. Other listeners then vote for the best song, and then Joe wins.

In a spirit of openness and inclusiveness, the boys launched the Video Wars competition to allow listeners to battle it out amongst themselves by creating a music video for one of two Song Wars songs. I chose Adam’s song, Jane’s Brain because it was shorter and it was the first one I came up with an idea for. The idea, like pretty much everyone else who entered with that song, was to interpret the lyrics literally.

This is my entry: Jane’s Brain

It’s only thirty seconds long, so it doesn’t outstay its welcome.

Adam has a ton of stuff on youtube as well. You can watch that as well, if you like.

I think the site is mostly done now. There’s a few things to fix and I need to add youtube links to the film pages but I think everything else is in place. If you spot any problems, you can now leave one of those snazzy internet comment things right here and I’ll try to fix it.

I’ve moved everything onto a WordPress blog, which necessitates a change in the folder structure. If you ended up here after following a link from another site, use the search box up top there to find whatever it is you came for. I’ll be updating the ones I remember doing myself over the next few days but I know a few other people have linked here. Those ones are going to stay broken.

Finally, I found out today that Kristin Hersh, who is responsible for the music in Pneuma, is having some problems out on the road. Car trouble and the general economics of small-scale touring mean that she and the band are losing money big time at the moment, but they’re carrying on and honouring their remaining tour dates anyway. It’s a sad state of affairs for an artist that I’ve been a fan of for about twenty years, and I’m writing this in the hope that a few kind souls out there will help out.

See, you can download a whole free EP and a handful of album tracks from her website. That’s pretty good value right there. On that page, up near the top, is a little red circle that says “tip jar”. If you liked Pneuma and you have a paypal account and a bit of cash to spare, I’d appreciate it if you dropped a dollar or two their way. They seem like nice people and I’d be sad to see them forced to give up touring over something like this.

As long as I’m updating things, why not put a new film up, eh?

This is a video for a short snippet of a 50 Foot Wave song, intended as an entry in a youtube video contest, but submitted about two months too late.

Watch Pneuma on Youtube!

Read all about it.

Good news, everybody! There’s a new film to download. This latest effort is quite possibly the most pointless one yet - two minutes of dialogue from the intro to an ’80s music video. It doesn’t get much more obscure than that.

The film page is here. Let’s rock.

I seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. After finishing A Wasted Journey, I’ve gone on to complete my entry for the Brickfilms Words of Wisdom competition (held back from public release until Sept 15) and this little chap: Cheese.

Oh, and while I’m doing an update, the Alpha Team film I was talking about somewhere down the page is cancelled due to me realising that it was a really stupid idea. The thing with the guy in the construction hat is still in the pipeline, but a really long way back.