SYNOPSIS:
The Lone Fir Cemetery is the resting place for many of the people who founded and influenced the history of Portland, Oregon.
When a benefit album titled Dearly Departed was commissioned by Friends of Lone Fir, singer-songwriters from the Pacific Northwest were approached and asked to write a song about a specific person buried at Lone Fir Cemetery.
Adam Shearer (Weinland) chose to write about James C. Hawthorne (March 12, 1819 – February 15, 1881), a doctor and humanist who cared for the mentally ill. Shearer enlisted the help of Adam Selzer (M. Ward, Norfolk & Western) and together they wrote A House, A Home. The song tells a story about two of Dr. Hawthorne's patients whose love for each other is unrealized until they pass away. The music video for A House, A Home begins at the last line of the song You die knowing he'll bury you next to your love in the ground… and continues the story.
A House, A Home was also the motive to form the band Alialujah Choir(Adam Shearer, Adam Selzer and Alia Farah) whose first album was released this year.
BIO:
Prior to Daniel Fickle's directorial debut with the music video for Weinland's I'm Sure it Helps, Daniel worked in several other areas of film. His next music video, Portland Cello Project's, Denmark garnered Best Film festival wins and official selections to numerous film festivals including SXSW.
In March 2011, the Foo Fighters chose Daniel for their This Video Sucks promotional campaign to direct a video for I Should Have Known, a single from their album Wasting Light. The video premiered on the Fuse TV network.
GQ Rules, a men's fashion tip series directed by Daniel Fickle, was nominated as an Official Honoree for Best Web Personality/Host for the 2012 16th Annual Webby Awards.
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