Here’s a nice little palate cleanser to follow all that heavy stuff, a video that’s been making the rounds this week (I’m ashamed to admit that Samurai Frog and Jaquandor beat me to the punch on this one). It’s a creative lip-synch of a cute little song that’s all about my favorite movie, set to several of the more memorable themes by movie-music maestro John Williams. If you don’t know your John Williams themes, the titles are helpfully provided in pop-ups (although if you don’t know what these particular themes are, you’re not much of a movie fan, or you didn’t grow up in the ’80s):

As it happens, I’ve actually heard this song before. It’s a by a Utah-based a capella group called moosebutter. Utahns in general seem to really groove on this sort of stuff; there are a number of similar groups, all composed of clean-cut young men of LDS background, and all of which seem to have at least one song or comedy routine that somehow relates to Star Wars. (Voice Male is another example; they do the Wookiee call and have a “I am your father” gag in their stageshow.) Many of them seem to have a connection to Utah County and/or BYU as well. Go figure.

One small quibble with this (hey, it wouldn’t be me if I weren’t griping about something, right?): I object to the pop-up that reads “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.” That’s the revisionist title that appears on the sleeve for the DVD, but the actual movie is and always has been simply Raiders of the Lost Ark. I know, it’s something the Comic Book Guy would get up in arms about, but I have my principles, you know?