Apes of the State - Moments a Year From Now (Official Music Video)

Collaboration with ‪@ApesoftheState‬. Interestingly enough, April said part of the inspiration for her was my video for "Roots" by ‪@grumpsterca5355‬. A handful of my videos create a mood, more than follow a narrative. Or as I put to her, are shots of people doing mundane shit. I hope nobody steals my secret formula. Obviously part of that mood was drawn from Covid quarantine, but it was very important to us that the video be timeless; not strictly tied to this pandemic.

The idea was always to intercut our shots with archive footage of the bands performing. As I edited, I started playing around with using a lot of crossfades. This gave the video a very wispy and dreamlike feel. That seemed very appropriate as the song is about reflecting on your past, and being spacy in the present because of that.

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From "Pipe Dream" | apesofthestate.bandcamp.com

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LYRICS:
Sometimes I wonder
What I'm doing at this moment
That I'll be cringing at a year from now
When I think about it

Like getting tattooed
Or something less permanent
Like the color of my shoes
Or the people I've been hanging with

And I might never get over it
I'll just get so much better at living with my shit
And we don't forget anything
We just lose the ability to access it in our brains

Sometimes the answers
To everything I've ever wondered
About life and death
And what comes after
Come to me as I lie between
Being awake and falling asleep

So if I zone out
While you're talking to me
It doesn't mean that I'm not listening
I'm just caught up in a moment
I have a tendency to get lost in the irrelevant details of the story
Like the color that your shoes were the day you walked away from me

And we might never get over it
We'll just get so much better at living in our shit
And we don't forget anything
We just lose our desires to relive the memories

Sometimes the answers
To everything I've ever wondered
About life and death
And what comes after
Come to me as I fall asleep
But they're gone by the morning

And I wonder
What I'm doing at this moment
That I'll be cringing at a year from now
When I think about it