Director Esther Bell (Godass, Exist) and I went to Hunting Island to make this short film about loneliness. This was a few years ago, maybe three . . . perhaps more? I saw a 15-second clip of it before, but I just watched the full version for the first time tonight.

The Internet is so wide, and my boat is so small.

In it, I play like an existentialist Gorton’s Fisherman (who, if you go to the Gorton’s site, appears to be played by an Alec Baldwin impersonator/brother now). The voiceover guy, Ted Passon, is somebody who is not me having thoughts quite different than the ones I was having when we were shooting. My deep inner monologue: “My shoes are wet.” “I think my fishing reel just broke.” “How did these trees grow out here on the beach?”

I don’t remember us getting enough footage to string together more than 3 minutes. I think this aired on a station that exclusively ran nonlinear HD content, before you could get a 1,000-inch flat screen HDTV for $100. It was an era not unlike the time before MTV stopped playing videos. And then I think this eventually ran on IFC, which coincidentally tonight is showing a movie called Flannel Pajamas starring Julianne Nicholson, who was in Esther’s movie Godass.

Six pieces of bacon.