Music promo for Brandon Adamson’s new single, “Apricots and Afterthoughts” on Uncharted Records. Featuring Ashleigh Taylor Silverman, directed by Steven Christopher Wallace, sound mix by Daggrr. Shot entirely on discontinued Polaroid Spectra film.
Oh, and Jeff Cardello played the drums
I don’t like to go out much anymore because I’ve come to think it’s mainly an unproductive waste of time, but I’ve started making it to some of the newer Phoenix “DJ nights.” It’s almost a whole new generation of people, with nary a familiar face(which is both good and bad.) On Saturdays people seem to go to Black Forest Mill on 52nd st and Indian School. The night is called “Cheap Thrills.” The guys that run it know how to put on a great party. I try to have a good time when I go, but its certain i don’t belong in these times and places. Back in the days of “Hot Pink” and before that “Panic” and before that the L.A. nights I used to frequent, I used to know 90% of the songs,(assume a slight margin of error in that estimate) but now at these newer events I don’t recognize a single jam. In fact I can barely even detect when one song ends and the next begins. It’s just straight up mechanical dance music with a bunch of remixes of various genres all hodgepodged together and run through a zillion computers. It’s just very inhuman, and somehow must be related to the general depersonalization personified in the newer generation. Almost every single person who attends these events is unapologetically sleazy, with the remainder being merely apologetically sleazy(ie they regret it the next day.) In my observations the people have absolutely no loyalty to one another and go home with whomever. They just sort of go with the flow and have no qualms about anything. The whole thing has sort of “dark side of free love” ambianic feel to it. When I was a kid in the late 80′s there used to always be that commercial where the guy said “I love disco, and I hear it’s making a comeback!” Well, a few years ago my friend Lawrence and I were talking about music trends and said that disco was now coming back except that it would be “disco with balls.”
I was never as huge fan of disco as someone like Whit Stillman, but I would have to say I prefer it in it’s older, melodic, romantic… dare I say “castrated” form.
I’ve been trying to go to more random places to broaden and get out of my element a bit. Phoenix is a huge city with millions of people, yet everyone just knows the same 50 people. Surely there are interesting people out there somewhere if we seek them out and give them a chance. Or like that episode of the The Twilight Zone are people really alike all over?
new album coming out this week(or next)
So I did end up going to the show at the Rhythm Room on Wednesday. I promised Abe I would go since he had me on the list, and I’m not one to break a promise. Besides, I wanted to see “Asleep in the Sea” again since they’re great guys and still the best local band in my opinion.
Oh and I forgot to tell the story of this other girl I met like a month ago on myspace. Then she started calling me, and on a saturday she called me and was like “tonight’s homecoming night and my date ditched me”. I was like “uhhh, what do you mean?” and she said “you know, homecoming? senior year of high school”. But she said she’s 18 so it’s still okay. I told Daggrr about it and he said “Brandon if you actually ever go to a homecoming dance with some girl, I will buy you anything you want seriously just name it!”, and then I was all “but now homecoming’s over so I have to wait until next year” and he said “that offer STANDS!”. So I told him the Sadie Hawkins dance was coming up and he’s all “That doesn’t count. Even I went to the Sadie Hawkins dance”. So it was good times, great oldies
Saturday. Slept until 3:00. Did some major grooming and went and ate at Plaid with Clint. got dropped off at Casey Moore’s where I ran into daggrr. We talked business for a while, and then i went with him to a party at some girls apartment. It was really lame, but there was a cat so I just played with it the whole time, then Lawrence and Stephanie gave me a ride to the Rogue, and I tried to convince them to go, but Lawrence said it “wasn’t his scene”, and i told him “it’s not mine either but who cares.”
Then afterwards we were hanging out outside and Cody started messing around jokingly yelling stuff at random people, and one dumb guy got upset, so there was a huge fight and Cody got messed up pretty bad. Carrah had to take him to the hospital. I told Cody “It’s all right, you were way too good looking before anyway.” We all felt bad for him, but he’s got personality and charisma so he’ll be back in business in no time. The other guy got kicked in the face and punched a few times and then he ran off. It all confirmed to me that I really don’t belong in Phoenix, or Texas or the southwest or the north or the south or the east or the midwest or those places cause it’s mostly all just a bunch of ignorant hicks, and it’ll never be a civilization, and that monarchy or oligarchy is the way to go because then you separate the idiots from the rest of society and everyone else can just chill. Then you run into the problem of who decides who are the idiots and who aren’t. That’s why you just make me emperor and I just point them out.I think I would have made a good emperor or dictator. Anyhow the weather sure is nice.
