Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the newest video from Toxic Moxie, and it definitely lives up to the standards for action, gore, and randomness (not to mention awesome funk-punk grooves) set by last year’s excellent “Talking Hands” video.
Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the newest video from Toxic Moxie, and it definitely lives up to the standards for action, gore, and randomness (not to mention awesome funk-punk grooves) set by last year’s excellent “Talking Hands” video. The song, “Blurry,” comes from Toxic Moxie’s second EP, Episode V, which was released back at the beginning of June. Where “Talking Hands” used the zombie apocalypse as a theme, the video for “Blurry” goes a different but equally entertaining route, giving us an epic involving a duo whose activities can only be described as LARPing. If you aren’t familiar with the term, that’s an acronym referring to Live Action Role Play. Yes, as in “Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!”
So now that you’re prepared for some serious dork-outs, get ready for Toxic Moxie to throw you a bit of a curveball. This song starts out with a long, quiet intro, and during that intro, we see the two young men whom this video centers on constructing their costumes. Before they do that, though, they wave lighters in each other’s faces and wiggle their fingers distractedly in a manner that pretty much screams “these dudes are high!” This is foreshadowing; once these stoner knights hit the streets of Richmond, we can expect things to get weird. First they battle another medieval-style LARP duo in a park somewhere. After winning this skirmish handily, they are set upon by a whole different type of LARPing troupe, who are firing laser guns at our heroes. Somehow, the heroes deflect the laser beams with swords, managing to hold their own for a while. Eventually things get weird and gory, and the video’s narrative seems to disappear entirely by the end, though that doesn’t make it any less interesting.
Throughout this whole visual sequence, we’re hearing a pretty excellent tune that mixes Devo and The Rapture with some soulful vocals from always-excellent singer Sera Stavroula. When bassist Mitch Kordella steps up and screams a bit on the bridge, things get a bit goofy, but only in a good way, in that same way that Devo got goofy sometimes and it just made you love a song more. By the way, the video’s representation of the band is as obtrusively pixellated video game characters, complete with weird geometric clothing designs, and that is just perfect. You need to watch this video.
By the way, you can catch Toxic Moxie live later this month when Radio Rubber Room throws a Pink Moon Festival Preview show at The Broadberry on Saturday, August 23. Toxic Moxie will be joined by Deaf Scene and Imaginary Sons, and all three of these bands will be performing at Pink Moon Festival 6, taking place on September 11-15 in Rock Camp, WV. Admission is $10, which is certainly a lot cheaper than the Pink Moon Festival will be, and the whole thing will be over by 2 AM–certainly not nearly as drawn out an affair as a four-day festival. Sounds awesome, right? Grab your tickets HERE!
