The feature writing and directorial debut of Josh Radnor (Ted from How I Met Your Mother), HappyThankYouMorePlease, just premiered at Sundance. The film follows the lives of six New Yorkers as they discover their own definitions of love, family, adulthood, and stars Josh Radnor, Malin Ackerman, Richard Jenkins, Kate Mara, Peter Scanavino, Pablo Schreiber, and Zoe Kazan. I wrote the string arrangements to accompany the [lovely] acoustic guitar score by recording artist Jaymay. The score was produced and supervised by HIMYM music essentials Michael Brake and Andrew Gowan, respectively.

Great review in The Hollywood Reporter.

Congrats and appreciation to Josh and everyone else who made the film possible.

And here it is, the final version in all its glory, just aired on CBS tonight. So proud and honored to be a part of it — thanks to all for your support and kind words. And props to Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for writing a kick-ass song.

And congrats to HIMYM for 100 amazing episodes. Here’s hoping for 100 more!

First, Happy New Year.

Second, there are two very, very important and very, very awesome things you must watch over the next ten days. To prove the goodness of humanity in these dark times.

1) YOUTH IN REVOLT, starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zack Galifianakis, Fred Willard, Steve Buscemi, Justin Long, Jean Smart, and Ray Liotta — opening January 8th. I’m excited, you’re excited, worshippers of C. D. Payne are skeptical and excited. Score by John Swihart, featuring some keyboard playing and arranging, as well as a musical doorbell, by myself. It’s funny, go see it.

2) HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER 100th episode, airing Monday, January 11th (CBS, 8:00p), featuring a full-blown musical number to close the episode. Song written by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas; orchestration, music direction, piano/keyboards, and backup vocals by yours truly. This is the project from that past year that gives me the most pride, and the one which most clearly proves that all that bizarre musical stuff I did in college (i.e., Yale a cappella) resulted in a strange yet useful set of skills. I’ll hopefully be able to post a video of the number after the airdate, provided that CBS posts one for the public. But here’s a photo from filming:

Oh, and Tim Gunn is in the episode. Tell your friends.

The latest episode of HIMYM, “The Sexless Innkeeper,” features some songs I produced (mixing, backup vocals, additional instruments) along with show executive producers/writers Craig Thomas and Kourtney Kang.

Check out the video of the flagship song, “It Was the Best Night Ever,” shown here in a special online-only video version, featuring Jason Segel and Nuno Bettencourt (of Extreme), along with the rest of the cast.

Also, search for the song on iTunes (with artist “Marshall”) for an extended two-minute version.

Just a one-week delay. No worries.

Check out more info at the Gravitronix site.