Director
Mark Romanek's video for
Sonic Youth's "
Little Trouble Girl" is so beautiful. The combination of 90's colors and 70's Los Angeles topped by the feeling that you're watching the entire thing with your face pressed up to a surveillance TV screen is so perfect.
Kim Gordon and
Kim Deal (
The Pixies,
The Breeders) are such languorous beauties! Their voices and stares remind me so much of the listless teenage musings of the
Shangri-Las (
1,
2,
3).
Once, right around the time that we started playing
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, my brother and I spent an afternoon aimlessly searching a large abandoned cooperate office building for ammunition, red and green herbs, and infected zombies. Groping around the doorways of windowless offices searching for a light switch was just about
the creepiest thing ever... but sometimes, a few bars of eerie wavering fluorescent light would flicker on and my desolation would blossom into
the weirdest most indescribable feeling of awe.
As I walked around kicking white ceiling tiles and tripping on tangled telephone wires, I thought about how impractical
Jill Valentine's outfit was and wondered what the office was like when people still worked there.
