About this project
Welcome to my Kickstarter project! If you like the idea, please donate whatever you can. As long as it all adds up to $3000, the project will fund!
Here's the backstory. I freely admit to a carrying a torch for actor Keanu Reeves. So a few years ago when his band Dogstar came to town, I had to go see them. What I learned that night is that in the spectrum of obsessed Keanu fans, I am an utter neophyte. And it's not just at his gigs either - the online world of Keanu-themed websites, poetry, and fan-fiction is a neighborhood not to be ventured into without caution. I don't know what it is about the guy, but to his devotees he is THE ONE who really gets them, who will protect and adore them and whisk them away to someplace beautiful. It's something. Go to YouTube and enter the name "Keanu Reeves" and you will see what I mean.
Many of the folks that packed the theater the night I saw Dogstar were teenage girls...plus a few guys. But there was a large group of middle aged women too. The woman I sat next to fit that description. She had several t-shirts in her lap and was really bossy about how everyone should be acting at the Dogstar show. She told me all about Keanu and how she'd flown up to Canada to see him in Hamlet. I couldn't stop thinking about her, so I wrote down everything she said and made it into a song.
And now it's time to make a video of that song! To do that, I'm hiring director Micah Van Hove (http://umuima.com/) and animator Susan Chien (http://susanchien.com), and I will perform in the video both as myself and as the woman at the Dogstar show. Susan will animate a sequence that explores the protagonist's Keanu-fueled dreams.
Thank you for your support!
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on October 1, 2010.
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I will send you a free mp3 of the song of your choice from "Internal Combustion," plus you get your name on the video!
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Signed pre-release copy of "Internal Combustion" and your name on the video!
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Signed official copy of "Internal Combustion" (the one with all the liner notes and fancy graphic design), plus your name on the video.
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Signed copy of "Internal Combustion," plus my last album "Cinderblock Bookshelves," plus a jar of homemade apricot jam (or another flavor if I run out), and your name on the video. Oh yeah, and you can be an extra in the video if you want to! (Disclaimer: you have to get yourself to Ventura County to film. I cannot fly you there.)
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Signed copies of both albums, the jam, your name on the video, you get to be in the video -- plus I knit you a hat!
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Signed copies of the two albums, the jam, the name, the cameo appearance in the video, the hat, and a beautiful cashmere scarf to go with it!
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All of the above (the albums, the jam, the name, the guest appearance, the hat, the scarf) but times two. This is the most romantic option because you and a friend will have matching hats & scarves that you can wear while listening to the same music.
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You want to pay for the whole video? You get everything from the $1000 level, plus I knit you a gorgeous sweater.
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You want to pay for this video AND the next video (which will be a dance video for my version of "Let's Get It On")? You get everything from the $3000 level, and I will perform a house concert at your house.
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Rain Perry is an award-winning songwriter and author of the autobiographical play "Cinderblock Bookshelves: a Guide for Children of Fame-Obsessed Bohemian Nomads." Her song "Beautiful Tree" is the theme song for the CW Series Life Unexpected. She divides her time between parenting and the lucrative world of independent folk music.
