Rolling Stones "Moonlight Mile"

The hallway outside the mvyradio On-Air studios is filled with framed "Thank Yous" from labels and artists.  Replicas of Gold records from Dave Matthews and David Gray and Bruce Cockburn, acknowledging mvyradio's role in getting the music out to the people.

Also in the hallway is one large movie poster, with two indecipherable autographs on it.

"Moonlight Mile" is the film.

And one of the scribbles belongs to some unknown artist named Jake Gyllenhaal. 

Okay, so the Academy Award nominee isn't exactly unknown now, but he was the day he came to the station to talk about the movie with the other person who scribbled his name in black sharpie, director Brad Silberling.

This is back in 2002, before Gyllenhaal had been in "Brokeback Mountain" or any other mainstream success, and even his cult success (2001's "Donnie Darko") was only just then starting to attract attention.

As they explain in the interview (link below), the movie "Moonlight Mile" was finished, and they were gearing up to head out on a promotion junket, but at the moment they were enjoying a little time on the Vineyard.

In a kind of fascinating coincidence, Brad and Jake had discovered---while initially meeting to discuss Jake's possible involvement in the movie---that they each had a family place on the Vineyard, and that those houses were right next to each other!

So there they were, enjoying a little downtime, when Brad got a finished copy of the Soundtrack to the film, which is what he was REALLY excited about.

Let tell you about celebrities on the Vineyard---there might be a lot of them here, but when they are here, they are on vacation.  NEVER do they call up the radio station to do some unsolicited promotion of their work.

So even though we really didn't know who these guys were, when Brad called to ask if we'd like to have Jake and him in to talk about the movie Soundtrack, we said sure.

I won't go into the details of the interview, here---you can listen below.  Suffice it to say there are some great anecdotes about Soundtrack artists Robert Plant, Fran Healy from Travis and movie co-star Susan Sarandon.

And it's fun to hear this unknown indie-film actor talk about signing on to an unnamed blockbuster (see if you can guess what it was).

What made me so affectionate toward these guys, Brad in particular, was that they were really at our studios to talk about the music, not the movie (which, by the way, is great, totally worth renting).  There's no particular reason this film needed to be named "Moonlight Mile."  It could have been really ANY song from the 70s (when the film is set).  But he picked a beautiful, obscure Stones classic---the kind of song that we choose, to define mvyradio.

We felt simpatico.  And when they left we wished them well, hoping that maybe these guys would find some success in a tough business.

I guess it worked.

Hear our interview with Jake Gyllenhaal and Brad Silberling in the mvyradio archives.



Hear the song on Youtube.


"Moonlight Mile" trailer

See the trailer on Youtube.