Christian Howes

Because, I mean, just that whole experience, because I'm sensitive to wanting to be respectful of what it is and not to be posturing around the whole idea.

You know what I mean?

But that's part of why the vision that I had

was important to me actually because it's like i want to honor what happened here and so i don't even need to talk about it to honor it i can play music and because the people that can recognize that there's no word that needs to be spoken

Yeah.

And it's probably, it's not that I don't want to appreciate, thank you for that, first of all.

And,

It's not that I don't want to tell the story, it's why I want to tell it right.

You know what I mean?

Because it feels like a heavy responsibility to talk about.

But actually, I mean, the film that we're putting out, I think does do it justice because we tell it through poetry and we've put like so much work into it and that's why.

And maybe if I were to write a book or, you know.

Okay, so this is a poem written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and I wrote the music to go behind a lot of his poetry in our film that's called Redemption Time.

And this is like the redemptive moment at the end where Jimmy gets out, so.

the film has like you know 10 to 12 different like episodes over 70 minutes and each one of them address like different themes of manhood trauma and all these kinds of things but this is like the uh the uh the redemptive moment so uh i thought it would be cool to have uh shocker read the poem and try to do my best to to kind of truly on it you know thank you i'll try to render it here with just the film so yeah

Yeah, it felt great.

It brings me back to what you were talking about, because when you're in jail, you make do.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I was like, I'm not going to let any of that stuff, like I got the violin, we're just going to make this happen.

Yeah, yeah.