harriet, by j matthew

or, lets play at being the music industry part 4628247

if you've just switched over, when we were in america, we had a few days to kill, and, for no good reason other than he's awesome, j matthew nix sent us a treatment for a video he wanted to shoot for harriet, by proxy. it was totally rad and fun and (for us) easy, we shot on our penultimate day, in chicago, which is kind of our spiritual motherland, and after a month spent using cgi to make my hair less grey, we have the finished package ready to show you guys.

it's fucking special.

last week saw us debating amongst ourselves, our label, our manager and our press dude on the best way to release it. as i think yr all sick of whining about by now, we r skintd, so th most obvious route seemed to be, find a way to monetize it; but that seemed kinda wrong considering the whole crew worked purely for the joy of it and never even mentioned anything as disgusting as money. and and and then we asked you guys, who pretty much gave us a list of every music website ever, and we were still undecided, till jack pop hit on the rad idea we're executing in the next few paragraphs. apologies to the 405, who, if one facebook post is anything to go by, are at least, 300% better than the nme and the dis, but th most punk thing to do seems to be this:

(actually the most punk thing to do would be to get you to make the video, but j matthew beat you to it, so consider this the second best option crossed with a bit of healthy experimentation)

You get the exclusive. yeh, YOU. welcome to the fun fun world of music journalism. here are two links to our manager's dropbox.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1121527/JxFx%20Harriet%20by%20Proxy%20Med.mov

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1121527/HARRIET_BY_PROXY%20-%20iPhone.m4v

the first is our awesome video for harriet, by proxy, the second is the same thing only ready for iStuff. The Music Press won't see this till the end of this week/start of next, and we'll put it on our youporn account and that soon if you just don't want to play our stupid game anyway.

If you do, then, here's the Product. remember, RIGHTCLICKCOPY!LOL. I've done at least 1000 interviews in the last few weeks where i've tried to articulate, in as least a pretentious manner as possible, how our band is way better for everyone if we replace as much of the industry as we practically can, with awesome human beings who just do stuff for the sheer love of being involved in something they believe in, and how that's pretty much our definition of punk and how we try to conduct ourselves. and it works; we meet a super skilled video guy on the other side of the planet and now we have a super skill video. So, in keeping with our lets-see-how-far-we-can-push-our-luck-with-no-money ethos, please feel free to post it all over the interwebs in ur utubes yadda yadda meme out.

here are some words of accrediting that need to be seen first, cos we know you internet people like to play fast and loose with copyrights. mention j matthew nix tho, cos this is all his fault. and us. and yourself, yr our internet dude, remember.

The big city is no place for a lost little ghost.

Directed by J Matthew Nix


-- CREW --
5D Operator: Mark R. Smith
7D Operator: T.J. Bachorz
Producers: Bruce Bohr and J Matthew Nix
B Camera Team: Nick Nylen
Transportation: Lance and his Dodge Caravan
Editing and Post Production: J Matthew Nix
Gear and Facilities provided by Absolute Vision: http://www.absolutevisionproductions.com

-- CAST --
Johnny Foreigner - Alexei Berrow, Kelly Southern, Junior Elvis Washington Laidley
Harassed Parkgoers - Dan Gardner, Ryan Allen
Terrified Passerby - Justinn McDaniel
Human Corkboard - Richard Scott
Disillusioned Twentysomething - Nick Nylen
True Patriot On Bicycle - We never got his name, did we?
Harriet - Herself

-- SPECIAL THX --
Freesound.org users Rhumphries, fonogeno, and stijn for recording their awesome city ambiance, Jack from Alcopop, Tim Kinsella, Emi Nakamura, Cat Briggs, Owen Cluer, Nyssa Preinitz, Christina Mulé, Pat O'Hara, Ashley Lusk, Jane Nix, Ken Nix, Lauren Nix, the kind man at Officemax who let me make 100 photocopies of a lost ghost poster at 6 AM, every goober who whined about The Big Show doc taking longer, every person who stared blankly at the camera in the background, Bank of America, Navy Pier, Subway, that tasty Italian place, coffee, wrist braces, Blood Red Shoes, Sky Larkin, Copy Haho, Los Campesinos!, the entire Jofo road crew for trusting a bunch of crazed Americans with their precious cargo, Final Cut, After Effects, Lady Luck, Father Fortune, and you for watching!

i feel everything vaguely polemic i've written on the internet in the last few months has had the spectre of matt from king adora hanging over me. specifically the myspace bulletin that read "come on guys, lets do an arctic monkeys". fuck those old ghosts.