The Ooober Car Sharing Pool does eventually get Lucius to where they need to go, but not without several stops for bizarro passengers along the madcap way.
Nighttime is the right time for all sorts of violent strangeness in "Slumlord Rising," which plays like a bizarre '80s bastard child of Taxi Driver, Only God Forgives, The Place Beyond The Pines and other films which I may or may not have seen.
A "cartoon abyss of scummy color" is an apt description and definitely a compliment for this new animated adventure by Chad Van Gaalen for Australia's DMA's.
Can you name all the videos referenced in this damned charming lo-fi homage to various classic and cult music videos? And yes, you can cheat by just reading them off the Video Jukebox.
Flume aka Harley Streten has good reason to be floating: The song is a collaboration with Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt and the video was shot on-location at the gorgous Sydney Opera House, which Flume is also headling. But he's not just levitating: He's downright bending the laws of physics and his body via an on-stage celebration that looks like a nifty bit of slit-scan choreography.
Don't adjust that dial... This is lo-fi VCR fuzz-frenzy starrring an even indier Frank Sidebottom character. (How indie? The video was directed by Toro Y Moi's Jordan Blackmon and starring bandmate Patrick Jeffords.)
The video spirit of The Replacements, but with a sunbathing animal, some subliminal flashing to scare off the photosensitive epileptics and just a little bit of bedroom rock heroics...
Just your average teenage-girls sleepover: Harry Styles on the wall; pretty shades of nail polish, Ouija boards, that condition that makes you look like the people from "Pompeii"... you know, normal stuff. [ed: And, of course, the hallucinogens.]
Enjoy this trip. And it is a trip. A short-but-sweet-and-wild journey to the outer regions. Aussie EDM producer Flume, Wu-Tang's Ghostface, and singer Autre Ne Veut are your co-pilots - with help from the creators of Nickelodeon's Sanjay and Craig.