{"id":803636,"date":"2020-01-30T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=945491"},"modified":"2020-01-30T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:13:18","slug":"josh-homme-glides-by-fascists-fat-cats-and-more-in-easier-said-than-done-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/josh-homme-glides-by-fascists-fat-cats-and-more-in-easier-said-than-done-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Homme Glides by Fascists, Fat Cats and More in \u2018Easier Said Than Done\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/josh-homme-desert-sessions-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/josh-homme\/\" id=\"auto-tag_josh-homme\" data-tag=\"josh-homme\">Josh Homme<\/a> skates gracefully through a surreal fever dream in the new video for Desert Sessions\u2019 \u201cEasier Said Than Done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Directed by Chapman Baehler, the clip wastes no time in grabbing your attention as a Hitler look-alike enjoys a picnic with a demon of some sort. Their good time, however, is promptly interrupted when Homme \u2014 strapped in a straight jacket and on roller skates \u2014 appears and urinates on the fascist dictator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Things get even weirder from there as Homme glides gracefully between bizarre tableaus of authoritarian teachers, masturbating pig-faced billionaires, security guards on fire and a socialite on a high chair being dragged by a man in chains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEasier Said Than Done\u201d appears on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/josh-homme-les-claypool-billy-gibbons-desert-sessions-album-890927\/\">latest Desert Sessions albums<\/a> volumes 11 and 12, <i>Arrivederci Despair <\/i>and<i> Tightwads &amp; Nitwits &amp; Critics &amp; Heels,<\/i> both of which arrived last October. Homme wrote \u201cEasier Said Than Done\u201d with drummer Carla Azar, while the song also features contributions from Jake Shears, Mike Kerr, Matt Sweeney and Dave Catching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Homme launched his collaborative Desert Sessions project in 1997 and has invited an array of musicians to participate in the long-running stoner\/hard-rock series. <i>Arrivederci Despair <\/i>and<i> Tightwads &amp; Nitwits &amp; Critics &amp; Heels<\/i> marked the first Desert Sessions records since 2003\u2019s <i>I See You Hearin\u2019 Me<\/i> and <i>I Heart Disco<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with sharing the video for \u201cEasier Said Than Done,\u201d Homme has also launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/usr\/desertsessionsbizarrebazaar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201cThe Bizarre Bazaar,\u201d<\/a> a new bi-weekly series of Desert Sessions-inspired art that will be auctioned off for charity. The first item up for sale is a quilt designed by textile artist Ben Venom. Proceeds will benefit Homme\u2019s Sweet Stuff Foundation, which helps fund music programs for children and provides support to members of the music community struggling with health issues and disabilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/josh-homme-desert-sessions-easier-said-than-done-music-video-945491\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Homme skates gracefully through a surreal fever dream in the new video for Desert Sessions\u2019 \u201cEasier Said Than Done.\u201d Directed by Chapman Baehler, the clip wastes no time in grabbing your attention as a Hitler look-alike enjoys a picnic with a demon of some sort. Their good time, however, is promptly interrupted when Homme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 05:55:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}