Bridgette and I recently engorged ourselves on an opulent pasta-feast at the home of my old friend Adam Betker and his wife. Once the unpleasantries were concluded we retired to the living room and nestled comfortably into their overstuffed sofa. With a knowing smile, Adam popped in a DVD of a project he had just completed.

Backstory: when the Betkers were going to the Rock, he served as Rock TV’s computer animation master. Now in retirement from our ministry and attending another church, he apparently thought it wise to apply his technical wizardry to the world of music videos. I smiled as I realized that he was showing us an unsolicited video he had completed for “First Ship Out”, a song from my album The Silent Era

“First Ship Out” (a song about a girl who falls in love with the wrong guy, though Adam puts a much more literal take on things in the video) was always one of my favorites from that album, so it was fun for me to see somebody’s interpretation of it. I like animation a lot - it’s like a modern take on Terry Gilliam’s old Monty Python bits. Adam was nice enough to give me a copy once he had finished it up, and I was nice enough to put it online and waste 3 minutes of your time with it. So I guess we’re both good guys.

Enjoy!