Word: sequitur
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...thing only, let it be this: never follow a man wearing impeccable eyeliner. 30 Seconds to Mars’ “From Yesterday” places thoroughly made-up Jared Leto and his three companions in ancient China, complete with a child emperor and a non-sequitur samurai. There’s some plot about time travel and lost love and a treasure map, but it’s only a weak set up for some amazingly incongruous scenes: four pale, emo-uniformed men walking in the midst of samurai. Leto wields a katana while wearing black fingerless gloves...
...vast majority of the Americans that Borat meets, despite some fairly staggering failings, are polite almost to a fault (New York City pedestrians excepted). People indulge his nonsensical, offensive, and otherwise non sequitur comments, often responding to even the most ridiculous statements with a tactful “well, we really don’t do things like that over here...
...Throughout the episode, Averell was prone to non-sequitur outbursts, such as “Put on some pants—it’s time to dance!” or a long session of scat-singing while jogging to a clue...
...Editors are masters of the non-sequitur. While it’s no surprise that their video for “Munich” is unrelated to the song—they do, after all, try painfully hard to be arty—nothing seems to be related to anything else at all here. The title and the visuals seem to be totally unrelated to the lyrics, which are a fairly standard sub-Interpol: elliptical and dark...
...piece together just how Gondry (here in his fourth video collaboration with the White Stripes) manages to pull it off in one shot. Digital trickery aside, it looks like the filming must have required some very oddly-shaped rooms, trapdoors, and Rockettes-level choreography.The video is ultimately a non sequitur: most of the video has nothing to do with the song, and many of the events depicted within have nothing to do with each other. This doesn’t really matter, though; the video is too cool and strange to let a little thing like reality...