What the hell am I going to do between now and 4:30?

Work on my Genius Profile of PNB, I guess, and watch these lovely videos by this year’s film genius Zia Mohajerjasbi to remind me of what’s good about Seattle and what will remain, no matter who becomes our next mayor.

The opening bars of this one are a perfect balm for hurting/anxious souls, the camera moving from Beacon Hill to the glass towers of the city’s financial center (as Mudede has written for his profile of Zia in next week’s issue):

And give a hand to Mix-a-Lot for his cameo (and his orange Lamborghini). Zia’s colors and light are dreamy and crepuscular. Even when I don’t like the rappers (and I don’t like all these rappers), the images are their own reward.

4:30 today. Then Nov 13.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

6 replies on “A Drop Is Coming! A Drop Is Coming!”

  5. the Blue Scholars video has the perfect tone and small moments that create threads of narrative,
    Rap can be a totally superior medium because of the threads of narrative, imposing themselves together and hiding themselves sometimes to fortify a single narrative.
    I think that the video demonstrates this visually.

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