Festivities

Whew. What a fun weekend! I saw Man Man at the national on Thursday Here is a video of one of their songs:

Friday night was halloween. All the Saints put on their third annual Halloween parade. It was 'The Funeral March of Our Founding Fathers' with huge, multi-person puppets. A ton of people came out. People on bikes were blocking off the streets ahead of the parade, and Lily managed to dodge the cops and make the whole thing happen. I can't believe they would try to stop such an amazing parade. No BS played at the front and Special Ed and the Shortbus played at the back. After the parade I went to a costume party/show at Gallery 5. There was a Tom Petty cover band, and Prabir and the Substitutes played, as well. Good times. I'll probably be missing Richmond next Halloween. Oh and I need to find some pictures of my halloween costume. I was Max from Where the Wild Things Are. There was a costume contest, and Condoleeza Rice and Beans won! Gotta find a picture of that one too.

Wacky

What is with all these inanimate object-love related stop motion animations?



Also, how weird is this? This is a photo of frozen broccoli packaging.





























IT'S PEOPLE!!!

Well...

This is how my day was, how was yours?

Huge Chunks of Whale Blubber Falling Everywhere

I stumbled across this today and thought it was pretty wonderful. What do you do when you have a dead whale on your hands? The same thing we seem to do with all of our problems. Blow them up.

Oh, and here is the actual news video.

In which I ponder a few things but fail to get stuck in a tight spot.

I have this friend that I don't see much anymore. We ran into each other about a year ago and at some point in our conversation we realized we were both at that time reading 'A Confederacy of Dunces.' About a month ago, I ran into that same friend, and we realized we were both reading 'The Master and Margarita.' We don't talk much, so it was pretty coincidental. Obviously, we are attracted to the same things. It just struck me as odd.
I picked up 'A Confederacy of Dunces' purely by chance, browsing in a used book store. The cover intrigued me. As for 'The Master and Margarita' I was at Wickerman in PA, sitting on a covered wagon, watching fire spinners and listening to crazy techno in the middle of the woods, having a conversations about books with a new friend and he told me I must absolutely read this book. So the friend who keeps reading the same books as me, obviously our circumstances for finding them are different, but we keep stumbling across the same things.
So I watched 'Zeitgeist' the other night, which by the way is a german word which is pretty fantastic meaning the spirit of the times, which talks about a sort of collective consciousness... or is it subconscious?...and there are clips in 'Zeitgeist' from this movie 'Network' of which I had never heard or seen, but based on the clips I thought it sounded fantastic. What do you know, tonight a friend called and said "Hey...wanna watch this movie with me? It's called Network." So of course I watched it and it was pretty amazing.
Here is a little clip. Maybe you've seen it?

You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here, you're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do. Why, whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing, WE are the illusion.

Who loves Halloween?

I do!


I've been getting into the holiday spirit by making some masks.
So...what else can I do to procrastinate from my school work besides booze it up on the town? You guessed it:














Make a puppet!















And then kill it!

Zeitgeist Addendum

This is very long but worth watching. If you haven't already seen 'Zeitgeist' start with that. This is a part 2.

Tee Hee Hee

The stuff of dreams...

The Sandman. A Stop Motion Animated Short Film By Paul Berry.
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1991. Paul died tragically in 2001 of a tumor. He also worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Models and sets by Ian Mackinnon who set up Mackinnon and Saunders in Manchester, UK. They went on to create the models for Corpse Bride.

Paul Berry "The Sandman"
by vibliographer

And this:








I used to have a link to the 1979 version with a soundtrack I liked better...It came in the night by A raincoat.
Here is that song:





RW: Rabbit's Moon is a very directly emotional film.

KA: It's what I call a nocturne, a dream about me. It's about unrequited love and the moon is a symbol, as it has been in romantic literature, of the unattainable. The moon has always been something that's longed for. I use the figures of Commedia: Pierrot, the lost clown; Columbine, the flirt; and Harlequin, who's the devil, the trickster.

RW: Your harlequin is very spiteful.

KA: So he is. The world, to Harlequin, is a comedy. To him, it's uproarious to trick - to trip people up. Harlequin is Lucifer. To look at it from Harlequin's standpoint - which may be the devil's point of view - he's having a good time. In other words, Harlequin has no complexes; his approach to the world is very direct. You can call him cruel, but he is also a survivor and Pierrot the sad sack is not.

But Wait... There's more!

While we're on Jan:
How's bout a little meat love?

And while we're on the topic of love between inanimate objects: