infected | Through the Shattered Lens

This video kind of starts out with this vibe that basically says, “The world’s about to end so we might as well have the greatest party ever before we all cease to exist!” However, it then quickly turns into something much different. The party is so wonderful and the music so powerful that people start to spontaneously turn into Yetis. Have you ever wondered where the Sasquatch came from? Well, now you know. No longer will I fear running into the Boggy Creek Monster whenever I head up to Arkansas.

Personally, I love to dance and I certainly love Tiesto but I don’t know if I’d be willing to allow myself to be transformed into a Sasquatch. I may be alone in that, though. Everyone in the video certainly does appear to be happy about it.

And really, isn’t that what matters?

Enjoy!

We’re now halfway through the week-long horror-themed “Song of the Day” feature and the first three days has been all Italian composers. Two of them were known for working in the grindhouse film scene while the other has been more well-renowned for having worked in spaghetti westerns and more mainstream, albeit very artful, film projects. The fourth selection in this fourth day of the series is the epic song “East Hastings” by the Montreal-based eclectic band Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

“East Hastings” was chosen because of not just its apocalyptic sound and tone, but also how it was used in an excellent way to highlight the desolation in Danny Boyle’s “zombie-faux” film, 28 Days Later.

The song begins after a brief prologue and shows Cilliam Murphy’s character walk the deserted and silent streets of London after waking up from a coma. His lost and dazed travel through the empty streets and by-ways of England’s capital was quite haunting and the song by GY!BE just added to the tension building up on the screen. If there ever was a song that typified the British viewpoint about how the world ends it would be “East Hastings”.