It's been a few years since my last irregular newsletter. Lots to report on and not much to report, guess that's the nature of things sometimes.
The big buggaboo that kept me from finishing this documentary has finally been removed: the rights to Blaze's music have been resolved and a license to use his music in the documentary granted. I wanted to secure the rights to use his music before spending lots of money finishing it.
It's exciting that JOHN PRINE, one of Blaze's heros, has covered Clay Pigeons. He gave a very nice introduction to the song in his performance on Austin City Limits and performs the song in most of his live performances. Very nice!
In other news, the memoirs of SYBIL ROSEN, award-winning author, have been finished. Ms. Rosen has been working on her book for three years and tells us that her draft, the sixth and final version, is ready to be "announced, reviewed (gulp) and enjoyed." The book, "Living in the Woods in Trees," tells of their life together in Georgia when they lived in a tree house and their time in Austin and Chicago in the mid-1970s. Her story is one re-discovery of "Dep" after burying his memory for over 20 years. She was witness to his birth as songwriter Blaze Foley but was unaware, until 2002, of the details of his life and work, following their break-up in the late 1970s. She is the reason for Blaze's signature song, If I Could Only Fly.
Hard to believe that it's been seven years since beginning this project. Seven seems like a good, round number. Not quite as even as eight, but the eighth year will soon be here. We are planning to finish the documentary in September of 2006 in time for submission to major film festivals.
Keep sending us kind thoughts and words of encouragement.
Warm regards,
Kevin Triplett
News From the Edit Bay
letter from the trenches
Our editing system, the G4 that I mentioned in a previous newsletter, was stolen along with our edited material. After a period of grieving over the loss of so much time and energy, we bought a G5 and adopted the philosophy that, "It's always better and faster the second time around." The new editing system is nice, fast and more capable and we now have a blank slate from which to construct the story.
JOE WEAVER has joined us as editing assistant and is current logging and capturing hundreds of hours of interviews and helping me select those segments that contribute to the story. At this point, I'm extremely grateful that we have transcripts for most of our interviews.
RITA SANDERS is joining us in mid-March to edit the documentary with me. She's wrapping up the final edits for SLAM CHANNEL: WAR OF THE WORDS, a feature-length documentary about slam poetry competition that's having its world premiere at South by Southwest in the next couple of weeks.
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