Our weirdly fated children’s band side-project, The Hilltop Hightops has been sitting tight all year as The Flute Squad finish our second album Boneslinky! and Wild Bonerz rip it up at Bourbon Festivals (and get kicked out of chain restaurants.)

The cool thing is that dormant good projects never die, they tend to just spread on their own. This phenomenon is demonstrated by this strange clip featuring the song “Davinci Jacks” spotted on YouTube just the other day:

This scene, from a film called Malice Manor Rock Concert directed by Baltimore no-budget film mainstay Jimmy Traynor and written by Marlene Zechman, has been described to me as:

“a comedy short about a retirement home where the residents really run the place and the staff only think they do. They get away with all kinds of antics and pranks. Malice Manor is not your ordinary retirement home.”

I especially like the dude rocking out in the wheelchair at about :28 seconds in.

No word yet on when Malice Manor Rock Concert will be released or who will see it. Either way it’s lovely to see our kidz music incorporated into such a delightfully twisted project.