While I don't know if this video is, as guitarist Jamie Cook claimed in an MTV interview, "one of the best videos in, like, the last ten years," it is a lot of fun. Plus, unlike a hell of a lot of videos hitting the streets lately, it actually seems to have something to do with the song.

Sure, on the surface, it may just look like the madcap mayhem of a bunch of vigilante clowns. But much like the way the song's jaunty beat and clever, rapid-fire lyrics slowly reveal the lament of a faded party girl, at its heart this video is lamenting lost innocence. It just happens to achieve that by featuring Snatch's Stephen Graham as an angry clown haunted by his past as he confronts a childhood friend gone bad.

Plus, clowns beating up bank robbers! Who doesn't enjoy that?

Today we celebrate David Bowie's 60th birthday -- only a few years left before the king of glam rock reaches senior status. To honor his coming of age, BBC News has put together “60 facts about the iconic singer, actor and artist.”

Born as David Robert Jones, Bowie has lived both a rebellious and influential life. My favorite factoid is number eleven on the list: “At the age of 17, he was interviewed on a BBC programme as the founder of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men. He complained: ‘It's not nice when people call you darling and that’.”

An angsty teen of the early 60's, Bowie's long-haired revolution coincided with the coming of Beatles and their famed mop tops. Thanks to the GooTube search engine, I found said clip from the BBC show where Bowie announces his life-long love of long hair - the trend that would soon become a rock n' roll standard.

This PSA features a variety of British celebrities, including several former band geeks turned rock stars, speaking out against bullying -- advising young children not to pick on people who will one day be bigger and/or cooler than they are. Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand and Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters offer good advice, though possibly less useful for the internet crowd.

And as well-meaning as this ad is, the emotion trembling in each person is a bit overwrought. Also, no one, not even rugby star Jason Robinson, sounds cool when saying "Take a stand -- wear a band." No wonder these guys got beat up in school.

Haunted by the howling of backup vocals and the repetitive pulse of the piano, this new track from the UK band Polytechnic has been named NME’s track of the week. The popular UK music mag NME describes Man Overboard as “a hypnotic marching anthem for dreamers on woozy prescription pills.”

With their album dropping in UK stores today, the Polytechnics' new track sounds a bit like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with a raging hangover. According to Stockard Channing of Stereogum, “the first time we bumped into Manchester's Polytechnic, we just couldn't get over just how much Clap Your Hands Say Yeah came through in the band's sound. It wasn't just in the nasal, Alec affectations; it was in the use of bass as melody mover, the simple, snare and closed-hat indie beats.”

Regardless of the song's inspiration, this video is beautifully traumatic and we love the dapper sparrow. With the urban sprawl devastating the half-man-half-bird's very being, the ink-on-paper animation style is as gritty as it is mesmerizing.