I haven’t seen this movie, only still frames. Just like my heart; I think I know it but I’ve never seen nor touched it and have only seen schematics in textbooks of what other hearts look like. Am I supposed to believe mine looks similar to everyone else’s? It probably does, but I’m not 100% sure, so I’m curious. And I’ve never been curious about it before. I want to believe my heart looks exactly like the one in the Canary corporate logo. It looks healthy and glad to be where it is, in the center of it all, like a perfectly placed ruby.

Last month I sat in the emergency waiting room of a thriving hospital, a cup of coffee in one hand and a cup of my pee in the other. Both were steaming. The pain in my lower back had gotten severe enough for me to go there at midnight. "This guy's already on antibiotics" exclaimed the doctor upon examining my computerized file, a more trusted source than my own testimony. The computer was correct, I had been on antibiotics for 10 days with no improvement; in fact, my kidney infection had gotten worse.

The first time I operated camera for Alejandro Adams was on a one-day documentary shoot in 2005 in an Oakland classroom. He said it was a multi-camera shoot so I figured it'd be me and a couple others. I showed up and he had 16 camera operators, all jammed into a tiny room to shoot a group of 8 people. We literally were stumbling over and crashing into each other!