EXPLICIT LYRICS AND IMAGES FOLLOW.

I'm staying up extra late tonight. I start nightshift tomorrow night.

I've been flipping around at YouTube, watching music videos and the like. I've watched a few fan-made music videos for songs from the new Tool album (the band hasn't done any official videos for the new songs), and I've been surprised at how good some of these fan-directed clips are.

Of course, none of them are as good as this, a video for a song from the second Tool album. I consider this to be the best music video ever made and a good argument for those who consider music videos to be a legit art form...

Warning, the video above is upsetting to watch, even though it involves nothing more than puppets. It's done very artfully, though, and it's amazing how long these images stay in my head after I see the video. The message and the story are clear, the symbols are anything but vague, and to my way of thinking, this justifies the whole concept of the "music video."

If you enjoyed that... well, you're weird. At least as weird as I am, and that ain't good. But you might enjoy this, too:

I think that one is just OK in terms of the video ... but I can't help but get a huge kick out of the lyrics. Yeah, their vulgar, but who hasn't felt this at one time or another?

F--- L. Ron Hubbard and
F--- all his clones.
F--- all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.
F--- retro anything.
F--- your tattoos.
F--- all you junkies and
F--- your short memory.
F--- smiling glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
F--- these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Heh heh.