Two nights ago I responded to a request by NY Cares for New York City's Department of Homeless Services's (DHS) annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE). In groups of 2-6 we were to go out and count the number of homeless in the city, section by section, in the middle of the night.
For a band with many members -- between the band performing on a sound-stage, cut between very close shot stills of the various scars on the band-members' bodies.
This is a brand new project which will run weekly, every Thursday, for 20 weeks. This is a series of brief fictions, each using one of the Fingertips from They Might Be Giants' Apollo 18 album. If by some fluke, you're unfamiliar with this record, the Fingertips are 20 different songs, each no longer than a minute -- usually closer to 10 seconds -- to replicate the sound of a K-Tel record TV spot. On the CD, they're each indexed separately to lend themselves to shuffle mode. (The title appears to be a reference to The Residents' Commercial Album, which has a similar concept (a Top-40 chart of songs exactly 1 minute in length) as well as a song titled "Fingertips".
Each of the pieces in the Fingertips Project will be posted in the order the songs appear on the album, each song used as a writing prompt. Like the songs, most of the pieces are pretty short -- some more so than others. So here we go!
When I woke up from taking a nap on the couch, I looked outside our big picture window. The sky was dark -- not dark like night, but like an extremely overcast day. Almost like dusk -- except everything was brown. A rust-like dirty brown.
album. If by some fluke, you're unfamiliar with this record, the Fingertips are 20 different songs, each no longer than a minute -- usually closer to 10 seconds -- to replicate the sound of a K-Tel record TV spot. On the CD, they're each indexed separately to lend themselves to shuffle mode. (The title appears to be a reference to 
, which has a similar concept (a Top-40 chart of songs exactly 1 minute in length) as well as a song titled "Fingertips".
