About a month back, I suggested that maybe Kanye West needed a vacation. Dude seemed tense, and was clearly acting out. So it was interesting to watch the beginning of the short film that he and Spike Jonze made together:
Which starts, of course, with Kanye acting out, freaking out on a couple of waitresses in a club who bring over champagne that's been bought for him by some other guest to celebrate his birthday. According to io9, it gets super-weird after that. I guess what I'm curious about though is Kanye's willingness to portray himself as tense, and strange, and behaving inappropriately, unable to accept kindness even if it's obsequious. It's a self-aware little scene. But it also illustrates the difficulties of adopting a complicated and not entirely functional public persona to further your art or your image. It's not easy to simply pretend to be difficult without slipping into actually being difficult, especially when you spend so much of your total life cultivating that image in public.
I still think Kanye could use a genuine vacation, someplace there aren't any photographers. Maybe he should go to Cape Cod for a while. It's quite there in autumn.