As an actress who has done some voiceover work, I can surely see this blooming into something beautiful

Oh, Rian! You are so precious! =)

been waiting for this day. rian johnson is on hitrecord!

As a man who frequently wears a herringbone hat, I will contribute to this occasion as soon as my recording set-up is functional again.

When first I read this poem, it had such a jaunty scansion, I thought it would do as a song. But perhaps with this new direction, a composition, a background score would be more appropriate. I would be glad to contribute any of my musical skills to this project, should someone come up with a composition. I'm not good at composing, sadly.

An idea I had during my first listen to the poem was maybe to integrate the reading itself into the piece. Its tone and language is very atmospheric, so perhaps the narrator is a character in the piece and the imagery of the poem is presented in a flashback style. I just keep picturing the ending of the piece being the narrator/reader concluding the story and puffing on a cigar on a lonely stage in a dive bar.

Just throwing that idea out there...

RichieMillenium: "Doesn't the Finnegan's Wake page 439 collaboration count as his first hitRECord foray? In fact, the first time I ever heard about hitRECord was because of a rcjohnso tweet about page 439, I do believe."

Oh Richie, oh you! ;o) Indeed, Rian did post his Finnegan's Wake video on the older version of hitRECord. For the curious, here's a link to that video. We should actually get Rian to record it here as a Reference.

http://vimeo.com/5575022

Anyway, what I meant by "first" is that while I threw my two cents into that project by RECording some voiceover, this is the first time he's diving into our communal creative process, planting a seed of a project and seeing where it might end up.

Let's show him what we can do!!

Doesn't the Finnegan's Wake page 439 collaboration count as his first hitRECord foray? In fact, the first time I ever heard about hitRECord was because of a rcjohnso tweet about page 439, I do believe.

REALLY excited about this! LOVE Brick, and I'm jumping out of my skin at the possibility of collaborating on this! Thanks for another amazing opportunity!