If Josh Homme were a literary device, he would most certainly be "the unreliable narrator."

In the past, the Queens of the Stone Age frontman has been known to post some fairly ridiculous half-truths on QOTSA.com, often under the guise of "Dr. Insider" or "Doctor of Insiderology." He even admitted as much in an interview with MTV News back in January (see [article id="1496411"]"Queens Singer Says 'Videos Suck,' Then Gets Behind Camera"[/article]).

So when he wrote earlier this week that the band's new video for "In My Head" reminded him of an "Italian porno" he saw once (see [article id="1500832"]"Next QOTSA Video Reminds Josh Homme Of Italian Porn"[/article]), it was fairly obvious that the next logical course of action was to verify that assessment with the clip's director, Associates of Science (a.k.a Adam Levite).

"Yeah, I don't really know why Josh thought the video reminded him of Italian porn," Levite laughed. "But whatever. Maybe it had something to do with the 'in and out' camera techniques we used. Or the shots of all the girls in the woods."

Whatever the reason, Levite swears there's no porn whatsoever in the video, but he did promise a whole lot of extreme close-ups, some beautiful girls and some "menacingly beautiful nature images."

"The song is not your typical Queens song, so I didn't want to make a typical Queens video," he said. "We're focusing on them as people here, starting with beautiful shots of them playing their instruments, and we begin to zoom in from there. We show them playing and determined and push in to show smaller images that are driving them."

Those images include the aforementioned girls and nature images, and the idea of breaking down the visuals of the band into their tiniest elements is based on the work of artist Chuck Close, who was famous for his large portraits made up of smaller and smaller images.

"Of course, keeping with the chorus of the song, we want to see what's in all the Queens' heads. So we get in really close," Levite said. "And we want the viewer to feel the circular nature of the piece, where they get in the band's heads and then back into their own."

Levite said the video shoot lasted for a day and a half in Los Angeles, and that now he'll begin the process of editing everything together -- a process that will take upward of a month to complete.

"The whole thing is extremely post-[production] heavy, so it'll take awhile to put it all together," he said. "I just want it to look and feel different than any other Queens video. I want it to be really photographic and stripped-down, taking the viewer's eye away from the outside and placing the focus on the band's insides."

For Josh Homme's take on the Queens' latest album, see the feature [article id="1498943"]"Queens of the Stone Age: A Stone Unturned."[/article]