Posts Tagged ‘Alicia Silverstone’

Alanis Morrissette And Alicia Silverstone Miss The Days When Music Videos Were Only Four Minutes Long

Fri Jul 17 2009 by Maura

Two icons of the ’90s, Alicia Silverstone and Alanis Morrissette, have teamed up for a cause that affects all of us (especially knowledge-worker types who have extra time on their hands to read blogs): Movies with no discernible purpose other than throwing a bunch of highly bloggable artists on the soundtrack and using those songs to score long stretches of dialogue-free “pondering” about “life.” (Oh, and their cutesy credit sequences give work to animators, I guess.) They teamed up to make a trailer for a movie called MY Mother’s Red Hat (you can already figure out the “plot,” right?), complete with soundtrack almost as long as its script—and Vampire Weekend’s “A-Punk” soundtracking the commercial’s requisite “music crazily stopping to portray a crazy scene in the movie” bit. Clip after the jump. More »


Steven Tyler May Be Cryin’ After He Reads This Analysis

Mon Apr 13 2009 by Mike Barthel

I know I said Friday that we shouldn’t be… More »