heath ledger

Earlier today, my father sent over a link to the new Modest Mouse video for the song "King Rat" from the recently released EP No One's First and You're Next. Being the big MM fan that I am, I watched it as soon as I could. Directed by Heath Ledger before his untimely passing last year, the six-minute animated video features a little twist on whaling, switching things around so that the whales are doing the poaching and the humans are being poached. A bit gruesome at times, especially during the skinning scenes, it does a good job to raise awareness about illegal poaching of whales in south Asian and Australian waters. Check it out: