Film Festival entry
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A Mockumentary brought about by the SeaKings. Watch and read! It begins with Dallas Blue She was Cotton and Oil and Money to Burn Real Good People Wherever you Turn Things were Happening But Not too Fast And We all Figured She was Built to Last There it was, a novel, in four lines.  A snapshot of the jet black soil of the East Fork of the Trinity River before the Kennedy assassination. When the sweat dripped from your temple down on your face in July before a tear welled from your eyes in recognition that MetroPlex is the most soulless of self-identifications.  I hung up the phone and looked at Cody, and said, “ Does anyone really talk like that”? We had been told we were creating a spoof of the silly genre of sanitized biographies, but it would start by filming dogs playing golf.  He said they had more etiquette than 90% of the members.  We were confused.  We had taken the project because we were friends of his family, and they seemed normal. Suddenly we were receiving missives of life.  Humor. Hard charging street poetry that fit today’s zeitgeist .  History through visions of the future.  Most people do not care to be challenged. Paying attention is expensive The lowest common denominator does not have to be an insult, but someone has to have a fearless nature to insist that we all be warned about the terrain over the horizon.  How do you spoof that?  Turns out it is the greatest fun of all. I Like to Walk About a Foot off the Ground,  Discovering Jon Daniel and Hayden Hughes is the inside look of ownership of a dream.  Selling your labor.  Intellectual property that comes with a ball and chain. Musical partners that walked away from ‘the deal’ and reunited a quarter of a century later to visit.  In reminiscing , they unveiled some business left undone.  There were some spirits to lay to rest.  Little Feat’s Lowell George, Dallas Morning News Photographer Larry Provart and beloved trouble-maker Danny Ray Gilbreath inspired Never Met A Stranger.  None would be seen again, and loss can make you mean. Cody and I were to make a film that would allow people to hear what they see.  However, there was a good chance we may never meet the creators of this timeless rhythm and blues.  We used animation to waltz around Austin as Hughes had done when he met Chico. Their stroll down 6th Street from Huts over the river into the Hills is captured in magical lyrics and hypnotic music.  We used Larry Provart’s photos that captured the landscape of the WoodEye? years scored to Never Met a Stranger, and of course we did meet Wylie and July the Goldens that play golf.