As a throwaway, I said "Make me some music videos!" and gave the son a few wav files to take home. Now I didn't know what he was going to do - I assumed he'd have some funky graphics program that could spin out something, anything, so that there was a bit of colour and movement on the screen because you just never can get people to listen to a music file, it has to be YouTube.
And then nothing happened, for a very long time. I hassled him occasionally, but not seriously. "Working on it!"
So then I went up there a few weeks back, and it turns out he had done a bit of work, and so the next morning I had to get up at 5.00 am and wander around the place with my guitar, miming to a song that has many interweaving lines that I haven't played since I recorded it a year back and none of which I could remember anyway, while he sat in the back of a van with his camera and his father drove down the driveway and I tried to keep the same distance away.
To up the level of difficulty, I had to not only remember the damn words, but mime them at 1.5 x the speed, which will, when you see the video, explain how I can walk in slo-mo but sing in real time...
A few takes later and a bit of incidental stuff on the road and with his drone and it was done. It's a long song, sorry. You'll notice that what I'm "playing" on the guitar doesn't really match closely with the music and I think I forgot some words somewhere. But still, it's not bad I reckon!
) Actually I don't think I've ever seen a roo there, there are koalas about, but not on their property. It's more snake country.
