(hearding)

I gots some stuff to float your way screenwise (and distro), but this weekend I've been all awash in music. Rhoda and Kaku had invited me to see the fall colors, but they never told me when & where to meet them, so I stayed inside downloading music here & there.

I've been especially impressed with Bishop Allen, of whom I'd heard through Andrew Bujalski's Mutual Appreciation, which is a great model for small-scale filmmaking, even if I'd open it up to the outside (permits?). (I have a screener DVD of this if you guys want to see it... after December, that is).

And there's this Broken Social Scene live concert I found somewhere that's just killing me. Open-source creativity or what?

And as far as writing goes, for my money the world's best songwriter is John Darnielle, and I think his stuff works not because of a lot of backstory, but because of place. He always seems to locate stuff in a real (uh, English fails me suddenly) place. Ahem. Environment, surrounding, nothing's working, I need more concrete language, but the way that a person's ground is tied directly to that person comes through crystal clear.

One of his greatest songs, "Going to Georgia" works because there's just one detail left out of the song that drives it. It's all the backstory needed, and it ties in so closely to the ground of GA that it's just about invisible, but omnipresent. Like air.

I gots two things on the burner right now: one's rooted in place, one's just floating. More on that later. Mentally, I'm in Brooklyn for some reason. I've never even been to Brookyln. More on that later too.