Well I’ve finally got the video up of Alana Levandoski’s message to Volkswagon. They sponsored her and gave her a pretty snazzy car to drive all over North America in. I believe she’s called it Hadrian. I’m not thrilled about the low quality that the video is in, but that couldn’t be helped with conversion problems and the upload limitations on Vimeo. I think I’ll be investing in a plus account soon though so I will be able to upload bigger files with better quality. I could do a lot with 5GB a week.
Regardless, being on the road with Alana was an awesome experience. I got to know her a lot better and most of the time we were joking around. She’s an awesome, talented person with a whole lifetime of experiences under her belt at such a young age.
Last night was a lot of fun. We went to the famous Free Times Cafe on College and Spadina to eat some great food (I had an excellent veggie burger with an unforgettable chocolate Bailey’s cheesecake), meet some old friends and see Alana play in a more intimate setting than a folk festival. All three were a treat. Halfway in to the second song, Alana’s mic crapped out and she sounded like a gramophone recording so she ended up doing the entire show acoustically which I thought added greatly to the intamacy of the surroundings. About ten people showed up including myself, but there were a couple of heavy hitters in attendance. The president of EMI Music Canada was there with a posse of friendly music-lovers. Also my old friend Jane Harbury was there. I talked to her about internet applications that would be great for music publicity (I’ve been doing that a lot lately which…is kind of weird. makes me feel like some sort of expert haha). it was great to see them all.
So work coming up…I have a few small $50 jobs to do. Nothing huge. Just giving some footage to the right people so they can put it on youtube. I’m not even going to be editing (alright, the perfectionist in me wants to do a little. Just the colour correction, I swear!). After all that I’m pretty much open to any work with the exception of a possible shoot at Christine’s Fitness to film a competition which should be fun.
Alright, I have to head out. I’m taking a bass guitar somewhere and then spending a little time with some friends.
For now, here is one of the many songs that Alana levandoski played in Memphis and the Free Times Cafe last night. It’s called Lions And Werewolves and it will be on her new album which may or may not be of the same name. It’s one of my favorite songs by her.
