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The similarities between Kanye's new music video and Bjork's old music video are amazing. Also amazing is the way that Hype Williams is marshaling nature (here, Hawaii; Gondry did Iceland) behind a song about an ego. Though there is a nice Wordsworthian intimation of mortality about it, courtesy of Young Jeezy: "standing at my podium / trying to watch my sodium / die high blood pressure / even let the feds get ya."

Could this be the first step towards a Kan-jork collaboration? I bet she could do auto tune without a computer.

Bjork - Joga

By Michel Gondry

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By Hype Williams

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If I rest for a moment near The Equestrian
pausing for a liver sausage sandwich in the Mayflower Shoppe,
that angel seems to be leading the horse into Bergdorf's
and I am naked as a table cloth, my nerves humming.
Close to the fear of war and the stars which have disappeared.
I have in my hands only 35c, it's so meaningless to eat!
and gusts of water spray over the basins of leaves
like the hammers of a glass pianoforte. If I seem to you
to have lavender lips under the leaves of the world,
I must tighten my belt.
It's like a locomotive on the march, the season
of distress and clarity
and my door is open to the evenings of midwinter's
lightly falling snow over the newspapers.
Clasp me in your handkerchief like a tear, trumpet
of early afternoon! in the foggy autumn.
As they're putting up the Christmas trees on Park Avenue
I shall see my daydreams walking by with dogs in blankets,
put to some use before all those coloured lights come on!
But no more fountains and no more rain,
and the stores stay open terribly late.

Frank O'Hara

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