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Watch James Franco’s NSFW Satanic Wedding in ‘Love in the Old Days’ Remix Video

James Franco Daddy 'Love in the Old Days' Remix Video

It’s not enough that James Franco is currently starring in the biggest mainstream movie currently at the box office (Oz the Great and Powerful) and also the most buzzed-about indie film headed there soon (Spring Breakers). The ever-ambitious actor has still got time to advance his unusual music career via a remix of his Daddy track “Love in the Old Days” plus a freaky NSFW six-minute video that he directed himself.

The Ted James 1999 Remix recasts the original Beat-inspired beach-bum soul jam as a claustrophobic beat-addled noise trip, while the accompanying clip finds a deranged priest lording over an occult wedding held at a strip club. The guests wear animal masks, hold candles, and generally eschew shirts. The officiant, played by iconic film experimentalist Kenneth Anger, plays a theremin while the topless couple tongue-kiss.

“When I went to NYU for film, I was always looking for ways to Anger up my films,” says Franco via statement. “My first one in particular, ‘The Feast of Stephen’ owes a lot to Anger, the way his camera transformed a gang of real 1960 bikers into homoerotic gods. In other films and projects I loved the way he took celebrity and the occult and fused them in Eisensteinian juxtapositions to achieve a greater, spiritual/aesthetic significance.”

To recap, Franco recently directed a pair of bizarre music videos for R.E.M. — the Lindsay Lohan-starring “Blue” and I Can Haz Grease-burger “That Someone Is You” — and also lip-synced along with Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend” quite masterfully. Also, SPIN premiered his aptly titled Daddy video “Creep” last year shortly after the project, which includes musician-artist Tim O’Keefe, was announced. And yes, it’s all rather ridiculous.