1.37
The song is about (and sung from the perspective of) a friend of the band’s who was only fun and creative when he was drunk, hence, 'Why can’t we not be sober?' In an interview, Jones described it: “The song and video are based on a guy we know who is at his artistic best when he's loaded. A lot of people give him shit for that. I don't tell people to do or not do drugs. You can do what you want, but you have to take responsibility for what happens. If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.”
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The chair is… levitating? What’s actually going on, then? "There really isn't a story-line, just images," Jones told Guitar School magazine. "Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel."
2.18
Stop-motion animation is amazing – that rippling of the fabric on the figure’s back is from it being moved by hand in every frame. It’s an incredibly time-consuming art form that requires superhuman patience and extraordinary planning. Some fans of Stuhr’s work managed to get hold of part of the set of this video and made a tribute to him – look at that thing and imagine it, moving bits and pieces by hand 24 times for every second of footage.