MAN ABOUT TOWN

The best ever (literal) reworking of a film clip : in this case, the 80s extravaganza which was Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart ...

No special reason, just a couple of the songs I loved at the time, and which I still get a kick out of today. Part one in a (possible) series. BRONKSI BEAT - Smalltown Boy I can still remember the first time I saw this clip on Countdown ; I was a gay teenager growing up in a small country town where I was bullied on an almost weekly basis, and you wouldn't believe just how much this clip resonated for me at the time... THE BUREAU - Only For Sheep Not quite sure why this one has always stuck with me, the jaunty ska rhythm aside. Maybe because it was one of the first examples of a song excoriating the emptiness of the 9-to-5 working routine? MEN WITHOUT HATS - Safety Dance So I had strange taste at 15. So sue me. ADAM AND THE ANTS - Stand and Deliver "It's kind of hard to tell a scruff the big mistake he's making." Wiser words were never spoken, Adam old son.

In case you haven't already seen it, here's the new film clip for my favourite band in the world, Sigur Ros, for the song 'Gobbledigook', from their forthcoming album, með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust .

Last Wednesday witnessed the official opening of the latest exhibition in the subterranean screen gallery at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965 – 2005 . Drawn from the Musée national d'art moderne Collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris , the exhibition traces the evolution of the video image in contemporary art, and presents the aesthetic realisations of artists who have utilised video as a creative medium. From early, small-scale works to more recent and ambitious pieces, it’s a remarkably intimate exhibition, featuring numerous small monitors, equipped with multiple sets of headphones, that facilitate an individual appreciation of the various works rather than being dominated by larger, more cinematic displays. That said, more elaborate full and split screen works are also on display, including UK artist and film-maker Isaac Julien ’s Baltimore (a homage to 1970s blacksploitation films such as Shaft and Cleopatra Jones , b...