A busy whirlwind of a first week. There was a robust gathering of film geeks, filmmakers, and actors at the Provincetown Film Festival last weekend where I presented the awards for best student short films. There were lots of documentaries:  The Last Mountain (important and fascinating - a must see) ; Errol Morris' Tabloid (stylish and diverting, enormous fun - great John Kusiak soundtrack) ; Hit So Hard, about Former Hole drummer Patty Schemel, which was an interesting coincidence of a topic. The variety of documentaries on view always provides perspective and inspiration.
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As a sidenote - At a panel breakfast I slipped a Kickstarter "Woman's Voice" card to the guitar player in Abigail Breslin's rock band, who was enthusiastic to discover another ancient (to her) woman rock pioneer.  But if I actually see a contribution from her, I will eat my drumsticks.

Since returning, Robin and I have been reaching out further and are about 25% funded, but are certainly not confident. Gathering of material continues. During an acting job on Monday, I ran into another photographer from Boston (Paul Lyden) with a slew of amazing pictures, and Carol Fonde in New York who has shot 100's of really gorgeous photos (see below).

Mike Lembo, our former manager, Carmelita, Carla DeSantis have all helped us network. I'm missing others I'm sure, so thanks to all who have taken the drive forward a notch.

Robin and I are playing a small party for a freind this weekend and we'll catch up on where we're at. Laura, our editor, and I will forge on - starting up again Friday.

The campaign started on the day of the Stanley Cup win and ends its first week on the solstice and the capture of Boston crime icon "Whitey" Bulger. A good sign?

The Amazon account was finally approved. I launched Kickstarter at 7:30 this morning, and posted quickly on Facebook before racing off to teach. By the time the class was done, due to some early and generous donors we had a good start.
I'm off now to a meeting of Connect the Docs, a loose group of Boston documentary filmmakers that meets  every month to talk it up and do a year end schmooze.
Robin was off doing a radio interview, which I'll try to post. Is everything asynchronous now?
A good start to the campaign.

Robin and I went to a party at Fenway Park for the "New Kids on the Backstreet Boys " (known as NKOTBSB ) concert. It was part of a Hot Stove Cool Music VIP Party Celebrating Music, Baseball & Giving Back program that is sponsoring Robin for a workshop writing songs with girls who have been 'trafficked'. Hot Stove Cool Music proceeds directly benefit an organization called "Foundation To Be Named Later"  (FTBNL)  whose partners include Roxbury Youthworks, West End House Boys and Girls Club, BELL, City Year, Citizen Schools, Room To Grow, Steps To Success, The Home for Little Wanderers, Horizons for Homeless Children, Molo Care. Donations go to the Peter Gammons/FTBNL scholarships. Link here.

Lots of screaming teenagers and very ex-teenagers. Donnie Wahlberg graciously spoke to the crowd of stroboscopic cameras and wowed fans. The whole scene was ultra Boston - bands, sports, and charity. What a town. Unfortunately, we didn't stay for the show because I had my own show to perform that night. But we met a remarkable group of people dedicated to helping some really disenfranchised populations. And ran into some old freinds, as well. Amazing where we all end up after years of everything else.

I finally have a web site to link to. Thank you Evangeline Lane and Molly Jackson for the simple Weebly tips. Here we go with blog. Laura has put together a nice trailer. The website has all kinds of of information and links.