With Gusto

Schimpact!

Such is the working title of my latest documentary film, which is still in the works, but for once I have it somewhat figured out in my head. I've got all the music done, which I've either composed or have had a hand in performing. I got about 35 minutes of footage, some of which took place on a Kabuki cab. They make great dollies. I met with P. downtown by accident and I just stuck the camera in his life for a while. True documentary. This is like real life. Next I have to get in a car with other friends and somehow document that. And I need another piece to the puzzle. What of, I'm not sure. Maybe I'll record Joy and I having really great conversations.
S-L has been booked for a show up at the University in early-mid September. For this, I am stoked. We have many half-completed songs booting around, and we need to finish them. My views on songwriting have sort of changed of late. I want longer, more lucid songs. Most of the songs on the EP are very tight, following the pattern type of song, which is great. But now that that's done, it's time to change. Always change. It's good to go back and forth between spontaneous and constructed art. Following only one or the other is a dooming, self-indulgent road to glory and fame.

The Conversation - Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. **** - It's one of those good oblique 70s movies where there're nothing but puzzling pieces that don't necessarily fit together. Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who records a conversation, and soon after, Harrison Ford wants it. There's a scene where Hackman plays tenor sax to a jazz record.

The weekend is here! I want to take it easy this weekend. Bars are bad scenes if you have no monies in your wallet. Which I don't. I'm so poor.