Last week, I was watching the MTV Movie Awards, and saw Gnarls Barkley perform "Crazy" dressed as the characters from Star Wars. Not only is this my new favorite song, but the performance was pretty cool. The lead singer was dressed as Darth Vader (but he had to take off the helmet to sing). There was also a brown robed Jedi, Jango on keyboards, two Stormtroopers (bass and guitar), three X-Wing Pilot backup singers, four Imperial Officers on violin, and Chewbacca on drums. Throughout the performance, the song lyrics scrolled in yellow-gold print on the large screen behind the band.



Tonight, I heard "Crazy" on the radio as I was leaving the apartment to go bowling, and again at the bowling alley, so when I came home, I watch the video on Yahoo!, and I like it even more than the live performance. It is a series of morphing inkblots that have the faces of the band hidden in them, like a Rorschach test.



I don't know about the rest of you, but as I watched this, my mind was concocting a very catchy, but tasteless, advertising campaign for a counselling service ... or at the very least, some ironic "on-hold" music. (Don't dare steal my idea either; I will find you!)

Speaking of "stealing", it has been brought to my attention that I have been doing a lot of copyright infringement by using photos to punctuate my stories, but I've decided to continue to risk it, for the sake of hilarity.