“Machine Guns and Jesus Christ” the video

Well, here it is…

We’ve been planning this video out for some time now. A few weeks back Joel, Christian, and I went for breakfast and started working out some themes and ideas that we’d like to play up in this video. Last week we spent the better part of last Sunday shooting all of the clips with us in front of the video wall with all of the images going past us. Then the following night we shot the stuff where I’m walking through the hallways and…errr…having a smoke…

There are obviously a lot political overtones to this song, but I thought I’d give you guys a bit of the background behind it. The original lyrics for this song came to me about 14 months ago while I was driving through the mountains on a beautiful summer day. I turned on the radio, and found out that the subways in London had just been bombed. I was in shock.

There have been some edits since then, but the heart of those lyrics was born on that day. We really pushed over the last week to get this song released, because there are some important elections in the USA this week. I’m not endorsing any candidates, but I think that there are some important issues at the fore here. I think that everyone in the US needs to be careful that they have thought through all of these issues before they head to the voting booth.

That said, I hope you enjoy the video. Here it is.

Joel did a tonne (metric) of work on this video. He shot, edited, directed, produced…he’s the man. Joel, I’ve said it in e-mails, but I want to say it publicly. GREAT WORK!!!!