We are playing an all-ages show in Olympia on Saturday, April 14 at The Capitol Theater (CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS), where we will also be announcing and screening the three finalists of the Cinemetropolis Short Film Contest (CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO).
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BLUE SCHOLARS AND JON JON PRESENT “SEIJUN SUZUKI” THE MUSIC VIDEO
This video was filmed in Los Angeles on October 15 and 16 during the Southern California leg of the Cinemetropolis tour. We had been talking with our guy Jon Jon Augustavo for over a year about collaborating on a music video sometime before he finishes film school and blows the f up. I had become a fan of his prolific and experimental work with Seattle rappers and impressed with the quick turnaround on his projects that still never seemed rushed when you saw the final product. I like that he refuses to call music videos “visuals.” We thought that Seijun Suzuki, the most “random” of the Cinemetropolis songs, would fit the improvised production style and clean shots of a Jon Jon video. Like a trailer for a movie that doesn’t exist. We bounced around many ideas that all eventually morphed into “let’s wear some suits, get some guns and see what happens.” You ever seen a Seijun Suzuki flick? I swear that’s how he made his films too. But wielding guns around L.A. didn’t seem like a good idea. So we used the homie and tour manager C-Knowledge’s samurai swords instead. Timing was perfect w/ The Physics on this leg of the tour with us, which meant that we could get Thig’s hook cameo and then all rock out at the show afterward. So everybody in L.A., that’s the real reason why we were wearing suits that night and that night only of the entire tour. Enjoy the video.
Interview in Toronto w/ WGTJ, part 2 w/ Geo/Prometheus Brown
Interview in Toronto w/ WGTJ, part 1 w/ Sabzi
last night at Seattle Art Museum’s Teen Night Out.
photo by Behzod Sirjani
On stage at the Bowery Ballroom for the Cinemetropolis Tour dancing with Blue Scholars, Bambu, Grynch, Sol, Physics, and other people to “Slick Watts.”
Fun Fact: Donald Earl “Slick” Watts was a former NBA player for the Seattle Supersonics from 1974-78, and was my P.E. teacher at Brighton Elemetary School while I was growing up. He was one of the reasons I became interested in basketball.
Onstage footage of “Slick Watts” performed at Bowery Ballroom in NYC featuring a bunch of townfolk and The Physics fam
Click the photo to dl the homie Chev’s album Charles for free. Sabzi got a beat on there too.
