Ugly Casanova - Things I Don't Remember

What this video is

Ugly Casanova was a side project of Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock, whose single album 'Sharpen Your Teeth' was released on Sub Pop on May 21, 2002. The project drew on a Pacific Northwest indie supergroup — including Brian Deck, Tim Rutili (Califone/Red Red Meat), Pall Jenkins (The Black Heart Procession), and John Orth (Holopaw) — and was initially shrouded in an elaborate fictional mythology around a…

Why it matters

This video is a significant artifact of the early-2000s Pacific Northwest indie underground, representing Sub Pop's second-wave aesthetic sensibility — stripped-down, folk-inflected, and deliberately uncommercial. The fast montage against a sonically minimalist song demonstrates the era's approach…