MUSIC VIDEO EXTRAS + WISHLIST/NEEDS! boston - feb 4th & 5th. (Patreon)

(public post)

hello loves,

greetings from the windy island.

i took a little video of the gutter rain at sunrise this morning. it's very soothing on repeat, and even more soothing in person:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsV9DpAAsZK/.

i also just posted this up to instagram and FB...and wanted to cross-post it here:

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logical family report.

my husband-man & i haven’t done anything very normally: not marriage, not careers, not relationships, not living arrangements, not childbirth...and certainly not childcare.

yesterday ash went in the ocean for the first time.

he’s been to the beach many times, but has refused to touch the water. there are moments where i just cannot believe how synchronistically beautiful and strange some parts of motherhood have been, most especially the arrival of justine marzack, and now marissa phillips in our lives.

justine (in the red suit) was living and pondering her next life steps at imogen heap’s house in the UK when i was making my record with edward & just starting to think about trying to find a full-time travel-nanny.

she dropped life in london & has been living & zooming with us, on & off, for almost 3 years. she has come to four continents, gotten into quite a few scrapes, ninja-d many meals, beds and diapers, and she’s done it all while vegan, which is no small feat in cuba and dubai. she has spent as much time (if not more, hour for hour) raising this child as i have. today is her last day. she’s heading back to london to get back to the work of being a full-time artist. enter, stage right (and how handy that she was already down in this part of the world for a floridian xmas with her family to do the hand-off??) marissa, woodstock local, who is going to help hold down the fort alllll year while i tour the globe and mr neil himself writes a book.

is it a prerequisite for this job that you have a short black bob, many piercings and a smattering of highly intelligent monochrome tattoos? no, but do not tell this to ash. as justine said a few days ago: ash, when asked what his childhood was like, will likely reply that everybody had a lot of pictures on them. watching these two women - strong, powerful personalities in their own rights - teaching this boy to be fearless feels like microprogress in a macrocrazy world. there are daily lessons in patriarchy awareness.

so....dear justine: you will always be such an important part of our story, our logical family. you’ve blessed us beyond measure. thank you for everything. marissa: welcome to the logical family. let’s have some times.

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it takes a village.

i love my fucking village.

i love that you're all in it.

by the way...i've been reading all your comments.

a note about comments: i tend to read ALL COMMENTS in general patreon posts....until i post the next post. if it's a "living" post (like a discussion for song lyrics, etc), i'll come back more often.

i'm trying to be better about always using the orange heart-icon to indicate that i've read your post, even if i haven't responded. just so you know. 

i know the system here isn't ideal, but it's all we got.

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meanwhile, i'm here for ONE more day, and then back to the winter and a lot of album prep, tour prep, and video making.

speaking of "back to the winter"...this image is one from the book, in the "voicemail for jill" section. it's me and coco, in the winter snow, right outside our house in woodstock.

(photo: kahn & selesnick)

two women, across time, blind but all-seeing, finding one another, aiding one another. 

crossed wires, but ever-connected. 

trying.

i'm currently waist-deep in pre-production for a big music video for "voicemail for jill" - one of the new songs on my upcoming record that you haven't heard yet. the director is an incredible up-and-coming female director named amber sealey who was introduced to me by miranda july (who was my first phone call, but she's tapped out working on a Big Thing Somewhere).

let's not mince anything here. i am really, really, REALLY proud of this song. i came up with the concept for the video, which mirrors this image of me & coco above, and amber and i are digging into the details of how to make it....work. i feel like i've learned so much on my last few shoots, particularly "mother" and "mr. weinstein", and this video - if i get it right - feels like it will be more than just a video, it will be a love letter, it will be a message in a bottle to women everywhere, it will be...a thing. i really, really, wanna get it right.

it's a beautiful song. it's about abortion. it took me a few decades to write. i write about writing it in the book. and i'm writing about writing about the song in the book here on this post. see what i'm doing here? meta.

ANYWAY:

we're shooting the video in boston next month on monday, february 4th and tuesday, february 5th, and it'd mean a lot (a whole, whole lot) to have any of y'all local boston patrons be part of it - for spiritual reasons, and beyond.

below is a list of what we need from amber, along with more details and directions to sign up. if you have friends and family that you think would fit the parts below, please feel free to pass it on. without giving too much away, it's worth saying - the theme of the song centers around the emotions of having an abortion, you have been advised.

HERE IS WHAT WE NEED!!!!! this is a public post, so please feel free to circulate this round your own community.

IT SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING, BUT I'M GONNA SAY IT:

THIS IS A PRO-CHOICE VIDEO. a deeply moving pro-choice video. it's gonna be emotional. your part may not be, but the assembled whole is gonna be hard-hitting. 

**IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE BEING SHOWN IN/ALIGNED WITH A PRO-CHOICE VIDEO, DON'T ANSWER THIS CALL. OKAY? OKAY!!!**

WE NEED!!!!:

Citizens of Boston, 8-10 people, variety of ages, diverse group

— Ages can range from 25 to 95
— All ethnicities please
— All body types and styles of dress, looking for variety, but nothing crazy outlandish, we aren't heading to a rave, we're heading to work in the winter. real peeps. nothing fancy.
— Need to be available on Monday, Feb 4th all day, filming in the city of Boston

A Happy Couple in Love, 2 people, age 35-55

— All ethnicities please
— Could be a woman and a man, two women, two men, any combination is great
— All body types and styles of dress, looking for variety
— Would be great if you are a real-life couple, and are the kind of couple who have something strong in common (you dress alike, or you both have dyed purple hair, or you both have stern brows, etc.)
— Need to be available on Monday, Feb 4th all day, filming in the city of Boston

A Mom Who Needs a Break, age 30-40 and baby age 0-2

— Any ethnicity
— You need to be a mom (bio or not, doesn't matter) with a baby aged 0-2
— You need to show up looking like you haven’t showered in a week, really at the end of your rope, emotionally
— You need to be able to bring your own stroller
— Need to be available on Monday, Feb 4th all day, filming in the city of Boston

A Mom Who Has Got It All Together with her baby, age 30-40 and baby age 0-2
— Any ethnicity
— You need to be a mom (bio or not, doesn't matter) with a baby aged 0-2
— You need to come looking like you’ve "got it all together" (we can ACT!, right?)
— You need to be able to bring your own stroller
— Need to be available on Monday, Feb 4th all day, filming in the city of Boston.

Subway Riders of Boston, 15 people, all ages

— All ethnicities please
— 10 women and 5 men, all ages and all body types and styles of dress— Need to be available on Monday, Feb 4th all day, filming in the city of Boston

Naked Man in Love and Anger, aged 30-40

— All ethnicities please, male-presenting.
— Please only reply if you are an experienced actor with dance/physical theatre background
— You will be naked on set, performing intimate scenes with a woman, lots of movement and improvised choreography
— Must be very comfortable with your body and expressing yourself physically
— Need to be available on Tuesday Feb 5th all day, filming in the city of Boston

Pregnant Woman at the Office, age 20-40

— Any ethnicity
— Must be actually pregnant and noticeably so, ideally 6-8 months
— Need to be available on Tuesday Feb 5th all day, filming in the city of Boston
— You will be wearing your own clothes, so we’ll ask you to bring a few options of business casual attire

Office Workers, 8 people, any age

— Any ethnicity
— Need to be available on Tuesday Feb 5th all day, filming in the city of Boston
Party Attendees, 25 people

— All ethnicities, genders, personal clothing style, and body types— Need to be available on Tuesday Feb 5th in the evening from around 3pm onwards, filming in the city of Boston— You will be being genial, happy, and having fun at a “party”.. possibly dancing, general nice frivolity. ADDED BONUS - rolls into the wrap party!!!!!

FOR ALL OF THE ABOVE:

-we cannot cover your transportation to and from set! sorry bout that. but we're central.
-you will be wearing your own clothes, so we’ll ask you to bring a few options...WARNING: you may be filming outside, please come dressed for cold weather (jacket, warm boots, gloves, hat, etc.) 

PAY: is $50 plus meals for the extras/office workers/subway/party folks, roughly $75 for the half-day actors, and $250-$350 for the all-day actors! we will furnish you with more details as we move forward with ya....

WHAT TO DO!!!!:

WHEN YOU EMAIL, please use 

SUBJECT: CASTING for "VOICEMAIL FOR JILL"

AND

please include:

-SHOT OF YOURSELF (links are fine), AGE, HOW Y'ALL GENDER YOSELF, ETHNICITY, any other fine talents/details we might need to know about.

& 

-WHICH PART(S) YOU COULD HELP US WITH. 

PLEASE BE VERY SPECIFIC!!!

the DEADLINE:

please email Jesse at epstein.jesse@gmail.com by January 11th at 11:11 am.

you should hear back with 2-4 business days.

we'll try to get back to as many people as we can, but if we get swamped with a million emails we may not be able to reply to every one. please feel free to poke, but also be patient! thank you.

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FOOD!

we're also planning food and catering for the cast and crew. if anyone has the technology and wants to bring us home-cooked/home-baked/home-sourced food (or you have a resaturant/cafe and wanna donate coffee/backed goods, etc etc!) we will invite you with open arms to feed us. 

again, email jesse and stephanie, the video producers with offers or ideas:

epstein.jesse@gmail.com

fireballfilmsnyc@gmail.com
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OK

LET'S DO THIS.

xx

afp

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