Underwear

People ask me how I came up with the idea for this. The answer is… underwear. 

My Mom used to say, “Wear clean underwear. You never know when you might get hit by a bus.” I think this was about not embarrassing the family if they had to cut my pants off in the emergency room.

I know, there’s a lot to unpack there.

Anyway, knowing my current pair of underwear would *definitely* embarass the family, I ducked into a discount store and started looking for the Jockey’s.

As I made my way through the store, my eye caught a sign that read, “Silent Movies $1.00.” It stopped me in my tracks.

Why? I have no idea, but I took my last 5 bucks and promising myself I would not get close to any buses, I went home with a stack of VHS tapes (young people see Wikipedia for “VHS Tapes”).

When I got home, I popped Metropolis into the VCR and my jaw dropped. I was completely blown away by this movie. But the music… sucked.

So I wrote new music for it.

I told a friend I wanted to perform it live to the movie. She told her friend that ran a film festival, who called me up and asked if I’d like to come to France and perform at The Avignon Opera House.

We did and it was amazing.

Well, this kind of stuff kept happening. Lots of calls. Lots of offers, until finally my wife said, “Maybe you should pay attention to this.”

So, that’s what we’ve been doing.

Let’s re-cap.

Underwear = Need
Need = Art
Art = Show

That’s it. I’m not gonna get all mushy.

See ya ~ Kevin