Thing about my current occupation is I’ve gotta keep moving. I’ve been living out a suitcase for 3 years. And this is my 2nd one. The other was hucked into a canal in Amsterdam. What I’m saying is I lose things. Whole styles worth of clothing. Months of medication. I even had whole hard drives of valuable digital documents and data stolen from a backseat rental in 2016. Rado can vouch for that. So once I started losing my virtual belongings and having my potential intellectual property poached I decided enough was enough. I needed something instant and permanent and forever to carry with me. Something to document the people and the places I’ve been called to work with and in. I also wanted to be able to produce instant nude photographs of my girl for safe storage in my backpack
Available now for your viewing (dis)pleasure, the Jemima Kirke-directed video for “Studmuffin96” is a dark, comic observation of one girl’s instant obsession with an older man which, by sheer chance, culminates in a seedy night in a motel room many years later. As Kirke describes it, “It’s a coming of age story about the bleakness of a fantasy realized. A young woman is reunited with a man from her past, and an attempt at romance ensues. But regardless of their efforts, their only common ground is a laundromat and a motel room.”
’Studmuffin96’ from ‘Forced Witness’ out now on Secretly Canadian
The Fat Angel Sings 