i dream in super eight

So the Oxford American dusted off this footage of Big Star shot by Chris Bell and bassist Andy Hummel — and someone put it up on youtube! The thing speaks for itself but I’ll just say I like being in that ultra-brown living room. Yeah 1970s color desaturation!

And okay, this other video is weird and distracting (killer sheep? yoga chicken?) but it was the only rendition I could find of the gorgeous Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly take on “You and Your Sister.” Sometime around 1999 and the advent of Napster, this song was played over and over in the office I worked in. I guess it was the kind of office where you could just as easily pretend to be in your bedroom with a set of headphones and a broken heart? I thought it was the saddest/sweetest love song. Until I heard Chris Bell’s original, which is somehow sweeter and even more sad.