The first video from the new Liam Gowing album Drunk Sluts Forever, The Perfect Parasite follows its troubled protagonist as she attempts to buy weed, to have a drink, to score some blow and to eat a taco in a mad world in which everything one can ingest is suddenly replaced with pharmaceutical pills. Written by Liam and produced by Ashley-Martin Dunn, the video was directed by Cannes Film Festival Bronze Lion Award-winning filmmaker Steven Hanft, who directed the classic music videos "Loser" and "Where It's At" for Beck, the long-form documentary "Strange Parallel" for Elliott Smith, and other noted videos for the Cure, Primal Scream and Phoenix. Starring Jennifer Rosetto as the protagonist, Jeffrey O'Connell as the weed dealer, Lizeth Bejarano Gardner as the coke siren, Dennis Neder as the bathroom pharmacist and Holly Catarancuic as the junkie psychiatrist with Liam, playing the various instruments that compose the track, as the Greek chorus. Special thanks to Preston Thalindroma of Say Cheese and Die for taking stills and all the extras for loaning their drugs to the set.
Music and lyrics / all instruments and vocals by Liam Gowing ℗© 2013
