Ted Leo Casting Call
The Punk Guy forwards us this email about an opportunity to hang with Mr. Leo this weekend:
if you or anyone you know is interested in participating in this video shoot, please contact Sara at the email address and phone numbers below. We’re particularly interested in a variety of types of people. The song is “Bomb Repeat Bomb” from Ted’s new album on Touch And Go out March 20.Ted should be fine for volunteers -- Williamsburg is the perfect place to find hipsters more willing to stand around than watch the Super Bowl. And they're "particularly interested in a variety of types of people," which means your chances of being cast are higher than usual! Fill us in if you go.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give. We all hope this will be over before the game starts ha ha,————————————————————-
hi friends,I am directing a music video and I’m seeking participants for a street scene we are shooting this coming Sunday. The video is for a new song from Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, we’ll be shooting in Williamsburg during the day, we’ll have breakfast and lunch for everyone, and I’m super excited about it… and urgently in need of volunteers!
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Sara Grady
ladygrady@earthlink.net
Posted at 12:35 PM
Tags: Ted Leo
I like these guys less and less. For all their quote literary influence they sure enjoy making/participating in thoughtless mannerist wankery with no humanism or narrative. And every Wes visual rip just kinda makes one shudder. C'mon brainiacs! get past frosh year lib arts self love. and the subtitling is kinda demeaning to the viewer as well as being aesthetically unengaging and inconsistent. suck it yawl
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Ah, what is more fun than a badly-acted pretentious music video?
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THIS. IS. AWFUL.
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I had to switch it off after the first 20 seconds.. INDIE BANDS: DON'T 'ACT' IN YOUR VIDEOS. VERY BAD IDEA.
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Chris Ott, where are you when we need you?
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If the band seemed any less self-aware (in this video, and in general) I'd say all this slowly-festering Decemberists hatred would be somehow warranted. But, seriously, if you can make it past the first 20 seconds of that video (or if you can sit though an interview with Colin Meloy, or at least attempt an impartial view of one of their live shows, etc) it becomes pretty clear that THEY don't consider themselves to be the hot indie shit that so many people are ragging on them for being. So why all the vitriol? Just leave them freaking be and go rag on some band that actually DOES think they're, like, god's gift to hipsters.
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