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Back in 2006 when we shot the Woke Up New music video for the Mountain Goats, I wanted to also make something for my favorite song on the album, “Wild Sage.” So I shot John Darnielle singing the song in front of a black background, turned the footage black and white and high contrast, and printed out every frame of it on 8x10 paper. I then took these stacks of paper to Cape Cod and began to animate them as stills, shooting with my Canon 5D. It took much longer than I thought, and my vacation was over before the video was shot, so I took them back to NYC intending to finish the video there. I never did. So this is all there is.
The printouts somehow ended up in my cousin Nathan’s possession, and seven years later he found them stacked in a box and asked me what these thousands of bizarre photos of John Darnielle’s face were for.
And I said “oh yeah, that thing. I should upload it to Vimeo or something.”
OH you mean this anniversary special of Les Miserables where 17 different Jean Valjeans from international productions sing DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING including the HOST OF JAPAN’S IRON CHEF!!??
Amy let’s learn the words
Bullish Life: When Men Are Too Emotional To Have A Rational Argument
Oh hey, here’s an article about emotions, feminism and approaches to discourse that don’t involve yelling! And I really like it.
I think it’s because somehow I wound up with a job where I try to explain things to angry people all day. It’s neat to think of those interactions in terms of subtext and gender.
OH MY GOODNESS FINE MIST WAS GREAT TONIGHT.
I have no voice because I was cheering so much.
(They didn’t play this song tonight, which is fine, it’s a deep cut, but it’s my favourite of theirs for some reason, so any excuse to post it, really)
(Source: vimeo.com)
Went to see this guy tonight. He’s one of those singers that’s so endearing live that your face hurts from beaming at him by the end of the night. It’s still breakup music, but at least it’s adorable breakup music.
Jens Lekman has more recent videos that are also very good, but I love this song, so old video with Swedish credits over his face it is!
One of the many silver linings to this whole breakup thing is being in the perfect headspace to dig right into Fiona Apple’s most recent album.
I also really enjoyed hearing her talk about a family of hummingbirds in her back yard on the WTF podcast a while back.
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