Old Nick

Every once in a while I remember just how much there is on YouTube.

Here, for example is the greatest Rock and Roll scene in the history of film: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds doing "From Her to Eternity" in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire.



Cave has done a fine job to keep his career going all these years, but the sad thing is that he keeps leaning on the same look, has never had the courage to reinvent his persona/hairstyle. He has, in some sense, become like Johnny Haliday, a eurorock impostor.

Nonetheless, he does some good work. Here's a video of Cave in a duet with PJ Harvey. Really an amazingly subversive video, insofar as they demonstrate sexual desire by.... actually touching each other, as compared to hiphop rumpshaking or the Nashville Levi's airbrushing with Breck school of wholesome sexuality. Never mind that he's not even cute.