Favorite Music Videos: "Maybe Not" and "I Found a Reason"

I had been planning to post these some time, but in light of watching "Falling Down" last night with Michael Douglas, it is decidedly time to do it now.

These two videos are by Cat Power, who I found by way of the Juno soundtrack (OMG LMAO OKTHXBAI). She's got a really sultry voice, has apparently had problems with alcoholism, and is beautiful. I'm not sure how long she's been singing but probably for a while, maybe since the late 90s? I don't know, but these videos I found on Youtube when starting out at my job, and they always manage to calm me/put me in a deep sleep of EMOTIONS. Anywho, I like them a lot so more on each:

"Maybe Not"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skreabVrMRk

Although it's really only a bunch of clips from movies put to music, I love the ones they picked and how the music syncs up to them. From the poor quality Shawshank to Donnie Darko to The Way of the Gun to Punch Drunk Love to Sin City. It also includes a clip from the movie Falling Down, which I finally watched, about a white collared dude that I guess just lost his job ("my job lost me"), and he basically just takes out his frustrations on all of society wielding uzis and missiles and a shotgun - although he doesn't actually kill as much as he disrupts and makes a stand for the somewhat common (white) man - all while trying to make his way back to his daughter who is having a birthday and his wife who has a restraining order against him. A wild, preposterous, but great movie. Makes sense to have the sweet voice of Cat Power sing as he waves his briefcase at some Hispanic street toughs (who are the worst ever documented and executing a drive by shooting).

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"I Found a Reason"

This is the second video on the double feature of fan-made Cat Power videos (I believe this is fan-made), and it is basically stunning. Whatever filter, or just extreme sunlight that's coming into the camera has turned this water into a shimmery yellow alternate world, where silhouettes of women paddle gently across the water on their surfboards (ala half of the Kappa brand logo). I also love the song for this and it again helps to melt the cubicle environ when listening. Beautiful video.