Pitchfork

We've all heard how if you cue up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at the proper moment at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz (third MGM lion roar or something like that), and take copious amounts of drugs, you'll be amazed to find the two sync up rather tellingly. But what about the modern classics, records like Pitchfork's eighth favorite album of 2006, Grizzly Bear's Yellow House?

Seems Yellow House syncs cinematically after all, according to the unnamed blogger behind 12 Computers (so named in honor of an apparent OK Computer/12 Monkeys sync). 12C has discovered that the Grizzlies' sophomore LP aligns in all-too-convenient fashion with Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's 1995 dark fantasy flick La Cité des Enfants Perdus (aka The City of Lost Children).

The eerie, visually-dazzling French film stars Ron Perlman as a sub-literate circus strongman who befriends a young street urchin and embarks on a quest to save his "little brother" from a diabolical inventor, his midget wife, and their hapless cloned henchmen. Jeunet went on to direct Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, aka Amélie, which is probably your favorite film ever, as it should be.

The evidence for a Lost Children/Yellow House sync is fairly compelling: track titles like "Little Brother" seem to directly reference characters in the film, songs begin and end in tandem with scenes, and ambiguous lyrics apply rather aptly in the filmic context to City's protagonists, antagonists, and dramatic situations. Check out the detailed run-down from 12 Computers, who goes so far as to wager that the sync is deliberate.

The blogger has also discovered a somewhat more dubious sync between Thom Yorke's The Eraser and Stanley Kubrick's dark comedy classic Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Looks like my Friday night plans have been made!

As previously reported, Grizzly Bear bring their Yellow House love to lost children in cities across the U.S. and Canada beginning next month. Oh! And apparently if you play Yellow House backwards it will subliminally coerce you into killing Paul and worshipping Satan.

Cities of lost children:

02-01 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
02-02 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts *
02-03 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse *
02-04 Montreal, Quebec - Main Hall *
02-05 Ottawa, Ontario - Barrymore's Music Hall *
02-06 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
02-08 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig *#
02-09 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *
02-10 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry *
02-11 Iowa City, IA - The Picador *
02-13 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
02-14 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
02-16 Seattle, WA - Neumos ^
02-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Club ^
02-18 Portland, OR - Mission Theatre (two shows) ^
02-20 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall ^
02-21 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour ^
02-23 Tucson, AZ - Plush ^
02-24 Marfa, TX - Ballroom Marfa ^
02-26 Norman, OK - Opolis ^
02-27 Dallas, TX - Club Dada ^
02-28 Austin, TX - Emo's Jr. ^
03-01 Baton Rouge, LA - Chelsea's ^
03-02 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn ^
03-03 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 ^
03-04 Washington, DC - Black Cat ^
03-06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^

* with Dirty Projectors
# with Akron Family
^ with Papercuts