Video Killed The Radio Star

On the surface, my life seems prety dull. I work full-time answering phones (the Madonna style head-set is a delight to wear) and when I'm not doing that, I spend most of my free time listening to the same section of the same song over and over again while staring at a monitor which looks like this..

How cool is that?!

Anyway, last weekend I actually managed to do something rather exciting. I only went and shot a bloody video didn't I! Before you start picturing a crew of 20 media types standing around drinking big cups of coffee and wearing North Face puffer jackets while someone holds a long furry thing on the end of a pole, let me be the first to shatter that illusion. It was my friend Nick with a handheld camera, and me with a little dictaphone in my pocket miming to a song a could barely hear.
To be fair, we were joined by two friends who came to watch, laugh and take the best cameo roles but that was it. The idea was that I was hitching around various parts of North London but instead of holding up signs for 'Luton' or 'Stevenage' (to pick two very poor examples), I had destinations like 'Respect', 'Recognition' and 'Happiness'. Clever stuff huh?! Here are some stills from it..

We should have it finished in a week or so. Surprisingly little in the way of 'You sh*tty pink shoe b*stard' type abuse from motorists, but safe to say, nobody stopped to pick me up. To add to the excitement in my life, I did a photoshoot yesterday as well. Some very dark and disturbing images in there I'm telling you. Creepy cat masks and projectors! Will let you know about the results as and when I get them..

I'm going to leave you with a quite brilliant bit of footage. Pointless if you haven't got sound on your PC but if you have, you'll be squirming with delight. Some joker (and currently unemployed sound tech ) at this Van Halen gig managed to playback all the keyboard sounds for 'Jump' at slightly the wrong pitch which means that when the band start playing, the whole thing is a bombastic, tuneless mess! (some might say the original isn't much better) Enjoy!