“Limping Towards Babylon” Look Book done – Seeking Qualified Investors now

Limping Towards Babylon video for it’s successful Kickstarter (pre-production funding)
#uniteagainstMartians
It seems human beings always need an enemy – let’s love each other and unite against the Martians instead #uniteagainstMartians
— Julius Galacki (@JuliusGalacki) December 8, 2015
“Limping Towards Babylon” Kickstarter coming to a close – a Thank you
Thank you to all of my supporters and all who helped me get this far:
Last day #Kickstarter #comedy #film https://t.co/avc7kt8RtZ great-thnx actors & brilliant composer @alexmichaelwand pic.twitter.com/AcEuTyUJww
— Julius Galacki (@JuliusGalacki) November 21, 2015
“Did I just tell them something really stupid?”
…thinks the director, but does not articulate…
"Did I just say something really stupid to them?", thinks I. Last day of #kickstarter #film https://t.co/avc7kt8RtZ pic.twitter.com/tX1nkzLVvF
— Julius Galacki (@JuliusGalacki) November 20, 2015
Everybody Has Fallen in Love with the Wrong Person…
Everyone has fallen love with the wrong person https://t.co/avc7kt8RtZ #love #IvyLeague #comedy #film #Kickstarter pic.twitter.com/fvqZVPYAw2
— Julius Galacki (@JuliusGalacki) November 19, 2015
LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON Kickstarter ends on Friday Nov 20
Only 3 days 5 1/2 hours left to pledge https://t.co/avc7kt8RtZ on Kickstarter #film #comedy pic.twitter.com/k7jtFRIGBM
— Julius Galacki (@JuliusGalacki) November 18, 2015
the Music of LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON
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So, today’s creative update is about the music in the video and what I envision for the film as a whole. So, exactly how did I meet a Grammy Award winning composer?
Los Angeles has a reputation for being a shallow, glitzy, materialistic, non-intellectual place. And there are certainly are many examples where the truth of that is as good as gold. But equally true is that LA is a complex city, with veins and pockets of other under-appreciated precious metals and gems.
So on May 5, 2015, at the rather unlikely location of Western and 2nd Street, I went to see a concert of “micro-tuned” guitars at Monk’s Place – from the outside, it looks like a small warehouse amongst, fairly downscale retail shops, and inside, likewise, industrial with exposed brick walls and uncomfortable, plastic white chairs for seating.
Monk’s Space exterior
It reminded me of the funky little venues I would go to in the East Village and Brooklyn when I lived in NYC.
Exactly, what is “micro-tuning”? As I understand it, it’s an alternate tuning system of in-between notes rather than the standard system used in Western music, and thus sometimes the notes sound unusual and interesting and sometimes, to my ears at least, flat and unpleasantly “out-of-tune”. So, most of the concert was interesting, but too alienating, and for over an hour, just an intellectual curiosity to me.
And then at the very end, Alex Wand came out with a large ensemble of musicians to perform his song cycle “The Great Hunt” using Carl Sandburg poems as lyrics.
Immediately it was a different experience. I was hearing something both tuneful AND unconventionally micro-tuned, with rhythms that sometimes were smooth and sometimes deliberately jerky and syncopated.
I literally felt the excitement coursing through my body and brain. It was new classical music with inflections of folk, blues and rock lurking in the background that suddenly thrusting forward. I was having the rare experience of a true musical discovery, where I wasn’t just hearing a new song, but a new sound… familiar yet utterly unfamiliar.
(Here’s the link to Alex’s full piece performed at Monk’s Place https://youtu.be/cRzDB_KciHM)
And also, what I was hearing was so, so close to what I imagined the music major character, Marcus (played by Matt Mercer) in my script would be composing, In the screenplay, I have him performing Bach for Amandine, but also later composing a new classical concerto for marimba, violin and guitar, as a way of expressing his feelings for her.
Matt Mercer as Marcus and Karen Sours as Amandine
So after the Monk’s Space concert, I bee-lined over to Alex. My enthusiasm and praise must have made enough of a positive impact that when I invited him about a month and half later to sit in on the first full reading of the LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON script, he not only came by on a Sunday summer afternoon but also was impressed enough by the actors and the script to get on board with the project.
“Limping Towards Babylon” excerpt – Thomas discovers George has facets…
Here’s an excerpt from the “Limping Towards Babylon”. We shot this scene during the teaser video shoot, but I couldn’t fit it within the time constraints of the teaser.
Limping Towards Babylon excerpt – Thomas discover George has facets from Julius Galacki on Vimeo.
For more go to www.limpingtowardsbabylon.com
“No man is an island…”
Two days ago, over 40 people, mostly Muslims, died in Beirut because of an ISIS suicide bomber … their lives: as important, as real, as human, as the people murdered in Paris last night. Two days ago, listening to the radio, I thought “that’s awful” and continued getting ready for work. Now last night, as I listened to NPR and watched CNN and absorbed exactly what happened in Paris, it impact me, to my shame, in a much more concrete way, as after all, I’ve been to France; I’ve been affected deeply by French literature, art, film, culture and food; and intellectually I am well aware, America wouldn’t exist as a country without French help. But that’s not good enough. I should have been more conscious about the Beirut attack 2 days ago too. These extremists, who actually don’t follow/honor the religion that they claim to kill in the name of, WANT to divide us into Us and Them. That’s the point of terror. So, I can’t help thinking right now of John Donne’s beautiful poem that we collectively don’t strike at the innocent in the name of revenge against the guilty: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”