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Thank you anon!

Filming a music video while tresspassing in an abandoned service station: punk Making the guitarist hold your diffuser so the bassist has good light: not very punk

I love working with Anergy, and this time the addition of their lovely vocalist Ash Vapor was a highlight. We crashed at an abandoned service center for about six hours on a very cold and very windy morning in November 2019. Originally the video was going to have a secondary location and an entire second set piece, but since that never worked out (and the song is short enough to where it kind of didn’t matter) we just stuck with this footage.

Gabe, the drummer and sort of de-facto leader of the band, is an old friend of mine from college. We actually met designing fake NASA missions for a class, back when both of us thought we wanted to be scientists. I helped them make their first video, Not My President, back in 2017...and since they had a new single coming out with Ash, they returned to me in 2019 for another collaboration. It’s always really easy to work with Gabe and the gang because they have such clear vision. I pretty much just have to show up and roll. About the only thing that was my spin is the whip-pan camera movement, inspired by Scott Pilgrim/Edgar Wright movies. Added a bit of fun and dynamics to what would otherwise be a pretty stagnant film setup. 

Now you've asked a question... There really is no way to summarize Ana, but I will try. Ana is the quintessential Leo. Famous actress, the world just doesn't know it yet. She's the Penelope Cruz to my Almodovar. She's my former roommate and the woman who kept my bladder hostage by taking long - and I mean long - baths, but then she feeds you burritos and Spanish tortillas, so you forget what you were going to say about that. My punniness makes her homicidal, so since she moved away, I needed to create a blog to keep her annoyed... and that's how we got here.

The best about dictionaries is not that they teem with words, but it is that they welcome new words oh so often! Every word lover who cannot get enough of building their vocabulary sure loves these updates. In this lesson, we shall be catering to exactly such people. It contains 8 updates in the Oxford Dictionary in the months of March and April this year. It wouldn’t be much of a surprise to…