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 Here is the official trailer for the film. Appearing in the trailer (in order of appearance are) Larry Giles, NiNi Harris, Toby Weiss, and Michael Allen. This probably won’t be the only trailer we’ll release so stay tuned for more. We may even re cut this trailer as time goes by.  Right now, at this very moment, I’m busy trying to cut together a short two minute clip to screen this weekend at the Soulard Stable Hootenanny. Since I’ve last posted here we have recorded some music for the sound track with Pokey LaFarge and Mat Wilson (whom you might know from the Rum Drum Ramblers) and  Bowls and I had to make a day trip to the Geology and Land Survey Division of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in Rolla this week to do an interview. We met Mimi Garstang there who is the former Missouri State Geologist. We wanted to talk to her for a couple of reasons. She conducted  Last weekend we had the wonderful experience of interviewing NiNi Harris and her sister Shelia. NiNi is a local historian who has written several books about St. Louis history and is a big fan of St. Louis brick. Shelia is a retired school teacher who is now an active artist whose work is inspired by 
March 1914 National Geographic I love perusing older National Geographic magazines. On my first pass, I skip the articles and study the advertisements. I can’t quite explain my fascination, but I think it’s a combination of the artwork, fonts and language used to illustrate whatever product or service one is selling. Together they  One of the things we’ve both spent a lot of time thinking and talking about is the film’s title. I wasn’t instantly sold when Bill first mentioned the quote and presented a rough draft of the title. Almost immediately he changed my mind by elaborating that it was chance that St. Louis had 
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.” — Plutarch This was the quote that jumped out at me when I was looking for inspiration for a title for this film. Of course I’ve excerpted it and taken it out of context for my own  KETC has put most if not all of their segments from their locally produced show “Living St. Louis” on YouTube, which I applaud. I think it’s great that they’ve made these and other shows they produce easily available to watch anytime. This is a particularly interesting segment they produced about “ghost signs”–which are old advertisting  So the process of coming up with at title sent me looking for quotes or metaphors regarding brick. Looking for that one combination of words that would be a suitable name for this project. Of couse most brick metaphors are clichés, “brick by brick”, “another brick in the wall”, etc. All of them we’ve all heard a million
 Antonio French (21st Ward) and Sam Moore (4th Ward). I’ve had a hard time writing even just a few sentences about them because it comes out too positive and sounds like I’m kissing their ass instead of introducing them, so I’ll send you elsewhere to get a sense of who they
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