Hi All,
News: The popular Montreal-based writing project ‘365 Attempts at Life‘ has invited me to write a post every Monday for an entire year. Six other Montrealers in the Entertainment biz are writing on alternate days. The topic of each post is simply, ‘life’.  Below is my 4th post, and below this post, are 3 posts like it… I will log each post here, along with upcoming news, as I progress through the ensuing 12 months ahead.
In other news, I’m slowly carving away tunes for my 4th upcoming album – yet to be titled…
Evja, the project with dancers from the Ballet Jazz de Montreal, is shaping up and will be presented at the Outremont Theatre in early January, 2013.
An iPad app I helped develop for the popular children’s book ‘Monkeys in my Kitchen‘ will be released soooooon…Â We are just wrapping up a few loose ends with the technical side of things.. hang tight mothers, fathers, and toddlers.
Writing Post #4…. : Oct 30
From the Gut of a Hurricane
by Courtney Wing
I once dated a girl named Sandy. She stirred a few hurricanes between us back in the day let me tell you. It took us 5 years until we could be civil with each other, but now we’re pals and she’s pretty alright.
I am currently in Brooklyn, staying with a friend in a sturdy brownstone building a mere few hours away from experiencing the epi-hour of Hurricane Sandy – midnight it shall be says those savvy keen news casters who get to exercise their talent at instilling the fear of Wind God into everyone. Talents aside, fear it appears is a genuine emotion to embrace at the moment for the wind is relatively ferocious outside the window as my pal and I sit here tuned in to our laptops. Periodically, when the roar of the wind turns bass-y and large sounding objects scrape down the pavement, we turn to the window to observe the going-ons outside.  Impressive gusts warp big branches of big trees and leaves are being stripped by the thousands and sent on Tasmanian devil-like journeys to who knows where.
… oh geez, a website just announced that the city will shut down electricity at 5pm and that’s soon… so I should get writing speedily here…
I was going to write a more thorough description of why I’m here in NYC, but it’ll have to remain brief, for a fierce storm is brewing…
I came to NYC to record audio sound for a feature documentary called the Wandering Muse. It was a busy couple of days, jam packed with race car driving tactics through dodge ball traffic in Manhattan, major tech issues that left my mind throbbing with headaches, and long hours of shooting which left our Air B&B beds hardly used.  It was tough, but alas, the 2nd and most important day of shooting, turned out to be excellent. Some beautiful imagery and sound was captured of our subjects – Jewish musicians and dancers, as that is what the film is about. It was an all-Jewish weekend and a lot of Jewish culture was absorbed in a very short time. From kosher pizza joints to intimate ceremonies  held in creaky floored living rooms of Hasidic families. Neat experiences by gosh… and kind folks all around…
Ok friends, I wish I could delve deeper into the depths of detail of the Jewish culture I was immersed in, for the detail was very colorful and worthy of much more script. However, I must bust a move and make like a hurricane escapee before power is cut and loose car doors skipping down the pavement threaten our existence.
Til next week….
C.
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