Like There Was ANY Chance I Wasn't Going To Post This

The new Cobra Starship video below that everyone's been waiting for.

(Cobra Starship, who?)

Did I mention it's from the SNAKES ON A PLANE soundtrack.



Also, this band seems like a bunch of foreigners to me, not that there's anything wrong with that, but couldn't they find a good ol' 'Merican band to do the theme song?

If you go to the cobrastarship myspace link you'll be blasted with the song in its motherbleeping, unbleeped glory (as God intended), also it mentions that the band members are Johnny Depp, Dave Grohl, Ron Jeremy and Mayor McCheese (something tells me that may not be 100% accurate), here's the real band website here.

I was right about the foreign vibe, the guy from Cobra Starship is Uruguayan (at least if you believe his bio, but he grew up in Queens), and they borrow Maja Ivarsson from The Sounds for the video (and she is most definitely un-American in a Swedish sort of way)

Here's a lengthy excerpt from the story of the band

In the desert, Gabe spends his days and nights pondering the nature of being, the collective unconscious, the irreducible complexity of bacteria flagellum, and perfecting blue steel--it's more of a softer look; he uses it for footwear.

However, every evening his meditations are interrupted by mysterious lights plaguing the night sky. On one particular such night, the lights are so mesmerizing that Gabe enters into a trance-like state. He becomes catatonic and weightless, so weightless in fact that he begins to levitate.

But just as Gabe is beginning to lift off the ground, a cobra lunges from the depths of the darkness and bites him! Bites him right in the fucking neck!

After a week on the brink of death, hallucinating from the venomous bite, he awakes to find the snake with a wet towel in its fangs, patting down Gabe's sweltering forehead.

"Holy shit," Gabe exclaims, "this snake that almost killed me is patting down my forehead with a moist towelette!"

"Good morning to you too," says the reptile.

"Holy Shit! A talking snake!"

"I am a cobra," corrects the snake, "and the lights that have hounded you night after night are from the starship that brought me here. You see, I have been sent from the future to find you."

"Me?" Gabe asks, flattered and excited at the possibility of validating his existence. "Am I supposed to save the world!?"

"Uh, no," replies the cobra. "Not exactly. You see kid, there is no salvation." The cobra goes on to tell Gabe about the world's final days. Cobras were the only ones who survived.

Shocked by this tale of armageddon, Gabe finally asks in bewilderment, "then what do you need me from me? What is my destiny?"

"The purpose of your life is to make sure mankind goes out in style."

"How do I do that?"

"By teaching hipsters to not take themselves so seriosuly and by telling emo kids to stop being pussies. How's that for a start?"

OK then, who can argue with teaching hipsters to not take themselves so seriously and emo kids to stop being pussies?

(both these tasks seem beyond the realm of possibility, if you ask me)

UPDATE: (An Icepick inspired installment of Great Moments In Other Blog's Comment Sections, SoaP edition)

(also, I meant to hat tip Defamer, for pointing to the original video, but then I would have found it myself sometime that same day, anyway, but they deserve a tip of the hat, nevertheless)

Icepick pointed out these comments late in the thread regarding this idiotic professor at UW Madison discussed by Prof. Althouse (first the comic, then the serious comment by the same commenter)

Korla said...

The truth can now be revealed about the downing of Flight 93:

The secret unredacted transcript has just been leaked, and it contains the "terrorist" piloting the plane making an announcement to the passengers, which is what drove them into a frenzy that brought the plane down.

It's muffled, but It sounds like he's saying "Ladies and gentlemen . . . there are mother [unintelligible] . . . SNAKES on this . . . [unintelligible] plane!"

11:25 AM, July 12, 2006

Korla said...

> Gerry, it's not my job to to purge or do penance for any excesses you note on the left...

This is the same attitude that Muslims around the world present about terrorists. "Why should I condemn these acts? Not all Muslims are terrorists."

But you see, when the entire Muslim world remains silent, aside from the many factions that speak out in FAVOR of terrorism, you then can't blame people for thinking that all Muslims condone or are at least not horrified by terrorism.

It's the same with Democrats. When Howard Dean hints that Bush is a mass murderer, you only hear other Dems applaud and talk about "chimp" this and "Hitler" that. It verifies that the party of JFK and Truman is long dead.

The few examples that do go on record in support of this country against its enemies, like Zell Miller or Lieberman, are stamped HERETIC and are driven out of the party, while Klan leaders like Byrd are embraced, and shakedown artists like Sharpton are considered heroes.

The right DOES disclaim its loudmouthed nutjobs. That's why Trent Lott stepped down. That's why David Duke was disowned. That's why Rush refused to fan the Vince Foster conspiracy flames on his show. Part of this is that mainstream Republicans are allowed to disagree with the fringe, unlike Dems, but it's also that they seem to know what will get them kicked out of office.

Unless we're talking about pork. But tinfoil hat conspiracies are not as sacrosanct and to be treated as just an "unconventional" perspective.