This here video‘s called We Were Once a Fairytale, starring Kanye West, directed by Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze. It was just released over the weekend, and at 11 minutes, it’s a little longer than stuff I’d normally post. But I promise it’s something worth making time to watch after work if you need. West plays a drunken, sort of pathetic, meta-fictionalized version of himself who stumbles around a club making an ass of himself.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.  The whole thing has Spike Jonze’s funk all over it and that alone makes it a compelling watch.  Then at about the nine-minute mark, I don’t want to be a party-pooper mcsurprise ruiner, but suffice to say, Sh-t. Gets. Real.  It kind of reminds me of another awesome short film I posted a while ago, Rabbit.  Bottom line, prepare for face melting.

I don’t really have a strong opinion on Kanye one way or another (thought he did a pretty good acting job in this), but seeing him reminds me — does no one else find it strange that the one time in the last five years that Jay Leno chose to be semi ballsy and confrontational, he used it on Kanye West over something he did at an MTV show? What a slimey ass bag.