So far, Sophia and I have run two modest Kickstarter campaigns – both successful – for our films TEN (stats on TEN) and MAGNETIC (I never wrote up my analysis, but Kicktraq summary of stats). In preparing for these campaigns, we spent a very … Read More
Even as a young boy, I remember being extremely bothered by the attention given on the news to murderers and other violent criminals. I watched my friends beam with excitement when they happened to be in the right place at … Read More
this is serious business. here I am pre-gaming with a vegan donut! This past weekend was a total whirlwind and we had the most amazing time premiering TEN at both the Brooklyn Girl Film Fest and the Boston Underground Film … Read More
Sophia & Michael hard at work 2013 was a weird and wonderful year of many projects of the film and music variety. Here is the past: 2012 Review – 2011 Review Before we get started, we made a few year-End Lists/Summaries: http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/12/30/bostonemissions-favoritesoftheyear2013/ http://trainwreckdsociety.com/2014/01/ … Read More
Michael and I are very excited to have been asked to be a participating artist in the next Liars and Believers’ show, INTERFERENCE. We’ll be creating a short film/music video for a The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library song about … Read More
Debuting over at BoingBoing today is our brand-new music video for “Episode 15: The Girl Who Was Death.” It’s the second The Prisoner recreation we’ve done (“Episode 1: Arrival” was a nearly-identical recreation of the opening sequence) – this time … Read More
I moved to Boston back in 1998 and despite my current rule about refusing to participate in any activity that involves moving the lower half of my body in sync with music, I used to actually like dancing. In 1998, … Read More
Awesome artwork by Tyler Littwin Boston does Boston (Facebook) is a startup benefit series, wherein the city’s vast, diverse pool of musical talent comes together to re-imagine and re-record each other’s work for charity CDs and live events. (Read more about … Read More
We are so excited that USA Today’s POPCANDY blog premiered our brand-new Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling music video for the song “EPISODE 10: LIVING IN HARMONY” The entire video was shot at 5 Wits “Espionage” immersive adventure at … Read More
This will be the last live performance of Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling for ~9 months or so while we finish up the last four songs in our Prisoner epic, make as many more music videos as we … Read More
DOUBLE RELEASE PARTY RECAP! 11/15/13 at TT THE BEARS, Cambridge MA! We had the most amazing time releasing our new singles, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK and sneak-previewing our new music videos at TT the Bears last Friday! Do Not Forsake … Read More
Bring Us Your Women is now running a Kickstarter campaign to put together a film anthology and album!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/catherinecapozzi/bring-us-your-women-a-film-anthology-album-perform?ref=category_location EVE artwork by Kristilyn – Zombie Romance We had a great time performing last Thursday at Oberon as part of Catherine Capozzi‘s … Read More
Triptych presents three performances that uniquely integrate theater, video, dance, art, and rock! NOVEMBER 14TH AT OBERON. Michael and Sophia have been working for many months with John Langton of Porcelain on a 3-part short film/set of music videos exploring … Read More
Our new double single for the songs, “Episode 10: Living in Harmony” and “Episode 15: The Girl Who Was Death” made their debut over at the Boston Herald’s GUESTLISTED today! They said, “DNFMOMD returns with a pair of singles that add … Read More
In case you missed it, the very awesome VANYALAND premiered our video/song cover of Shakespears Sister’s 1992 mega-hit “Stay” – Note: for reasons unknown, Youtube removed the original video post saying we had violated the TOS. They did not reinstate … Read More
November Wiretap Wednesday is here! We are sad to say that this will be our last Wiretap under our hosting. We’re very proud of what we’ve done with the night and have truly enjoyed hearing many inspired performances over the … Read More
Welcome to the PORNIVAL (that stands for Portable Carnival AND NOTHING ELSE). We were invited to the Wireforest for an evening of extravagance. I decided it was the perfect time to debut my Metropolis robot body: Newsflash: Sophia is a … Read More
slate from TEN Very excited to announce that Kelly Davidson has signed on as Director of Photography for our new feature film, MAGNETIC! Kelly was also our Director of Photography for our first film, TEN; and has shot two (soon to … Read More
We’ve had an amazing first day kickstarting our new feature film, MAGNETIC – thank you so much to everyone for your support of this project so far! We are beyond humbled and cannot wait to thank you all personally. As … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library is very excited to play the 3rd Annual JP Music Festival this Saturday! Our set-time is 3PM!all the info (from the facebook event): Join us Saturday, September 7th, 2013 from 12-7 PM at Pinebank … Read More
Sophia and I have made a lot of music videos of our own and we’ve appeared in many music videos made for others. Now, however, for the first time ever, a music video we made for someone else! Endation‘s “Staab” … Read More
Hello Earth children! We Balloononians are in the final stages of completing a music-based TV show for your Earth television. In the meantime, we thought we should share some home videos we took while on an excursion in our favorite … Read More
Lucy Moran – style icon I got to star as Lucy Moran from Twin Peaks in the latest Hallelujah the Hills music video for their song, ‘Confessions of an Ex-Ghost’ and I couldn’t be more excited with how it turned … Read More
Videos thanks to John Doherty! Bob Colby Presents: Second Thursdays 8/8/2013 SET TIMES: (scheduled, might start a bit later)08:00-08:45 KENNE HIGHLAND CLAN09:00-09:45 MOOSE & THE MUDBUGS10:00-10:45 DARLING PET MUNKEE11:00-11:45 GRAVEDANCERS $7/21+GRAVEDANCERS are a new band with old-school roots in bands … Read More
Some videos courtesy of John Doherty: 8/9/13 Middle East Upstairs Hayley Jane and the Primates Jatoba https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ The Gathering Floozies 18+ $10 Advance / $12 Day of Show 8 PM Doors Facebook event – Tickets Color Me by Hayley Jane … Read More
John Langton and Sophia in “Bachelor Hours” In addition to making some of our own music videos, we always have fun appearing as extras in other people’s videos. And, this Parlour Bells video was an especially fun one. Michael got to play … Read More
The Motion Sick had a blast returning to the stage at Brighton Music Hall! It was a lot of fun to get to do it again and to share the evening with all of you. Here are some videos of … Read More
casting extras for Endation music video July 21st – have 11am-4pm available Location: Allston 15-20 extras needed – must be available for the full time. Physical needs: must be able to fall down/collapse independently repeatedly. In addition we will need some extras to … Read More
Exciting TEN Movie news! Today we release the opening titles sequence, in which the cast, portrayed as pigs, is pursued by The Butcher. The style is inspired by the legendary title work of Saul Bass. The animated titles were … Read More
http://daykampmusic.com/tv/ Daykamp Music already does this city a wonderful service by photographing a million shows a year (and the partner site of Daykamp Creative – by making our city beautiful with awesome show posters)…but they have taken another giant leap … Read More
Friends of TEN is our blog series briefly highlighting fundraisers and projects that are associated with independent film, particularly genre film. Help BUFF raise a bit of money to make their 15th year a smashing success! We’ve enjoyed being part … Read More
PERCENT COMPLETE: 24% We’ve had a great time crowdsourcing vocals before for The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, so we figured we’d give video a shot! We’re making a new video in which the faces of 50 (or more) people … Read More
Boston’s only surrealist reality sitcom, Quiet Desperation, used a snippet of The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library’s song, “Every Time I Visit You, It Rains” as a little theme for the first 2 episodes of Season 4! Episode 2 also … Read More
2012 Recap! Okay, 2012 was a big one. Here’s 2011, that was big too, but different. After last year, we had the lofty goal of releasing 10 albums in 2012. We would have done it too, if we didn’t get … Read More
I’ll post a full year summary soon, but here’s just a quick recap of what we managed to put out this year. Our original goal was to release 10 albums/EPs in 2012. We got a little sidetracked making movies and … Read More
In addition to making some of our own music videos, we always have fun appearing as extras in other people’s videos. Here’s Ryan Lee Crosby‘s “Angel of Mercy” music video. See if you can spot us! Directed and Edited by … Read More
Hopefully by now you’ve had a chance to peruse the interviews with the supremely talented and fun cast of TEN. Here’s a little bit more reading for you – the beginning of the crew interview series! They are also supremely … Read More
The 2nd episode of the new music TV show The Bubbler airs this Sunday at 11 PM on CBS TV38 (right between The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother) (11/25) and features an interview with Do Not Forsake Me Oh … Read More
We took a quick break from posting cast interviews to tell you about our first rehearsal and share the amazing postcard that Kristilyn designed for us, but today we’re back! Porcelain Dalya, who plays a coed in TEN, was born … Read More
Next up in our series of interviews with the cast of TEN, here’s Sophia Cacciola, who plays a folk singer in the film. (In real life, she sings too – and drums – in numerous bands, such as Do Not … Read More
boston phoenix covers the event! Radio (Bar Union) opened it’s doors in Union Sq. Somerville one year ago and was immediately irreplaceable – from the awesome Rocky and Hannibal paintings on the red brick walls to the Golden Smash to the … Read More
While I am not directly involved in this project, I know a number of people who are, and I feel that it is an extremely interesting and valuable film. It is documentary about impressionist painter H. Somers, a Jewish German … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library convinced 5 of our favorite visual artists to join us: we provided each artist with a song to use as inspiration to create a visual piece. Each artist provided us with a visual work, … Read More
We’re now officially past the halfway point on the Kickstarter campaign for TEN. As I try and process my thoughts on this adventure, I figured it might be nice to share them in case they are useful to others considering … Read More
Thanks so much to the amazing folks who have contributed to our Kickstarter campaign! We’re always about 48 hours behind on sending out thank you videos, but we promise, they are on the way and apologize if you were looking … Read More
Our campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists We just wanted to pass along a big thank you to the contributors to our campaign! We’re extremely excited to have you all be a part of this project and we look forward to sharing more news about … Read More
Our Kickstarter for the film TEN has begun! We really want you all to be part of it!!! How you can help: 1) Every contribution counts. If you’re thinking of giving, but aren’t sure if you can afford it (or how … Read More
Complete Spotify Discography (for all bands) – all MJE/SJC discographies DARLING PET MUNKEE You Better Believe It! by Darling Pet Munkee Glows in the Dark! by Darling Pet Munkee
Complete Spotify Discography (for all bands) – all MJE/SJC discographies https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ Full Length/EPs 2012 – Faith in Free EP – Lyrics/Chords – Additional Info – Buy: Bandcamp, Amazon, CDBaby – Listen: Spotify, Youtube 2012 – Swap Meet EP (split w/Golden Bloom) – Lyrics/Chords – … Read More
We had a blast on our first day of the Darling Pet Munkee “Sea-Monkeys” shoot. As per the song, the video will present the worldwide invasion by sea-monkeys. In fact, many people will find themselves eaten by sea-monkeys. The wonderful … Read More