My brother Paul recently worked on this music video by the group Train:

Bruises (feat. Ashley Monroe) – Train from Khang Nguyen on Vimeo.

He’s a filmmaker, and he usually works with sound and general production. He said that for this video, he was a “Unit Production Manager.” I asked him what that was, since I wasn’t sure, and he said that he was in charge of securing crew, equipment, food, and permissions on a short notice. In any case, that sounds a bit more interesting than teaching the use of present perfect modal verbs yet again, so I’m a bit jealous that he’s gotten on a career path that sounds a bit more fun than mine, at least at the moment.

Also, Train is a fairly big name group. I know they did the “Soul Sister” song a few years ago, and I think they did something like “Drops of Jupiter,” but that may have came out right when I moved countries and didn’t listen to as much music. Still, the point is that I’ve heard of them, and that they’re big enough to film and play at Red Rocks, so that’s pretty cool. The original link Paul gave me was through the Country Music Television channel, but since that link didn’t work for me in Costa Rica, I embedded the one above. I also thought it was interesting that they’re apparently “country” enough now to be on that station. Then again, the definition of country may be changing, but I still know this: Toby Keith sucks.

So, good work, brother, and may we see many more videos and movies that you were involved with!