It's hard to think of a better accompaniment to Kazuki Tomokawa than that boxer barking in the background.

I ran into The Take-Away Shows today on Vimeo while posting my christmas present home videos. Vimeo posted their 25 favorite videos of the year. One of them was a Sigur Ros video from the Take-Away Shows which lead me to the excellent Take-Away Shows Vimeo channel. I then moved onto the huge archive of The Take-Away Shows at La Blogothèque.

I've only just begun to delve into them, but that archive and the vimeo channel are full of fine things.

Update, favorites so far:

• Beirut doing Nantes amongst the garbage cans.
• Department of Eagles in NYC.
• Elvis Perkins in Paris.
• John Vanderslice doing White Dove (third video) on a serene soccer field in Seattle, a strange place to hear that song.