Power Meeting

Collin and I are meeting with Ha Le about our participation in White Light, the movie. Really the main reason we want to be in it is so we can talk to Patrick Swayze about his Saturday Night Live skit with Chris Farley. . .

As it stands now, Ha Le wants us to do the background music, 3 songs with lyrics, and appear in an 8 minute party scene. It sounds very worth our while. I talked to her last week, and she was very complimentary about our music, saying that she was sure that it would make the movie much better. Very flattering. She said, "When you're big rock stars you have to remember me." Maybe she doesn't realize that we're already big rock stars? :-)

We talk about the arrangement on the phone, and agree that we (the Look Machine) get paid $1 (a standard payday for us, honestly), and we retain all the rights to our songs, just license them to her for use in the film. And if there is a soundtrack, we get 50% of the profits. This sounds ok to me, so I tell her to send me the contract.

She sends me a contract -- and good thing I read it because it said that they pay us $1 and then all the music belongs to White Light Productions. . . what??? I write back to her and say that as much as we want to be a part of the project, we can't sign away the rights to our music for $1. (I don't think we'd want to do that for any amount of money at this time. . .)

She writes back and says that this was something her lawyer just wanted to add in, and that is ok. But the 50/50 profit split on the soundtrack is essential. We're fine with that. So now we're meeting to more fully discuss our participation.

I will be sure to read whatever she asks us to sign. It still all seems too surreal, so I wouldn't be suprised if it all fell apart. But I guess we'll see.

She kind of wants us to write new music specifically inspired by the script. We can do that, and could be fun.