If you can't tell, this video was taken in Africa last year, sometime in October. It was rare that I filmed songs in Africa. For one, I like to be alone when I film them. Two, there is a lot of external noise - kids playing outside, the TV from the neighbors... a lot of ambient noise that you can still hear in these few recordings. And three, if it was rainy season, forget about it- I had several recordings get cut short by rain patter on the tin roof, which sounded less like patter more like someone dropping marbles on metal. But, I was able to film this one pretty successfully and just recovered it recently.
'Case of You' is one of my favorite Joni Mitchell songs. I heard this song originally in the film 'Practical Magic', still one of my all-time favorite Halloween movies. (Hence my filming this song last October.) And on that note, last year's Halloween was one of the most unique and best I've ever had. We spent a good part of the day assisting our site mate with her English class, teaching a Halloween lesson! We had the kids make masks, and we had a jack-o-lantern face-drawing contest. The winning sketch was carved into the 'duba' ('pumpkin' in Ethiopian Tigrinya) we purchased at the market. Later that night, our site-mate's family cooked us traditional Ethiopian 'duba wat' or 'pumpkin stew' out of our jack-o-lantern. Eaten during viewings of 'Beetlejuice' and random episodes of 'Twin Peaks'. It was absolutely phenomenal and I will never forget it.
