Oh, how I wanted to hate this video. Yesterday was the thousandth episode of Attack of the Show—how did you celebrate?—and while I only caught about two minutes in between commercials of whatever else I was watching (I think it was a documentary about salt; I’m not joking), I did manage to catch the tail end of this video. It’s “The Girl at the Video Game Store,” a song written by Parry Gripp; the video was directed by Michael W. Shaw, of G4.
The premise is simple: there’s always one girl at the local GameStop, and she’s always the center of attention. This song is about her, played here, with aplomb, by Olivia Munn.
I tell ya, if I had been drinking water or whatever when I first heard the line “she’s my final fantasy” I would have done a spit-take.
Well done, I say, and I hate everything, as you all must know by now.
Dang, the tune is kinda catchy…Olivia Munn, will you marry me?
Saw her live at this year’s E3. She is super nice and was taking photos and signing autographs with fans in between takes.
I dunno, after watching that I was left going “WTF”? The unfortunate thing is that now the song will probably be stuck in my head all day long! ;)
I’ll tell ya’ what.
I don’t often watch G4, but I happened to be channel surfing one day and I stopped to watch her show and that’s one girl this old man could fall in love with.
G4 has always had less to do with games than with things like this (the reason its struggled with daytime geeks who actually have wives/girlfriends to come home to at night).