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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