A Little Sneak Preview at Coming Attractions

I just got my hair cut, finally.

The length it had before had been uncomfortable in the summer heat. But I couldn’t cut it earlier because I needed my hair long for my latest project. I even grew a mustache – not a beard, just a mustache, for the first time, expecting to find it hideous, but then actually rather enjoying it.

The reason I kept my hair long and grew the mustache was because my latest project is another Poe musicabre. The third musical short film in a trilogy, after “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” and “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre“.

And for this one I needed to look like Edgar Allan himself. Or at least as close as I could manage without a wig or a perm. Below is the look after I combed my hair just so and put on a black shirt and tie.

It’s alright if I don’t look exactly like Poe. As long as I resemble him nearly enough.

It’s not so much that I am playing the historical Poe but that I am evoking him, dreamlike. It’s me as Poe, or Poe as me.

Why? Well, not to ruffle any feathers, but I will keep more details about this Poe musicabre, including its title, and by extension what piece of Poe is being adapted, unpublicized, for now.

I’ve already composed and recorded the music, and finished shooting all the “Danny as Poe” scenes. But this project’s trajectory is very different from the first two, and I expect it’ll take at least the rest of the calendar year to finish it.

Which leaves me plenty of time to tease out more details about it on the blog as we go along.

Stay tuned.