If It Feels Good Do It

It seems like most people’s favorite video is Gossip Vision, but there are a select few who have told me they like Traveling Canadians are a Pain the most.

The heart-crotch dance sequence at the end of Gossip Vision was originally planned for the beginning of Traveling Canadians are a Pain.

I couldn’t tell you what the process is for coming up with a video like this is. Every time I finish filming and editing one video, I am completely out of ideas for the next. I feel like I’ll never be able to come up with anything new ever again.

But then these visions come to me from somewhere. I don’t know where. Probably my testicles. One of the visions was a heart-crotch dance sequence.

All week I had been rocking out to this Loverboy vinyl that I had picked up real cheap. “The Kid is Hot Tonite” would form the perfect soundtrack for the heart-crotch. Or so I thought.

While driving somewhere to look at a Harley, “Working For The Weekend” followed by “Summer of ‘69″ came on the radio. Then the D.J. said something like “You just heard two hits from two Canadian rockers.”

Holy shit. Loverboy was Canadian? I went home and looked it up. Yep, they were Canadian. The irony. So I scrapped “The Kid is Hot Tonite” and the dancing sequence that went a long with it.

I was still so totally amped up to film the video though, that I woke up totally early on the day I was supposed to film it. I couldn’t sleep.

But when I started acting out the lines, something seemed wrong. My delivery was off. Something was not right with my voice. I was overly subdued. I realized later in the day that I was actually sick.

That part at the very end where I look toward the camera and it looks like I’m doing a sleazy smile I was actually sniffling and checking something on the monitor. That wasn’t even meant to be in the video. But later during editing I liked that part so I just left it in there. It looks like I’m doing a half smile, half coke residue snort.

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