We're in the Movies - Original

"We're in the Movies" by Sean Dixon - the original. Submit your version to http://www.youtube.com/group/lacunacabal for a chance to win $500!

"My first impulse when writing The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal — aside from the notion that it was a book club reading the Epic of Gilgamesh — was how I wanted to explore the love of things that are very old by people who are very young.

One of the members of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Womens Book Club was a self-conscious songwriter named Priya. Since I thought at the time I was writing a play, I set out to write songs for Priya that could be performed. I wrote two. The first was meant to be a failure and the second a half-decent song that would be sung by the whole company (i.e. the book club) as they made their journey across the sea in search of a lost young boy who was himself searching for a wise old man.

It was going to be a proud moment for Priya.

It was never meant to be performed by me with a long-neck banjo and a stripy toque in a youtube video on the internet. Aside from it being mildly embarrassing, the point was for the singer to be young, not old.

Still, it works either way. I just wish Kat, who filmed the video, had made me get a shave and maybe a haircut. I wish I didnt look so nervous. I wish my voice was either less gravelly or more gravelly. I trust youll be able to do better.

Thanks to James Thomson for playing bass."
--Sean Dixon

Vocals/banjo: Sean Dixon
Bass: James Thomson
Directed by Katerina Cizek (http://www3.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence/)

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