Vampire Weekend Trailer from ezra on Vimeo.
Who knew they were filmmakers too? Back in 2005, when these hep cats were still at Columbia University, Ezra (the lead singer) made a film called "Vampire Weekend"; above is the trailer for said film. The film inspired the band most obviously through the name, but apparently it went even further than that. According to sources (wikipedia), "Ezra plays the main character, Walcott, who has to go to Cape Cod to tell the mayor that vampires are coming". So if you know anything about anything, you'll already have made the connection between the plot and the songs "Walcott" and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" on Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut album. And if you're a true hep cat, you would've known about this 5 years ago, before the album was even released.
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