Responsibility is my albatross

Seriously though. It is. The same can not be said about the San Francisco band Girls if their latest video is anything to go by.

And I love them for it. My previously established band crush continues. I am reminded of visits to friends in unfamiliar cities; of idealized staycations; of taking pleasure in your friends & what’s around you.

I clicked around some more online and found some older videos by them. These ones are a bit more homemade than the already homemade aesthetic of their more recent vids. I’ll admit that, by comparison, they are somewhat pitiful. In an awesome way — all of them suffused with that same California mood & California light. But still. Sort of pitifulawesome. After the jump, more of these halcyon days & halcyon ways.

Read more »

Posted by Alec Hanley Bemis  

Tags: California Light, California Moods, Fashion, Girls, Lust for Life, Peter Saville, The Problem With Glamour, The Problem With Nostalgia, Video, Youth

Leave a Comment

all content (c) 2008-2010 Alec Hanley Bemis
site design: Project Projects - build: Hal Hixson