Teletubbies, huh? Well, here goes.
We start in a dark field with things that look like a cross between teletubbies and the raving rabbids. Then we see who I assume is the lead singer of STP and he moves his body around. This, for some reason, causes the word "rage" to be flashed on-screeen. Oh, come on. I'd rather see a woman but that doesn't mean he's bad looking. The tele-bids give each other a hug. This would be cute if it weren't for the fact that the white one is almost as creepy as the monkeys in the short, "One Got Fat."
Lead guy does more yoga, or tai chi or something. He sings about how his girl was sour the day he met her. I don't think that the fact that he kept asking her what she was staring at helped. She was happy, but not she's not. Meanwhile some blond guy who I assume is another band member is getting sandwiched by two more teletubbies. The grey one is almost as bad as the white one.
We get a good look at his girl. It turns out to be... Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Apparently so, although they gave her black hair and make up. I guess this is from an episode where she turned evil, or got bitten, or came from an evil, alternate universe, or went insane because her lover was shot. We see a couple red trees in the background, which has the unfortunate effect of reminding us of that stupid novel turned into a movie about dumb vampires.
Singer asks what would his gal do? Not that she has a choice, because he's following anyway. Sarah whatever Gellar walks up behind him and plays the seductive vampire. I guess this works, even though I can't take vampires seriously anymore. She disappears and leaves him with seven teletubbies running around. Isn't that just like a woman?
Singer tells us of his younger days. He really like Buffy at first site and he was real cocky about it. Meanwhile he gets huggy with the teletubbies. I guess the white one is part Care Bear because it has a heart on it's belly.
The scene goes dark again and evil Buffy does the seductive thing again. He again asks what would his gal do. Buffy starts poining at things like she's the Ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come. Hey look, it's your band members rising from your grave. I guess she's suppose to be a seductive Death instead of a vampire. See, they weren't type-casting!
Suddenly he's going up to one of the trees and he sees a curly-headed blonde lying down. I guess she's the real girl that he's been singing about. Although it seems to be Sarah too. Now he's behind her being all seductive. See? Women in dominant position? Darkness. Men in dominant position? Light. The sexes need to know their place.
Aww, dang. The song seemed to be heading to a happy ending, but they brought back the teletubby things anyway. Anyway, the sour girl was happy the day she left him. Sucks to be you, huh? In the video, he lays Buffy down as she dies or something and he's left with his costumed friends. Really sucks.
This is a decent song with a weird music video. The video could have been nice and seductive but it threw in the creepier teletubbies. Ok, so the song is about how this guy brought misery to this girl's life so it isn't suppose to end happily. Still just a weird thing to do. I guess this video is suppose to be trippy and he destroyed the relationship with drugs or something. It does come off as a bad hallucination when he's not around Buffy.
The awesome part is that Buffy doesn't look bad with curly hair.
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Just so you know, the phrase "Hey, what are you looking at? She was..." does not mean the same thing as "Hey, what are you looking at? You were..."
FUN FACT #1: I used to say my cousin looks kind of like Scott Weiland, except not on drugs. Nowadays I say my cousin kind of looks like Scott Weiland. *rimshot*
FUN FACT #2: According to Pop Up Video (if you believe Pop Up Video), one of the little people who played a demon bunny had an enormous crush on Scott Weiland. In fact, you can see her getting all up ons all through the video. In fact, they had trouble separating her from him when required. You can tell which one she is because she's surgically grafted to his leg through the whole video. It's like if they cast wurwolf in a Decemberists video.
So once again my choice in music video reveals my (non sexual) clone fetish. Weird how I like how this video has two Sarah Michelle Gellars, even though I don't much like her when there's just one of her.
The awesome thing is all that stuff I just typed about up there.
Now you get to watch BOG's deal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhvqVqLAdLI
Ooooo! I like the idea of being cast in a Decemberists video. I would be propositioning Colin Meloy in between every take.
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