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"Friends of P"'s music video was responsible for the bulk of the song's exposure. According to Matt Sharp, the video was filmed by Sharp's childhood friend Charles Hamilton[https://web.archive.org/web/20070105134919/http://therentals.com/return/] on [[Rod Cervera]]'s black-and-white 16mm camera on a budget of less than $500[https://twitter.com/_mattsharp/status/1171489880930578432][https://www.pastemagazine.com/noisetrade/music/the-rentals/sep-24-2007-daytrotter-studio-rock-island-il]. The video portrays the band as vaguely Eastern-European setting, with the song's lyrics subtitled in Russian. Initially deemed "unsalvageable" due to falling out-of-sync with the music, the footage was later edited together by film student Jason Ruscio. [[Petra Haden]] reportedly suffered headaches during filming due to the thick prescription glasses worn during filming. A still from the video shoot was used for the ''Return of the Rentals'' album cover. A blog post on the official Rentals website explained the music video's aesthetic direction in December of 2005: | "Friends of P"'s music video was responsible for the bulk of the song's exposure. According to Matt Sharp, the video was filmed at Park La Brea Apartments in Los Angeles by Sharp's childhood friend Charles Hamilton[https://web.archive.org/web/20070105134919/http://therentals.com/return/] on [[Rod Cervera]]'s black-and-white 16mm camera on a budget of less than $500[https://twitter.com/_mattsharp/status/1171489880930578432][https://www.pastemagazine.com/noisetrade/music/the-rentals/sep-24-2007-daytrotter-studio-rock-island-il]. The video portrays the band as vaguely Eastern-European setting, with the song's lyrics subtitled in Russian. Initially deemed "unsalvageable" due to falling out-of-sync with the music, the footage was later edited together by film student Jason Ruscio. [[Petra Haden]] reportedly suffered headaches during filming due to the thick prescription glasses worn during filming. A still from the video shoot was used for the ''Return of the Rentals'' album cover. A blog post on the official Rentals website explained the music video's aesthetic direction in December of 2005: | ||
<blockquote>''The look and concept of this stark minimalist video simply started as a loopy late night inside joke between Tom and Matt. At a late night recording session, the two friends came up with a silly back story about an all but forgotten new wave band called "The Rentals", a group from the late nineteen seventies that had long been lost behind the walls of the iron curtain. The storyline was thoroughly detailed with a plot line that included members of the group working with the underground movement during the cold war. The plot went on to include guitarist Rod Cervera being caught with a batch of micro film which promptly landed him in a local garrison for his anti-communist behavior. And this, of course, left The Rentals to be put on an indefinite hiatus.'' | <blockquote>''The look and concept of this stark minimalist video simply started as a loopy late night inside joke between Tom and Matt. At a late night recording session, the two friends came up with a silly back story about an all but forgotten new wave band called "The Rentals", a group from the late nineteen seventies that had long been lost behind the walls of the iron curtain. The storyline was thoroughly detailed with a plot line that included members of the group working with the underground movement during the cold war. The plot went on to include guitarist Rod Cervera being caught with a batch of micro film which promptly landed him in a local garrison for his anti-communist behavior. And this, of course, left The Rentals to be put on an indefinite hiatus.'' | ||