Kanye West x Spike Jonze Debut “Nightmares” Short Film
Last night, Kanye West surprised the audience at the Los Angeles Film Festival with the debut of the short film We Were Once A Fairytale, directed by Spike Jonze. What was initially supposed to be a music video for the 808’s & Heartbreak track that now has a mind of it’s own:
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.
They go on to say that the video takes what people like and hate about Ye’s persona and pushes it to the limit, the video also “walks the fine line between self aggrandizement and self mockery.” The piece also mentions that the song has beens remixed (sort of like Paranoid was) and that it was done by Spike Jonze’ brother, Squeak E. Clean of N.A.S.A.
Link: Kanye West, Spike Jonze debut bizarre short “Nightmares” film at LAFF (via FSD)
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June 25th, 2009 at 11:14 am
why am I being moderated?
June 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Once Jay-Z sucks your dick you made it (pause)…Drake is winning
June 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
what the fuck
June 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
please moderate me
June 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am
And it’s still top 10 bout 15 weeks later
So that’s a middle finger for you 808 haters.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am
That mofo to the right is Killing it with the wooly mammoth fur coat!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:17 am
P Miller!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am
that coat is baller.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am
That mofo to the right is Killing it with the wooly mammoth fur coat!
^ Lol huh call PETA on that foo
June 25th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Mr. Papagiorgio Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am
that coat is baller.
^^^
that shit looks like rat ass.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:19 am
MacKenzie Brownoski Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am
That mofo to the right is Killing it with the wooly mammoth fur coat!
________________________
Son!…there’s Cap’N crunch on my LCD right now (pause) ROFL!
*Aims toy laser pointer at Michelle Obama*
June 25th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Mr. Papagiorgio Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am
that coat is baller.
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I thought only white/hispanic heads said that.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I wish they would not have outlined the whole film here…
I would want to see it. Kanye is an insane genius, but that shit sounds ill.
Spike’s a good director.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:20 am
that shit looks like rat ass.
^^
*dead*
June 25th, 2009 at 11:20 am
808 and Heartbreaks<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
That album sucked. Bad.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:21 am
rapidshare.com/files/248188886/Blaq_Poet-The_Blaqprint.zip >
June 25th, 2009 at 11:21 am
# Mr. Papagiorgio Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am
that coat is baller.
^^
The inside is made of Bald eagle.
Hulk Hogan choked one out for me.
LMAO
June 25th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Bur!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Son, what is Kanye gripping/stroking like that? ROFL (SupaPause)
June 25th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Thats the sasquatch fur
June 25th, 2009 at 11:23 am
quasi-homosexuals runnin this rap shit
June 25th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Shaq new nick name will be The Big Witness
June 25th, 2009 at 11:24 am
How many of A chick relatives had to die for that coat?
June 25th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Pull up game crazy mane, pull up in a what the f##k, hop out that b#tc# icey dog, i put that on everythang
June 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am
cant wait for this video, does wayne feature in it since hes in the song?
June 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am
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I thought only white/hispanic heads said that.
^^
lol, it’s from a dave chappelle skit.
*sprinkles diamonds on food*
*watches dookie sparkle*
June 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am
And I grew up in the same hood pac did when he was in baltimore, no shots but niggas will kill over his name, word to my mans in the brendas got a baby video.
^^^^
but niggas will kill over his name,
I LOVE THAT, I REALLY DO.
AND OH WAYNE IS THE KING OF THE SOUTH SINCE CARTER 2 DROPPED
T.I CATCHING UP THO AND HE STAYS GULLY
June 25th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Shaq new nick name will be The Big Witness
^^
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I would’nt leave small children around a nigga that smiled like this…
i39.tinypic.com/2ptpl05.jpg
June 25th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Mr. Papagiorgio Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am
——————————
I thought only white/hispanic heads said that.
^^
lol, it’s from a dave chappelle skit.
——————————————
Where has dude been? The game needs Dave Chappelle
June 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Son rocking the Koala fur…
June 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Starting a gang where you’re the sole member>Titling the hardest track on your mixtape Grown Simba
June 25th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Gotta luv this houston weather
High yesterday 102
High today 101
June 25th, 2009 at 11:29 am
JUST FOR CONFIRMATION PURPOSES
2PAC = G.O.A.T / MOST INFLUENTIAL / MOST CHARISMATIC /
MOST RESPECTED
June 25th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Yeah we getting the 90’s out here in the Chi, all types of eye candy in the west loop area you dig
June 25th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Sneaker Pimps NYC ft. Cool Kids, The Clipse, Big Boi, Wale, Jadakiss
^show tomorrow night @ Terminal 5 if your in NYC, $25
June 25th, 2009 at 11:30 am
#
# Mr. Papagiorgio Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am
——————————
I thought only white/hispanic heads said that.
^^
lol, it’s from a dave chappelle skit.
*sprinkles diamonds on food*
*watches dookie sparkle*
^^
BALLIN!!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:30 am
V.I. shut yo hoe ass up
June 25th, 2009 at 11:30 am
FaMs! Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Son rocking the Koala fur…
^^naw……you don’t rock Koala fur
REAL ballers keep Koala’s as pets, and walk them mofos on a leash…
Ask Chea!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:31 am
2Pac=one of the most overrated cats ever
I still respect his hustle though. Fam stayed recording songs.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:31 am
“Red Lobster every day, shrimp heads & tails, and bad b*tches give me head & tail, and bad b*tches give me head & tail, see I’m ahead but you stay the snail.” (c) Wayne
p.s. i keep koalas on a leash *no look daps MacKenzie Brownoski*
June 25th, 2009 at 11:32 am
VI prolly got thug life tatted on his inner thigh, no shots
June 25th, 2009 at 11:34 am
GorillaJoe Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:31 am
2Pac=one of the most overrated cats ever
__________________________________
Word son, niggas be like “if it wasn’t for Pac, blacks couldn’t own Ipods”
June 25th, 2009 at 11:34 am
GorillaJoe Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:31 am
2Pac=one of the most overrated cats ever
^
BLASPHEMY. pac fathered a decade and a half of rappers. shit even these new cats like drake who aren’t pac’s children would say pac was the best. everybody either copies him or emulates him some other type of way.
pac = undisputed GOAT
maybe not lyrically because you got cats like monch, eminem, lupe, mos, doom, jigga, etc who came with some amazing, other type of shit but in terms of a total artist, pac is everyone’s father. matter of fact father’s day in hip-hop should just be “pac day” because he fathered everyone.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:34 am
*Daps Danielson a.k.a. My Blog Game Proper*
Did you see Jimmy Valentine got a shout from Bol
June 25th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Sidenote: Megan can get raped early in Tranformers 2
June 25th, 2009 at 11:35 am
my friend has a kitten that is supposedly a cross breed of a cat and racoon..
idk if its completely true, but it def looks a little racoonish and not like a kitten ive seen before.
Thats stuntin
June 25th, 2009 at 11:36 am
What up Nah.
I just got that Fight Night and I found a quarter today.
So far, so good.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Sidenote: Megan can get raped early in Tranformers 2
^^
wow….but actually this broad is overrated.
Hollywood dont really have glamour like it used to
June 25th, 2009 at 11:38 am
cross breed of a cat and racoon
^
“Infatuation with the birds, I watch Animal Planet (ha ha!)” (c) jeezy
June 25th, 2009 at 11:38 am
*walks goat/hyena hybrid pet*
*shtunts on nieghbors (c) chea*
*lets hyenoat shit on sidewalk*
*does not scoop poop*
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
*Daps Danielson a.k.a. My Blog Game Proper*
Did you see Jimmy Valentine got a shout from Bol
^
*daps bigstrong*
na lol, where was this???
i am convinced dude makes those videos himself and not friends or fans.
no shots, just saying.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
wow….but actually this broad is overrated.
^^
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Beezy Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:35 am
my friend has a kitten that is supposedly a cross breed of a cat and racoon..
idk if its completely true, but it def looks a little racoonish and not like a kitten ive seen before.
Thats stuntin
^^eh……thats low level (racoons are the homeless assholes of the animal kingdom). Now if that mofo had a sabor tooth tiger mixed with a llama then and only then…..is he a true stunna!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
lmao @ NR commenters - first pac is overrated and now megan fox is overrated
i wish a nicca would say that michael jordan is overrated (just to round out the equation) now that we have take a one way flight to the Land of Absurdity with no intentions of returning
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
*walks goat/hyena hybrid pet*
*shtunts on nieghbors (c) chea*
*lets hyenoat shit on sidewalk*
*does not scoop poop*
^^
*dead*
June 25th, 2009 at 11:40 am
*Balls outta control
*Fish tank has a blue wale
June 25th, 2009 at 11:40 am
son niggas obviously didn’t see her bent over that bike then….
June 25th, 2009 at 11:40 am
dude sent me a pic of the catcoon, i just dug it up:
I still dont really believe it
tinypic.com/r/4h62pl/5
June 25th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Casket has problems with women
June 25th, 2009 at 11:41 am
i am convinced dude makes those videos himself and not friends or fans.
^
if jimmy valentime has fans, i’m serena williams
dude can’t even stay on beat, his concepts are awful, his style is miserable - i still can’t figure out if this is some “the real” type comedy shit or if he’s a real artist
June 25th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I’d booty rape megan fox on a see-saw in front of small children
June 25th, 2009 at 11:42 am
*Balls outta control
^ ^
Ayo. . .
June 25th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Beezy Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:40 am
dude sent me a pic of the catcoon, i just dug it up:
I still dont really believe it
tinypic.com/r/4h62pl/5
^
*DIES A TRILLION DEATHS AHHHHHHHHH LMFAOOOOOOOOO*
June 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
halle, nia and salma still got shit on lock as far as i’m concerned..
these new broads aint got no presence and are loose as shit..that slut shit is for the birds, that aint Hollywood
when u cats reach drinking age and/or come a across a real lady u’ll understand what i’m sayin
June 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Danielson a.k.a. My Blog Game Proper™ Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
*Daps Danielson a.k.a. My Blog Game Proper*
Did you see Jimmy Valentine got a shout from Bol
^
*daps bigstrong*
na lol, where was this???
i am convinced dude makes those videos himself and not friends or fans.
no shots, just saying.
===========================
Go to his myspace page. Danielson what happened to my job. If you dont hire me I’ll make a dis track, talk greasy on video or write a book about you. lol
June 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
padma lakshmi >>> megan fox
June 25th, 2009 at 11:44 am
^^eh……thats low level (racoons are the homeless assholes of the animal kingdom). Now if that mofo had a sabor tooth tiger mixed with a llama then and only then…..is he a true stunna!
^^^
google “serval”.
now THAT is stuntastic.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:45 am
The Shot Clock aka servin through my burglar bars Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
padma lakshmi >>> megan fox
^
padma married salman rushdie. for that she will forever be disgusting.
maybe aishwarya rai > megan
but padma? nah. that bitch smells, u can tell.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:45 am
*Balls outta control
*Fish tank has a blue wale
^^
the rapper?
June 25th, 2009 at 11:45 am
when u cats reach drinking age and/or come a across a real lady u’ll understand what i’m sayin
^^
*is 10 yrs above drinking age
I just appreciate a nice slut every now & then
They have their place in society…… and a special place in my balls [||]
June 25th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Is it just me, or did Megan Fox look waayyy better in the first movie??? the past few times I seen her, she looked kinda wack to me. she be having this pouty look on her face, like she’s not happy about life. I bet she started living the Hollywood life and got addicted to coke…
June 25th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Martin Margiela Mane Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:41 am
i am convinced dude makes those videos himself and not friends or fans.
^
if jimmy valentime has fans, i’m serena williams
dude can’t even stay on beat, his concepts are awful, his style is miserable - i still can’t figure out if this is some “the real” type comedy shit or if he’s a real artist
================================
Jimmy Valentine is a real artist some times change is good
June 25th, 2009 at 11:48 am
*throws cash money onto seth’s hyena with shirt off playin Still Fly by the Big Tymers through my cell phone speaker*
June 25th, 2009 at 11:49 am
but padma? nah. that bitch smells, u can tell.
^^
what?!?!
tinyurl.com/kkhabo…….fast forward to the 1:30 mark
June 25th, 2009 at 11:49 am
I’d booty rape megan fox on a see-saw in front of small children
^ ^
Yea, but what the fu*k is up with her thumb??!!
I’m sorry but that’s a deal breaker.
wor.vox.com/library/post/megan-fox-is-hot-but-wtf-is-up-with-her-thumb.html
June 25th, 2009 at 11:53 am
# MacKenzie Brownoski Says:
^^eh……thats low level (racoons are the homeless assholes of the animal kingdom). Now if that mofo had a sabor tooth tiger mixed with a llama then and only then…..is he a true stunna!
^^
LMAO.
*sicks Hyenoat on catcoon*
& Beezy, that looks like a regular ass kat to me. Where is the opposable thumb my nig? no homo
June 25th, 2009 at 11:55 am
dude can’t even stay on beat, his concepts are awful, his style is miserable - i still can’t figure out if this is some “the real” type comedy shit or if he’s a real artist
^
*jumps in front of his train home*
I’d booty rape megan fox on a see-saw in front of small children
^
co-siggly.
Go to his myspace page. Danielson what happened to my job. If you dont hire me I’ll make a dis track, talk greasy on video or write a book about you. lol
^
im not even 2 months old yet, give a nigga a chance to shine and then i’ll hire my US correspondant!
June 25th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
does anyone have a link on where i can watch this?
it’s not on youtube or yahoo. thanks.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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October 18th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
What’s the point in this article; it’s just a complete synopsis of the film. Way to ruin things asshole!
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