My day before the calcium lights in 2007, playing the "obnoxious villager heckler" in "Now I Lay Thee Down", a music video by metal gurus Machine Head, is now out for the world to see. And I would like this video even if I wasn't in it!
Machine Head's excellent headbanging performance is wrapped around a tragic and operatic play that could be described as "The Elephant Man" meets "Romeo And Juliet"; the former, a shunned and reviled outcast, decides to end it all and asks the latter, the sole person who loves the good-hearted but miserable grotesque, to do him in.
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Great to see Paul's animated acting in this intelligent headbanger music video, with its tight editing, searing vocals, and excellent homage to DW Griffith, combined to create a product reminiscent of what Theodore Roszak has described in his 1991 sci fi book, Flicker.
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