A Chip in the Sugar

A Nick Cave book happened to be open on the piano from Saturday night.  I wanted to film something with the 70-200 lens that @christiancable had kindly lent to me.

I usually try and get things live, so I thought I’d try a pre-recorded piano part and experiment a bit.  Not sure what the Rubik’s cube is doing in there, but I think he looks great on video.

Someone asked why I didn’t put our music up on this site, and I had no good answer, so here’s a song.

I get bored of our songs pretty fast, but I hadn’t heard this for a year or so and there were lots of moments in it that we got excited about when we made them.

Not Every Moment Rules was named by Paul, who had heard the phrase on a director’s commentary for some film or other.

By the way, you can hear the rest of this album from here.

As with all the best people, I first met the terribly handsome and talented Bill Orrick at a barbecue.

We drank lager out of aluminium canisters for a few hours whilst picking the edible bits out of some burned husks of cow.

It was at some point in this meat-addled haze that I first heard the song “Oblivious”.  It is one of the very best songs anyone I know has ever made.  He and Leona are so happy just to sing songs like it’s nothing.  Just something you do along with eating and drinking.  Normal.

Rad.

This video was really just a learning process for me.  There were a bunch of things I wanted to experiment with… split-screen, using only daylight (which doesn’t work), audio looping, extensive titling (which now makes me cringe).

This was mainly done in one take, just with some bits cut out of it.  This means there’s no miming, which is what I wanted.  Everything you see being played is actually being played (just possibly in a different loop from the past).  Putting it together felt a bit like Primer.

The audio was recorded just in the room… so much is wrong with it, really… but I learned a lot.