Tweeted on 2010-03-18
Finished cheesy synth demo of “John Howard’s Knees” song. God/musicians/voice actors will forgive my poor vocals. #moviemagic #synthtastic #
Tweeted on 2010-03-14
from @kinokofry: The freelancer/client relationship at its best! http://drawn.ca/2010/03/10/video-the-vendor-client-relationship/ #fb # Recorded John Howard’s Knees demo using only Korg Poly-800. Cheesiest sound since Mr Sachwald’s Pirates of Penzance MIDIs. #synthtastic #fb #
Tweeted on 2010-03-12
Sore eyes. Working on my own stuff. Stupid idea, loving execution. John Howard’s life summed up musically. The perfect voice actor. Joy! #fb #
Changing channels
Theoretically, this is the “Precinct” production blog, but clearly, over four years, it’s become “David’s blog”. Since there’s not too much Precinct news at the moment, I will probably talk a bit in coming months about the little short I’m now making, called John Howard’s Knees. I’m VERY VERY excited about it for reasons I’ll [...]
John Howard’s Knees
About five years ago I wrote a script for a short film called “The Ballad of the History of Trying to Break John Howard’s Knees”, a lovely singalong tale of how our then-Prime Minister, John Winston Howard, has always had to escape brutal knee-beatings. Those knees secrete some kind of powerful magic, tempting violence from [...]