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December 3, 2007

New Cursive Video - "Bad Sects"

"Bad Sects" equals "Bad Sex"... Get it? Looks like the hulking priest in the Nik Fackler-directed video for Cursive's "Bad Sects" does, too. For the longtime Omaha crew's topical look at homosexuality and the pulpit, father's downing bottles of Jameson, looking groggily at a Bible and dreaming about blue tongues because he succumbed to impure thoughts with a new priest: "We woke to the chimes of the bells in the steeple and ran off to separate rooms. / They can't know what we've done, / Or our whole world would come undone," etc. Very ominous opening -- shooting a bullet through a yellow (cowardly?) cross and all. Maybe it's a continuation from the band's video for "Big Bang"? Watch it, pun police.

The Law & Order overacting's fun to behold and it's always good to see those Cursive-catchy band shots ("you'll never live this down"), but the message is très ho-hum. The peeved townsfolk chucking paper at the end reminded us of that post-goal kiss in Sigur Rós's excellent "Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása." (The priest has a smaller role in that one.) The Rós approach isn't as ham-fisted, so all the more affecting. Actually, maybe that's because we don't understand Icelandic or Sigur speak.

Happy Hollow (more puns!) is out on Saddle Creek.

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VIVA LOLITA!

Posted by: k at 12/03/07 12:28 PM  | Reply
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I love Cursive to death but maybe they should stop making videos.

Posted by: feedbacker at 12/03/07 4:17 PM  | Reply
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terrible ass video. shamefully so.

Posted by: Steve at 12/03/07 4:45 PM  | Reply
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that video was really terrible - to the point of almost ruining the song, and that was one of the best songs from the album, sooooo that's really too bad.

Posted by: chris at 12/04/07 1:45 AM  | Reply
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I totally agree with feedbacker. Love Cursive, hate the video.

Posted by: karl at 12/04/07 10:19 AM  | Reply
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It's really hard to even think of visuals that can live up to a cursive song.

Posted by: Jesse at 12/09/07 2:56 AM  | Reply
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