Professor Lafferty Presents...

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2011

Mark Booker (The Casserole Club, Imitation Life), a film actor/writer/producer/composer, announces the launch of his label Professor Lafferty, an all digital indie label he runs from The Lab or, more delicately, his swanky Omaha, NE home. The future of the label is wide open as Mark explores the depths of his musical prowess, but for now, the first release Maybe This Wasn’t Such A Good Idea is now available at www.professorlafferty.com.

            Maybe This Wasn’t Such A Good Idea dives into an electronic soundscape of pop, dance, and hip hop very much in the vain of MGMT, Moby and Kid Cudi . The EP features these five 

debut songs:

1. As You Dance Around The Room (3:55)

2. It’s Raining Again (4:30)

 3. Laughing Stock (3:26)

 4. Brain Activity (3:33)

 5. A Marginal Victory (4:4

 Tracks 1 and 5 are must listens but this is a debut EP to be enjoyed in its entirety at least once. I mean, come on, he worked really hard on it.

This is the best of Professor Lafferty. Now, that may be funny to you, but to us, it means a lot. So enjoy the first five tracks from the various styles of music to be heard on this label in the future. Each track will be released as singles with additional music later in 2011 for a total release of 20 of Professor Lafferty’s finest.

Professor Lafferty believes this music belongs to you. It's yours. Or anyway, it’s everybody's. Additionally, this music is made by people in a basement in a house with people living in it. Not a robot or Will.I.Am. Thank you.

The official Trailer for Steve Balderson's "The Casserole Club"

Perfect Match Pledge LET'S MAKE THIS FILM GREAT!!!

Perfect Match

ABOUT THIS PROJECT: The link to view more about this project is above and below this blog....thank you.

The Story

PerfectMatch is the story of Maggie and Stephen, two love lorn twenty-somethings who find each other on the internet. Does it matter that Stephen works for the online dating service that brought the two of them together? As you can guess, the relationship gets complicated, but like good leading characters, they try to figure it out. 

Why a Kickstarter fund drive?

We had a great shoot and finished principal photography in the summer of 2010. We filmed in the beautiful town of Marietta, Ohio and came away with great performances captured in a beautiful, quirky style. We immediately set to editing the film and loved the way it was coming together - exactly as we had imagined. But we realized there were a few pieces missing - pieces that if we could capture them, would make the film better than we had imagined. We have the opportunity to make a good film great.

Now we need to raise the funds to finish that film. To do so we need to shoot exactly 11 short, but very important scenes (that’s about 7% of the entire film and four days of work), we need to complete the edit, mix the audio (voice and music) and submit the film to festivals and prepare it for distribution. When we’re done we’ll have a great romantic comedy that we can’t wait to share with you so you can find out if Maggie and Stephen are meant to be.

Just the facts, ma’am.

We plan to shoot the needed scenes in Houston, TX in March. Why Houston? Simply, we need to shoot somewhere warm and that matches our original visual palette from Marietta, Ohio. The outskirts of Houston fit the bill perfectly. The director, Chad Eddy and the film’s four principal actors will all be heading down to Houston at the beginning of March, along with most of our original crew, including the film’s Director of Photography, Daniel Stephens. Our goal is to have this film ready for festivals by early May. Our investors have already done so much for us and we feel that reaching out to you, our future audience and fans, is the best way to finish this beautiful film.

These funds will not only pay for the four days of filming in Houston, but also the film's sound mix, final edit and festival submission fees. It’s the minimum amount of money necessary to get the job done right, and anything more will only make the film that much better.

Please watch the trailer, share it with your friends and get excited about watching the completed film when it’s finished this May.

Project location: Houston, TX

Perfect Match