Kermit The Frog Singing “Needle In The Hay” Officially Kills Childhood Memories
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Those of you who have seen The Royal Tenenbaums (and it should be all of you) will remember the fateful seen when Richie , played by Luke Wilson , heads into the bathroom for an innocent beard shave when, the next thing you know, he's attempted suicide and falls into a pool of his own hair-strewn blood. It was a pivotal scene, made all the more haunting by Wes Anderson 's choice of ...
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Too Soon, Kermie. Too Soon.
Published 5/7/2008 at Videogum
... Via BWE, the "SadKermit" people who brought us lovable Muppet mensch Kermit The Frog singing "Hurt" and "Something I Can Never Have" present Kermit once again singing one of the saddest songs ever: the late Elliott Smith's heroin lament "Needle In The Hay." This could have been a cheap joke, but it's actually very well done (Kermit's double-tracked voice, the re-enactment of the Royal Tennenbaums suicide scene which also used the song). "Needle In The Hay" is a song it's almost impossible to hear without crying a little, and I did, but I also had to have a giggle at ...
