Joni Mitchell playing ‘Furry Sings the Blues’ and ‘Hejira’ with a jazz supergroup back in 1987
Doug Gillard - ‘Breaking In Two’
Side A of Doug Gillard’s Breaking In Two 7”, apparently from 2011 I completely missed this at the time, been listening to it a lot recently. The B-side is worth checking out too
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.”
Caitlin Rose, “I Was Cruel”
from the upcoming album The Stand-In (3/5/13)
James Hurley from Twin Peaks dressed as 80s Sting having techno (?) music explained to him, from the movie Vibrations (1996 by way of 1986)
