There’s been a bit of cinematic flair in Modest Mouse videos of late. Last time it was the unsettling backwards player for “Little Motel,” and just two weeks later we get a Phoebe Cates look-alike as all-American daughter, hanging at the family homestead with her evergreen lover: eating pancakes, pecking out “Chopsticks,” enraging jealous Daddy to the point of deforestation and, ultimately, arboricide. Like any good tale about human/plant love, it has a happy ending. And it also features the sappiest kiss in music video history.
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank is out on Epic.
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NO PUN INTENDED!!!
shut up, stereogum. shut up.
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you had me at “phoebe Cates look-alike”.
@tom — nope, none at all
100 bucks says seth wanted a ‘fast times’ pool scene recreation. sorry to disappoint.
@seth,
too bad she looks nothing like her.
Why is that scene from Fast Times indelibly etched into every male’s brain that sees it?