So yesterday we went to our nation's capital! No not to protest the
incoherent babblings of a presidential hopeful but to visit with the man, the myth the legend
Brendan Canty! And to take advantage of his stellar film/music studio space hidden in the depths of Silver Springs (outside of space pictured above)! Brendan's studio,
Trixie, releases not only his
Burn to Shine series but tons of other music docs and commercials, in addition to using the space for record productions (the last time we were around
Benjy Ferree was there singing his large churchy pop as Brendan mixed, tinkered and even played some drum tracks!) making it a sort of secret haven for artists who are well aware of the artistic awesomeness that has happened in these former industrial walls!
Brent wanted to do a few
Gravity sound tweaks for a few American screenings so while he and Brendan slaved away over mics and programs I went to the
Smithsonian Natural History Museum (possibly doing research for a short film I am working on? YES!) and walked past historical architecture, memorials and fate deciding institutions. Often I feel like the core of
Gravity is a portrayal of our crumbling American dream, of the loss of freedom, wonder and thought that our nation was founded upon so walking around D.C. and feeling the palpable sense of pride and nationalism was kind of awkward... one can only hope that these patriotic pangs people feel can once again be justified through the eventual righting of this ship! On an amazing note though, I saw a really
big diamond, some
ground sloth skeletons and learned about how now we think
living things developed in small carbon ponds as opposed to the huge oceans that I learned about in elementary school (with no mention of the
co-existance of dinosaurs and humans!):
America, slowly making progress...?! O, and America? Please don't let that lady become president...
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