Song: "Stretch" by Sarah Weis * * *

Sarah: I remember writing the first lines of this song almost 3 years ago right after B-17 was finished. I had started to come down from the high and was trying to assimilate myself back into "normal reality", which was impossibly depressing. I remember trying to relate to people; trying to move through life the way I once had... and feeling like my mind was literally broken. It was confusing and alienating and impossible to describe.

I sang it to Arturo and he got really excited. I remember him saying " We have to do a music video for this". From that day, this elusive "Music Video" for a song that didn't yet exist became our eternal 'next little project'. We sporadically discussed, refined and even shot it (!) for 2 1/2 years before I finally sat down to record the song...

Arturo: She had immersed herself so fully into her character in B-17 (way past method acting, but into "method living"), that when it was over, she ended up deep in this interstitial space between her character, who she was before the project, and who she was becoming.

I remember Sarah getting a lot of grief from her friends and acquaintances, who could not relate to what she was doing and going through, understandably so, since from the outside, our project and working method looked totally bizarre if not somewhat dangerous.

When she sang me the beginnings of "Stretch", it so lucidly captured her reality, re-entry issues perhaps, but mostly, this extraordinary sojourn, a profound morphing/transformation process I was seeing her go through. I knew we had to do this music vid to document the metaphysics. Real method living. We shot the first scenes two years ago, she finished the song seven weeks ago, and has not re-entered who she was before we started B-17.

This version was altered for YouTube. Get the un-altered version or an MP3 of the song here:

http://i3hypermedia.com/CubeCart/

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

http://myspace.com/sarahweis (sarah's music page)

Here are the B-17 episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bseventeen#grid/user/B6B295D8...

Deconstruction of the B-17 set:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkTl386DWFo
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