“I was never allowed to play all the sports that my friends did,” the cards say. “It kinda sucks that I missed out on that part of my life. I really just hoped that I could be the same as everyone else.”

Breedlove, 18, recalls how since the age of 4 he had “cheated death” several times by being revived after his heart stopped beating.

He says the episodes were scary, but during the last one, his visions were so peaceful that he didn”t want to wake up.

He writes that he had a vision of a white room in which he”s wearing a white suit and is with his favorite rapper, Kid Cudi.

“I then looked at myself in the mirror,” he wrote. “I was proud of MYSELF, of my entire life, everything I have done.”

He says the incident was on Dec. 6, after he passed out in a hallway at his high school, where he was a senior.

Messages His LegacyHis mother, Deanne Breedlove, told the Austin American-Statesman that the videos brought joy to a tragic moment.

“It was a gift to us,” she said, “And for him to be so confident and unafraid of death and to share it with other people was so touching.” Breedlove had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which means the heart has different levels of thickness and can”t pump blood evenly.

In addition to the two pre-Christmas videos, Breedlove recorded others on his own YouTube channel discussing, sans index cards, mainstream teenage topics such as how a girl can ask a guy to a dance.

Web wanderers and bloggers say they find Breedlove”s attitude inspiring. On Monday, Kid Cudi blogged, “This has really touched my heart in a way I can”t describe … To Ben”s family, you raised a real hero, hes definitely mine.”

But as if following James Murphy’s predictions in the song Losing my Edge, next time we heard about Klaxons they had ditched the turntables and embraced the guitars for Surfing the Void, an album at once dense and dreamy, with heavy guitars, out of time keyboards and vocal that reminds of grunting. Then came the interviews: there were tales of biblical visions and Ayuhasca, collective consciousness and the world shift, bringing together of humanity and shamanism.

It could be worrying but there is no ordinariness in Klaxons and its vision can still be clearly perceived behind it all. They are determined to create something extraordinary, and the only way of achieving it is standing where few people have been before. Unlike Samson, Klaxons strength survived Delilah and they can still wrest a lion a day.

Klaxons UK tour dates: Manchester (Nov 11), Norwich (Nov 12), Bournemouth (Nov 13), Nottingham (Nov 14), London (Nov 16), Cambridge (Nov 17), Oxford (Nov 18), Birmingham (Nov 20), Glasgow (Nov 21), Leeds (Nov 22).

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