New Rogue Wave Video (Feat. Bob Odenkirk) - "Chicago X 12"
One day Lindsay and Scott will arm wrestle to settle their ongoing Who Is The Bigger Mr. Show Nutcase feud they didn't know they were in until just now. Until they go over the top, though, one point goes to Lindsay for not only posting Rogue Wave's video for the previously loved "Chicago X 12" -- featuring Bob Odenkirk as a clueless director -- but also for spotting the trend and appending more music videos starring Bob and/or Dave as clueless directors. This includes the likes of YLT's "Sugarcube" and Superchunk's "Watery Hands" (but disqualifies the New Pornos' "Use It" and the Strokes' "Juicebox"). In the Rogue Wave clip, Bob is a misheard lyric specialist with a predilection for The Karate Kid. Not sure there's more you need to hear than that. Go watch at Videogum, it's a cute clip and a fun video spread. I saw the shit out of it!
Posted at 1:17 PM by amrit in Video
Tags: Bob Odenkirk | Mr. Show | Rogue Wave
It never ceases to be adorable how suavely Stereogum pimps the Videogum links. Just like an older brother who demands that his friends hang out and play ball with his younger retarded sibling as well.
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Eventually it will be just be automatic, if Videogum writes something music-related, but we haven't built that yet.
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I totally believe in dragons now
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Rogue Wave fans and supporters,
First off, I can’t believe Mr. Odenkirk is complaining so publicly about his frustration about the so-called video he “directed.” Let me give you some facts perhaps you don’t know.
For starters, we only agreed to “Discuss” ideas for the video but he showed up with this “Demo” video that looked like it was made that morning on the way to our studio. He could not have misunderstood the lyrics any worse, and I don’t know where he found those cardboard cut-outs of the band. He didn’t even have enough – there are five of us! And I guess I don’t resemble my cut-out very much because Odenkirk clearly mistook me for a production assistant when he asked me to get him a cup of coffee (actually, he just sort of barked "double cap, tepid, and unload the trucks!"). When I told him that I was in Rogue Wave, he just mumbled “What’s that?” without looking up from his cell phone. Later he freaked out and wouldn't talk to anyone because one of the amps wasn't working. Finally I was able to explain to him that the sound didn't matter because we were basically lip synching to the album track and he just sort of stared into space with a half-grin, stroking his chin, and said, "So, “that's” how they do it...." All in all, the whole day felt like Mr. Odenkirk was more concerned with his green screen suit and karate stunt double than he was with the band's performance.
I am not trying to harp on Mr. Odenkirk’s methods of directing, even if it did throw me off a little when he showed up to the set talking in robot voice and wearing a hand-made costume of cardboard and tin foil. I was sure he either he came straight from Burning Man or thought he was going to audition for a part in Transformers 2. But all that aside, the band feels terrible that so much uproar has come about from this. We just want to just put it behind us and move on. To our fans, I would like to apologize again for all of the confusion. And Bob, believe me when I say that there are no hard feelings on our side.
Zach Rogue [end quote]
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