January 01, 2006
Welcome!
Welcome to Meet the Movies, the first generation of this music on the web experience. What’s before you now, Christmas 2005, is a lean and mean, bare bones site dedicated pretty much to introducing ourselves and the music to you; the curious, the music-lover, the bored, or even the unsuspecting recipient of this link by a friend.
But what’s ahead is a pretty exciting “Movies Theater” of music, short films, animation, creative interaction with you, and whatever technology sandbox toys our roving band of digital wizards come up with.
This is a place where you will be able to watch a short film—the first one will either be the filmic interpretation of Java Junky or The More Things Change, depending on which we feel like making first. You’ll notice I shy away from the term “video”. I’m a filmmaker by training and vocation, I like to tell stories. So more than just some cool images and me lip[-syncing and Ron and Al and Mike hammering away at their unplugged instruments, I’m talking about stories. Like, beginning, middle and end.
This will also be a place to watch other people’s work; kind of our own creative commons, let’s call it. Remember lunchtime in college, when you’d cross the quad or the commons or however your school was configured? There were always people playing music or handing out leaflets (don’t worry, we don’t do politics here) or making out or interpretive dancing or showing off their new Personal Digital Whizbanger or taking a nap, or… you get the idea. This is that place on the web, even if we’re at the very, very beginning.
Hell, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll post my next script up here, I haven’t had a sale in a while. If you want, we can rewrite it together and The Movies will come over to your place and shoot it. If you make lunch.
I suppose if I had to pick a model for this experience, it would be the Beatles’ first go at a creative business, beyond their music, which was Apple Records. I’m certainly not psychotic enough to compare The Movies to The Beatles on any level beyond the fact that we are four male musicians, but I like to think we’re kind of carrying that torch here. John, Paul, Ringo and George’s idea didn’t work out because the technology didn’t exist to do all this stuff and literally involve the whole god-blessed planet.
It does now.
True Beatles fanatics will remember they had some guy named Magic Alex, who was going to hurtle them into the twenty-first century using technology understood only by him. It didn’t work out so hot, but The Movies are fortunate enough to hang out with some true 21st century Magic Alexes who have a couple of treats up their sleeves early in the New Year.
Okay. Roll sound. Action. Give a listen to our album (yes, I say “album”, I don’t care if it dates me). If you like it, buy one. Buy two. Tell a friend. Email us. Come back often and watch this site grow. Some of these ideas will probably go the way of Magic Alex, but some of them won’t.
No matter what, it’s gonna be fun.
-Howie Klausner
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