Athens, Georgia
SOUNDIES are two things. They are one of the first forms of music videos-popular in the early 1940s. They were three minute musical films usually found on "video jukebox projectors" in bars and clubs. It's also the name we've affectionately titled a series of one take, low-fi, live sound music videos inspired by the "Take Away Shows" series from LaBlogotheque (takeawayshows.com)

Monday, May 19, 2008

ALLISON WEISS


What better way to spend a beautiful, breezy, stormy sunday afternoon in Athens, Ga, then to hang out with Allison Weiss at the site of the original famous 40 Watt Club?
The mysterious gentleman who let us up showed us the wire from the original 40 watt bulb hanging from the ceiling-it was too dark to catch on camera. If you listen carefully you can hear him tell us about the paintings by members of Pylon on the walls. It was a great setting for this particular song, we all agreed.


We'd wanted to shoot in front of our favorite downtown mid-day hang out, Walker's Pub, for a while and decided to get Allison and her brother for the day and make them walk and play through a bunch of strangers. The Vampire Weekend riffs in the beginning made for an unintended homage to Mr. Moon and his Vampire Weekend work on La Blogotheque.


Wuxtry Records. A legend. We'd tried to shoot on the patio above OK Coffee and next to a local comics store when the manager of the comics store not only told us to leave but acted like a strung-out prick about it. He sneered "good luck shooting in the rain" and we mumbled some words about how we'd have to buy our Manga somewhere else after this incident. So let this be a public statement on the world wide interweb: the guy working at the comic book store above ok coffee is an asshole. Luckily the guy working at Wuxtry welcomed us in with open arms and we were able to add the wonderful local record store to our Soundies set list. Thanks again for being so cool, man.


The last stop of the day before heading to Amici's for pizza and conversation, I don't think any more explanation is needed.

1 comment:

Andrew said...

"buy our manga elsewhere"

LOL!!!!!! sounds like the guy from the simpsons

Worst. Movie. Ever.