That Whole Yale Thing is Still Making Pretty Decent Videos

by Adam Clark Estes | April 17, 2009 at 2:22 pm

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Matt Bakal, the Eli director of the moderately popular and pretty funny 95 Theses video, has just released a music video by Great Caesar. Ok, I admit that I was pretty effing annoyed that I saw neither Caesar nor Brutus nor Cleopatra nor Marc Antony. The band was fine. (They sound a little too much like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones if you ask me, but that might just be the horns.)

The new video called “Everyone’s a VIP to Someone” stars some dude in a variety of lumberjack shirts and a couple foxy girls in the rain. What’s potentially more interesting is Yale’s Bulldog Production company. As we’re seeing more from them, it’s pretty clear that they’re over-funded and under-talented. Soft focus, fast cuts of various objects, narrow depth of field? Please. Darren Aronofsky did that shit years ago, and we all know where he went to school. Could this be the film iteration of Veritas Records, the Ivy League kings of the Battle of Terrible Bands?

Listen, I know I can be an asshole. But I will admit that Bakal’s music video knocks Acuña’s recent clip out of the park solely based on the scant mention of penis and the fact that he didn’t steal the song from SNL.

In conclusion, we’re chilling out on video for a while. Also, we promise to write about Penn some day. Aaaannnnnddddd, you ladies in the rain can contact me at adam@ivygateblog.com.

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