A screengrab from the video, which is available to watch below.
The band Vampire Weekend briefly stopped traffic at Zabar’s earlier this year to film a music video. Now the fruits of those labors are visible and they’re…kinda fun! We reported on the video when it was being filmed, an event that rankled some people who were trying to buy dinner.
Actor Jonah Hill directed the video for “Sunflower,” the new song from Vampire Weekend — a band that got its start at Columbia University and has an affinity for the Upper West Side (they even wrote a sing called M79).
In the Sunflower video, which you can watch below, singer Ezra Koenig and others hang out behind the counter at Zabar’s and in the Barney Greengrass cafe section. The video keeps spinning so try to hold down your lunch. Seinfeld makes faces and then a sort-of joke (?) at the end about lox? Anyway, it’s worth a listen!
It’s like seeing rooms in your own home suddenly on television. Fun!
I anxiously await Mr. Hill’s forthcoming Modest Mouse concert video, filmed in B’Nai Jeshurun, Congregation Rodeph Shalom, and my grandmother’s kitchen
Trying wayyyy too hard.
Missed the joke’s first line.
Wow, now that was pathetic
Fun!
In spite of a bit of motion sickness, I dig the video & song. And our neighborhood!
Neither the video nor the song does anything to bring Zabar’s or Barney Greengrass to any meaningfull representation of their presence on the Upper West Side.
The video and the song are pretty bad. Fans of motion sickness might get a thrill.
How does one meaningfully represent one’s presence?
not even a mention of Steve Lacy? that’s more interesting than anything else that was said
Appalling, puke-inducing video from a wretched “band.”
Whatever talent Jonah Hill possesses it is entirely absent from this video.
A waste of 2 minutes