From the new release SOON, Music from the Play by Hal Hartley. This song is made with recordings from the second, US, staging of Soon in California. “Generally, we thought of the European production as large, quiet, and slow; the US version was small, loud, and fast.” (Hal, from the press kit interview)

From No Such Thing, but not used on the “album.” A collaboration with Andy Russ from sometime in 1999.

End Credits music from the film, “Milk & Honey” (2003), written & directed by Joe Maggio.

The job, should you choose to accept it: two young women playing out roles associated with the purchasing of real estate. Questions regarding the worries of ownership versus the worries of being un-invested. Intimations of a life filled with effort and debt. Tie this all together somehow with lines from the song, “Iris” by the Breeders. (From my notebook, April 1994)

This was commissioned by the Red Hot Organization’s “No Alternative” project. Red Hot organizes pop culture projects to help raise money for continued AIDS and HIV related research. Here, us filmmakers were asked to make something using one or another of the various songs contributed by a host of great Alternative Rock musicians of the day. I liked this live version of The Breeder’s Iris and used some of the lyrics as dialogue along with scraps of the recording. Besides this, it provided me with an opportunity to audition Sabrina Lloyd (whom I would not work with for another ten years). Meanwhile, Parker Posey and I were still circling one another, sizing each other up, trying to decide how and if we should work together…

Trying to make a laid back country style tune I somehow stumbled into a melody from the Christmas standard, “Noel Noel”. “Born is the king in Bethlehem”… I think that’s how it goes.