This past winter was an eventful time for OK Go, between the release of third album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, disputes with EMI over its YouTube videos and an eventual split with the label and the creation of Paradacute Records. But even after all the dust settled, the music is still stuck in our heads—because OK Go definitely still has it. Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky brings us little nuggets of unbridled optimism set to catchy pop beats with Damian Kulash’s funky falsetto soaring overhead—and, in typical OK Go fashion, some of the most awesome videos ever made. OK Go is taking time between dates on its worldwide tour supporting the LP in order to guest edit magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with Kulash.
Kulash: Being on tour most of the time radically amplifies the idea of home and all its comforts: family and pets and my own bed and my own kitchen and gardening. Because of this, when I’m not on the road, I turn into a cable-knit-sweater-wearing, chicken-stock-cooking, garden-spade-toting housewife, more or less. But the constant touring also means I am the worlds’ worst gardener. So thank you, Mother Nature, for succulents. They need almost no water, and planting them consists of taking a piece of one and sticking it in the ground, and it would take a concerted effort to actually kill one. Best of all, they’re crazy looking. They’re like the Maurice Sendak or Gary Larson version of plants: absurd and spikey and ridiculous and beautiful.
Video after the jump.
4 replies on “From The Desk Of OK Go’s Damian Kulash: Succulents”
don’t worry babe, i will take care of the plants while your on tour, then when you come home you can go back to being the housewife. we can improvise. i can dust, kiss, make the bed and do the laundry but don’t ask me to cook because i burn toast. i buy those small colorful little cactus’s they sell at Lowes, cause they are awesome and colorful, yet they aren’t too needy. i however, am quite needy and require a lot of attention and watering,when my husband isn’t on tour.
Girrrrllll, put those boxing gloves on cause it’s me and you toe-to-toe over who gets to play wifey..
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delete all of the comments pls.- thx night
You can have him, cause I’m over it.
o -o -o- over itttt.
no boxing gloves needed.
keep em.