SKY blue July 2

THIS goes out from ME to YOU
Have a HAPPY HAPPY SKY Blue July TWO
Don't matter where your at
Or what you gonna do
THIS goes out from ME to YOU

BIG REMINDER everyone...

I saw this film at Tribeca a few months ago and it was fantastic. It was so moving, inspirational and alarming at the same time. Cory Booker was actually in the audience at this screening and when the filmmaker introduced him, he recieved a standing ovation. It will be airing on PBS at 10PM on July 5th. If you have a chance I strongly recommend checking it out.

"Street Fight" covers the turbulent campaign of Cory Booker, a 32-year old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law graduate running for mayor of Newark, N.J. against Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent twice his age. Fresh from winning awards at the HotDocs and Tribeca film festivals, "Street Fight" is this year's political thriller.

Screening : P.O.V. Street Fight Tuesday, July 5, 10:00pm
PBS CHANNEL 13 (Thirteen/WNET New York), COMCAST Ch. 13

For additional listings, information and reviews go to:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/streetfight/


I think I'm STILL recovering fro last weeks BUZZER shoot. And yes, I still have ONE final short scene to shoot. As much as I love July 4th, the holiday makes it hard to get anything coordinated. HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!! That reminds me of one day when I was witing tables in Kemah, Texas about 10 years ago. I had this big table of about 10 red-blooded Texans and this one guy kept standing up every ten minutes or so and yelling out to the WHOLE restaurant "HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!" It was cool at first, but after an hour of that people were wanting to throw jalapenos at the guy.

Rehearsal last night for ALOHA. We are getting really close (July 14th is opening night) and we have yet to do a full run-through. Last night we worked through transitions, which can be a long arduous process. I brought my djembe to use for certain sound effects backstage, but we got to the last few pages of the script and Courtney hadnt even thought about using it. I kept thinking "Bring in the djembe, bring in the djembe. WHEN are we gonna bring in the djembe?" Finally she gives me the nod and I rock the house a little bit. She is so enthused that she wishes she had worked me and my djembe into ALL of the earlier transitions. So we started to go back and make adjustments here and there, but it got too late and we decided to schedule a special "Djembe" meeting. I knew the djembe would work. And I'm psyched to be playing it for the show. I love my djembe.

Ok, enough blogging on this beautiful holiday weekend. I'm going to Central Park to lay on the grass. I love grass.

PS: That reminds me I saw EASY RIDER (Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson) for the FIRST time the other night. It really surprised me. Anyway, I'll get into it later.