"So do you want to waste some time alone tonight?"

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Wonderful video found via Dapper Kid. If you don't know his blog, you should check it out immediately. His writing is incredible, he is - no doubt! - one of the smartest and fashionable guys in this sea of blogs. And he might even run around rooftops wearing a cape at night. If that ain't cool, I don't know what is.

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Music post time!

I'll start this by saying I am usually not a fan of electronic disco dance-y music. I grew up on my cousin's Queen and Metallica albums, on Rammstein, Muse and Linkin Park (I had my nobody-understands-me teenage angst period) and then fell prey to pop campy music and even took a long trip down Indie town too. But through all of this, I never felt the love for the electro pop scene because I always felt that if I'd buy that 30 seconds long preview of the song on Amazon and then just stick it on shuffle for 1 hour it would more-or-less be the same thing.

People around me still told me I just didn't find the one yet. The one song that would have me on my knees declaring eternal love and shared mortgage. And from time to time I had some flings with related genres (I'm looking at you Massive Attack, you saucy creepy minx, you.) but not many managed to pull on my heart-strings and temporal lobe.

Saying that, I'm here to present one very interesting, very well-made mini-movie split in 3 parts for what I might call a very catchy and kind of addictive - gasp! - dance-y song.

And that is Russ Chime's Midnight Club EP.

Russ Chimes - Midnight Club EP (Part 1: Never Look Back)

I might have kicked and screamed when The Boy made me watch this at first, but one minute in and I was hooked. The song, it was good and didn't make me want to stick cotton balls in my ears and actually made me bop my head a couple of times. But what won me over was the video. I know, I know, it's not fair to ramble on about a song just because the video is cool. But the video is really, really cool guys!

It's a mini movie that focuses on one couple - who are just hipster-ish enough to own that cool factor but not so hipster-ish to make you wanna shoot a limited edition Spoon album just so you can make them cry - and their kidnapping which results in one amazing detective style story with just enough betrayal and mystery to keep one glued to their seat.

All with a happy ending, of course.

Russ Chimes - Midnight Club EP (Part 2: Tertre Rouge)

I think what makes this video so special and great is the way it's filmed with flashbacks, parallel story-lines and that very engaging reverse narrative in the first video. It does push the cheesy limits a little, but it all turns out quite okay in the end. I was almost clawing at my keyboard waiting for each installment and found myself rooting for the Ray Ban wearing knight in American Apparel armor.

Russ Chimes - Midnight Club EP (Part 3: Targa)

Check it out, it's a visually exciting way to entertain yourselves for 15 minutes.

That said, I need to go and blast some Pink Floyd and (newer obsession) Biffy Clyro at maximum volume for now.

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(I'm thinking about starting to try to maybe post a little bit more frequently than I usually do. Like not waiting for a lunar eclipse before actually sitting down and writing something. And I would do that through little posts like this one, branching out and trying other subjects than usual. Hmm. We'll see if this lasts.)

(Also, I'm on BlogLoving all of a sudden. Who would've thunk?)

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Song of the Day: Hurts - Silver Lining

(Seeing them live soon. On the count of free can I get a Whoop-Whoop?)