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It’s kind of cool that you were ponent. But also whenever I make a And the band that actually plays didn’t have music. I know that’s kind able to get your songs in the film. in this movie (The Neurotics) is one I formed to make the music in the film just to record the score and the song, but we now actually gig and play out all around New York City! If you could choose only one, would you choose music or film for a career? I really can’t because one depends on the other for me. When I write music a lot of times I have cinematic film I wouldn’t know what to do if I of a cheap answer, but I technically started playing music first, but films didn’t come much after. I’ve done both since I was five or six. The Reservoir will be screened at the New Jersey International Film Festival in New Brunswick on Satur- day, June 7th at 7:00pm. It will be followed by the documentary Sing You a Brand New Song: The Words and Music of Coleman Mellett by scenes in mind. When I listen to mu- Jeanie Bryson. sic I think about it with a film com- w Listen to The Neurotics with “Down and Out” a song written for The Reservoir NJ STAGE - ISSUE 59 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 79