CLEO IN THE UNIVERSE: TRAILER

Over the past few months I've had the privilege to be helping to create Cleo In The Universe, a new short movie from the Sirocco Research Labs. We've been filming, brainstorming, building spacesuits and generally defining just what the Sirocco Research Labs is and what it will become. Subsequently, we've exposed ourselves to you (ahem) through set photos and videos and stop motion bits and posters of Lt. Baby Baby, in all his muppet style glory.

And now we've got something grand to show you -- the trailer.


CLEO IN THE UNIVERSE teaser from Sirocco Research Labs on Vimeo.

Sometimes in the face of such beauty and grandeur, all you can do is simply shut your eyes. But I hope you didn't, because you'd miss Cleo in her underwear.

 

CLEO IN LOS ANGELES

THE TIME WE SHOWED ECHO PARK WHAT "COOL" MEANS

VENICE, USA

LOS ANGELES BEAUTY SUPPLY

HOUSESITTING, PORTABLE STUDIO

I'm housesitting for the next week. Just me and Bonnie (she's a weiner dog) and North Portland and the two bags of recording equipment I hauled in.

I had this same adventure over the summer and challenged myself to write and record something completely new in two days. It was a challenge of creating a sort of freedom for myself -- I get so tied up in the subtleties of lyrics and melody that I'm often writing a song over months at a time. I'll work out a verse and spend the next two weeks singing it as I walk, tweaking the melody here and there, scrapping one word in favor of another.

But the best workshops don't slow you down on editing as you write -- they don't let you delay, put that pen on the paper, and just go, just write something, anything, and don't stop.

So I let myself just write something, and here it is. If you listen close, you might hear Bonnie howling along.

Little Bits, Draft One:



This time around, I'm going to revisit the song for the first time. Where should it go? What should it become? You tell me.

I BOUGHT AN X-RAY LIGHT BOX