Indie rock / folk band The Decemberists have premiered their new "Calamity Song" video on NPR. Check out the video above, it was directed by Michael Schur.
Colin Meloy told NPR "I wrote "Calamity Song" shortly after I'd finished reading David Foster Wallace's epic Infinite Jest. The book didn't so much inspire the song itself, but Wallace's irreverent and brilliant humor definitely wound its way into the thing. And I had this funny idea that a good video for the song would be a re-creation of the Enfield Tennis Academy's round of Eschaton — basically, a global thermonuclear crisis re-created on a tennis court — that's played about a third of the way into the book." |
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