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LOCATION: Herenow
RECORDS: 23
LATEST RECORD: over 2 years ago
JOINED: January 21, 2009
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I love looking at this scene in my cabin bedroom. It looks magical to me as I look at it from my bed while reading. It's a happy!!!
Inspired by Joe's 28 Again birthday thingy...
I was a little late in the run for this since I wasn't around for Joe's b-day, so I decided to make a little mix of my own. Thanks to Tori, Caitlin, Elerin, HellloLindsayy, Amore, Joe of course, makingmoves,and Jenyffer.maria for the awesome records I used. ;)))
And sorry for the crappy quality. For some reason, after I upload videos to this site, the videos look worse?
I was a little late in the run for this since I wasn't around for Joe's b-day, so I decided to make a little mix of my own. Thanks to Tori, Caitlin, Elerin, HellloLindsayy, Amore, Joe of course, makingmoves,and Jenyffer.maria for the awesome records I used. ;)))
And sorry for the crappy quality. For some reason, after I upload videos to this site, the videos look worse?
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." -Oscar Wilde
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Rian Johnson, who made Brick, invited me to RECord a german drinking song for his new movie.
Since the BROTHERS BLOOM came out this weekend (I'm on my way to see it tonight), I figured I'd reRelease my journal entry from my visit to the set there nearly two years ago. It's also here in the hitRECord.org archives ~ http://www.hitrecord.org/archive/Journal-2007-05-07.html
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monday 7 may 2007
Greetings from Beograd... Rian seems to have perpetrated a small paradise here. The Brothers Bloom. That's its name. I usually enjoy my days of unemployment by staying away from movie sets. However...
Towards the beginning of the story, there's a big celebratory Berlin bar scene with an undercurrent of malaise, and thus the wee hours' background was to be seasoned with a few drunken stragglers singing something sad and slightly sour. To this end, Rian enlisted Nathan the singing Johnson who's also composing the movie's score, Jared in thanks for all the SnowShow tickets, and me since those Blooms never work with the same crew twice (Both Noah and Nora make appearences as well). Or perhaps he just wanted to throw us in the movie, and this was the best way he thought of.
In preparation, Jared and I went out to New Jersey to a place called Accordion-O-Rama, yes Accordion-O-Rama. What we got there is less of an accordion and more of a novelty squeeze-box that can play two chords, but two is more than one, and so it was more than adequate for the job. Around the same time, I was talking with a friend of mine who was born in Germany. I told him my friends and I were trying to come up with some sort of German drinking song, and he told me the lyrics to one he remembered. It was just one line, repeated over and over again, which was just about right, since the bit would be short, and since I didn't think I could pull off much more German than that. And since I like repetitive things. I woke up the next morning and, using the two chords I knew our squeeze-box could play, recorded a version on GarageBand, the computer sitting on top of my grandpa's piano.
I emailed it to Nathan and Jared, and they said they liked it. So we emailed it to Rian, and he said he liked it. When Jared and I got to Belgrade, Nathan suggested we write our own lyrics, since we weren't sure if the lyrics my friend taught me were traditional enough--in other words, weren't owned by somebody who could legally demand a paycheck. Well, none of us knew any German, so we had that to contend with; but there was no requirement that the words make any sense at all, so we had that going for us, which was nice. Simple trip to fonetiks.org did the trick. We looked up various things in English relating to a conversation Nathan and Rian had been having regarding some of the movie's metaphors on which, for the sake of art's mysterious ways, I shall not elaborate.
We recorded it in Nathan's hotel room. He's got this cool mini MBox so he can use ProTools on his laptop. One nice microphone. Some headphones. A few cables. All fits in a little suitcase. Nathan on guitar. Jared on the squeeze-box. And I upped the number of languages in which I can sing to four, ha!
Keep in mind, it's supposed to be a drinking song--I was holding a bottle of scotch when we shot the scene--so it's a bit sloppy. I have little confidence that the words have much to do with the "German Language." And it is quite repetitive. But I like how it turned out. Perhaps you will as well...
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Believe it or not, this part got cut from the movie. I still do have a wee cameo, inspired heavily by the stillness of SNOWSHOW'S Green Clowns. Hope you go check out the flick, I highly RECommend it -- not only clever and hilarious, but hits the heart...
Since the BROTHERS BLOOM came out this weekend (I'm on my way to see it tonight), I figured I'd reRelease my journal entry from my visit to the set there nearly two years ago. It's also here in the hitRECord.org archives ~ http://www.hitrecord.org/archive/Journal-2007-05-07.html
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monday 7 may 2007
Greetings from Beograd... Rian seems to have perpetrated a small paradise here. The Brothers Bloom. That's its name. I usually enjoy my days of unemployment by staying away from movie sets. However...
Towards the beginning of the story, there's a big celebratory Berlin bar scene with an undercurrent of malaise, and thus the wee hours' background was to be seasoned with a few drunken stragglers singing something sad and slightly sour. To this end, Rian enlisted Nathan the singing Johnson who's also composing the movie's score, Jared in thanks for all the SnowShow tickets, and me since those Blooms never work with the same crew twice (Both Noah and Nora make appearences as well). Or perhaps he just wanted to throw us in the movie, and this was the best way he thought of.
In preparation, Jared and I went out to New Jersey to a place called Accordion-O-Rama, yes Accordion-O-Rama. What we got there is less of an accordion and more of a novelty squeeze-box that can play two chords, but two is more than one, and so it was more than adequate for the job. Around the same time, I was talking with a friend of mine who was born in Germany. I told him my friends and I were trying to come up with some sort of German drinking song, and he told me the lyrics to one he remembered. It was just one line, repeated over and over again, which was just about right, since the bit would be short, and since I didn't think I could pull off much more German than that. And since I like repetitive things. I woke up the next morning and, using the two chords I knew our squeeze-box could play, recorded a version on GarageBand, the computer sitting on top of my grandpa's piano.
I emailed it to Nathan and Jared, and they said they liked it. So we emailed it to Rian, and he said he liked it. When Jared and I got to Belgrade, Nathan suggested we write our own lyrics, since we weren't sure if the lyrics my friend taught me were traditional enough--in other words, weren't owned by somebody who could legally demand a paycheck. Well, none of us knew any German, so we had that to contend with; but there was no requirement that the words make any sense at all, so we had that going for us, which was nice. Simple trip to fonetiks.org did the trick. We looked up various things in English relating to a conversation Nathan and Rian had been having regarding some of the movie's metaphors on which, for the sake of art's mysterious ways, I shall not elaborate.
We recorded it in Nathan's hotel room. He's got this cool mini MBox so he can use ProTools on his laptop. One nice microphone. Some headphones. A few cables. All fits in a little suitcase. Nathan on guitar. Jared on the squeeze-box. And I upped the number of languages in which I can sing to four, ha!
Keep in mind, it's supposed to be a drinking song--I was holding a bottle of scotch when we shot the scene--so it's a bit sloppy. I have little confidence that the words have much to do with the "German Language." And it is quite repetitive. But I like how it turned out. Perhaps you will as well...
***
Believe it or not, this part got cut from the movie. I still do have a wee cameo, inspired heavily by the stillness of SNOWSHOW'S Green Clowns. Hope you go check out the flick, I highly RECommend it -- not only clever and hilarious, but hits the heart...
Thoughts on Love from the SF Film Festival (500) Days of Summer line
2 May 2009
(500) Days of Summer played the San Francisco International Film Festival last weekend. I love the Bay. Zooey and Marc Webb and a bunch of people who worked on the movie all went up north for the night. I loved watching the move in the new beautiful Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. The crowd lived up to my expectations of an SF-cinephile crowd. If you were there, thanks!
So here's how I'm starting this new Collaboration "re: LOVE". Hope others RECord what Love means to them. If you want to contribute, look down on this page under Resources and click the link to the "re: LOVE" Collaboration. We'll keep revising and refining the RECords. Who knows what might emerge.
2 May 2009
(500) Days of Summer played the San Francisco International Film Festival last weekend. I love the Bay. Zooey and Marc Webb and a bunch of people who worked on the movie all went up north for the night. I loved watching the move in the new beautiful Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. The crowd lived up to my expectations of an SF-cinephile crowd. If you were there, thanks!
So here's how I'm starting this new Collaboration "re: LOVE". Hope others RECord what Love means to them. If you want to contribute, look down on this page under Resources and click the link to the "re: LOVE" Collaboration. We'll keep revising and refining the RECords. Who knows what might emerge.
