Good GOD! Can it really be about 3 months since I've checked in here on MySpace? Whew. I figure I've lost all my MySpace friends by now. Maybe everyone followed me to Facebook.
But we still love the MySpace and so here we are again. I've been mighty busy since August. I hosted a movie night at the Roosevelt Hotel where we showed one of my favorite movies of all time, MY MAN GODFREY. If you haven't seen it make a point of doing so. It might be the most perfectly crafted film ever. Not to mention an incredible screwball comedy and classic of the Golden Age of Hollywood. They set up a screen and seats around the pool and before the film I performed FALLING FOR AN ACTOR, a song from my last CD along with video that my pal Matt Amato made (a compilation of sexy matinee idols who always seemed to paly a caddish role.) A Facebook friend videotaped it and I'm in the midst of redesigning my website where I will post it.
Little did I know that the film director Gregg Araki was in the audience. I got a call not long after to do a cameo in Araki's new film "Kaboom!" which is, I think, gonna be a real mind-blower. One of the craziest scripts I've ever read. I play a rich Beverly Hills type who has a weekly tryst with one of the young leads . The young hustler's name is "Thor" and is played by a 23 year old actor who, thanks to some mighty fine blonde hair extensions, is as "Thor" as anyone is going to get outside of Norse mythology! (My character - known only as "Woman in Hotel"- has some extensions too!)
I then went to Memphis where I had the lead role in "Youth Dew" which is part of a trilogy of half hour films that comprise the whole of "Women's Picture" directed by Brian Pera. Brian contacted me through FACEBOOK and sent me his first (and only) film, "The Way I See Things" which I loved. Next thing I knew we were concocting a story together and then I was in the always delightful city of Memphis wearing another wig and in front of the camera in one of the best roles I've ever been given! This baby had RANGE! Here is a test photo of me as "Miriam Masterson", hostess of a home shopping network show who loses everything (and reclaims her soul) in the course of the day.
More about this project when it's edited and ready for the festival circuit. All I'll add now is that Brian and his entire crew were a dream to work with and I was treated like a queen. More please!
Well, I'm glad I've managed to add something to this blog. I now need to go write a blog for The Masses website about the Time Traveling Hooker video shown earlier this year in the Joshua Tree Inn as part of my installation for artist Andrea Zittell's High.Desert.Test.Sites. event.
The Masses are an arts collective made up of film/video directors, musicians and artists. They are having a big event this Saturday at the Downtown Independent where they are showing everyone's work from 2009. Among that work is that video , "Time Traveling Hooker: Room 8" , which I've been graciously credited as 'director'. (I guess bossing everyone around - mostly my pal Matt Amato who shot and edited the piece- means I'm now a director. That's a Capricorn for ya!) I am also going to perform some new spoken work with the DJ collective
Dub Lab. Info about the event
can be found here. Oh, and one more goodie. I was lucky enough to see Leon Russell perform this past Sunday at Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown. What a supreme joy it is to see a musical legend (and genius..he wrote "Superstar' for Chrissakes!) live in person (and at a very intimate venue)! I got some great photos too. I'll post them when I can figure out which file I put the dang things in.
Peace out, ann