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.

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Jack White was at a screening of a documentary about the White Stripes in Toronto yesterday and oh God someone stop him, hasn’t anyone told him this Kanye West thing is played out already?

A new documentary about White’s band, The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights, had just been given a rapturous reception at the Elgin Theatre and director Emmett Malloy was in the middle of a Q&A. White suddenly sprinted onstage. Grabbing the microphone from Malloy, White exclaimed, “I’m gonna let you finish, I’m gonna let you finish, but Orson Welles had one of the greatest films of all time!” [TorontoStar]

Haha, good one, Jay!  That’s too bad.  I normally like Jack White, and he seems like he has a pretty good sense of humor — see him playing Elvis in Walk Hard for evidence.  So I imagine this isn’t his fault.  It’s just that, when you’re a celebrity, and there are always people around trying to get on your good side, you can make a horrible joke and everyone will still laugh, because they’re just excited to be near you.  If you’re not careful, this can happen so often that you trick yourself into thinking you’re really funny, and that maybe you should be a comedian.  When, trust us, you shouldn’t.  All I’m saying is, we’ll let it slide this time, Jack White. We understand you probably aren’t on the internet as much as us dorks.  Just be careful, no one wants another John Mayer.
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The video after the jump, called simply MANtage, is nine months old and according to YouTube, already has more than a million views.  But before someone sent it to me this morning, I’d never seen it.  Some might call me late to the party but to those people I say fuck you, I brought Funions.  The same guys have a not-as-funny-but-more-neato take on Kanye West’s "Stronger", which I’ve also included. -Thanks to Tasha for the tip