And now the book feels closer and more real.Īnd as the book’s arrival comes into focus, I find myself with a new clarity about what it might mean to look out of one’s new office into the remains of one’s old office, destroyed by terrorists, and at once want that building rebuilt, and also want it never rebuilt, to want the world to pause and wait and hold still if not forever, at least indefinitely. In need of a provisional book cover, Debra Di Blasi, my publisher at Jaded Ibis Press, colorized the image and mocked this up. Later that year, in giddy receipt of yet another Russian rangefinder ordered off ebay, shipped from the Ukraine in a brown paper parcel bound with twine, tagged with a Cyrillic-inscribed customs tag, and judged overly surreptitious by the mailroom guy, I shot a roll of T-Max 100 out the window beside my cubicle.Īs I was rebuilding my website (this website) in preparation for A Song of Ilan’s release in March, I found this image from that roll and it bespoke the book somehow. Our new offices looked into the pit where our old offices in Tower Two had been. In 2003, a year before I began writing A Song of Ilan, Oppenheimerfunds moved us back into permanent office space in the World Financial Center. Īnd that super cool album art? That’s one of the photos the remarkable photographer Sarah Martin took for what will be a color art edition of the novel. If you wan the album, you can buy it here. Sample tracks on SoundCloud: “Lovesick” and “She’s A Rock, She’s A…” MUSIC VIDEO!!! on YouTube here. Yes, it’s a film about songwriting and the creative process, but really, it’s a film for anxiety addicts, underdogs, underachievers, true believers, never-say-die-ers, keep on try-ers, the broken-hearted (and) can’t-get-started, optimistic pessimists.” Referencing another executive producer, Austin Fish, and co-writer/co-producer Tommy Douglas, he added, “Austin, Michael, Tommy and I are deeply grateful to Paramount Plus, Jason Owen, Sandbox, and Sony Music Entertainment for going on this journey with us.Van Goose (Shlomi Lavie) has created a companion album, Dark Rather than Tan, to A Song of Ilan and it’s dope. In a statement, Douglas described the film as “a letter of hope to a desperate world. You can’t either,” he says.Ī past Oscar contender as well as Grammy nominee, Douglas has also written for Luke Bryan, Keith Urban, Pink, Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Florida Georgia Line and Kane Brown, among many others.
I wanted to give up, but I can’t give up on something that I love. I did what any good songwriter does: I wrote him back… ‘Dear friend, you ask me why the hell am I here? We all got here the same way, i suppose -we followed the song… We have a gift and with it comes an immense responsibility. “I received a letter from a desperate young songwriter asking for advice.
“People have often asked me about the creative process,” Douglas says in the trailer. It’s directed by Irish filmmaker Michael Lennox, who was nominated for an Oscar and has won a BAFTA award for his short films.ĭouglas’ script, like the acceptance speech from the Songwriters Hall it’s rooted in, incorporates the text of a letter he wrote to a Nashville aspirant years ago. The film’s production partners include Sandbox Productions - headed up by Nashville uber-manager and Monument label head Jason Owen, who’s one of the executive producers - and Sony Music Entertainment’s Premium Content Division.
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