Got a piece from a friend who writes "experimental" music that I want to use in a vid this summer.  Now, when we hear the word "experimental" applied to music, it usually means bad things, particularly in the realm of the budget-free: "Hey, did you hear Bill's experimental music CD?  He dressed in bearskin slippers and a Renaissance-faire codpiece, climbed up onto the oak table that his grandma used to give birth on, and pounded the jawbone of a mule on a lump of bread dough for three hours!  Check it out!"

But really, this is a pretty good piece.

Also have some songs from a friend who, unfortunately, passed away at an all-too-young age not long ago.  I have to think about these--featured one song in a video I did last year, and have had plans to do more with his music.  But now that he's gone, the music no longer represents a beginning, the time when he was an unknown singer-songwriter, maybe a fun memory down the road as we looked back on our early efforts.  Now, it's his life's work.  I just don't know what I'm going to do about that.  I haven't even really started to believe that I won't ever see him again, pulling up into my driveway with a bag of tomatoes for me and my kid in one hand and a cigarette in the other. 

Oh, shit.  I'm done writing about that for now.

Anyway.

Someone asked me this weekend:  Can a film be too personal?  He thought no.  I've got to tell you...I do think a film can be too personal.  I'll write more about that later; feel free to share your thoughts.