UPDATE: Jona Bechtolt tells LocalCut how the new YACHT video (the last one in this post) came about:

I’d been a fan of Tapeheads for a good while, my parents used to have a gas station in Astoria that had a room with video rentals in it. The Tapeheads box totally intrigued me, and I think the movie was one of my early inspirations for making video stuffs. I’d forgotten all about it until earlier this year when we found it in a video shop in Brooklyn and rented it with some friends. Claire and I freaked out about how goddamned good the movie was and decided right there and then that we wanted to remake the “Baby Doll” scene shot-for-shot. Luckily Portland is the kind of place where you can do something like make a music video with no money. Judah Switzer did the video on “spec,” we had a team of super helpful interns I gathered from Flickr (no shit), and the rest we scraped together with amazing friends like Curtis Knapp of Marriage Records, Steve Schroeder of States Rights Records, and brilliant photographer Sarah Meadows.

After Judah first showed us a rough cut of the video we jokingly said we were going to reshoot every scene shot-for-shot with different Portland bands. IMAGINE!

Ok, that would be some greatness right there. I could see Guidance Counselor as Roscoe from Roscoe’s Chicken ‘N’ Biscuits. And now back to the original post:

So much YACHT today that it deserved its own post. First up, Jona Bechtolt discusses the origins of the name YACHT, Laurie Anderson and underwater touring. Then the recent DFA signees perform “Don’t Stay in Bed” for a very happy all-ages crowd. Somehow this is a Boost Mobile thing? Is Boost Mobile down with the lyrics “Everything is fucked, so what we gonna do?” Good for them!

Interview (questions read across the bottom of the screen):

Performance:

Secondly, Judah Switzer’s (full disclosure: a bro of mine) new YACHT video is a parody of the Cusack/Robbins movie Tapeheads. I wouldn’t have called this movie a cult classic before, but now that YACHT and Switzer have so alby parodied it, I’d say it qualifies. The YACHT version is filmed (at least partially) at the new Marriage Records HQ.

The original scene from Tapeheads:

The new YACHT joint:

Suddenly the Sweden thing makes sense. I love it. I love it so much.

Links:
YACHTSpace

Photo courtesy off…jeez, Boost Mobile I guess.