My 4th Music Video: “Theories That Are Televised”

David McHone-Chase was one of the first people I met after moving to Bloomington-Normal (in July 2000). I had gone around town hanging up flyers with a picture of John Cage, looking for others who’d be interested in forming a noise band. David called me. Alas, the day before, I’d been hit by a car while biking, and broken both my arms. (This is true.)

David and I eventually did form a band—three of them, in fact. One of those bands, which included Tim Feeney, eventually somehow became Theory of Brides when Alicia Halm joined as its vocalist. Later, David and Alicia formed the duo Oh, Alchemy.

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My 1st Music Video: “No Mind’s Eye”

I don’t talk much about it these days, but I used to direct music videos. Some of them are up at YouTube. Maybe in the coming days I’ll see about putting the others up. In the meantime, here’s the first one I ever made, a collaboration with my pal Elf. We made it for Mecca Normal in January 2003:

The song’s from their album “The Family Swan.”

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