Right here, buddy.

And no, I dont really hate Bedtime Stories. I think the songs are pretty good. I do think it's both over and datedly produced, and I can't stand the singer, but I guess that's sort of easy to hear through, and most records do date, after all. And singers are always lame. But right now I'm finishing up the first round of songs for a really wonderful film by Steve Oedekerk, an animated musical-ish sort of Joseph Campbell-y heroes voyage Gary Larson sort of thing. (With the voice of my favorite Spaghetti Western star ever) On Monday I start fulltime 7 days a week on a film called "Around The Bend", which stars Michael Caine and Christopher Walken, a both very funny and very devastating film about fatherhood, tragedy, violence, and forgiveness and love. A beautiful film, with the most touching Chris Walken performance since the Deer Hunter. The music will be very open and piano-based, and possibly will include performances by some Kronos vets on cello and viola. Also ostensibly in early June, I'm going to do an acoustic guitar/vocal album with Dean Parks: called "Pentimento One", it will be just me and Dean playing acoustic guitar versions of songs I still believe in and that I over-produced the first time around. I swear I havent retired, I'm just being a dilettante as usual. Also just following "Pentimento One" I'm doing a film with Hans Z., a Gore Verbinski film starring Nicholas Cage called "The Weatherman" So give me a break, man, I'm working on it. It's not like I'm just sitting on my thumbs. I'm also almost finished building the second most most bleeding edge film composition computer system that I've ever seen, which is no picnic, lemme tell you. Plus I've been studying music like a 20 year old. So cut a fellow human some slack already. Sheesh!

David

PS, plus, I've been doing my best to unseat the most reckless, incompetent, self-serving political Administration that I've seen in my adult life.

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