VIDEO OF THE DAY: TIM FITE

Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Tim Fite has completed his “Ain’t” trilogy, which began with 2005’s Gone Ain’t Gone and continued with 2008’s Fair Ain’t Fair, with the utterly delightful Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t (Anti-, March 6). “I’m a bully / A big badass bully / Do what I say / or get thrown the fuck out the way / I’m a big old bully,” Fite sings on “Bully,” but he’s nothing of the sort, as seen in the above short about his creative process. The visual artist and musician, who has also written storybooks and hosted the video series Gunshow!, goes back to his high school years on Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t , incorporating the ironic, acerbic wit of Randy Newman with the vocal phrasings of Craig Finn to create a mournful yet loving song cycle that deals with puppy love, the thrill of going joyriding, bullying, and other teenage jubilations and disasters, steeped in playful percussion and offbeat sounds. “Let’s live while we can / ’cause we may never be teenagers again,” he sings on “We Are All Teenagers.” Fite will be celebrating the release of Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t, which also includes such exquisitely arranged tracks as “Hold Me All Night,” “Telephone Booth,” and “Talking to the Air,” on March 8 at Union Hall in Brooklyn with the Woes.