This Saturday we finally were able to get around to finishing what we started back in March - finishing filming the music video for Stylin'. Right in the middle of final exams and wedding planning, we were somehow able to get everyone together to finish our filming in downtown Provo and at The Wall (BYU). There was plenty of dancing downtown, I shoved cake in my face (to the point where some of it went up my nose), and we scared a dog who was tied up outside of Sammy's as we went racing past as part of the sequence where we try to find the robot who is maliciously controlling us. The scenes at The Wall were much more toned down, as we were in our nasty old suits from d.i. for our professor-esque look - professors are much calmer and more sophisticated in demeanor, after all. I don't think my hair has ever been gelled and parted the way it was for that scene, and I hope to never do it that way again haha. Kelsey made me look very different, to say the least.
Speaking of Kelsey, these next two weeks are going to be super crazy and super amazing! I will be walking at graduation this week, and next week Kelsey and I will be getting married in the Gilbert Arizona Temple for time and all eternity. As Squints would say: "For-ev-er!" It's going to be the best thing of my life!!!!
We also put together our first promo video for Stylin', even though it probably won't actually be finished until June because of Josh's busy schedule and the work that will go into post-production and editing. But here it is!
So the BYU Hip Hop Club Showcase turned out to be way fun, more so than we originally thought! Things didn't turn out quite as we had planned (which is fairly normal). We had been planning on playing the song "Playin' Hard to Get," but when we arrived to do our soundcheck several members of the Hip Hop Club came up to us talking about how much their club loves "Da Mall." We still weren't really sure what to do about it even when we got on stage to perform our short set. As soon as we finished playing "Stylin'," however, the Hip Hop Club started yelling for us to play "Da Mall." So obviously we had to play it! It ended up being really fun, and somehow we managed to not mess it up despite not having practiced it at all beforehand. The Hip Hop Club's energy during the whole thing was great - especially when they all yelled "Da Mall!!!" loud enough for us to hear it onstage. It was super legit. We know who to go to for whenever we make a music video for that song now.
On Wednesday I had a completely different experience, moving from front and center to the background. I've been an extra, or a "background actor," as they are more professionally called, for a few different productions with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and this Wednesday I was cast as a high schooler for an interfaith PSA about cyberbullying. I'm pretty sure most of the other extras were actual high schoolers. I'm 24 but look young enough, apparently. It was pretty fun. I should actually be visible in this one; there was one shot where I had my own cue - I said goodbye to one group of people in the hall and then walked past the group of mean bully girls while the camera panned over to their conversation. The director actually called out my name for my cue in the scene! So basically you could say I'm a star background actor now. Superstardom is on the way!
So as the week draws to a close, we find Bust A Kap with another impromptu performance put onto the schedule! This time it comes from the BYU Hip Hop Club; they want us to perform a few songs at their showcase Saturday night. Like any good hip hop performance, some of the details are still fuzzy, but we at least know it's at the Wilk Ballroom at 9 pm. And in true hip hop form, we held a total of 30ish minutes of practice last night to prepare for the show. It's a busy weekend with General Conference and all, so there really aren't any other times to practice. It's a good thing we're only playing two songs - "Stylin", which is quickly becoming our show staple, and "Playin' Hard to Get," which we haven't played in a long time and is really more pop than hip hop, but it's a catchy tune.
We also took advantage of our practice time to finish writing (at least lyrically) Patrick's ode to his girlfriend, also known as "Pizza Mountain Dew Girl." As you can probably tell by the title, we really plumb the emotional depths of the human existence with our rap songs. We'd written most of the words previously, and so we decided it was finally time to finish the song, which we did in under five minutes. When you have such a profound knowledge of the human condition such as we do, it becomes easy to quickly write such heartfelt songs as "Pizza Mountain Dew Girl." Hopefully we'll get it to the point where we can perform/record it soon!
