Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He produces online advertising and he’s written a big fat novel. He’s also a pretty good drummer. But success eludes him.

For Joe can’t keep himself from fixing other people’s problems. His own ambitions are constantly interrupted by his willingness and ability to go out of his way for others.

The film is shot and edited. We recently raised money to complete the audio mix and to prepare the various materials needed for commercial exploitation, which includes the design, authoring, and manufacturing of a limited edition DVD and CD of the original music.

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…