The Morning Benders kick things off with a video for their song "Promises," which features probably the youngest bank robbers ever. This 9 or 10 year old-looking girl and boy spend their time drinking wine and champagne, smoking cigarettes and shooting machine guns while robbing banks. Their bloody and untimely demise is an important and timely message for elementary school kids today: The money and fast life may be tempting, but please kids, stay in your afterschool programs.
Next up is a video for Baltimore-via-North Carolina rockers Future Islands. The video is actually a story of the band's move from state to state, which apparently involved a lot of southern food, playing packed clubs full of good-looking hip people, and beer. My favorite part is the last optimistic and feel-good scene of Future Islands getting ready to rock out in their new, still-unpacked Baltimore home:
Wrapping up Dive TV this week is the Flaming Lips and their very creepy video for their song "Powerless." The video very much fits the bill, with a tied-up and blindfolded girl struggling to get free while a fascinated monkey looks on. Although, after breaking free, instead of getting the hell out of Dodge, the girl proceeds to frolic around same place she got captured - with her blindfold still on. How dumb is this girl? She probably also frequents big white vans that have "FREE CANDY" signs on them.
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