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Modest Mouse — "King Rat"

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By CHARTattack Staff August 4, 2009 1:53 pm
Modest Mouse's animated clip for "King Rat" was directed by the late Heath Ledger. It's meant to be a protest against illegal whaling off the coast of Australia, and it's pretty darn gory. Modest Mouse's No One's Next And You're First EP is in stores now.
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Heath Ledger's Modest Mouse Video Premieres

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 4, 2009 11:52 am
The Heath Ledger-directed video for Modest Mouse's "King Rat" has surfaced online. The animated clip debuted on MySpace Music on Tuesday. Ledger began directing it just before his death in early 2008. It is intended to be a protest against "the illegal commercial whale hunts taking place off the coast of Australia,"...
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Heath Ledger Directed Modest Mouse Video

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By CHARTattack Staff March 13, 2009 11:33 am
Academy Award-winning actor Heath Ledger apparently directed an unreleased music video for Modest Mouse's "King Rat" in London, England before he died in New York City 14 months ago, according to a new Entertainment Weekly article on film director Terry Gilliam. Gilliam was directing Ledger in The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus when...
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Late Actor Heath Ledger Also Had Music Ties

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By CHARTattack Staff January 23, 2008 6:00 pm
Heath Ledger was obviously best known as an actor, but the 28-year-old Australian — whose dead body was found in his Manhattan, New York apartment on Tuesday afternoon — also had music connections. And one of them is now pretty eerie. Ledger was a big fan of melancholy British singer/songwriter Nick Drake, who committed suicide by overdosing on...
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