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June 25, 2009

Kanye West Makes A Short Documentary About His Life

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Kanye West appeared at the Los Angeles Film Festival yesterday to premiere a short film called We Were Once A Fairytale, directed by Spike Jonze. Supposedly it was originally going to be a music video for 808's & Heartbreak, but then it basically became a portrait of a typical day in the life for Kanye. From Nah Right:

In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing in the club is his. He wanders into a side room where he encounters a beautiful woman. They start having sex and then he passes out on her leopard print dress. When he comes to, he finds himself in the VIP room with his pants down - he was hallucinating and fucking the pillow. The realization startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where he vomits what look like rose petals.

Then it gets weird.

Kanye finds a bowie knife in the bathroom and cuts into his stomach, spilling a torrent of more petals. He digs in the knife deeper and then with his hand rips out a small furry rodent, like a demon, only its quite cute. When Kanye realizes it's connected to him with an umbilical cord, he pulls it hard, ripping it out of him for good. He then puts the demon on the sink and hands him a tiny bowie knife to fit the critter's scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.

I don't really understand what Michel Gondry Spike Jonze had to do with it. Sounds like Kanye just picked up a camera and went to the club. Lazy.

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disgruntled hipster no. 416

I know how THAT goes.

Posted by: disgruntled hipster no. 416 profile link at 06/25/09 2:20 PM | Reply
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jawbone

Kayne looks like he has stumbled across a group of socially awkward uncles.

Posted by: jawbone profile link at 06/25/09 2:25 PM | Reply
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Elliot

That actually sounds like the coolest thing Kanye has ever done.

Posted by: Elliot profile link at 06/25/09 2:31 PM | Reply
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Becca

sounds like tuesday.

Posted by: Becca profile link at 06/25/09 2:42 PM | Reply
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Right? I swear if I have to pull another rodent demon covered in rose petals from my insides I'm going to die of boredom.

Posted by: DotheFeedback profile link in reply to Becca's comment at 06/25/09 2:56 PM | Reply
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I PEE GOLD

Maybe Kanye's pregnant?

Posted by: I PEE GOLD profile link at 06/25/09 2:49 PM | Reply
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ber

I wonder if he typed this concept out on his Macbook Air, SQUIDBRAINS!

Posted by: ber profile link at 06/25/09 3:11 PM | Reply
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jawbone

Did 'TEAM SAVE LINDSAY' take videogum offline for a while or was it just me?

FUCK YOU POWERS THAT BE!

viva la resistance!

Posted by: jawbone profile link at 06/25/09 3:18 PM | Reply
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KW

I spy with my little eye, Gabe and Max on Cute Overload.com: http://cuteoverload.com/2009/06/25/winston-is-not-normal/

Posted by: KW profile link at 06/25/09 3:25 PM | Reply
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"she's a talker."

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kathleen11

a trifecta of procrastination jubilation: videogum, fourfour & CO. awesome blogsom. this is what winston does, he brings people together.

Posted by: kathleen11 profile link in reply to KW's comment at 06/25/09 5:43 PM | Reply
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rk

I'm a fan of the guy who coordinates his grey Wayfarers with his grey suit. Commitment. The GQ Way.

Posted by: rk profile link at 06/25/09 3:32 PM | Reply
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jawbone

The scenario.

Kayne walks into the GQ annual convention of tight Blazer-suit lovers (it's a thing!). Nobody really notices until he orders a drink in an autotune voice. The suited hounds set on him! "You be tripping JEEEZY", Kayne shouts in disgust. The one guy in a fur coat feels left out. Exposes Mr West as An American Patriot.

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ladders

Looks like someone had American Beauty in their netflix queue

Posted by: ladders profile link at 06/25/09 4:40 PM | Reply
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angelapanda

"then it gets weird". AFTER the pillow fucking hahaha

Posted by: angelapanda profile link at 06/25/09 5:10 PM | Reply
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lookie-here

TEAM SAVE LINDSAY (sorry I'm late)

Posted by: lookie-here profile link at 06/25/09 5:55 PM | Reply
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That reminds me of the time that I got so drunk on Cristal that I puked all over my copy of Crooklyn, in my $17,9012 sport coat.

Posted by: Crud at 06/26/09 2:30 AM | Reply
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Sharkleberry

IN his next video Yeezy will get an autograph from a book.

Posted by: Sharkleberry profile link at 06/26/09 2:16 PM | Reply
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Left to right: Eric Koston, Kanye West, Spike Jonze, Rick Howard, Mike Carroll. The three uncles are professional skateboarders.

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