words_have_been_burned_on_the_memory_bone raze i posted this semi-anonymously over on blue last summer, before i started blathing there again with any kind of regularity, instead of sharing it here where the other 'skites actually know who the hell i am. i don't know why i did that. i really don't understand the way my mind works sometimes. so i'm rectifying that strange mental glitch now. better late than clever, right? in the summer, someone made a music video for one of the songs on "an_absence_of_sway". it's probably the only time i'm ever going to have a "real" music video that isn't just chopped-up public domain footage i've edited myself or grainy diy recording footage. it still seems a little surreal to me that it happened at all. http://vimeo.com/44869890 it's not a glossy high-budget video, but that's one of the things i enjoy about it. i like the rawness and the feeling of voyeuristic spontaneity it has. i like the way time lapse photography creates the impression of stop-motion animation, with people in place of figurines. i like the complete absence of any artificial lighting, short of what was available in the room at the time. the video is not as lighthearted as it might seem to be on the surface; there's a pretty tangled back story involved, about what the song really means, and how the video plays off of that, and how daniella had no idea what the song was about and no way know way of knowing how what she was doing was mirroring what the music grew out of. but that's tangled, and thorny, and maybe it's best left to the viewer/listener to decide what it all means to them. for me, it's a song that's still a little close to the bone, and i'm not sure i could sing it again. but i can at least listen to it. and i think the video daniella made is like a dream of what might have been but never was. or, as jim in box_of_fire might say, "it is what it is...and it ain't cheez whiz." 130123 ... raze "no way know way". jesus christ. i think i'm trying to set a new record for blather typos lately. 130123 ... raze i revisited this just a handful of days ago, for probably the first time since i wrote about it on this blathe, and it was still as surreal as it was the first time i saw it. if no other song of mine ever gets a proper music video in my lifetime, i'm okay with that, because at least there's this thing that was made by a friend i'll probably never meet. 150303 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Yeah! You should be proud - of your part and the other people's. I admit I didn't know quite what to think about it much when I saw it last year, other than to laugh at the rolling-up-in-a-blanket part, but it's a powerful song, with a lot of different things going on, and I think the concept of the video matches that. I liked how the little things matched: sort of "uh uh" sounds with the making out/sex part angrier bits at the fighting-ish part swelling instrumentation for them starting to build forts around each other, because forts are multi-instrumental things lyrics about not writing paired with both of the actors writing and the questioning cat. Cats are very questioning. I also was impressed with her video for the song "Birds" by Learning; three young-adult siblings apparently burying a pet and planting a tree at the gravesite, with mirror-effects on the cinematography that added and didn't distract from the mood. 150304 what's it to you? who go blather from