Eh voila!
And so I must exclaim with unbridled glee over the kickin' plaid pants and the shorts (!) as well as those items from Trevor's closet we've seen before. Although I have to admit it sort of reminded me of that one commercial for luncheon meat in which a harried wife is dealing with her husband's midlife crisis and his yearning to wear skinny jeans.
The video also features stills of the lovely and talented Tal Wilkenfeld, Lou Molino looking like a classic jazzbo in a natty buttondown-and-tie ensemble, all nine guitars (and dobro) used in the song, and a cast of whimsical statuary from the expensively eclectic Regalo boutique featured in the studio decor. My rhetorical question to the auteur (but more Robert Rodriguez than Alfred Hitchcock): What, was it not Casual Friday at The Jacaranda Room? There's quite a wealth of detail to be found for the observant viewer; with many shots showing more of Trevor's studio than we've seen previous; like the huge collection of awards next to the piano (too many to fit on top now, the weight will make it go out of tune!).
Trevor's sense of humor is wholly evident in this effort, and it's the little things: like the blink-and-you'll-miss-them jump cuts during Lou's shots (which feature an image of Trevor in a totally cheesy Hollywood pose). There are other jump cuts included, although not quite as humorous.
Although it was likely unintentional, there's a little homage to Trevor's previous video for "Something To Hold On To" (a wacky collision of director Jeff Stein's 80s-era eye-popping aesthetic and Trevor's sense of humor): a shot in which Trevor is seen in real time playing in the foreground, while in the background the projected image of himself on the studio's widescreen monitor provides accompaniment - recalling shots in the former video where Trevor plays along with himself as seen on a bigscreen TV in his house of guitars (reportedly the home of actress Shelley Duvall, who also appears in the video...well, her eyes do, that is).
I like the closing shots the best: a couple stills of the street Trevor grew up on in Parktown, I appreciate the little glimpse into the past he has given us.
Now that The Maestro has stated he wants to shoot a video for every song on the album, we can all have fun speculating on which song will be next. My vote goes to "Me and My Boy," which would be fabulous cutting back-and-forth from a photo montage of Rabin & Rabin through the years with sequences of the two of them tearing it up in the studio...especially with one particular photo I know of which shows the proud papa giving his infant son his first lesson in engineering at the console in The Jacaranda Room (on a decidedly casual day, given Dad's attire!). But a true auteur has to find his own path to fulfillment...which is why we're so lucky to have Jacaranda as part of the soundtrack to our lives.
