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Chris

frigginfrenchfucker

About Me

Anglo-French mongrel / struggling filmmaker

The Weird Girls - Episode 4
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Daniel Agust- Sparks Fly video

Most of my evenings end like this:

My Interests

cinema, music, music vids, surrealism, sweeet sweet beer, archaeology, goats, pretentious knobshite (aka: art), friendly people, unfriendly people, the internet as a tool of world domination, terrible sex...

I'd like to meet:

an all singing, all dancing, wisdom dispensing, comedy performing...turnip.

Music:

everything and anything, as long as its good... including yer great rock classics from '68 to '72, a lot of 80s cheese and greatness, and pretty much anything at the moment from the Knife, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Arcade Fire, Dan Sartain, White Stripes, Hot Snakes, Queenadreena, joy division, pink floyd, Bjork, Led Zep, Fantomas, Mike Patton, Pixies, Jimi (aka: god) Hendrix, SOAD, Nirvana, Green Day, Offspring, Blur, Gorillaz, Gn'R, RATM, Mínus, Daniel Agust, Gus Gus, múm, Trabant, Steintryggur, Crass, The Pogues, the Band, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Stones, Queens of the stone age, ramones, theyr, kukl, sugarcubes, kimono, Ghostigital, Queen, the police, AC/DC, Nick Cave, Cream, Kaiser Chiefs, Public Enemy, Godspeed(ybe), Mogwai, Aphex Twin, U2, the Doors, Beastie Boys, the Cure, blues brothers soundtrack!!!, Cody Chesnutt, JMPZ, johnny Cash, Apparat Organ Quartet, Ez3kiel, Mozart, Benihana... and many more, but I have the memory of a goldfish and better things to do than listing my entire record collection!

Movies:

Anything by this guy:

Television:

nope. it drives you crazy. But this is quite good:

Books:

I am ilitret. illitrat, illitireut...illitigerate!but, on some days, I have been known to read that great god Hunter.S.T, Master and Marguerita, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Rings, Asimov, Hitchhiker's, and lots of historical books of various sorts...

Heroes:

heroes are for losers, but for the sake of argument I'd say: Dave, Holly, Kitty, Rachel, Michel Gondry (and my mother and father of course)

My Blog

Full version of Heima on youtube!

Wow! Sigur Ros have uploaded the entirety of Heima on youtube. so if you haven't seen it yet, check it out! ...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:23:00 PST

Michel Gondry uses my camera on the new Bjork video!!

Wow, take a look at the making of Declare Independence, Bjork's new video, shot by Michel....with a bunch of HVX200s!! I never thought I'd see the day where the filmmakers that inspire me would be usi...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:36:00 PST

Sigur Rós: Heima

On Monday, I was invited to the premiere of Sigur Rós' first documentary, called "Heima" (at home), at the NFT.Truly a memorable experience. The sound is always great at the NFT, so that always helps,...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:29:00 PST

Trusting instinct?

I consider myself a rational human being. I belong to no religious denomination and so I can view all religions equally with an objective agnostic eye (though an agnostic who has clear atheistic tende...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:59:00 PST

Fantastic new Gondry ad

Michel just completed a classic ad for Motorola that stylistically amalgamates many of his best videos from the 90s, particularly Bachelorette, Army of Me, Everlong and Smarienburg. Check it out here...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:01:00 PST

Gondry interviewed by his son + new trailer!

Just found this very poignant interview of Michel Gondry, conducted by his 15 year old son Paul. Methinks people should do this sort of thing more often, it works really well. Michel always amazes me,...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:15:00 PST

The most amazing video EVER!! (or at least of the month)

Ok, so we all know I like Iceland. A lot. My original interest was sparked by my fascination for the sagas when I was a kid. Then I became fascinated by the sheer number of awesome musicians coming ou...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:16:00 PST

The Knife - an audio visual experience

Many know of my admiration for the Knife. "We share our mothers health" was the best video of last year and both Deep Cuts and Silent shout are on heavy rotation on my ipod. Well they've just release ...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:19:00 PST

Delicious oddness of the left sized mindfuck

Ate up the pungent wee of the aardvark this morning. Mindblowing it was too in a peculiar itching sort of way. Told the inspector that his mother was adrift, only to be informed that colonic irrigatio...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST

Iceland video

Slightly belated video compagnon to the last blog. Unfortunately, the camera I took with me was bloody ancient and couldn't handle the vast amount of water being chucked at it by all those waterfalls,...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:44:00 PST