The Sarah Crisman Halloween Episodes

CAPTAINS LOG, Star date October 30th, 2009.
I just finished the second of 2 episodes that were shot this Sunday for the infamous Sarah Crisman Show. After 2 months of concert DVDs, band tours and music videos I hit it hard to bring you two new episodes of the Crisman show just in time for the 2 featured bands, Spooky Folk and Pentagrass, shows that will be going on this evening. I can honestly say that a new episode was way over due.

We started out our day at an undisclosed cemetery with a few of the guys for the band Pentagrass. After a few shots and camera malfunctions the show continued and we got some amazing interview footage. By amazing I mean I just so happened to find myself filming them defiling a tombstone and gouging the eyes of a plastic Jesus that I had in my van. This was the second time I had met the band since their My Denton Music Showcase a few months back and I can honestly say they are quite the interesting bunch. We packed up the mini-van and made our way to the Denton courthouse to retrieve band number 2 on our Crisman Show adventure.

It was quite a relieving site to find two members of the indie group, Spooky Folk awaiting us with instruments in hand, versus Pentagrass and their knifes and matches. Kaleo with his guitar and Petra with her violin serenaded us with the most excellent driving music I have ever experienced as we made our quick drive down to Lewisville to check out the Parker Haunted House. Earlier that morning I had checked the Doppler and the Weather channel and was assured that no rain was in our forecast; this was quite the contrary to what was to come. We quickly unpacked a few choice items and made our way quickly into the indoor haunted house, as drops of rain soon began to fall. After a few frightful turns and actually finding ourselves lost at one point in the haunted house, we found our way to safety. Following this I quickly setup a shot in front of the hearse for the band to perform the intro to the Crisman show. After a few takes we got the shot, packed up and made out way back to Denton to shoot an interview with the band. As fate would have it and probably due to the nature of our wickedness, hell opened up and it began to rain harder than I’ve seen in a long time.

The show must go on and of course it did. Even in the pouring rain we were still able to get probably one of my favorite interviews and band music videos to this date. I’m sure it was quite the site for anyone that was driving by the square on that fateful night to see Sarah and I huddled under her little umbrella as I tried to shoot a performance that I will never forget. It was a definitely a special moment for both Sarah and I, as Petra and Kaleo jammed out to a wonderful tune.

The Sarah Crisman Show: Spooky Folk from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.

At this point both Sarah and I were soaked to the bone, but we still had one more stop before this night could end and that would be in the confines of the Oso Closo/Pentagrass compound for a private performance by the satanic bluegrass wonder. After a bit of fine tuning the entire band was serenading us and a few others with their version of the Crisman Show theme song and a few of their other deeply disturbing tunes. It was incredible to say the least.

The Sarah Crisman Show: Pentagrass from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.

As we made our way home from the Pentagrass show a familiar melody found its way onto the EDGE’s local show that wrapped up our evening very nicely. It was the live performance of Oso Closo at Tree’s a few weeks back and it was spectacular. That night I rediscovered how awesome these bands are, as well as this town. I look forward to many more shows and discovering something completely new inside Denton.

If you have the chance definitely make sure you make it out tonight to see Pentagrass at the Boiler Room in Denton or The Spooky Folk at the Cavern in Dallas. I wish I could make it to both.