PostHeaderIcon here comes the flood, by peter gabriel


late night road trips are one of the best places for creative project discussions (next to a good diner, of course). i recently enjoyed just such a night drive from los angeles to san jose with my friend and director, jess brillhart. she had just wrapped her part on the fox reality show, “the lot”, wanted some downtime in the bay area and, i suspect, an iPhone. we talked about the current state of media and i went on a rant about youtube being the future of everything. we talked about this flood of talented people creating for themselves and sharing with the world, we talked about how best to promote what we love to do and, of course, we talked about peter gabriel. all good road trips must contain peter gabriel. this video came about from this full moon drive. i don’t claim to know what peter originally wrote this song about but the line, “the actor’s gone, there’s only you and me” struck a chord with us. we hope it resonates with you as well. use it as a mantra, if you like. there’s only you and me… there’s only you and me… thanks for listening, timothy and jess please check out more of jess’ work at: www.youtube.com

25 Responses to “here comes the flood, by peter gabriel”

  • rlstevenson1886 says:

    I like your setup. Nice idea. You need a producer/friend that can tell you where you fuck up, like the voice multitracking, etc.

  • arbralouve says:

    nice intrepretation

  • sadovius says:

    Beautiful! Beautifully sung, beautifully shot! I like Peter Gabriel too. My verse of choice would be ‘The jaded waves hurled metal at the sky’. It’s so elemental.

  • anandachristy says:

    Wonderful,Jess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • alex270960 says:

    . . . felicidades y gracias . . tngregory

    saludos desde méxico

  • dereksmallsuk says:

    very well covered and a very cleverly shot video.

    10 out of 10 buddy !!

    clever. . . . .

  • FrauMondhase says:

    love you voice!! makes me goosebumbs, honestly. wow!

  • MrAlvaaa says:

    good job!

  • skiffmanmike says:

    And many cities will be flooded!

  • Jester296 says:

    Thats great!

  • Compostification says:

    A brilliant cover of one of my favorite songs! Chapeau!!!

  • Teezvid says:

    “all good road trips must contain peter gabriel. . . ” as you said. This appears to have been one of the best. Thanks for bringing it to us, especially since I couldn’t be there personally at that time.

    Yep. Looks like Youtube wins again.

  • vivelavidarocka says:

    Loved it. Thanks for sharing. You have talent.

  • LostGentlemen says:

    again: excellent work!!!! – this time without the cup. . . good good ;)
    kudos to you!!!
    kind regards!!!!

  • airamanno says:

    Du hast unrecht. Er macht es gut. Zuerst dachte ich auch: Wieder so ein blöder Nachahmer. Aber ich bin eines besseren belehrt. Er immitiert nicht und hat einen eigenen Ausdruck und auch eine gute Stimme!

  • instantbrother says:

    tngregory. . . u are the definition of creativity. I am sitting here just in awe of this amazing rendition of such a brilliant song.

    It is dangerous waters one sails upon when attempting to touch something so sacred.

    This was wonderful & as some of the comments convey (in compliment to your talent),please compose or show us the way to your original compositions.

    You cannot give us the taste then deny us the feast.

    All the best to u Sir & email me your works. I am interested in owning them.

  • hybris80 says:

    molto bravo!! :-)

  • toastedpig says:

    WOW. You send shivers down spine.
    In Sweden we says ståpäls “Standing fur”

  • nielsmeyer says:

    God, this is good!

  • threnoder says:

    simply great!

  • MacGrurry says:

    i cringed, but it turned out to be . . . . alright

  • coxy1953 says:

    i suspect you should present own material. . . i mean that in a nice way. good luck.

  • Leonardoliviaromeo says:

    Bravo, c’est plein de promesses et d’émotion.

  • Fribuschl says:

    poor voice, no feeling for the hidden rhythm. You should give up trying to imitate Gabriels voice. The video is cool, looks futuristic with this cold color-touch. fine

  • factional says:

    Very nice video. . . Good voice. . .

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