We’re super excited to release our latest video and single, Happy Holidays!

The video for “Happy Holidays” was directed by Anna and me, and we were able to spin off some of Dan’s lyrical gambits, especially “A hood-up is not a phone booth / A phone rings inside a hood-up” as well as the repetition of “graveyards.”  We also spun off the spinning motion invoked in the main riffs of the tune. So the video, surreal and playful a la Spike Jonze’s days working with the Breeders and the Beastie Boys, has a lot of spinning in it — spinning cameras, spinning musicians (that’s us!), and people rolling down a hill in a cemetery (us again!). 

The video was filmed both outside of Washington, DC and in various spots in Trenton, New Jersey.  The busted up payphone that’s featured throughout the video is in Trenton, near band headquarters, and, well…what is it doing there?  The thing hasn’t worked in at least five years!, and the receiver — as seen in the video — is split in two.  I guess it was there waiting for us to film it!  It’s in front of a church of sorts — one of those somewhat ungainly urban buildings that calls itself a church — and as Anna and I were filming, some members of the congregation came out and told us we’d been there too long and that we had better head on out, pronto!  No problem, they came out just as we were wrapping up.