Category Archives: Film

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What is the connection here? IS there a connection here? (There are many). But the most obvious is legendary jazz great Paul Motian. Paul Motian had an octet that played at the Vanguard with Bill McHenry and Steve Cardenas. Not to mention Ben Monder. Bill McHenry sound-tracked the documentary film that I’m currently working on.Continue reading “Six Degrees. 27 Jun 2014.”

Outtakes from a documentary that I’m working on. These guys are aces; I’m more convinced that they really are saving the world. It does get sort of whiggy — sitting in a room occupied with camera and sound people.

This is the first recorded song using Logic X. I was hoping that it was similar to FCP X — it is, but it isn’t. Still a big learning curve. Josh ‘Smelly’ Kelly — Drums Ed Vaughan – Guitars, bass and scratch vocals I shot some Mexican hats in a field before it was cutContinue reading “Tracking. 7 Jun 2014.”

New tracks added! German mics all sorted now. Beautiful!

I’ve been told to think of this as my night job. To which I always ask: ‘Why do I need a night job?’ ‘Because we think there’s a film here’, they say. It’s in that spirit I’ve been slogging back through the first 40 pages to send out for coverage on Sunday. First 40 toContinue reading “Script. 30 Mai 2014.”

This was the view from Cannes this year. My entertainment counsel attends the Cannes Film Festival and the distribution conference each year. She’s Stanford and super bright at all of this moving picture stuff. If you make a big feature film and it doesn’t get theatrical distribution — you’ve effectively made a very expensive homeContinue reading “Cannes. 26 Mai 2014.”

Last night. These guys were hailed as the new direction of Austin music. They weren’t bad. I guess. More interesting was the re-purposing of acoustic instruments sonically. A friend of mine said that ‘we were doomed’ when I told him that these guys represented the a/new musical direction. He’s probably right. But let them eatContinue reading “The Red Starks? 25 Mai 2014.”