the wrens

One of the niftier things that happens on the county-wide web is that some folks have – on their own, mind you – made videos for songs of ours. I guess that happens for every band, but we still think we’re special. It’s a mid-life hormonal thing. Like our hot flashes.

But this is a video for the song Per Second Second from the Meadowlands that a young man named John Liang made a couple years back with his company Discreet Films.

By that time though, our website was a semi-abandoned electronic shipwreck, and we were entering the shadowy waters of another ‘self-questioning period’. With snacks.
Ok, actually we really just had a lot of shows abroad that year or something and so had stopped posting here so much, so the video never had a proper unveiling.

Somewhat unrelatedly, hearing the song again for the first time in the longest-of-asses time, it reminds me that one of the goals for this version of the song was to flip-flop the lead & back-up vocals, so that you’d really only hear the back-ups and that hopefully, that would be enough to drive the song, leaving the lead vocal inaudible except on headphones.

Still not sure that the back-ups are up to the task but the lead – you say you want that inaudible except in headphones? Can do.
It actually is in there though and the lyrics can be read & heard, translated from the original Middle English, here.

But so without further hubbub, belatedly, John Liang’s video for Per Second Second.
Thanks again, John.
Total love for the genie.

So like we’d said a couple weeks back, we did finally got together, all four of us, in the basement, first time in about 10 years et cetera, et cetera....on January 19th (that's 2009, by the by). And we'd asked our friends Joe Centeno, formerly of the band Plug Spark Sanjay, and Patrick Glennon to take some video & photos, respectively.

We were really just expecting Joe to edit together footage of us putting this first song together and that we'd be depicted in the usual older-drunk-uncles-at-a-wedding style that we've been accustomed to.

Instead, in one day, he turned out an actual bonafide music video and thus, we look cooler than we actually are.

You can relive that magical January evening here on our new foncy ponts YouTube channel, where we’ll be posting more filmic crap as we move along:

In our ‘about the film-makers’ section…clips from the documentary that Joe’s currently making on self-taught outsider artists can be seen here.

And the still photos in the video were taken by Patrick Glennon and his other
musician pix are here.

Thanks again, young art-men.

This past winter, after playing a show in Birmingham (the one in England; we’re playing the one in Alabama in Sept.; we hope to get to the ones in Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois and the TWO in Indiana asap).
Sorry, anyway, after that show, a smart young man named Peter Butler approached us about doing a video for our song, ‘boys you won’t’.
This is that video.
Basically, we really do encourage listener-made videos. If you bother to do all that work, really, the very least we can do is put it up on our website and let folks see it.

So thanks again, very much, Peter.
Someone get the lights…

Way back in September of last year, Jason Sievers, a wonderfully talented animator in Boise, Idaho, emailed us and asked if we’d be interested in
doing a video for one of the songs from our hit album, ‘Frampton Comes Alive’.

After clearing up misunderstandings, Jason spent the better part of this last year working on a stop-motion animated video for ‘she sends kisses’ (like a lot of us, he does this on the side, around the job & family stuff).

Anyway, without much further ado, here’s Jason’s video...except to say, be sure to check out his website where you can see others he’s done for the Posies, Built to Spill and a bunch of really nice others. Oh, and don’t miss the Devil cartoons:

http://www.hardmath.net/

Michael Palmieri’s video for “Faster Gun” from The Meadowlands.

Talking about "the first albums they ever bought."

The video for “Everyone Choose Sides” from The Meadowlands