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|Jake Clemons Love’ll Never Change
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Here it is folks! The music video I’ve been working on for Jake Clemons’ amazing new song “Love’ll Never Change” off his latest EP “It’s On”. Hope you enjoy it! Jake and I had a blast filming this on a gorgeous sunny day in one of the glorious parks in Cambridge, UK. An enormous tip of the hat, thank you and hug to Ellie Stoneley (@E11ie5) the glue and positive spirit behind bringing Jake and I together to produce this and more wonderful film and music content during his recent European tour and UK dates. Creativity rules! We shot the video on a glorious, blustery sun filled day and wrapped it before the sun went down – early enough to enjoy an intimate on location wrap party at The Cambridge Beer Festival (see Jake Clemons Musical Meanderings at Cambridge Beer Festival )
This video is dedicated to the life and music of Jake’s beloved uncle, the magnificent “Clarence Clemons” who was laid to rest yesterday. God bless you Jake, and in your own words “Love’ll Never Change”.
Tags: cambridge, clarence clemons, deiren, deiren masterson, Ellie Stoneley, it's on, jake clemons, love'll never change, music video, relative strangers, Relative Strangers Interactive
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Wanders Through Identiland – Episode V
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
This is Episode V of a continuing series called “Wanders through Identiland” – thought twisters and cartoons that explore our ever shifting understanding of identity and all its twists and turns.
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Tags: bob, deiren, deiren masterson, depression, facebook, relative strangers, status update, wanders through Identiland
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“Good-bye Grandpa”, A musical tribute to Roy Turkel
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
On November 22nd, the infamously same day that President John F. Kennedy was murdered, I lost a dear friend named Roy Turkel. At 85 years of age, Jewish and having lived with a mental disability since birth, Roy and I had, on the outside, very little in common. He was a survivor of some 60 years in an institution system that pegged him as an outcast to be hidden away in the northern outskirts of my home province with thousands of others like him, who fell into the societal holes of ‘mental retardation’ and a myriad of other denigrating classifications.
But Roy was an incredible man, with an incredible spirit. To this day I pray to Roy, because I know Roy’s thirst for life won in the end. His fierce desire to be loved and to love with an enormous open heart is what remains of him. I know he beat the darkness of this life, and when I feel that same darkness rushing in around me, I lift a little call to his fierce and loving spirit. I wrote this song with my good friend Michael Barrett and we sang it as a eulogy for Roy’s funeral. Michael by the way was born with severe cerebral palsy and is an incredible man in his own right. So here you go Roy, to your beautiful life and memory.
Tags: deiren, deiren masterson, disability, jean vanier, l'arche, l'arche daybreak, roy, unsung heroes
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Wanders through Identiland – Episode I
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
This is the inaugural episode of a weekly series called “Wanders through Identiland” - thought twisters and cartoons that explore our ever shifting understanding of identity and all its twists and turns.
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Tags: bob, bob and viv, deiren, deiren masterson, relative strangers, social identity, wanders through Identiland
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How the World Has Grown
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
An ode to modern times, the credit crunch, societal greed and the madness that’s driven western society to the point where we’re now classifying a massive section of the population whose buying power had created our ostentatious wealth as “The New Poor”. If the western middle class is history then this is an ode to what I believe were some of the best and worst of the middle class fragments, philosophies and traces that I absorbed, growing up in a time of unprecedented wealth and prosperity in the land of North America.
Special thanks to Open Source Cinema for access to much of the great archive footage.
UPDATE APRIL 6, 2011: Sadly I see that Open Source Cinema is presently offline but that likely has something to do with Brett Gaylor (who set up Open Source Cinema) being involved in the new amazing project Mozilla Drumbeat: Web Made Movies which I’ve just discovered and can’t wait to get my hands into. Geez I fell behind the times. Some serious catching up to do.
By the way, I penned this song a month before a faulty Honda air bag deployed and blew loads of shrapnel into my right arm. I received the recall letter for the airbag in this ten year old car in the mail, one month after my accident and surgeries. I’ve since recovered and can still thankfully tinkle on the 88 keys, with my nimble fingers of course.
How The World Has Grown
words + music by Deiren Masterson
I was born
In the 1970s
I believed in Big Bird
And Joanie Loved Chachi
And the life that came my way
Was pretty damn easy
Oh Mama, how the world has grown
To keep on changing just about everything we had known
Shopping malls
All those pretty things
If I can’t buy my way to heaven
At least I’d bring some things
And the greed that shook the day
For the anger that it brings
Oh Mama, how the world has grown
To keep on changing just about everything we had known
The liars den
How the hell’d it get so big
Fairwell to ol’ mass media
Control ain’t what you think
Live to breathe another day
In the hope that it will bring
Oh Mama, how the world has grown
To keep on changing just about everything we had known
Tags: big bird, capitalism, credit crunch, deiren, foreclosure, george bailey, global financial crisis 2008, it's a wonderful life, jimmy stewart, masterson, michael moore, mortgage crisis, mr. potter, music, relative strangers, sesame street
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I Ain’t No Francis of Assisi But The Birds They Sing With Me – “Butterfly”
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
If you listen closely the duet starts at 1:10 min.
I wasn’t really aware of it at the time but I was actually singing a duet, with a wee little song bird who decided to join in. For my two cents I think we make a nice duo, and I never even got his/her name. Oh well, I’m sure we’ll sing again.
This is a little diddy I wrote a while back when my friend was losing his Mom to cancer. My 91 year old uncle died last week. I sent this song out as an ode to his life, and all of us I guess for that matter. Life continues. Glad to have had a wee little song bird with me on that one.
BUTTERFLY
Words and Music by: Deiren Masterson
What have become of those days that we knew?
And all those memories that I have of you
They’ll come again love
A love once lived will always be
A part of me
Butterfly
What have become of those smiles that we shared?
And all the laughter, it is still there
It comes again love
Your dear life will always be
A part of me
Butterfly
What will become of those tears that were shed?
And all those regrets of things that were said
They’ll have their place love
A life once lived will always be
A part of me
Butterfly
Oh life, for such a powerful thing,
You keep on struggling
You’ve lived so long
My bet’s you keep on living
What takes the place of a life when it’s gone?
And all that space where you once belonged
It fills the air love
And that full space will always be
A part of me
Butterfly
What lives forever, we scream at the air
Forever will always be there
It comes again love
The love we’ve shared will always be
It’s you and me
We’re Butterflies
Tags: after life, birds, butterfly, deiren, francis of assisi, hope, life, music
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Identity - Personal, Communal, Social, Brand.
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