Kids of the Suantum of Quolace (and Thanks for All the Fish)

I've got two videos of interest today. The first of them is something that e_to_the_ipi linked me to, a proposed theme song to the upcoming nonsensically-titled Bond film "Quantum of Solace" by Joe Cornish, who for the sake of simplicity I will just describe as a British comedian. It lampshades the madness of the name as well as the differences between this millennium's Bond and the ones that came before it. (I have to say that I don't remember really disliking the new-style Bond when I saw it, and that it was a lot more like a Bond film than the preview made it out to be, but somehow I do miss the ridiculousness - you don't go to a Bond film to see fist fighting, it should be about bald-headed villains with cats launching world-threatening satellites from their undersea volcano).

I was very surprised to find out that the title, keeping with the last one and differing from the last few films before that, does come from an Ian Fleming work - he wrote a short story called "Quantum of Solace" that tangentially featured Bond. According to Wikipedia, "the tale has Bond attending a boring dinner party at the Government House in Nassau with a group of socialites he can't stand", which I can't imagine making things particularly enthralling.

And I was going to take a break from music posts for a while, but this morning I saw Helloween's video for "Kids of the Century" for the first time, and I didn't think that it was possible for them to go any further off the wall than I'd seen them before, but this one beats the lot. There's no way I can describe it here, but watch out for:

• Forks
• Flamingos
• Guitars (flying)
• Eggs (fried)
• Fish (sometimes electric)
• The deployment of all five of the above, together with Michael Kiske's disembodied head, in a psychedelic DDR-background-like montage
• A frankly terrifying double-mouth edit
• The men dressed like the Ninth Doctor with fried eggs over their eyes
• Michael Kiske jamming forks into his face
• Then realizing his microphone's turned into one later on

If you have any idea what it's trying to say, you're doing better than me.