mother’s milk
Folks,
We’ve got a new video to pimp for our Record Day 7” single: “The Left Hand And The Right Hand”.
I don’t have a link, but if you drop “The Left Hand And The Right Hand” and Youtube.com into google the link should appear. [You’ll figure it out. I know you’re smart. You’re on this site, aren’t you?].
At one point I’d envisioned a kind of “buddy movie” for this song, ya know? Like Turner & Hooch or Tango & Cash or Thelma & Louise? What the hell happened, you ask? Well, Albert Birney, the director, took it places. Much weirder places.
I wrote this Mitchell Brothers inspired song with my friend Kurt. We figured if Cain and Abel had gone into the strip club business it would have been these two. It’s about them but it’s also a song about brothers (I think). What do I know, I have three sisters. [psychoanalyst/editor in my head: that might go a ways towards explaining why you think you’re so great].
These guys are the mother’s milk of San Francisco mythology - porn kings, free speech advocates, long-game hustlers. . . born troublemakers born into troubled times. I’ve never been in their club myself (as far as I know - how could I be certain?), but it’s legendary. I know this much: it’s an institution. A Mecca of sleaze. An unregistered National Historic Landmark in the guidebooks of the profound, perverse, profane, divine, confused, and insanely lucrative. A physical embodiment of all of San Francisco under one roof!
So yeah; Albert Birney made the video and it’s epic. It’s already been compared to “The English Patient” (if you cut out the gratuitous romance and panoramic sand dune shots). Two brothers, once close, simply fall out. Murder, drugs, mayhem, a stack of rare vinyl and the dusty glitter and neon glow of the after-hours afterlife. All acted out by two hands. Albert’s own grandfather’s hand even makes an appearance. Pretty cool. Somebody give those hands an Oscar!
Go easy babies,
-CP
