A dedication to Christopher Reeve as my generation's Superman, with Margot Kidder as his incredible Lois Lane. When it comes to Superman, you really can't do better than Christopher Reeve, or Henry Cavill. I feel lucky to have witnessed the two greats during my lifetime. Find BetaBlock3r's official music and videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@BetaBlock3r This video features 'City Ambiance (Kansas City)' by knufds -- https://freesound.org/s/345950/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Paris is Burning by Jennie Livingston is one of the most transportive, immersive, honest, and beautiful documentaries ever made, and it is known as such. Recording the late '80s and early '90s New York Ballroom scene, and the Legendary Children who made it the cultural touchstone that remains today, with an emphasis on what it means to create a chosen family, in a city where one's chosen family can be a source of joy and stability, but also a matter of survival. My goal in with this music video edit was to do the Ballroom proud, and make something they'd like today, if they saw it. It is up to you if that goal was achieved, but my endeavor was sincere.

"Your mother was a woman with no common sense, of course your father was a man without a conscience." Sometimes a movie comes out looking like fluff, and then you revisit it later and realize you just didn't have the taste for it yet. It's a classic with something to say. Or it's a beautiful scrapbook of a time you took for granted. Or it's just fun. In the case of Daisy von Scherler Mayer's 'Party Girl,' from 1995, its all of the above. By the end of this video, you should fully comprehend the The Dewey Decimal System. If not, please re-watch. By the way, don't you think Parker Posey is doing the proto-Carly-Rae-Jepsen pose in that cover art? The outfits in Party Girl as pretty CRJ, as well. Carly posts her music here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-4NAdFIP6h9BmtGUFL94Pg Check the official trailer for Party Girl here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y-TvmzQ8qA For your entertainment, here are the misspellings I came up with for the metadata on this upload: parker posing , carly rae jetson, curly ray jepsin, jespin, parker possy, karl e. ray jetspin.

Using scenes from Pillow Talk, Send Me No Flowers, and Lover Come Back, as well as some photos of Doris Day and Rock Hudson from their personal lives, this video mashup with Valley's track, 'Champagne' is dedicated to friendship, as well as the band and actors, of course.

💽 Parade of Lights: https://www.paradeoflightsmusic.com 📼 Pretty Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L84RQH1xZvE The world of Garry Marshall's 'Pretty Woman' is centered around a heavily idealized version of LA that I believed was absolutely real back in 1990. That’s also what makes it a perfect relief from the tribulations of these truly awful ‘20s. I have to be careful not to slip into a mindset of "things were just so much better back then." Within the confines of my video escapism practice, I allow it. I've heard a few different times that Pretty Woman was originally written under a different title, to be a grittier and more honest depiction. I'm glad it changed in this case, to become the fairy tale that it is. Parade of Lights' song "In My Head" is from 2018, amazingly. Listening today you could swear it's about... well, everything that's happened since then. Sonically it's an awesome match for Pretty Woman, and to me the pairing makes it about my mental state when I'm editing these videos late at night after work, enjoying the escapism of the manicured past.

As I wade deep into my maximalist phase, it seems only right that I share the mashup I made from the Broods track ‘Sucker’ off their great 2019 record “Don’t Feed the Pop Monster” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 production of ‘Romeo + Juliet’ starring Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio. I actually created this video a few months ago and felt unsure about it at the time, because it’s so dense, but I’m embracing density at the moment, and I really wanted to do another Luhrmann mashup, since Strictly Ballroom was one of my very first, and I still love it so well. I wish I could re-do that whole thing, to be honest, I’ve learned so much on this mashup video journey. This ongoing project basically serves as a scrapbook of the media that shapes me. I think I’ll be glad I did it when I’m older.

I decided to think more about cultural infatuation, rather than personal infatuation, in the context of the way we continue to fixate on Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe. By pairing them in this video, I don't mean to imply that they had any type of relationship, as it is known they did not. I am using footage of both Elvis, and Marilyn together to emphasize the aspect of our culture that elevates celebrity to this type of status. So this edit can be more of a meditation on that, rather than a devotional video about a star. Get Infatuation by SG Lewis and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/Music License ID: QqoawZj98Wx https://t.lickd.co/wgPWk67rKPD

The Lost Boys is a movie that has steadily grown on me since release in 1987, thanks in equal parts to the beautiful cinematography and the hefty dose of nostalgia from my most important years, growing up. The way glamour and adventure were defined in the late '80s and early '90s, to me are the pinnacle of such things. I knew I wanted to make my fan video based around VHS Collection's track, The Dark, but originally I was thinking of Vampire Hunter D. When I switched to The Lost Boys, I realized I wanted to keep parts of Vampire Hunter D, and add a bunch of other media that I love from that period of my life, so it became a kind of mega-mashup from like 1982-1992, with the thread of The Lost Boys holding it together. Please don't interpret that as me feeling there wasn't enough good stuff to work with from just the one movie, but rather, this way it reflects an entire time that I care a lot about. I don't want to name every brief reference in the video because I think you'll have more fun trying to place them, yourself, but if anyone chooses to guess in the comments, I'll confirm or deny. Official VHS Collection YouTube Channel: @VHSCollection Official VHS Collection Video for 'The Dark': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt0-z0BDr2c Lost Boys Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU3zI-563z4 *Contains flashing light. Not sponsored. Hopefully there's a clear message of hope, or some sweet memories in this for you, too.

From Kim Gordon's 2024 record 'The Collective' and using footage from Charles Boultenhouse's 1963 project, 'Dionysus.' This is another case, where I was watching an old art film after work and a recent track just leapt to mind.