I’m looking forward to checking out a screening today of “This is Where We’ll Build the Labyrinth” at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco as part of the local short film collection at the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival (1:30pm, PST).
My film is also playing on Dec 9 at the 4 Star in San Francisco with a group of animated shorts.
Can’t make it to SF? That’s okay, you can see the film online later in December at the official website of the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival.
I’m pleased to report that “This Is Where We’ll Build the Labyrinth” is an official selection at this year’s Another Hole in the Head film festival. You can check out my short poetry film online from Dec 1 – 25 as part of Strictly Local 2 collection.
Better yet, you can join me at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco on Dec 2 (1:30pm) for a live screening of my film, following by a short Q&A session.
A second in-person screening has been added: Dec 9 (1:30pm) at the 4 Star Theater in San Francisco (with other animated shorts).
Click here to check out the schedule.
Excited to reveal the cover for a NEW ALBUM coming soon from a new group called Fear the G-Drive, which is also the name of the record.
SuperMega thanks to graphic designer extraordinaire Chris Held for our super-cool cover.
While working on a new album recently, I took a few minutes to record this song from my favorite album from my favorite band. It’s one of the first songs I ever learned to play and I’m still trying to get it right … but here’s where it is now.
“I’m One”
Written by Pete Townshend
From “Quadrophenia” by The Who
Performed by Greg Roensch & Jules Leyhe
– Greg Roensch (guitar & vocals)
– Jules Leyhe (lead guitar)
– Nico Sotomayor (video)
– Danielle Goldsmith (audio)
Filmed and recorded at Tiny Telephone Recording, Oakland, CA.
August 22, 2023.
I took a short break from making a new album last week (more about that later) to record a new spoken word piece called “THE MISSING BOOK.”
Huge thanks to Jules Leyhe (music), Nico Sotomayor (video), and Danielle Goldsmith (audio engineer) for bringing the video to life.
Recorded at Tiny Telephone Oakland on August 22, 2023.
It’s great to see DOME Collective recognized with an Honorable Mention with other agencies and companies at the top of their game on Fast Company’s list of The Best Experience Design of 2023. It was a career highlight to work with the entire DOME team on the incredible EA Story experience.
“Giant Rock” is a strange film. It’s not for everyone. But that’s okay. I love this film anyway – in all its slow, otherworldy, desert-dream-vision strangeness.
All of which brings me to the point of this post, which is…
I was very excited last night to receive word that “Giant Rock” has been selected by two film festivals… the First Contact Film Festival and the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology.
Thank you to them both for presenting “Giant Rock” to the world.
Grateful and humbled to hear the news today that “This Is Where We’ll Build the Labyrinth” has been named an Official Selection for the 2023 Bloomsday Film Festival and will receive its world premiere screening in Dublin, Ireland between June 12 – 16.
Thank you to the Bloomsday Film Festival and thank you to everyone who played a part in making this short film.
We’re hanging out for a long weekend in Bastia, the second biggest city in Corsica. Our hotel, A Casa Reale, is on the second floor of a building dating back to 1700. Napoleon once stayed here. Flaubert once dined here. Yes, that’s how we roll.
The hotel is beautifully renovated, though every piece of furniture, except maybe the coffee machine and the toaster, are relics of bygone eras. The piano in the common room looks like something Mozart might have played (if he ever came to Corsica). Everything about this place oozes history, except for the plumbing, thankfully.
A Casa Reale is in the old town, thirty minutes from the airport. Our taxi driver gestured toward the horizon at one point to tell us we could see Elba on a clearer day. He also apologized for the traffic and for driving us through an ugly industrial area. “We’ll arrive somewhere nice soon,” he assured RL in French.
When learning where we’re from, he erupted with a massive “Sannnnn Frannnnnciscooooo,” sounding like something a soccer play-by-play commentator might howl when his team scores a World-Cup-winning goal.
Upon arriving at Flaubert’s hotel (that’s what I’m calling it now), we uncorked the complimentary bottle of Corsican wine and gazed out at the view of the port from our room. For dinner, we found our way to a restaurant called Grazie Mille. I’m no foodie, but the pistachio-encrusted sea bass with limoncello-soaked orange slices was fricking amazing.
Praise be to Neptune that we were inside the restaurant when a prodigious hailstorm began to pelt the cobblestones where Flaubert and Napoleon once walked. Grazie mille, indeed.
It’s morning now. The rain is gone, and I’m sitting on the terrace at A Casa Reale, watching a ferry depart for Sardinia. A church bell signals the hour, power tools chip away at the concrete at a nearby renovation, children laugh and play on the narrow street below, and the wind whips off the Tyrrhenian Sea, causing the clothes hanging from a line on a building across the way to flutter and dance.
Our first stop today will be the tourist office to figure out a plan for the next three days, though I’m happy to sit here and watch the clothes dry in the sun.
March 25, 2023 – It was a wonderful night at The Lost Church in San Francisco when Jules Leyhe and I played together live for the first time. Thanks to The Lost Church … and to Jules … and to the amazing people who came from near and far. As one audience member said, it was “a beautiful performance.” I’m a bit biased, but I agree 100%.
SET 1: Come on Over, Hello Thelonious, Eyes Wide Shut, Alcatraz, Rock n Roll Oasis, Celluloid Dream, Notorious, Chernobyl’s Been on My Mind, Don’t Forget to Pack Your Hand Grenade, Every Morning (by Keb Mo), E Is for Elephant
SET 2: Remembrance (Jules Instrumental), Nobody But You, I Heard the News, You Never Know, Sea of Tranquility, A Blackbird Flies, Speak Your Mind, Tell It like It Is
Huge thanks to Richard Osborn for taking tons of amazing photographs. Here are just a few.
