by Epitaph

The Weakerthans recently show a video for the song (I love this title) "Our Retired Explorer Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961." The video was directed by Simon and Caelum, the directors of all the band's previous videos. Here's their report:

"We spent a day carousing on frozen Lake Winnipeg in March. Speeding across slushy ice in a 1950's Auto-neige (aka bombadier) on snowmobiles and on dog sleds (for real!) in period appropriate explorer costumes. (Really, does anything sound more fun?) The video features an animatronic penguin, John K as an 80 year old man, JPS as Michel Foucault, a recreation of Richard Bird's Antarctic hut where he spent 6 months and well lots of beautiful footage of frozen Lake Winnipeg. Video will begin airing sometime in the Future, start requesting it now."