Respect Authority

Back in 2007, a little skateboarding movie called Fully Flared came out and went pretty much unnoticed, having almost no real impact at all save for influencing a truly fantastic and original Snickers commercial. You may have heard of it if you’re part of the all boys cool kids club that is the greater communal skateboarding consciousness. If not, you were probably, you know, off actually doing something with your life.

Now director Ty Evans has joined forces with long-time collaborator Spike Jonze to produce U.N.K.L.E.’s new video for the song “Heaven.” And what do you know, it has skateboarding in it! In fact, the video consists of a reedit of Fully Flared’s noteworthy intro sequence, which to date, has recklessly convinced countless teenagers that getting blown up by powerful explosives is a good way to die. Which I guess is kind of true, it has to beat being raped to death by a bear anyway.

Additionally, the song was even originally featured in Fully Flared’s credits, so this video really has Lakai ectoplasm spewed all over it like Ty Evans and Spike Jonze just crossed the streams. It’s just too bad the song makes me sleepier than a minion of Gozer whacked up with about 300 cc’s of Thorazine.