Like the weather, the Daily Star's FREE newsletter is a scorcherThankfully, both have made a full recovery – despite a few lingering side-effects – and their young twins only suffered no worse than a cold.“Even with things going from worse to worse, there are good people out there saying ‘really, there’s no rules? We invited 15 or 20 kids and honestly just interviewed them until one of them came up with an idea similar enough to this that we could chase it.I really hope so. But you can also look around and, I think with the civil unrest in the US right now, I don’t think it would be nearly as digital as much as a light switch that it just turned on if it weren’t for the pandemic. And obviously, part of it also is just a much simpler version, which is that anyone can tell kids a physics equation, but if we can share with them even a hint of the ridiculous things we get to do, hopefully that will go a long way.Moving into narrative film, which I'm doing with my wife, I was excited to watch the Use of Music entries—300 or 400 minutes of material—just to see what would surprise me. Which is funny, because I think it's one of those catch-22s, where the harder you try to be relevant, the more you're chasing other people. It's an Amazon project, and we're turning in the most recent version of the script in the next two weeks.
It was fun because it brought us down to a very one to one relationship between the song and visuals and everything you hear on the song is what you see on screen. These complex, beautiful emotions. Everybody feels like we’re on pause or worse, that life has just stopped. At some point, it stopped mattering whether or not Sonic Youth had an album out this week, or this year, because Sonic Youth were artists. It’s not like I think it’s the only logical conclusion for the world, it’s that this is the thing I want to spread. By the time everybody started getting scared, we had it.“I live in a hillside in Los Angeles and I can go out on my balcony at night when the cheering starts for frontline workers. They can say ‘I can show you what’s right’ and you sense a little bit of everything. "And while OK Go aren't exactly a kids' band, lately they've been embracing their younger set of fans like never before.While we're happy for people to think of us as a video band, we don't want drop any creative opportunity to keep pushing this art form into a weirder place. And as that started to work, the challenge was to go, "We're going to be more than the video band—we're going to be the creative band. Its homemade video was recorded from their respective kitchens and closets – showing a more personable version of a band we’ve become accustomed to seeing in some of pop’s most incredible and memorable clips.“We both have been tested and are negative for the virus but interestingly you do have symptoms for a while afterwards.
But when this opportunity came along, it was sort of the perfect one. I just had a round of critiques with the kids who designed the first round of the project.
Damian was struck with “symptoms that lasted forever” but Kristin was not as lucky. It’s because what we’re all doing is coming out here to reaffirm to one another that the good stuff is all still here. Are you promoting something?