This week on I Want You To Know—one of my best friends in the world is getting married, and it got me thinking about music and it’s association with weddings.,

Today, I provide a mixtape about weddings, marriage, husbands, wives, divorce. Songs that put those awful songs— associated with marriage and weddings to shame. You will not hear bland and overcooked songs that are as bland and overcooked as (yet free) a wedding meal—

I Want You To Know-- songs about matrimony

My next guest and I met when I was working at a comedy establishment we both occupied in different capacities. She performed some wonderful pieces within a bigger show. It was great. What wasn’t great was one of those pieces were not captured on video (in my defense I was only indirectly involved in uploading the shows I captured for the theatre). I was pretty bummed because I knew she gave her all, and she offered something special. But, alas, it was gone. BUT, I BECAME A FAN

I offered her a small (but consequential) part in my film, and she was great. (That was her and Matt McCombs, at the top of the show, in that clip from our film Hera’s Devotion)

Recently, my next guest performed a one-woman show. A show filled with bizarre, ordinary, lost, misguided, spiritually thirsty characters—all looking for little purposes and big directions, and vice versa. And, again, all performed by my next guest. I thought it was sharp, funny, I had a great time..and I wanted to know what it takes to put together a big undertaking like this.

I Want You To Know Leah Jereb and her one woman show—Visionary

This week on I Want You To Know I talk with filmmaker/ video director, and musician Dylan Greenburg. We talk about their new comp Music For Gaza Soup Kitchen.

Dylan rallied their musician friends and social network to put together a comp to generate money for Gaza Soup Kitchen ( a grassroots organization committed to feeding Palestinians in the Gaza Strip).

Dylan tells me how any of us can put together an activism fueled music comp, and we discuss Dylan’s film/video work and process. And, of course we play the comp.

Lastly, I spotlight and honor one of the musicians featured on the comp, because its their bday