Before my high school, Valencia High School near LA, had a sprawling suburbia built behind it, It was vacant hillsides and it was our adventure space at night…nobody could touch us there. The video for 1979 was shot in several places in town, including my friends house for the house party scene, and on that epic hillside, capturing cross-canyon views of cars and lights…perfectly capturing the life of a teenager in Santa Clarita at the time. I will never forget that time of my life and how succinctly Smashing Pumpkins nailed 1979 and the aesthetics of angst, love, laughter, and friends.