The video shoot: On Tues Oct. 20th or 27th, I called Jeff F. "Dude, maybe we should shoot - NOW!" It'd been a miserable

Oct. in the Twin Cities and Jeff kept saying we just need one good day for the fall shoot which never really came.

Jeff said, "get over here asap - we only have about an hour of light! Grab clothes, jackets, scarves, whatever you have!"

I felt my heart kinda sink - so little time and ya can't go shoot a video without some primping + drive time.

I'd told him of Dan's strings/piano audio addition - "we hafta use Dan's new mix, JF, it'll help me get into the melancholy of the

song." So we had to upload that first at Jeff's -- more time gone!

When I got to his place he said, "can't shoot at S. Kates, no time -- water tower!" St. Kates is a picturesque campus less

than a mile from Jeff's, but he was right, we had to dash.

We drove about 3 blocks to the W. Tower lot, grabbed the bags, clothing, axe. The hill was in 2 tiers and almost straight

up. "Man, I ain't climbed this since skipping school in jr high," I said. My boots were slippery, but all that good training as

a youngster on those Mississippi river slopes had me knowing what to do (wiffout getting the girlie clothes a-grass stained).

Puff puff puff, top of the hill, COLD and windy. JF'd brought his Irish sweaters for me against the cold and we looked around,

quickly deciding to use these cement things come out of the ground, where I could sit. JF got his little camera and the audio

source hooked up while I tuned.

We really just used what was available, figuring out "can't sit that direction, wind blowing hair in your face."

The hardest part was the audio source. The speakers and mp3 player were so tiny they fit in the hood of jacket #3 (we did

a take w/ me walking, and could only do that w/ the speakers in my hood). But the volume was like minus 100. The light

was really failing...the fricking moon already up! I really had no clue how I was going to pull off actually playing guitar

and singing to the mix, when I could barely hear it.

Just did the best I could...Jeff directed me, and I felt righteous safe and comfortable with him.

After 4 takes it was too dark to shoot. We made our way back down the hill (I was fully bent to the ground almost sitting - that way if

ya fall it's only a tiny way down). Went back to his crazy rock-n-roll storehouse. The cat worked and worked and worked w/ the footage

while I happily bounced on a huge yoga ball, eating egg rolls and a yogurt parfait. I was so happy.

It turned out that the main "face" or self of me done in the video was our first take.

(This is the final version (I think) strumming is more in synch now)

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