Tom Scharpling Makes Good Music Videos

Here is the latest video directed by WFMU radio host Tom Scharpling, who is becoming a sort of indie-rock video auteur. His work is full of people in goofy costumes in pedestrian places and marked by a dorky, let’s-put-on-a-show enthusiasm — albeit one tempered by a New Jersey native’s acceptance that nothing’s ever going to really work out anyway. Scharpling used to be a writer for the TV show “Monk,”

which was funny and great just like his videos. Watch more of them.