Back in 2010, I wrote this quirky little love song, for an independent film that my friend Ian Harris had written about the lives of comedians. Although that film has yet to be made, the tune did find it's way into a DIFFERENT indie film, thanks to the magical world of Facebook. Serena and I have a mutual friend, Stephen Savage, who is also a fantastic director, writer & film maker. He saw the video above and thought the song was perfect for a certain scene in his film Vertical. So, that's the story of how I got my first movie placement! :)
Oh, and back in 2010, it was a HUGE accomplishment to get the amazing Serena Matthews (@paintingangels) to agree on a collaboration! Then, after she so graciously took the time to record her parts and email them back to me, I had the audacity to ask her if she'd record a VIDEO of herself that I could splice together for this iPhone duet idea I had...
Well, as you can see, she declined and asked if I could please find someone else to be a puppet for my ridiculousness!! Hahahaha. So, I convinced my friend Rachel Holmes to grab her ukulele and do some miming on camera. The rest is history! (Although, I'm noticing that Serena is FAR less fearful of the video camera these days... I wonder if all you beautiful Steemit friends might be able to help me convince her to finally record her video parts for me to splice in!) ;)
Serena has been one of my favorite people EVER to duet with, and she is also one of my favorite human beings on this planet. Hopefully we can duet again soon! (And someday, in PERSON!) :)