Post by danielleduclos on Apr 8, 2011 19:59:11 GMT -5
Hello Ian,
Thank you for your wonderful music and words--I hope you are having lovely days!
Warchild - A Musical Fantasy---Are you just teasing us, or are you going to make this?!
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I was talking with my boyfriend Kai (a regular on this board who loves your music greatly and introduced me to it) just a few weeks ago about the prospect (and the necessity) of you making a film or a musical--so we found it very uncanny to find the excerpts for your outline of Warchild as a musical fantasy appeared here on the board! We need a true bard like you shaking things up and singing sense as you do so beautifully. I know you'd shelved the project for so long, and if it's from frustration with the politics of filmmaking / Broadway, I can certainly sympathize, but--is there any chance you are interested in making it now? Do you think perhaps with all the accessibility of filmmaking today you could put together what you really want? I would imagine you could find among your admirers many people with the passion, experience, and raw revolutionary spirit to come together as a troupe pull it off. I know it would be very inspiring and considering that already very new young audiences are finding you, I think it would be great if you had yet another visceral way to reach out and charm them and make them think a bit. I'm already inspired by the outline--it made me want to right a sequel where Evelyn comes back as a sort of farmer Joan of Arc or several souls that is/are visited by nature spirits on her farm (rather than saints) and she rallies the people against corporate farming--But perhaps Lucy could represent Monsanto in your version I would gladly play a farmer! Musings aside, can you be convinced to make a film or musical? What will it take?
Warchild question part 2...
While I'm very new to your music really, I get the impression you've made your choices very carefully as an artist to be true to yourself and to your craft. Do you have any advice you'd like to share with musicians and artists on how treat their craft and careers to keep their experience authentic and alive and not lose their passion to some sort of middle road of confused values?
Thick As A Brick - Are you channeling T.S. Eliot?
Speaking of your sense of storytelling and character...Listening to Thick As a Brick, I pulled out my copy of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland feeling it was in such sympathy thematically and in how it works on the listener. Here is a link for anyone reading this who doesn't yet know Eliot's poem-- www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
Thick As A Brick is wonderfully done. I love the way you disorient and get under the skin to make your point. You seem to have channeled Elliot a bit--or at least a similar energy. Would you consider yourself influenced by Eliot? Who are your influences?
Thank you for your wonderful music and words--I hope you are having lovely days!
Warchild - A Musical Fantasy---Are you just teasing us, or are you going to make this?!
thejethrotullboard.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=1809&page=1
I was talking with my boyfriend Kai (a regular on this board who loves your music greatly and introduced me to it) just a few weeks ago about the prospect (and the necessity) of you making a film or a musical--so we found it very uncanny to find the excerpts for your outline of Warchild as a musical fantasy appeared here on the board! We need a true bard like you shaking things up and singing sense as you do so beautifully. I know you'd shelved the project for so long, and if it's from frustration with the politics of filmmaking / Broadway, I can certainly sympathize, but--is there any chance you are interested in making it now? Do you think perhaps with all the accessibility of filmmaking today you could put together what you really want? I would imagine you could find among your admirers many people with the passion, experience, and raw revolutionary spirit to come together as a troupe pull it off. I know it would be very inspiring and considering that already very new young audiences are finding you, I think it would be great if you had yet another visceral way to reach out and charm them and make them think a bit. I'm already inspired by the outline--it made me want to right a sequel where Evelyn comes back as a sort of farmer Joan of Arc or several souls that is/are visited by nature spirits on her farm (rather than saints) and she rallies the people against corporate farming--But perhaps Lucy could represent Monsanto in your version I would gladly play a farmer! Musings aside, can you be convinced to make a film or musical? What will it take?
Warchild question part 2...
While I'm very new to your music really, I get the impression you've made your choices very carefully as an artist to be true to yourself and to your craft. Do you have any advice you'd like to share with musicians and artists on how treat their craft and careers to keep their experience authentic and alive and not lose their passion to some sort of middle road of confused values?
Thick As A Brick - Are you channeling T.S. Eliot?
Speaking of your sense of storytelling and character...Listening to Thick As a Brick, I pulled out my copy of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland feeling it was in such sympathy thematically and in how it works on the listener. Here is a link for anyone reading this who doesn't yet know Eliot's poem-- www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
Thick As A Brick is wonderfully done. I love the way you disorient and get under the skin to make your point. You seem to have channeled Elliot a bit--or at least a similar energy. Would you consider yourself influenced by Eliot? Who are your influences?