Glue For the past decade or so, Ive wanted to make music videos. I dropped out of high school when I was fifteen. I started playing a lot of music and sharing it online with fans of Elephant 6 stuff, which Id started getting heavily into. When I finally met a bunch of these fans and friends in person (in places like Athens, Georgia and Ithaca, New York) I started to consider where I wanted to take my life and what sort of person I wanted to be. I went to community college for photography, and then transferred into a four-year school for cinema--but I never really ended up making an out-and-out music video (although, I did make quite an effort to force music sequences into almost everything I did). I was miserable during my last semester of school and most of the following summer. My thesis film, a very personal narrative that I didnt really know how to pull off, ultimately screened as an unfinished rough cut. I was so overworked that I did little besides sleep, eat garbage, work a job in a gallery, and edit. I very rarely took the opportunity to hang out with friends. After graduation, I moved to Buffalo looking for work that I never ended up finding, and soon ended up back in Ithaca. This video was an idea Id had when I was working on my thesis. I was stressed out and having a whining session with my friend Wyatt, repeating that Id wished Id just made a music video for my final project. I wanted something that was just an excuse to hang out with friends, experiment, dance, and work communally, without a rigid plan or script. There was no longer anything stopping me from making this video. So here it is: noisy and rough and clearly just some kids screwing around. Babys First Music Video. And right now, Im more proud of this than anything else Ive ever made. Im madly in love with just about every person attached to this stupid thing, and I look forward to having adventures with all of you in the future, arting and farting and spinning in circles. Thanks, Benjamin // October 12, 2014 // Glue performed by The Gerbils / Produced by The Gerbils and Bill Doss / All music is owned by The Gerbils and Hidden Agenda who are not associated with anyone who made this video at all because were just dumb kids who do things without permission oh god please dont sue us maybe // Directed and edited by Benjamin Torrey / Produced by Benjamin Torrey and Wyatt Eldridge / Camera and Lighting by Benjamin Torrey, Wyatt Eldridge, Krystal Cannon, Emma Cohen Westbrooke, Amy Callahan, Steve Genett, and Olivia Stroud / Roughly in order of appearance: Olivia Stroud, Natalie Lazo, Sandra Ellen Simmons, Kari Abramson, Carri Haase, Melanie Jean, Evelyn Hammond, Brandon Winters, Sara Gaechter, Kristen Elizabeth, Liz Hallwood, Borno Zaman, Krystal Joy Cannon, Emma Cohen Westbrooke, Steve Holt Genett, Ghost Amy, Tylor Colby, Matt Colgan, and Vincenzo Sicurella _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Hits56 Radio _______ FB: r-js/1rlggeQ / TW: r-js/1us3SdS / Listen to LIPSapp Hits56 Radio r-js/1dOIQ18 #thewho #beatles #elvis #jimihendrix #dylan
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