Jealousy Rides With Me
music: Bikini Kill, actually
mood: blind
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of working with my friend Keith Schofield on his latest music video for Death Cab For Cutie. Yes, THE Death Cab For Cutie. The one that played the Bait Shop on the O.C. Well, the band wasn't in the video and the he made the video is one you probably haven't heard ("Jealousy Rides With Me" a b-side). Atlantic Records is commissioning a video for all of the songs on the album "Plans," and will be rolling them out on the official Death Cab website. Chances are, there will be a DVD with all the videos attached to a release of the album (yes, it does suck if you bought the album the first time around).
I've seen some rough cuts of the video and I think it's going to be a fantastic video and as soon as I am allowed to link it, you'll be able to see if for sure. This is the 5th video of Keith's that I've worked on, and each time I must admit he gets way more aggressive in his directing technique. My first video with him was a rap video for the band in which we shot in some pretty ghetto locations with a skeleton crew and a wheelchair. The second video was for DJ Format's "3 Feet Deep" in which I got beaten up by the DJ Format himself, mortal kombat-style. Keith also had me dressed up in a "Daniel-son" costume. Insult to injury.
By now I would have gotten the point about working with Keith, but when I heard about his "PI" video for the band Hard n' Phirm and how it was going to be about a 70's television kiddie show, I said why not. I later ended up being stuck inside a robot costume while being kicked around by a bunch of ethnically-diverse 10 year-olds (twin Mexicans, a black kid, an Asian girl, a Latino girl, and a white kid obsessed with paintball). I got to meet Chris Hardwick, though, who used to be the host of MTV's Singled Out.
After the shoot I told Keith I was through working with him. It was one of those moments I thought I would regret later, because you never know - this guy could be the next Joseph Kahn or Dave Meyers. So when Keith was like "Hey, you want to work on my next video for a band called Wintergreen? I'll let you edit, too. How could I say no? Then I find out that the video is about the worst video game of all time (E.T. for the Atari 2600) and involved some digging in the desert. The best part of the video shoot was when we ran out of gas in the middle of the desert when it was pitch-black and the only thing we could do while we waited for the band to bring us gas was to chase trains and throw rocks at them. True story.
Honestly, after this long narrative, I can't tell you why I signed up to help out on the Death Cab shoot. Maybe it was the promise of meeting girls. Maybe it was the promise of being immortalized on the "Directions" DVD. Free food? Why not? You do what you gotta do I guess, even if it means getting screamed at, being told to "Drop the basketball" or to "Fucking hug her!" I still have sand in my shoes from the shoot, but believe me when I say it's always a fun time working on a Schofield video.
That's me holding the "basketball."
For more information check out www.keithschofield.com
terry on 02.06.06 @ 11:58 PM PDT [link]
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