Weezer steals my video
More than a year ago (3/30/07 at about 6pm to be specific) my friend Ben pitched me an idea for a music video for “Me Being Me” from our about-to-be-released album.

It was, I thought, a million dollar idea, and we agreed to get to work on it.

For various scheduling reasons, we didn’t start filming until this April in NYC. Ben then came up to Boston and we shot a bulk of it two weeks ago. And we are supposed to finish the shooting this month.

Things were looking great, and I was so excited to get the video out there this summer.

Then we got TOTALLY SCOOPED.

Weezer’s video for “Pork and Beans” came out today, and it’s almost the exact same thing as we are currently shooting. Same idea, same references, everything.

Eff.

I’m sure all of you will see the Weezer version soon, cause it’s about to spread like wildfire. But I guess I just wanted to assure those of you who read this that we arrived at the idea independently of them, (and most likely way before them.)

I love Weezer- they are a fantastic band. And I have no reason to think our idea somehow got floated to them.
It’s still frustrating.

But we are gonna put out our video anyway. And maybe in the end Weezer’s video will help spread ours on youtube. At least, here’s hoping…