As mentioned in that last post, I needed to find a cool local band and get their permission to use their music in my submission. Well, I did, and you can find them at ThisIsMySuitcase.com. I had seen them live at the High Five venue in Short North a couple months back and downloaded some of their songs off their myspace page at that time.

Anyway, I shot them an email the other day asking if I could use their music, and they said, "Sure, use whatever you like!" So that's that. Hopefully I'll have a rough draft of my submission up sometime this week.

The process of getting music for a project can kind of be a bear. Connections come in very handy. I'm hardly a musician myself so when I need to use good music in a film, the best place to go is local musicians. They have working "contact" links on their websites (no links to publicists or any other sellout bullshit) , and they seem to always say yes.