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I’ve seen a few blogs talking about how former Catherine Wheel front man Rob Dickinson shot an entire video on his cellphone and how this could potentially change the world. But everyone is talking about the tech, not the video itself, which is a shame. (The phone is really nice, although for $700 or so I would kind of expect it to take some bitchin-ass full-motion video, and maybe also have a bottle opener or chiropractor function or something.) I don’t know if it was intentional, but the video functions as a greatest-hits collection of bad 90s alt-rock video cliches, including such beloved tropes as:
– Those annoying fade-to-white cuts that turn your TV into a malfunctioning-strobe-light emulator.
I would say the video is totally worthless, except I could imagine that whatever kids grow up to make the Yacht Rock of the year 2020 will find this a valuable resource in extracting the worst soft-alt ideas of the 90s.
