In exactly what you’d imagine as “life on the road” for a Californian
musician, Father John Misty (a.k.a. Josh Tillman, former
drummer of Fleet Foxes) brings us kids with hula-hoops, dressing room
shenanigans and plenty of sitting and waiting in lanes with a cigarette in his
new music video for “I’m Writing A Novel.”
The single comes off his 2012 release Fear
Fun and channels Beat
Generation antics with Tillman on road-trips, wandering the beach alone, and
occasional self-narration: “this is where I fell over the other night.” The
cuts between live shows and kaleidoscopic lights to amateur-shot scenes with
friends produce the sense of an old Super 8 film.
“I’m Writing A Novel” is one of the more
country-sounding songs off the album (rather than crooning Fleet
Foxesfolk). Tillman generally looks like a fun guy to hang out with,
serious at gigs but goofy at any other time – never mind that eccentric dancing
where he seems like almost like a friendlier Jim Morrison.
Published on Purple Sneakers.
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