Thursday, Nov 24, 2005

We've had this week off from shows, from traveling, and it's been an almost unfathomable bounty. We didn't really know what to do with ourselves. Michael sat in his room on a foot stool and whacked away at phantom drums with phantom sticks, pausing every three minutes or so to sip from a beer waiting near his feet. Half an hour in he pulled out his camera and took a flash photo of his closet. Chris drove up and down the New Jersey Turnpike; paid tolls; pulled into service areas to grab coffee and pee. Keith spent afternoons at his kitchen table, sharpie in hand, autographing junk mail.

And of course, creatures of rigid habit that we are, we shot another video. This one's for It's A Hit, which will be our next single in both the U.S. and the U.K., and will be out around the beginning of the year. Didn't we already shoot a video for It's a Hit? For the DVD? Yes we did. But you can never have too many videos, and you can never have enough videos, and so by this time next year we'll probably have shot half a dozen videos for every song on the album. Which has never been done before, supposedly.

This new video, it'll be trudging through the post-production muck for a while -- we're going over to Akiva's place tomorrow to see a rough cut and try our damnedest to polish his chopped turd -- but we cut together a short preview for you from some early screen shots. Get a look at this ridiculous bull.