Filmed and edited by Tom Bennett, this was the beginning of turning my songs into music videos. It was filmed in 3 hours on a cold winter’s day.

Weeks before, Tom and I had envisioned shooting the truck off the back deck. Come the day…. jugglers were in town from France and a fiddle player from the west coast was still here, so we roped them in. Inconveniently, it was too COLD to film outside. I made a call and got the OK to use a warehouse, so off we went. Then, by the time we were ready to film, Tom had to pick up his child from school. The chicken is a child and the dog is a pet.

Sometimes you get trapped in the car – with others. Sometimes you don’t. Everywhere you are (here now?) go ahead and sing I FEEL LIKE A MT. You will be empowered.
I wanted to make this video because the sound track is so different. I sang the song a cappella in Matt Sephton’s (Matt Rapid) back yard, and when I returned to New Zealand years later, he had put it to music. I love it.

I also love my co-stars Koru Kimber, Mia Nathan, Manu Nathan, and a cape. I love co-stars and a camera and a cape all together. I made the cape and the rest of the outfit for a costume party, “magical summer of 2012.” Coromandel has The Bazaar, a legendary thrift store for costume parties.
I love a thrift store….

When I got to New Zealand I was excited about making music videos and had just finished recording the album THE STAND. With a borrowed FLIP camera I just started filming.
I think I drove them all mad asking for MORE FOOTAGE. It was my project but as I was their houseguest they were subjected to it. I kept popping up and filming them. OH… and I needed them to film me so I could be in it too.

The thing I find hardest about making music videos is that I can’t be both in front of and behind the camera at the same time. With an upbeat song and no script or much of a plan, 1-2-3-4 was made and is fun to watch. There is something pleasant about watching happy people be happy.

This video is a family portrait. The Padovan-Hickman family stars in the soundtrack and the video recorded and filmed at their family farm.
It is a pilot of a TV show I want to do called ‘My wife's a keeper.’

What to wear in a video always comes up. Just before the Mother’s Day Maypole party, a nonagenarian I know had passed on her dead sister’s slips, saying, “She was a real looker.” Then she said, “I don’t want to see you running up and down the road in just your slip.” I wonder if her sister ever did that. Well, the seed was planted and I wore both slips at once cause that’s the style these days.
Thanks, DeLaura, for letting me wear your pink cowboy boots and play your pink guitar.