Of note to Star Trek fans: Karaoke Vampryres-- a tenuous connection.

Meet my dad, Donald S. Hawley...

Don is the weird alien on the left. The weird alien on the right is Mark Lenard, better known as Sarek, Spock's father.
Donald S. Hawley and Mark Lenard acted together in college at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu in the late forties or some other paleolithic time in earth's distant past.
Don was also a boxer in college, but stopped fighting out of fear he's kill someone.
I wish Mark Lenard had lived to see my dad finally acting again-- other than being an extra in a local film made less than a year ago, this is probably the first acting job he's had since working with Mr. Lenard.
I think it would have been great to hear him getting back in touch his old friend again and learning how much this might have meant to him.
Although my dad auditioned in Hollywood for various roles, I'm pretty sure he never landed anything and gave up on acting.
He also gave up playing the trumpet and writing books on philosophy.
Really, what pleases me most is that both my father and mother are in the picture.
This kind of gives them something more to live for, which is important when both of you were born in 1928 and on anti-depressants.
No pictures of my mom. Bizarrely enough she only agreed to be in our film (which is going to be on youtube) if we agreed not to post her picture.
It is awfully fulfilling to have your strait laced parents participating in an underground art film with a soundtrack largely made up of punk and metal.

 

Here are some other pictures, showing the cast juxtaposed with our stylistic influences:

 

Thanks for sharing..

 

Correction-- university of Michigan! dad went to both schools and I got confused.