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Moby And His Mutant Breakdancing Octopus

The music video for Moby's "I Love to Move In Here," from Mute Records features the usual New York city night life. There's a club, lights, infamous drag queen Lady Bunny and a mutated sea creature disguised as a tiny, glowing man. It's from Moby's new album Last Night.

3:33 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Meredith Woerner
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avanjasound at 04:09 PM on 05/15/08
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did i miss something? when did io9 jump the shark? there is still a cool sci-fi related story here and there...but the random "check this out" posts are so weak.

less fluff! more SCI FI!!!

and no, MOBY is *not* sci-fi and neither is Mummenschanz.

[muppet.wikia.com]

ps. I have been a fan of this site since its launch, hate to see its content go downhill...
bonniegrrl at 04:40 PM on 05/15/08
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I wish rappers would swap out the usual dance hos for drag queens! Yay for Lady Bunny. Now let's get Hedda Lettuce in the next Snoop Dogg vid!
Priam at 04:48 PM on 05/15/08
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God, I hate New York.
hughman at 04:49 PM on 05/15/08
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i love me some Lady Bunny too!

this will be the background for a car commercial in 5, 4, 3, 2....
extracrispy at 05:45 PM on 05/15/08
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What a delightfully weird video.

BTW, that Moby album is fantastic. It's like a history of New York nightlife. The rapper on that song is Grandmaster Caz, one of the very first MCs and the guy who wrote some of the lyrics to "Rapper's Delight."
bonniegrrl at 06:49 PM on 05/15/08
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For you Moby Haters out there:

"I think people hate you and don't know why."

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Cantonkid at 08:57 PM on 05/15/08
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Sorry, I am not seeing the 'mutant' aspect here. Does this mean that every Disney character or McDonalds mascot is a 'mutant' too? I always had my suspicions about Mayor McCheese.

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Ghede at 09:26 PM on 05/15/08
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@bonniegrrl: "Oh I don't like where this is going." Pure. Gold.
Priam at 09:43 PM on 05/15/08
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Sharpless at 11:20 PM on 05/15/08
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Trumpy, you can do funky things!
dOk at 11:23 PM on 05/15/08
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Maybe its baby Clover?
DSTRYA at 03:18 AM on 05/16/08
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he looks so hilarious in his little snow suit-- i'm just glad they used a real puppet instead of bad CG.

could IO9 keep showing scifi music videos? e.g. this Rick Springfield video where he fights alien overlords.. with rock and roll?

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phoghat at 04:00 AM on 05/16/08
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We are not men, We are Devo
Smeagol92055 at 06:02 AM on 05/16/08
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Meh, I've seen weirder in the club.
Fwiffo at 06:21 AM on 05/16/08
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@Priam: When my girlfriend saw that she laughed at the stocking heads for about 45 minutes. I truly love Devo.
Seth L at 09:30 AM on 05/16/08
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Heee. Moby himself can be annoying, but I heart his music.
Moeskido at 01:17 PM on 05/17/08
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@bonniegrrl: Thanks for that link. Never seen that show before. Hilarious weird Brit not-talk/not-game show.

Moby's a good sport.
Meredith Woerner at 06:39 PM on 05/19/08
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@DSTRYA: I'm going to try and start showing more new science fiction music videos. Just to keep everyone updated of fresh scifi newness.

And then every once and a while pull some vinatge footage from crazy Kraftwerk videos and things like the Rick Springfield video.