The Vern's review of I'll Be Around.

 

I’ll  Be Around.

 Director, Editor, Producer, Composer: Mike Cuenca

Writers: Dan Rojan, Mike Cuenca

Cinematographer: Jessica Gallant

 

 

If there ever was a movie that shows what my social life with friends was like, It’s this one.  Watching the characters in this feature reminds me of friends I have, stories from people I know and even myself at times.  I have played in bands before and there were a few similarities in this that were quite funny and bitter sweet when looking back. Although I am reminded highly of Richard Linklater’s debut Slacker as I watched it.  Mike Cuenca’s I’ll  Be Around doesn’t have quite the same structure.  Instead of going from one character’s interactions with another to a totally new situation with all new people.  Mike Cuenca gives you multiple stories and character archs in this epic that sort of plays like a punk rock version of Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Live Music at Vern's Garage. The Mountweazles, ED, and Scale of None(Remastered Edition)

On Sept 19th 2020, the unthinkable happened.  In the middle of a global virus that have forced many venues that had live music to close their doors to local bands and musicians.  A bunch of artists and myself decided to put together a little event in my garage and have bands perform.   On stage performing is The Mountweasles, ED, and Scale of None.  I, The Vern play drums  and sing vocals for the first and last bands. Huge thanks to Eric Mitchell of ED(2nd band) who helped out so much with the sound and lights for the show.  Shoutouts go to Matt Sudduth who helped out big time with mixing the audio for this  video as well.  Amazing work by both 

0:00 to 22:07 The Mountweasles

22:19 to 1:08:12  ED

1:08:21 to End  Scale of None  (click link to visit our YouTube page)

Stay to the end because there are bonus tracks by The Mountweasels not in the original live video

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I'm in a Band ( A Few Scale of None tracks)

So Since there won't be a new episode til much later this week.  I thought I would share with you videos of a band I recently joined called Scale of None.  Well to be fair I have been friends for many years with the bassist and lead guitarist before we started this project.  We have a another guitarist (who also is a long time friend) who wasn't able to join us for these songs, but he will be in future videos I will post on here.

I'm only posting a few tracks.  Let me know what you think