#geek music

Some particularly ridiculous moments from my new “Hello NSA” music video. I picked some because I was proud of the wordplay and others because there were jumper cables on my nipples. I’ll leave you to sort out which is which.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z7Nmrn1WcI&list=PL283994E151539F68

In case you want to soundbathe in the happy murmur of 10,000 geeks in a big convention hall to tide you over until it’s safe to have comiccons again! Just loop those first 30 seconds.

Miss you all. Stay safe. Wear a mask. See you on the other side of this!

If you like wordplay, guitar solos, and criticism of surveillance states, check out my new music video ft. a love song using the NSA watchwords! 

It’s a long story, but way back in 2016 I went to Toronto Comic Con with my buddy Justin to shoot some footage for a music video.

“Geeks in Love” was one of the singles off my geek music record “Borken Telephone” and I was lucky enough to get The Doubleclicks to join me for the track! I wanted to do this song justice!

The footage was great, but life got busy. We shot 3 other music videos in a single day the same week, but I just couldn’t find the time or energy to figure out how to edit my very silly and spur-of-the-moment video ideas into a proper video.

So I moved the footage onto a hard drive, and after 4 international moves in 5 years, I lost track of it entirely.

Until last week.

I recently moved (again) and found the hard drive (and the footage) while I was unpacking.

Watching the raw capture made me realize how much I MISS conventions. This pandemic has been hard. Really hard. I miss my friends. I miss the geek community. I miss the low murmur of 10,000 nerds in a big room.

So I decided to finally edit the footage together into a video. It’s cut together rough, and it’s corny as heck, and the pandemic has left me a little more jaded and cynical than the very earnest guy who appeared in this video. But I needed a little corny. I needed to remember there will be good things to go back to. Eventually, when it’s safe.

And I needed to remember the amazing community of people we’re sacrificing to protect until it’s safe to gather again.

So here’s me saying I love you all, I miss you, and I’ll see you on the other side of this!

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7dP1UCsShU&list=PL283994E151539F68