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Hi Janyce:

Thank you for coming into Starbucks yesterday and for the conversation, offer to collaborate w/ you on the Documentary on Pittsburgh Blues Artists representing the film making side and for taking the time to read my poetry and, overall, the general enthusiasm you seem to possess when speaking w/ me.

After it sunk in to my sky-blue-sky thoughts yesterday, I am very interested in collaborating w/ you on this project and I have experience and can turn around and use that experiences and those resources from this current documentary to work on the Pittsburgh Blues Artists w/ you.

The Hollywood Emmy Winning Guy, Evan Edelist, can help as a consultant to put the financial picture together for the grant money and also help keep us on budget and w/ his track record in post=production he can certainly oversee that and he also has experience in production to as we are doing this documentary together.

We can use the Mr. Small's studio (owned by co-founder of Rusted Root, Liz Berlin, and her musician, professional amateur skateboarder husband, Mike Speranzo, who are also partners w/ Evan and me for the documentary and is based off the success of Rusted Root and how they took that to build the Mr. Small's complex and Creative-Life-Support to help feed the Pittsburgh community and provide avenues to the bigger national scene as they have had MTV do shows there and have been written-up in Esquire Mag, Women's Day Journal, Relix Mag, etc..) - yeah, we can use the Mr. Small's team of interns working w/ us to shoot in HD and do our interviews there, our voice overs, editing and sound = we have it all there already rolling and will be less expensive than going anywhere else = plus it's our team.

Our documentary is called Creative Life Support and I like to add: The Organic Harvest of Rusted Root.

I mentioned the my dear deceased friend, Tonya Browne, and her band Queen Bee & the Blue Hornet band oft played the Pittsburgh Blues Fest, opened for B.B. King and Buddy Guy and were locked into deal w/ Moon Dogs as the only venue they'd play in Pittsburgh - well, here is a link to a couple good articles and some pics.

http://www.flymagazine.net/archive_bands_article.cfm?id=11663413

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2001/03/03-30-01tdc/03-30-01darts-3.asp

Moreover, since Liz Berlin is a nationally well known musician from Pittsburgh and still resides here and is a well known figure for giving back to the community she'd be perfect for doing interviews and possibly narrating or co-narrating.

Let's talk soon.

Hollywood-Emmy-Guy will be in town Aug 23, 24, 25, 26, (If that's the Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon) and wants to meet you.

And, of course, I'll get you Jeff Tott's number and the contact info for the Hollywood-Agent-Guy who turns scripts into movies.

Best of the Roses,

John French mystrawhat.com

http://www.mystrawhat.com

Everyday There's Something

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Date:	Wed, 1 Aug, 2007 12:00AM PDT)
From:	John French <mosshead7@yahoo.com>
Subject:	documentary on Pittsburgh Blues Artists
To:	janyce46@aol.com
Hi Janyce: Thank you for coming into Starbucks yesterday and for the conversation, offer to collaborate w/ you on the Documentary on Pittsburgh Blues Artists representing the film making side and for taking the time to read my poetry and, overall, the general enthusiasm you seem to possess when speaking w/ me. After it sunk in to my sky-blue-sky thoughts yesterday, I am very interested in collaborating w/ you on this project and I have experience and can turn around and use that experiences and those resources from this current documentary to work on the Pittsburgh Blues Artists w/ you. The Hollywood Emmy Winning Guy, Evan Edelist, can help as a consultant to put the financial picture together for the grant money and also help keep us on budget and w/ his track record in post=production he can certainly oversee that and he also has experience in production to as we are doing this documentary together. We can use the Mr. Small's studio (owned by co-founder of Rusted Root, Liz Berlin, and her musician, professional amateur skateboarder husband, Mike Speranzo, who are also partners w/ Evan and me for the documentary and is based off the success of Rusted Root and how they took that to build the Mr. Small's complex and Creative-Life-Support to help feed the Pittsburgh community and provide avenues to the bigger national scene as they have had MTV do shows there and have been written-up in Esquire Mag, Women's Day Journal, Relix Mag, etc..) - yeah, we can use the Mr. Small's team of interns working w/ us to shoot in HD and do our interviews there, our voice overs, editing and sound = we have it all there already rolling and will be less expensive than going anywhere else = plus it's our team. Our documentary is called Creative Life Support and I like to add: The Organic Harvest of Rusted Root. I mentioned the my dear deceased friend, Tonya Browne, and her band Queen Bee & the Blue Hornet band oft played the Pittsburgh Blues Fest, opened for B.B. King and Buddy Guy and were locked into deal w/ Moon Dogs as the only venue they'd play in Pittsburgh - well, here is a link to a couple good articles and some pics. http://www.flymagazine.net/archive_bands_article.cfm?id=11663413 http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2001/03/03-30-01tdc/03-30-01darts-3.asp Moreover, since Liz Berlin is a nationally well known musician from Pittsburgh and still resides here and is a well known figure for giving back to the community she'd be perfect for doing interviews and possibly narrating or co-narrating. Let's talk soon. Hollywood-Emmy-Guy will be in town Aug 23, 24, 25, 26, (If that's the Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon) and wants to meet you. And, of course, I'll get you Jeff Tott's number and the contact info for the Hollywood-Agent-Guy who turns scripts into movies. Best of the Roses, John French mystrawhat.com http://www.mystrawhat.com Everyday There's Something MySpace URL http://www.myspace.com/mosshead7 StrawHat Productions
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