Q: how did you got inspired for making the song and vid of new canaan? i really love it
A: was in penn station one time and i was just like 'damn, there's trains here that go to the entire world, i just pick somewhere and see what's there. even if it's nothing, i don't care, i want to go.'  so 4 different times that month (may 2009) i took a songbook and went to a random place, and wrote a song on the way. new canaan got some very very small edits (mainly in the last verse) in 2012. got recorded in 2014 on the wednesday song schedule. then it came up for a tuesday music video a few months later, and being almost 3 minutes, it was extremely ambitious to fit in to the schedule... basically means i had to do the video in about 1 day, which is why it is Extremely low budget...  just did like 1 full length vocal take, 1 drum take, maybe did a couple specific bass fills.... and there's hardly any graphics... the occasional train or map just barely makes it interesting enough.
ultimately i'm glad it got recorded, it was very high on my most-wanted list (mainly because of that license plate line, honestly) for many years