I woke up to a phone call from my friend Meredith Watson. She was touring and in town from Nashville. "We need a music video." Why not I thought. She picked me up at my Brooklyn apartment. Her jeep Bruce Vanner was packed with equipment and other musicians so I had to cramp in the back and sit on someones lap. It was the perfect April day, pretty chilly but beautiful. Where do you shoot an impromptu music video with no real gear or crew? The magical Coney Island of course. Nothing in Coney Island can go wrong and if it does it's still right.

Check out the video. Labor of love and playfulness all around. And listen to Locust Honey's album 'Let me cross your mind' (When the whiskey's gone featured in Oren Moverman's film Time out of mind). It's really really... really good.

His Turf is on my block and he usually sits outside Popeyes in his wheelchair where he asks for change or anything you can spare. We always talk a little every time I see him. Once we bonded over Midnight, a little puppy he was dogsitting.

A month ago- jumping out of my cab- he randomly was right in front of my building on his way home and he looked like a movie star.

Me: Rickie- you look so handsome

Rickie: I went to church today. I gotta look good in church. Last time I was in church...

Popeyes Rickie became Rickie Corbett. One out of 14 siblings. Single father to a son at 15 years old. A Park Slope native and someone that almost broke a mans neck last time he went to church.... (for a really good reason I might add) We talked for 30 minutes and for the first time in years he let me take his photo.

His mum who passed away exactly a year ago, September 8th 2013. Rickie mentions this date to me a lot. So here is to Rick and his mum. September 8th 2014 Bed-Stuy New York.