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Courtney Barnett - Elevator Operator
- Published_at:2016-07-06
- Category:Music
- Channel:milkrecordsmelbourne
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- description: Taken from the LP: “Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit” - out through Milk! Records, House Anxiety/Marathon Artists and Mom+Pop Order “Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit”: http://courtneybarnett.com.au/buy/ Join the Milk! Records mailing list for all the latest on Courtney Barnett http://www.milkrecords.com.au Follow: http://po.st/FacebookCB http://po.st/TwitterCB http://po.st/InstagramCB Starring (in order of appearance) Sleater-Kinney Glory! Bangs Courtney Barnett Bones Sloane & Dave Mudie Magda Szubanski Tim Rogers The Finks Tweedy The Drones Garret and Will Huxley, Gabi Barton Sunny Leunig Vincent Juggernaut Tain Stangret Izzi Goldman and John Nicholas & Thea Jones Batpiss Loose Tooth Camp Cope Jo Syme (Big Scary) East Brunswick All Girls Choir Paul Kelly Michael Leunig Meaghan Weiley, Jess Tyler, Thommy Taranto (Milk! Records) Jen Cloher Fraser A. Gorman Ouch My Face Marni Kornhauser & Radar Rad DIRECTOR: Sunny Leunig DOP: Matt Wood PRODUCER: Emma Haarburger ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Danielle Thiris ASSIST CAMERA: Anthony Rilocapro ART DIRECTOR: Marni Kornhauser ART DEPT: Josephine Wagstaff, Sarah Hopper GAFFER: Thommi Hacker BEST GIRL: Hannah Palmer GRIP: Fraser Lever COLOURIST: Matt Wood VFX: Tristan Mclachlan EDITOR: Sunny Leunig MAKEUP/COSTUME Selena Pretzel, Lou Mclaren DRONE OP: Christopher Lansell SOUND: Sunny Leunig, Mark Mitchell, Jack Pender STILLS: Helga Leunig Thanks to: John and Izzi at the Nicholas Building, Joel Barnett, Brad @ Phoenix Post, Katie Saava, Pippa Martino LYRICS Oliver Paul, twenty years old, thick head of hair worries he’s going bald. Wakes up at a quarter past nine, fare evades his way down the 96 tram line. Breakfast on the run again, he’s well aware he’s dropping soy linseed Vegemite crumbs everywhere. Feeling sick at the sight of his computer he dodges his way through the Swanston commuters. Rips off his tie, hands it to a homeless man, sleeping in the corner of a Metro bus stand. He screams “I’m not going to work today! Gonna count the minutes that the trains run late. Sit on the grass building pyramids out of Coke cans.” Headphone wielding to the Nicholas Building, he trips on a pothole that’s not been filled in. He waits for an elevator, 1 to 9, a lady walks in and waits by his side. Her heels are high and her bag is snakeskin. Hair pulled so tight you can see her skeleton. Vickers perfume on her breath, a tortoise-shell necklace between her breasts. She looks him up and down with a Botox frown, he’s well used to that look by now. The elevator dings, and they awkwardly step in, their fingers touch on the rooftop button… “Don’t jump little boy, don’t jump off that roof, you’ve got your whole life ahead of you you’re still in your youth, I’d give anything to have skin like you!” He said, “I think you’re projecting, the way that you’re feeling, I’m not suicidal just idling insignificantly. I come up here, for perception and clarity, I like to imagine I’m playing Sim City. All the people look like ants from up here, and the wind’s the only traffic you can hear” He said, “All I ever wanted to be was an Elevator Operator can you help me please?!” “Don’t jump little boy, don’t jump off that roof, you’ve got your whole life ahead of you you’re still in your youth, I’d give anything to have skin like you!”
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| 2016-07-07 | 11,483 | 856 | 82 |
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| 2016-07-08 | 66,129 | 1,831 | 159 |
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