Pitchfork: Rick, do you have acting experience? I didn’t even have to give him much direction, by that time we talked so much about the project that I just let him do what he needed to do and that was it. With Rick, he was really easy to work with. Sometimes when you want to make things for so long and you finally have the opportunity to make them, you don’t take them for granted. Obviously it was all carefully constructed and not real, but we wanted it to appear as real as possible. The way that we filmed the place, I wanted to create a sense of realism as much as possible, to blur the lines between documentary and fiction, so we picked locations as if Rick would actually live there and everything should be in walking distance to one another. It didn’t feel like a place that was receptive to us filming. Pitchfork: Rick, when you got the call from Grant asking if you wanted to be in a video, were you immediately into it or did you have to think about it?
While we were shooting "Dayzed Inn Daydreamz", we were playing his music in the trailer when he was dancing, we were playing the Mau Mau’s. By that time I was very well educated to his history and became a huge fan. Pitchfork: You had learned about his history and who he was? It was riding on the fact that we get Rick to be in it, and I was ecstatic about the fact that he agreed to be in it. It was either going to be made with him or not be made. It feels way more like a short film than it does like a music video. Pitchfork: You approached him about being in Ariel Pink’s video? It wasn’t until Don Bolles, from the Germs and the drummer of Ariel’s band, gave me your number. I attempted in many different ways to contact him, like emailing someone who I thought was your manager that I found online. I went back to the Gaylord, couldn’t find him, he wasn’t living there at the time. I couldn’t stop thinking about him and potentially working with him in some capacity. It was a thing that you really can’t explain where you’re drawn to someone. GS: I was immediately attracted to him, visually.
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