Big K.R.I.T., "Boobie Miles"

Remember the part in You Can Count On Me, when Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney are out on the deck, talking and smoking a joint, and a moth flutters by and lands on Ruffalo’s hand, and just sits there for a moment while the scene continues, before fluttering away? It is one of my favorite things to have ever happened in any movie, that. (I am easily astonished, maybe.) Well, there’s a part in this new Big K.R.I.T. video, directed by Vashtie, around the 1:15 point, when a pigeon flies between the camera and the basketball player who is practicing his foul shot (I think at the courts in Sara D. Roosevelt Park at Chrystie St. and Houston St. in Manhattan) that’s a little bit like that. (Both instances being happy filmic accidents involving the unscripted appearance of winged creatures.) I mean, it’s not as magical as the moth. (WHAT COULD BE?!) But something about it, watching the bird’s wings flap in crisp, black-and-white slow motion, just perfectly captures the slow, graceful beauty of K.R.I.T.’s flow — and even somehow speaks to the message of the song, which is named for the tragic star running back from Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights. Keep trying hard, athletes, humans, pigeons! Take to the sky!