Saturday night pop culture break

I'm of the firm belief, as I've posted before, that no matter how cool you think you are, and no matter how up to speed you are on pop culture, if you are over 50, the under-30 set is going to view you as an old fart. I mean, I like John Mayer, so how cool can I possibly be?

I'm not much of a fan of Gnarls Barkley, though that song that was in heavy rotation on WXPK 107.1 FM for a while has been known to stick in my brain. But I'm a sucker for retro-style videos. I may be the only person in the world who actually LIKED Lou Bega's Mambo #5, though it wasn't so much that I liked the song, it was for the cool vintage jazz footage in the video.

I found this new Gnarls Barkley video at Pandagon, and I agree with Amanda: it is deeply amusing. And that Motown bass line filched from old Supremes records is really, really hooky, isn't it? I would also add that it's not easy to cram 80 years of music and popular culture into a 4:13 video. And yes, that is Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell (whose name I always seem to forget, my brain opening the folder marked "Harry Dean Stanton" for at least 30 seconds before I get it right) doing the Ken Burns-style narration: