drooooool

You MUST check out ubu.com which was found via carrotrevolution.blogspot.com which was found via hiddenjunk.blogspot.com (which I owe a hand written letter to). I will never have enough time to go through all of this, but you must check out the video/film section and the sound section. amazing stuff.

Find something there you like and post in in the comments.

Happy Wifest?

Update! well, maybe not "update" but new post.

Sanderson, I can't seem to post comments on your blog... haven't been the last few posts. But of course I was right! now when do I get to see the piercing in real life? You should totally have a cookout! I think May 12th is good for me, how 'bout you? Can I plan a party at your house? in your backyard and all.

New diorama

I'm wanting to make a new diorama. Is anyone else interested in doing one? A mini dio party perhaps. Also I would be very interested to hear some suggestions of what YOU would like to see me do a diorama of.

weather report

it's snowing... in april.

Alanis' humps

If you didn't know it, I'm in love with Alanis Morissette... always have been. I find her music to be very smart and she seems to know how to live life. One thing I've always liked is that she freely admits her love for studid comedy... Anybody see her in Dogma?! Well, I think this video will show how funny (and clever) she is. Take that top 40 radio!

Jesus Sells

I'm watching a documentary on PBS about sister Aimee. She created one of the first ever mega-churches in L.A. in 1921 when she built the Angelus Temple that would hold 5,000 people, and broadcast her sermons on the radio. She was penticostal and got involved in politics, and founded the Church of the Four Square Gospel. Then she mysteriously dissapeared in 1926, lost at sea. It's debated if she staged her own dissapearence or was kidnapped, but she did return to L.A. after walking out of the desert of Mexico, and became the focus of a mediated trial.

all grown up

This is what I want to do when I grow up.

Chris Ware action

Now here we go!

I got the new Modest Mouse album with the last of my itunes gift card... If you liked Good News... then you'll like We Were Dead... The song Dashboard came on and I thought, this is so familiar, and then I remembered this Good stuff.
McMüller introduced me to the wonders of Bierkraft and treated me to a generous evening.
Lately I've been pondering what I want to do when I grow up... it's almost depressing.

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

My hair is fixed! Thank you Rudy!

The first cut is the crappiest

I just got a really crap haircut. I've never really had one before so I guess it was time. I'm going to a new place tomorrow to get it fixed. When I was first dating thisisntjimmy, his friend, who I love to this day, gave him a literal bowl cut. It was heinous!! I was pissed at all invloved, but I got over it. Perhaps thisisntjimmy will be pissed at all involved or maybe he's not trite and small minded like his (ill coiffed) wife.

Finally

I'm on partial break this week so I'm enjoying myself! Now would be a great time to call me and get some good phone chats in.

down the drain

I washed my cell phone... I took it apart to dry it out, but that doesn't seem to be helping. Of course I don't have phone numbers written down anywhere and of course sprint doesn't use the card thingies that you can move from phone to phone. Send me an email with your contact info! I'm going to build a database in my computer's address book so the next phone I wash won't mean such a big problem.

thisisntwife

I'm blogging under the wife's account because i just updated her account to the new google user so that she will finally start blogging again.

also, the new teenage mutant ninja turtles movie looks bad... and why is it called TMNT? remember when new kids on the block tried to make a comeback and they called them NKOTB?

i'm blaaaahging

Our parked car was hit by a truck from one of the industrial joints on our block.

Honestly I'm sorta run down and in no mood for anything, but a good friend is in town and I've not seen her in a long time, so I'm excited to see her tomorrow.

From my office I just saw an aquaintance that also works here walking down the street... new haircut... sort of a mullet-mohawk thing going on.

I have a vague idea for an instalation... anybody wanna host it? I need a large fairly empty room....... oh and time to actually make it. anybody have time? I must, i'm blogging. crap... I just realized I owe a friend an email... Sorry Nat! I'll write it tomorrow... after I teach class, have lunch with another out-of-town friend, consult on an animation project, and clean the house for the first out-of-town friend that's staying the night. Oooohhh look at me, I'm so busy and cool.

OH, I threw some Smashing Pumpkins onto my ipod... sweeeeet.

I'm working on two huge projects at work... well... I'm avoiding two huge projects at work...

Culture Jamming

Read this article. http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Guide/A_Brief_History_of_Culture_Jamming
I think you'll enjoy it. I did.
Is there anything you would add to it?

related:
http://www.woostercollective.com/

sprawled out

Is it suburban scrawling or suburban sprawling? I read scrawling somewhere today but thought it was sprawling.

Will the wife ever blog again?

Will I decide on a research topic for my research class?

Do any of you have answers for these questions? Why is there a w in the word answer?

Brent Green

I've been trying to take the time to write this since Sunday night. Of course time is rare for me, but when I found a moment, I was too concerned that I wouldn't be able to write something honest and smart. Mr. McMüller introduced me to the world of Brent Green, and it could be the best thing he's done for me. Brent is a self-taught animator... outsider, DIY, independent, experimental... he's all those words people put emphasis on, and he deserves the recognition those words automatically grant. He's based in Pennsylvania, and my guess is that it's a part of the Appalachains. His animations (the newest being Paulina Hollers, his most talked about {online} being Hadacol Christmas, and my favorite being Carlin) have an organic feel because of the tools and mediums he works with. In Carlin, he appears to use life-sized figures for his stop-motion animation. The house of his childhood (I want to believe that it really is the home he grew up in) becomes a character, and he even seems to animate the light and shadows. Or maybe he just doesn't know how to light a scene. I have a soft spot for personal narrative films, and while perhaps the aunt he speaks of in Carlin didn't really exist, he talks with the passion and emotion as if he is recalling someone he really knew. He achieves the same feeling in Hadacol Christmas, which he made while reflecting on the death of his grandfather. It's been said by many people that his narration is similiar to a preacher, and I wouldn't be surprised if he based his excited monologues on the Southern Baptist preachers I grew up with. I was always afraid of the "suck-n-blow" preachers when I was young, but his speaking-without-breathing style brings so much to the films.
His solo show at the Bellwether gallary is gone, and there's nothing currently scheduled I can send you to. The only films I can find online are his older pieces that do not have the same energy and urgency of his newest work, though they are still worth taking a look at.

Months ago, after the wife and I left a Sufjan concert, I talked to her about how I wish I could make short films with that much emotion, but also something that had the staying power that music has. I can listen to a CD over and over and over. I want to know how to make something that people will want to watch on repeat the first week they own it. Something people throw on their iPod and watch often. I think Brent Green is headed in that direction.

http://nervousfilms.com/
http://www.bellwethergallery.com/artistsindex_01.cfm?fid=142
http://www.directorsnotes.com/2006/12/02/dn-ep-012-hadacol-christmas-brent-green/

Celebrate Good Times.... come on!

The Wife has a birthday today. woot woot

Also, in 3 days, the wife and man blog will celebrate a 1 year anniversary.

girls and guns

I had this weird dream where a little girl (in the dream she jumped between ages 3 and 8 and was sometimes related to me and not) killed 2 people by shooting them in the chest. I spent a long time deciding if I should turn her in or not (she did it completely on purpose) or take the blame myself. I thought I could rehabilitate her. I finally decided to tell her father and he turned her in to the police. It turned out to be for the best.

I rarely remember my dreams...

scar face

Sometimes when I get real upset or anxious or some other emotion, the scar between my eyes on my brow turns red and is very visible.
My dad had a scar in the same spot that did similar things.
Mine's from a bike wreck.
His earned him a Purple Heart.