A podcast about movie making and the scifi featurette, Daughter of God, with Director Shri Fugi Spilt, (Dan Kelly). Two, or Too.

Hello and hi and welcome. You’re listening to the Daughter of Godcast, yet another episode 026, Two. That’s the title of this episode, Two, as in the number or maybe Too like you too. Not the band. Ok, try me too. That’s not a band that I know of.

Here’s a milestone. 26 weeks. When I started this podcast, I didn’t realize I’d still be going a half a year later. What was I thinking? I wasn’t thinking, honestly, and that’s why I started.

I started because podcasting felt good, mostly. Yes there were rationalizations for podcasting, which eventually imploded, like growing my audience. Branding is another abstraction of similiar ilk. Piling symbol upon symbol, a veil of abstraction obscuring the now, the unspeakable, the shine. I started podcasting to have fun, to look back with enhanced eyes, to invent a thousand answers to one question – why movie? To share a song and see who kicks in with harmonies. Deliberately moring myself along the way.

100,000 words or more by now, I’d guess. Have I explained anything, have I taught you how to make pancakes or accomplish anything pragmatic? Or have I just been singing. Paraphrasing that old rascal Alan Watts, the best music is not about anything. We think of words as having a jist, getting us somewhere, if we listen to enough of the right words our brain will assume an optimal configuration, we’ll get smart or wise. We’ll figure it all out.

If you are having epiphanies listening to these podcasts, it’s not because the words mean anything really, it’s just that the word noises and rhythms remind you of who you are. You’re using this gush of nonsense and anecdotes that I’ve been spouting for the last half year as your excuse to flip on your own power switches. You’re pretending that I am somehow MORE entertaining, effervescent, insightful than the mote of dust caught in the light off to your left or the blade of grass poking up through the concrete outside your front door.

Penny armor inspired by NASAs space shuttle

I’m just some dude in Michigan yaking into a microphone, YOU’RE the buddha, YOU’RE the savior, YOU’RE the freaking cosmos. Remember?

At the end of episode 025, 2009 I had left Hello World suspended from the ceiling of the Artist house, and returned to Prospect Heights, but my life in NYC had acquired a definite wobble. I was planning to launch the second expedition of ALM in May of 2010 – at the beginning of the summer this time instead of the end. That would give me 3 months to sail the 1000 miles around Lake Michigan. From January through April I did my usual New Yorkish things, tai chi and hot babes, but my heart was already on the Big Lake.

Prepared for launch in May 2010

I’m going to jump