BREAKING NEWS

Well, not really, but I just wanted to share this startling development in the decidedly weird Youtube saga that began with a young Midwestern fellah doin' balisong to a techno song. I last covered this delightful oddity here, and at the time, only two videos had been uploaded by the user.

Now, a third has arrived:

Not all that special, just the old lady from the previous two videos and some dude talking...Wh-Wait!? What the fuck? Is that Diplo? The hip DJ who produced some of M.I.A.'s best songs and forms one half of Major Lazer?? What is he doing there?

Once again, the video offsets all expectations by being both banal and exciting. Yes, it is just a conversation about books and trinkets in some old lady's kitschy southern fried house, but she happens to be talking to a guy who's arguably SO HOT RIGHT NOW, and he's game for it, chatting away about old, unread books and dinky kaleidoscopes.

Again, it's clearly a professional production, and probably the work of some postmodernist Wes Anderson wannabe art student. A key detail is the fact that their dialogue is subtitled, and in a cool font. What will you do next, strange young balisong man. I must know!

Incidentally, if you're not familiar with Diplo, check out Major Lazer's Pon De Floor.

The video is directed by Eric Wareheim, one half of the mind-melting comedy duo, Tim & Eric:

See, we're learning!