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​& Americana Artist Breadfoot 

December 2025 Edition
Okay let’s see if we can finish this year with an on time update. Funny how I struggle with a few occasional posts and this one update. While others just churn the shit out. Firing off one cyber flare after another. All that content for contents sake, makes my head spin. Must take endurance of a special kind. Also IMHO, takes you away from the what and the why ya started. But ya know, suppose some folks enjoy that. Me, I kinda don’t.
 
Know what I do enjoy though? Beyond writing songs and now, musicals? Cooking. I dig cooking. Used to sustain me. Cause that’s how it is when you are trying to make it and need to get by. Gotta pay the rent. And eat. Working in kitchens covered both bases. Started cooking commercially when I was just 15 in a seafood restaurant down the way from our family home. Went on while in NYC, to work in several 2- and 3-star restaurants. Roundsman, Entremetier and Sous. Left the profession several years after landing in NC. Found diners here to be kind of shitty. Entitled. They would look right through you. Treat you like a fixture. Got so I couldn’t abide.
 
So now I just cook for folks I love. Cooked up a storm for Thanksgiving. And though I love turkey, I went a different route this year. A recipe popped up in my email from the Times. Jannson’s Temptation. Swedish style au gratin featuring Swedish sprats or anchovies. Paired that with Swedish meatballs and braised red cabbage with apple and caraway. Was super yummy.
 
But yeah, back now in PBO. Trying to decide if I wanna apply for the NAMT Festival of Musicals. Got shot down for the Fred Ebb Award. Rejection email told me that there had been over 300 hundred applicants. Still waiting on the Larson Grant announcements. Keeping everything crossed. And every time my iPhone or Mac display comes up like 5:55 or something, I wish again.
 
Uhm, and in the meantime, I’ve got another number I’m trying to find my way into. This one is supposed to tell us the why’s of Cassidy deciding to go find Gibson. Is she wondering? What is she wondering? Did I screw it up? Or did Gibson? Either way what is she hoping to do? Patch things up? Set Gibson straight? Yup. So many questions. Hard saying not knowing which is the right one.
 
And while I’ve been banging around on that song. I’ve been working on roughing out a pitch deck. Was able to on account of some recent donations to the SUNNYLAND Go Fund Me, initiate an Adobe Acrobat Pro subscription. Having that app allows me to put all the .PDF files into one file and embed audio files. Thing is that unless you have the Adobe Acrobat app, ya can’t activate the links and preview the content. So am working up a second set of panels that will simply have links that you can cut and paste. Unless and hmmm, is there is a way to embed links so that they are accessible across multiple platforms? Will have to study on it.
 
Okay think that’s it for this month. Fingers crossed you all. Would be super mega amazing if the American Theatre Wing would deem me worthy.

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Til next year!
Cheers!
XOBF
Went a little Swedish on this Thanksgiving meal. Do dig me some turkey. Which is catually more about the sammiches and soup in the after. Reagrdless, good to shake things up sometimes. Many can't. Thankful we could. 
Here's a wee peek at which way I'm going with my pitch deck graphics. Used the promo poster for last February's reading for the foundation. Supposed to be a foot in the door.
​Provide just enough info to hopefully, to get folks interested.
Of course, then leading to opportunities for further development.
Okay so this is the first time I've shared these demos. Recorded at Good Luck Studios on the back end of the staged reading last February. Speaking of thankful, was able to get several of the actors who participated in the reading to reprise their roles. Not perfect but it'll give you a better idea of what I'm shooting for sonically. Hope ya dig em.
Wanna do a deeper dive musically? Here's the SoundCloud Playlist where I parked some of the original  sketches for SUNNYLAND. Go get ya some.
Here ya go folks. Almost as good as being there. Archival video of the Saturday Feb. 8th staged reading of 'SUNNYLAND - A Rock Banjo Opera.'
First live work shopping of SUNNYLAND from back in December of 2022. This is the performance that landed
us the chance to put on a staged reading with the
​Process Series at UNC.