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When it came time for me to make Apartment Hunting, I knew I wanted her to do the score and, if she would agree, to play the part of the street singer, Homeless Helen. A week before shooting, she still hadn't agreed - she didn't want to play a singer on camera and kept feeding me tapes of other people she thought would be great in the role. I went over to her house late one night to make one last plea. After several hours, I thought I had lost the battle. "Why does it have to be me?", she asked finally. "It's a spirit thing", I said. It was and is.
The spirit in which these recordings were made was one of fun under pressure. We didn't have a lot of time or money. We recorded most of it in Rusty McCarthy's ever-moving basement studio, with Rusty recording the whole thing with great skill and patience. It was great to have some of the city's best musicians (Mike Sloski, Matt Horner, Russ Boswell, Michael White, Phil Dwyer, Hugh Marsh, John Johnson, Dennis Keldie) drop by for a few hours to lay down their parts. A few pieces were improvised, captured in one take as the film played in background. It was a thrill to be there every step of the way.
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