Howdy y'all.  We're recording in Nashville, and if the studio control room had a window, this is what we'd see from it.  So we're not that hard to find, but please don't, because we're pretty busy.  But enough about our new record, how about that Amy Adams!  We're not going to take all the credit for her Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Junebug, but c'mon—how would her scenes have played if "Yakety Sax" were on the soundtrack?  The other Sundance 2005 film we scored, Game 6, is finally coming to a theater near you on March 3, provided you are near Los Angeles, New York or Boston.  No telling when we'll get to work with Catherine O'Hara again, though we hope it's soon.  Two other movies we wrote music for—Kelly Reichardt's feature Old Joy and Emily Hubley's animated short "Octave"—have been showing up in places we're not (Rotterdam, Sundance, MoMA), which means we've yet to see either in its finished form, but both of them are beautifully done, and we couldn't be prouder to be involved.  Finally, to the folks back home, allow me to paraphrase Mr. Victor Lundberg and his "An Open Letter to My Teenage Son" of 1967:

And if you decide to burn your opportunity to see Spirit of the Beehive at the Film Forum,
then burn your birth certificate at the same time
From that moment on, I have no son

Maybe I'm listening to too much oldies radio down here, but that's how good the movie is. —Ira