Mr. Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty finds it impossible to check out of the circular nightmare of existance — or, at the very least, a very odd hotel — in this perfect puzzle box of a music video.
The 13 minute centerpiece of Father John Misty's Pure Comedy gets an equally uncompromising and direct music video by way of a graceful studio performance.
Art collective Four Hands And A Baby — consisting of musician Adam Green, actor Macaulay Culkin, Toby Goodshank and Thomas Bayne — imagine a virtual reality in which "Kurt Cobain'ed" (played by Culkin) dies upon the cross at the hands of fast food gestapo clowns.
Father John Misty' aka Josh Tillman's tale of an awful romantic tryst gets a video that'd be more fitting for an ode to self-love, which maybe is indeed what this song is actually all about. Literally, kind of.
Until death do us part... whether you're Father John Misty and wife Emma Tillman at peace in bed, and at sea in their head, or you're the debaucherous EMT duo that knows how to live it up.
Screw the wreckage; Let's dance. Father John Misty surveys the scene of a horrifying (or not) plane crash in this fuzzy 4x3 video — directed by Josh Tillman, aka FJM, with Grant James — that nicely matches the old-school Nilsson vibe of the song.