A new interactive video brings to life Jeff Buckley‘s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman.” The song appears on Buckley’s recent compilation You and I, an album of songs that the late singer recorded in 1993.
The interactive video allows you to choose different story lines that result in different music too, reportedly featuring 73 story cells with more than 16,000 possible combinations.
The interactive video was created by the design studios of Interlude and Blind. While you watch, click on various blocks to follow the “story,” and you periodically get chances to add instrumentation to the track too. Note that you may repeatedly click on the same blocks to see the different possibilities too.
[UPDATE: Unfortunately, the video is no longer available]
The new album from Jeff Buckley, who died in 1997, features eight cover songs and two originals. You And I was released March 11, 2016.
What was your favorite part of the video’s story? Leave your two cents in the comments.
Tribeca Film released the new trailer for Greetings from Tim Buckley (2013), the upcoming film about Jeff Buckley, the singer-songwriter who died in 1997 at the young age of 30 in an accidental drowning. The movie, which is directed by Dan Algrant and stars Penn Badgley of Gossip Girl fame as the singer, focuses on Jeff Buckley’s career breakthrough when he performed at a tribute show for his father, musician Tim Buckley. Check out the trailer below.
Greetings from Tim Buckley will be in theaters on May 3. But if that is not enough Buckley for you, two other movies about Jeff Buckley will be coming out soon too: A Pure Drop (directed by Brendan Fletcher) and the “official” bio-pic Mystery White Boy (executive-produced by Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert). The three movies are a time for Jeff Buckley fans to sing “Hallelujah.”
Do you plan to watch all three Jeff Buckley movies? Leave your two cents in the comments.
Yesterday on Fox News, Hank Williams Jr. got in some trouble for apparently comparing Pres. Barack Obama to Hitler, resulting in ESPN pulling his opening montage for Monday Night Football (“Are You Ready for Some Football!?”). To be fair, he actually said that Pres. Obama and House Speaker John Boehner getting together would be “like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu.” So even though he showed great disdain for the president in the rest of the conversation, his controversial comment was more about the divide between the Democrats and Republicans. Still, he should have known that comparisons to Hitler are likely to cause problems. I cannot wait to see the “Downfall” video someone makes from this event.
Williams’s comment that provoked the most humor, though, is when he called the president and the vice-president “The Three Stooges.” So, to help Mr. Williams out with his math, today we present “3 is a Magic Number” from Schoolhouse Rock:
Schoolhouse Rock was a series of short animated musical segments that gave me a short burst of education on Saturday mornings when I was a kid. The series originally ran from 1973-1985, but the series was revived in the 1990s. The ABC series covered a range of categories, including Grammar Rock, Multiplication Rock, History Rock, and Science Rock. Several specific videos are forever etched in my memory, including “Conjunction Junction” and “How a Bill Becomes a Law.” But perhaps the one song that has had a significant life of its own among rock artists is “3 is a Magic Number.”
Several of the songs have been recorded by rock artists, including on this compilation CD. But “3 is a Magic Number” seems to be the one that works best outside the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons, perhaps because it is a great song and it works as an independent song about family and love. On the other hand, “Conjunction Junction” cannot be about anything besides conjunctions. “3 is a Magic Number” has been performed by Jeff Buckley, Blind Melon, the Jonas Brothers, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Jack Johnson, and De La Soul.
Now if we could just add Hank Williams Jr. to the list. “Are you ready for some math?”
What is your favorite Schoolhouse Rock song? Who would you like to hear sing it?
[Oct. 6, 2011 Update: Today ESPN announced that Hank Williams Jr. will no longer appear on Monday Night Football. Williams claims that he was the one who decided to part ways.]
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