I know this video is kind of old, but it's also really good. Maybe you're thinking that the fairly straightforward indie rock of Department of Eagles doesn't really fit with this blog's exclusive Liars/Nick Cave-based news feed. Well, that's where you'd be wrong. (Seriously, that is all I write about. And let me tell you, does it ever draw in the erectile dysfunction spam bots! What are those bots saying about Liars fans? HMMM....)

For one thing, this song is called "No One Does It Like You," and I tend to really like songs about the unparalleled awesomeness of the performer, or the person the performer is singing about. I take it as a personal compliment. (Possibly this is why I have a fondness for mainstream rap. I'm talking about you, Rick Ross' "Magnificent.") As in, "no one does it like you, Alison. No one haphazardly blogs about funny animals and the same three bands like you do, girlfriend. And the way you accidentally cut your bangs too short but then they ended up looking like Penelope Cruz's in Broken Embraces? That's incredible! That would only happen to you." Whoa--Penelope Cruz, you say? MY GIRLFRIEND???? It's true, song, I really am remarkable. Why yes, I WILL press the repeat button.

This is Pene and her hair. Our bangs are JUST EXACTLY ALIKE!!!! But unfortunately that's about where the similarities end.


The other thing awesome about this video is that it was directed by Marcel Dzama and it's a poignant meditation on ghosts at war. Or something like that. Adorable and weird, all in the same place=my kind of video.