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I have long admired the renegade spirit put into the making of Easy Rider. The segment shot guerrilla-style during a Mardi Gras parade is particularly inspiring to me... A cash-strapped filmmaker who needs to pull out a camera and flex those muscles every once in a while or he'll go insane and do something drastic like giving up his dream and settling for a career as a real estate appraiser like his old man wants him to be. Not that there is anything wrong with being a real estate appraiser, it's a fine and respectable profession, I just have other passions I need to explore.
Okay. Where was I? Oh yeah...
I also marvel over the art, tradition and spirit of Los Muertos. I have dreamt of capturing some kind of Easy Rider, cinema-verite narrative with this beautiful and spooky backdrop for many years.
Luckily, I have some good friends who will join me on my little adventures and bring their own talent and enthusiasm (and makeup and costumes and equipment), so I gathered them up and we ventured to downtown Los Angeles for the Day of the Dead festivities.
GOD IN AN ALCOVE by BAUHAUS just fell into place as everything else I toyed with just didn't feel the same. The tone, energy and searing guitars really seem to work and the fact that he is chanting, "I am silly" at the end, makes me laugh. It's the perfect way to wrap up a project made just for fun.