Today's video is Canadian. And it has a pretty woman. And that's all I need to know. It's called Apparition and it was made by the Matthew Good Band. It's 6 minutes of whatever they have in Canada. Mounties playing hockey, I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t7X1ZoYq3k
So, it's office stuff, huh? And I have to watch this on a weekend!
There's some janitor guy who goes around and does stuff. An elevator plays a prominent part in the whole thing. Some brunette shows up and a sex movie seems to break out towards the end. The old guy dies and the brunette seems to be really upset about something.
We start with a security camera looking at a vacant room. Then we look at a few more rooms while a phone rings. THRILLING START to your video, guys. The music starts as we see various bit players. There's janitor guy. There's security guy. There's blonde office worker. There's old guy in security room. We see an email that says that the head of security was fired.
The song is confusing but the singer seems to be addressing a person with a rat in their brain. The person is in a bad situation where they're stuck. I guess they're like a ghost, or something. I had to look up apparitions. It certainly not an upbeat song.
Janitor guy fools around in the elevator while security guy watches. They have a fake draw which janitor wins. Meanwhile the brunette enters through a revolving door. The blonde plays freecell. Man, this video is taking its sweet time.
Now we're at some party in the building. But who cares? What matters is that the brunette walks into the room of old man, who maybe is the big boss of the place. The brunette isn't wearing that many clothes. Cut to someone opening champagne. Get it? There's a bunch of stuff happening in a bathroom that I don't think means anything. Brunette climbs onto old guy and they kiss a bit. Old guy drinks, followed by a zoom on the cup. Something is up with the cup. Or not, because there's a sudden shot of a gun.
Janitor has fun in the hallway pushing his stuff around. Brunette rushes out of some room and knocks over the janitor. Blonde overhears this and looks. Brunette rushes into the elevator. She's upset, or humilated, or something. Security guard looks into a monitor and sees that old guy is dead, although I have no clue how. Brunette sinks to the floor before we fade to the champagne bottle with foam shooting out of it. Hmmmm... It's applied that she's soon to be arrested. The video ends with janitor pretending to shoot himself.
The song is one of the many songs that I find ok but I'm sure I would enjoy it more if I wasn't so clueless with lyrics. The video also confuses me. It'd probably make more sense if I could understand the song.
1 comment:
As far as lyrics go, "the rat in your brain" is most likely metaphorical.
You failed in almost every way to get the story they told in this video. I shouldn't have to do this, but here's a rundown:
First of all, a number of the people in this video are in the band. The Janitor is played by Matt Good himself. The Asiany guy you got a picture of at the top is their guitarist or something. I don't know.
A lot of this video is office people doing what office people do when they're in the office at night.
The big boss ("Chief of Securities" is different from "Head Security Guard." It has to do with money) got fired and is drinking heavily.
Janitor and the security guard (not to be confused with the Chief of Securities) mess around. They're buds.
Big Boss is on the phone. He seems to be calling somebody. Who could it be? Oh. It's a girl. I wonder what kind of girl would get a call from an executive and then come over? They should have a name for those kinds of girls. Maybe "Girls you Call" would be a good name.
Office people do more office things.
Matt Good almost runs over That Girl You Call with his cart.
The girl the Boss called shows up in his office. The camera pans up from pictures of his family to show that the Girl is not wearing all that many clothes. She and the boss do what he called her over there to do.
Somebody snorts coke in the bathroom and gets a nosebleed.
The Boss opens a drawer. There is a gun in it. A shot rings out. Who got shot?
The girl runs out of the office, panicked. She runs over the janitor's cart in her frenzy to get out of there. He looks into the office to see what happened and finds the dead boss.
The security camera in the elevator shows that the woman is in there in hysterics. Tork, you expressed confusion about why she might be upset. I suppose that because of your cold metalic robot heart you don't understand human emotions, so let me explain that most people do not react well to people getting shot in front of them, even those girls you call.
When I first saw this video I thought that she shot the guy because, I don't know, she was sick of being used as a sex object or whatever. Now that I'm older and less dumb it seems pretty clear to me that the guy shot himself. It would be pretty surprising to be having sex with a guy and you're not even off him before he pulls out a gun and shoots himself. Hence the crying in the elevator. The suicide idea is supported by the shot of Matt Good in the elevator miming blowing his own brains out.
It's also supported by your next video, which is by the same band and is supposed to take place later that night. Sadly I'll have to email it to you, since Google is not aiding me in my search for it online. You have a YouTube account, right? I guess you could upload it if you really wanted to...
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