Pyrograph portrait of Howlin’ Wolf by Lorraine Zaloom (after a photograph by Peter Amft)
My buddy, Frank Knapp makes this so easy. Good music and some nice discussion can pretty much carry the hour. I'm trying to figure out how many people I should call in an hour. Two, like today? Or three, like yesterday? Anyway, I can see the possibilities emerging. I stopped off before the show this afternoon at Earth Fare and had a cup of joe--saw lots of Democrats—still had time to visit Papa Jazz, my favorite record store, then I floated into the studio five minutes early, just in time to get situated in front of my fan and spread out my notes and give Frank his markers. It’s going to be a nice routine. We’ll crank the little hi-def camera up during the show next week and post up some segments for ya on YouTube.
Light blogging tomorrow—off to Charleston for the Senate Film Subcommittee hearings on Film Incentives. Hmmmmmm. They won’t exist one year from now. Hallelujah. Amen. If we are going to subsidize 15 Million dollars worth of something to grow a film industry we’d better have something to show for it when we get through spending that money.
Tomorrow morning, after years of frittering away millions of taxpayer dollars on Hollywood hustler producers, Mr. Jeff Monks, the longtime director of the South Carolina Film Office (I refuse to call it a Commission until it has Commissioners) who lobbied for and got his agency transferred to the Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department (presumably hoping for a blind eye after being called on the carpet by his very astute former boss, the Secretary of Commerce, Joe Taylor) will have the chance to put on a dog and pony show for four very skeptical Senators who have probably already decided that the Incentives are a fools game (a race to the bottom, as Secretary Taylor called it) and that this state will never be competitive in the real film world unless we build some infrastructure. Hi-tech sound stages and world class film schools are next on the agenda for South Carolina. Stay tuned, wide world. We’re late, but we’re coming.
UPDATE: Well I thought it all went swell. apparently we had some glitches on the streaming side. It was beautiful on the air as it rolled out, I swear it was. I just listened to the playback. The streaming thingamabiob just hasn't caught on to our laid back folksy bluesy style yet I reckon, they must think we're slow... well hell we are slow. It keeps trying to reach and grab some etherspace that isn't there or something like that. Hopefully we'll get it ironed out next week.
