Eric Fensler

Eric Fensler (of GI Joe PSA and TRS-80 fame) teamed up with the Eric of Tim and Eric to make an amazing music video. There’s also another music video that Tim/Eric’s Eric did for a group called The Bird and The Bee (they did that song Again & Again that I popular on college radio) that’s on that page. I had never thought about how Tim/Eric and Fensler share an aesthetic, but I guess they are both really into paying homage/parodying retro lo-fi.

Perusing FenslerFilm’s YouTube, I came across a music video E. Fensler did for a guy named Ariel Pink, who seems to be playing the musical equivalent to this retro lo-fi style. The first song I heard, “Politely Declined“, made me turn down my speakers because of the extreme overdriven, overdubbed cassette tape sound. It’s a fun song, but I don’t know if I could listen to it on a regular basis. “Are you looking after my boys” is the next song I heard, video also directed by FenslerFilm. It’s pretty interesting in that both the music and video sound like they have been recorded and rerecorded onto a VHS.

I just read the news page for Fensler, and I guess he is a writer for Tim & Eric Awesome Show, so I guess it makes sense that they all share an aesthetic. He apparently also did a Sealab 2021 episode that never aired, but it’s on the Sealab Season 3 DVD. I’d like to see that.