The Milkman (and his wife's tits)


You (yes, you) absolutely must see this.

The thing I love most in this life (and excuse me if you don't care but, well, write your own sodding blog if it's such a big issue) is contrast, which I think is beautifully demonstrated here.

The serene, playful (although still mildly disturbing) and fanciful entrance steamrolls its way to a grotesque and all-too-real ending that is hard to forget. I know there are many people who would consider this a piece of deliberate shock animation designed only to satisfy us deranged Generation-whatever-the-fuck-letter-they-gave-us-ers' sense of morbid death fascination (bet noone's ever written a sentence like that before). For those who feel this way, I have only pity inside me.

A good friend of mine used to insist on showing me disturbing images from the internet. "We all need to see this kind of thing sometimes," he would prattle away while displaying online video of a small child being decimated by an oncoming train. Well, he was right. Everyone needs to know that the world is a scary, tragic, comical, and uncaring place where good people die horribly and bad people have lots of fun. And the sooner you know this and accept it, the sooner you can start dealing with the world and making the right decisions for the right reasons.

Wow, who'd have thought that a short, horrific cartoon could make such a profound statement about humanity?

As a sidenote, the music that plays during the cartoon is by Aphex Twin and was written long before this cartoon was ever made, thus only adding to the genius of the piece. For those of you who have never heard of Aphex Twin, prepare thyselves for damnation for surely it shall be yours.