From: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org (dads-yard-digest) To: dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Subject: dads-yard-digest V7 #14 Reply-To: dads-yard@smoe.org Sender: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk dads-yard-digest Thursday, March 24 2005 Volume 07 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [dads-yard] Catie the Storyteller [Heather Stewart Subject: Re: [dads-yard] Catie the Storyteller First...Mark, condolences on the loss of your 4-legged family member...and that's a sweet poem. Wow, Mark...you really HAVE thought out the movie stuff, now haven't you? ;) I agree, Catie has always been a storyteller through her songs...which she readily admits, whether they're her stories, fictional stories, or someone else's story. Most of her songs I think would lend to some good films of all kinds of themes...be they shorts for some or feature length for others. I'm not up on all the latest actors, per se...so I'm lousy at the casting ideas, but I think Red Light has great content and origins for a suspenseful mobster/whodunit flick or book!! : ) Some that I'd love to see into political shorts or something bigger include Wolf, Hole in the Bucket, Life Goes On, and Honest World. With the current administration, these issues are all so topical. Deb - granted, I'm not a writer, so I've never really heard of anyone doing writing quite like that...interesting concept. I remember back to my first year at CCMC when she was there. My friends were performing "Dad's Yard" at the little 'coffee house' night...totally not remembering that Catie might actually show up...and voila, she did just as they were getting ready to sing. Catie plopped down on the couch next to me and listened intently. She said at the beginning of the song that she'd never heard anyone cover her stuff before. She was the first one on her feet at the end cheering them on...it was great! So, I don't think she'd care if anyone wrote like you mentioned. She might be rather interested in what someone would do creatively beyond the song and get a kick out of it all. She is very supportive that way. Since she's gotten her songs on several tv shows, there's already some precedence to some flavor of thematic representation that's not in her control anyway. Yes...Dads-Yard is so quiet these days. Have you guys joined us over at www.CatieCurtis.net? I don't know everyone's handles and their real names...you might be there already. We go through waves of activity there too, but there are a few more people who jump into conversations...or whatever! So jump on in and speak up! ; ) Night all... Heather Mark Katsouros wrote: Oh my gosh, Deb, yes. Perhaps more than movies, though, I've envisioned music videos. Definitely had visions of a River Winding video, but, because, like Catie's, our family is so touched by adoption (http://max.katsouros.com), I've thought of an entire script for Love Takes the Best of You: I mean the lyrics (http://katsouros.com/catie/cc-lovet.html) pretty much make the would-be scenes obvious. Of course, I'd have my adopted son (from Korea, though, not Cambodia) play the role of the young adoptee. You'd see him, as the lyrics dictate, experience some of the challenges of being adopted, but you'd also see him in short scenes of this truly loving family, like ours. :-) But the part that's less obvious would be how I'd end it. (I have know idea if Catie was thinking anywhere along these lines or not.) During the "I wish I could promise you a world that would never break your heart" lyric, I'd show the handsome young teenage adoptee (maybe played by the likes of a young Eddie Shin) looking over adoption papers with a melancholy look of wonder in his eyes. The next thing you'd see is a plane landing in an obviously-Korean airport, and then, during the "Maybe that's what we are here for--we try and fix what comes apart" lyric, you'd see the young adoptee meeting and being embraced by his teary-eyed birth mother (and a teary-eyed adoptive mother in the background), as the final "Love takes the best of you" chorus is sung. For those of you who visit Max's website (parenthetically mentioned above), you may notice that there haven't been any updates in several months. That's because, sadly, one of our dogs, Maggie, a beautiful Springer Spaniel, passed away on Christmas Eve, and, well, our family is still trying to cope, thus I just haven't done much with Max's site (while the movies and photos pile up). I wrote the following poem recently, from the perspective of my son (as the title obviously indicates): To Maggie, From Max I'll likely not remember you So young was I when you departed That cold and dreadful Christmas Eve With Mom and Dad so broken-hearted And with forced smiles on Christmas day A joyous time for me they wished They held each other up for me Though, their sweet lady, they so missed And Dad collected photographs Of you alone, and us together That I might keep at least a glimpse Of better days with brighter weather And though the sun will always rise And sunsets, beautiful, will come Their hearts, the same, will never be The loss of you has made them numb Who knows? Maybe Catie will want to write a poignant song from it... PS: Still looking for a kind volunteer with lots of web server disk space (a gigabyte or two) and reasonable bandwidth to host the Catie-authorized bootlegs mentioned on my Catie site (http://katsouros.com/catie). I (and, I'm sure, others) would be grateful to anyone who can help. woodelldc@aol.com wrote: > OK, so maybe it's the diminishing hormones at this stage of my life, but I was listening to "I Don't Cry Anymore," and getting a little misty-eyed. I don't know about you-all, but there's something about that song that is soooo poignant. I think it even would make a great movie, the kind you see on Sundance or IFC. (In her younger days, Clea Duvall would have played a great lead character; now, I think she'd be great as the adult flashing back to that time.) > As a matter of fact, I find that many of my favorite Catie songs are those that could easily translate into short stories and/or films: Larry, Dad's Yard, Memphis (Clea could play the lead in that one, too!); even River Winding could make a good PBS documentary, eh? > So, a few questions/thoughts to this much-too-quiet gathering: First, what are your favorite Catie story-songs, the ones you think would make good short stories/novellas/novels/films? Any casting ideas on any of these? > Also, has anyone engaged in any fan-fic writing of Catie songs? I mean, it's not like you get to write the beginning, middle and end, but she does allow for plenty of wiggle room and fleshing out of the stories. > Finally, does anyone know how receptive Catie would be to a compilation of said writings? I know that some other artists have had fans make tribute cds of their music, but Catie's music really lends itself to the written word. > Talk amongst yourselves! >Deb > > - -- Mark Katsouros, Communications Integration Guy mark@katsouros.com http://katsouros.com "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward The world needs more sailors. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ (\_ ~ (\_ ~ (\_~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! ------------------------------ End of dads-yard-digest V7 #14 ******************************