Two icons of the ’90s, Alicia Silverstone and Alanis Morrissette, have teamed up for a cause that affects all of us (especially knowledge-worker types who have extra time on their hands to read blogs): Movies with no discernible purpose other than throwing a bunch of highly bloggable artists on the soundtrack and using those songs to score long stretches of dialogue-free “pondering” about “life.” (Oh, and their cutesy credit sequences give work to animators, I guess.) They teamed up to make a trailer for a movie called MY Mother’s Red Hat (you can already figure out the “plot,” right?), complete with soundtrack almost as long as its script—and Vampire Weekend’s “A-Punk” soundtracking the commercial’s requisite “music crazily stopping to portray a crazy scene in the movie” bit. Clip after the jump.





And in case you’re a completist, here are all the bands namechecked in the trailer. Can you spot the fake ones? I’ll give you a hint: “Slightly Stoopid” is not one of them!
Vampire Weekend
Ra Ra Riot
Minus The Bear
Wilco
Kingdom Flying Club
Fleet Foxes
Slightly Stoopid
Preston School of Industry
Bright Eyes
Lions Dentures
Aspiring Waiters
Aural Sax
Burgundy Beer Bellies
Jody Foster’s Army
Cross Eyed Chicken
Tokyo Police Club
The Weakerthans
Muscular Lesbians
Husker Du
Sonic Youth
Dr. Dog
Frou Frou
Conor Oberst
Mates Of State
Lykke Li
Straylight Run
The Rural Alberta Advantage
The Umbrella Sequence
The Juliana Theory
Red Team Blue Team
Four Non Blondes
Shiny Toy Guns
And the premiere of an instrumental drum track played by a kitten


My Mother’s Red Hat [Funny Or Die]