“We’re releasing this video a year to the day of the election of the garbage king. May our national nightmare end sometime soon.” – Open Mike Eagle

Produced by Exile
Directed & Edited by Ryan Calavano

Today, Open Mike Eagle released a music video from his acclaimed album ‘Brick Body Kids Still Daydream’ which XXL recently hailed as “one of the best [albums] of the year.” The video, filmed in a junkyard in Valencia, CA, frames the track “Happy Wasteland Day” as a bleak, satirical, apocalyptic desert world – like a Mad Max fever dream that mirrors reality.

Directed and edited by Ryan Calavano, produced by Exile, “Happy Wasteland Day” depicts a world where things have gone terribly wrong. The song is crammed with cutting verses: “Now we all in a zombie movie / only weapon is common sense / zombie sheriffs is tryna lynch us / guess I’ll call up my congressman,” he raps while surrounded by rusty car shells and fire-breathers. Mike pleads for just “one day without violence,” making this video feel all the more present.