We All Know We Died

Celebration “China” – Video treatment: Everything in the clip is shot from the perspective of some unknown person. We begin by shuffling up a cramped escalator from underground and stepping out into the light. It’s a cold, grey day in an urban environment. (I’m picturing the Upper West Side around Lincoln Center.) The camera shifts rapidly, as though the character’s eyes are darting around nervously. We dodge pedestrians and oncoming traffic, and duck into corners and shops as though we’re trying to lose someone. It begins to rain. We move faster, knocking into someone and rudely rushing onward. As if to settle a karmic balance, we trip over and fall. It’s raining harder now. We try to cross the street, nervously waiting for the cars to stop. Finally, we make it across the street, and back down into another escalator, fading to black as we go down. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)

Vivi Bach & Dietmar Schonherr “Molotow Cocktail Party” – Bach and Schonherr were the hosts of a controversial German television program in the late 60s famous for nearly drowning an entire family is a staged car accident but nevertheless managed to score a chart hit with this bizarre, cheerfully arranged single endorsing radical leftist politics and terrorist tactics. It’s a pretty fascinating relic from the era, to say the least. (Click here to buy it from Marina.)