During my average 8-5 workday, I like to take breaks from the grinding "intern work" to do some hardcore blog monitoring (via my account with Google Reader...a program whose value is beyond measure.) I subscribe to an RSS feed from Paste Magazine. If you've never heard of this magazine, check it out. They do some pretty kickin' writing. http://www.pastemagazine.comAnyways, it was just the other day that I ran across an article from Paste announcing the release of a new music video from one of my favorite bands, MGMT. Now I should have blogged about these guys a while ago (like I did with Vampire Weekend), but with finals, traveling across the country, and beginning a busy summer internship, I never got around to it. Apathy kills, but I'll worry about that tomorrow.
The name of the song is "Electric Feel". The video starts of innocently enough. A dude with long hair is walking through a forest, nothing too special. Then all of a sudden he meets up with a bunch of other long haired people and everything breaks loose into a hobbit rave. Yeah. A freakin hardcore mythical dance party in the middle of the forest. And what music video would be complete without an animatronic band of forest creatures that is straight out of Chuck. E. Cheese?
During this mythical kegger, the hobbit creatures shoot the moon with harpoons and pull it down to earth. What happens next is weird. They slice open the moon and some kind of psychedelic blood pours out. The hobbits fill a bowl with this stuff and pour it all over themselves. The video just gets weirder and weirder.
As soon as I got done watching the video, I thought "Wow. That's pretty weird." Then I realized: This is the coolest video I've ever seen!
Electric Feel video (hi-res): http://court13.com/electricfeel.mov
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