The Existential Journey
September 03, 2011
Sometimes it's possible to combine several smaller things to form one larger concept. Consider Balloon Trip: An Existential Journey as seen on Tiny Cartridge that combines clips from classic video games such as Paperboy, Root Beer Tapper, Balloon Fight, Harvest Moon, and Wall Street Kid set against "Once in a Lifetime" performed by The Talking Heads to present an existential journey by way of gaming. The result is a surprisingly effective statement regarding human existence. Same as it ever was, indeed. I say that the segments featuring the more repetitive portions of Harvest Moon drive the point home the best, but snippets of Wall Street Kid's nagging spouse set against the lyric "This is not my beautiful wife" and a Paperboy moment that involves a giant truck matched against a line about a large automobile work quite well, too.