In tribute to the indomitable continuation of perfume week, I thought I'd share this enlightening video about the benefits of anaerobic manure digestion.

I don't get it, but it makes a lot of sense. Ask this guy:

BROS

FINAL FIESTA VIDEO

I HUNG MYSELF WITH MY SOMETHING BLUE

In all honesty, all I really want is to be friends with Tim Rutilli, but all his friends are funeral singers.

On this note, pysch-folk giants Califone are at it again. Their new album just came out, and now they are touring on it. BUT there's more. Mastermind Rutilli wrote and directed a film that was conceived concordantly with the album. Both titled, "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers," they are companion pieces to each other.

So, Califone are going to be at the Brattle this Thursday playing a set of old material before immediately seguing into a screening of the film, with the band playing the new album in it's entirety as a live score. And then I shit my pants. He is and has been doing everything that I aspire to.

From what I gather, the film seems about as surreal as his lyrics, and contains as much carnival fun as their music. My guess is that the band are spirits inside this house, that only the psychic main character can see, and they seem to be doing a lot of crazy and silly things.

Trailer:

Tickets.

START MOTION

Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

Grizzly Bear wins again.

MIRANDA JULY: THE HALLWAY

My video response to Sean's recent posting of a Radiolab video response. I feel it evokes some similar sort of feeling of some similar sort. An Installation by Miranda July of Miranda July fame.

The Hallway from The Hallway on Vimeo.

SELF-ESTEEM ENGINE

Pictures For Sad Children.

We Have Some Printers in the Basement You Can Use

So, I've been a fan of John Campbell's Pictures for Sad Children for awhile, and was intrigued by an update on his blog:


The shirt was in reference to a really strange trailer to a really strange movie. Upon some research and crimefighting, I discovered a conspiracy involving the trailer/movie being a publicity stunt/joke tracing back to mastermind Spike Jonze and the release of his soon to be epic, 'Where the Wild Things Are.'

Then the movie turned out to be real.

It was released in only a handful of theaters last month garnering responses ranging from hilarious to disturbing. This should pique the interest of any fans of the 'The Room.'



An Interview with the director makes even less sense.

(an) American Standard

A Film!

(an) American Standard from Shane Moore on Vimeo.

Some friends, (not so) friends and I made this.
I tried to forget about it (after awhile) it reared it's head again.
Watch (or don't).

And!
A vid Greg made from when we smashed a toilet behind Star Market for the climax.

CONFLICT/RESOLUTION from Greyory Blake on Vimeo.

Everybody Drinks (From The River That We Live By)

New track from ROCK-BAND

SMALL GREY BOXES OF VARYING SIZE: "THE BULL FIGHTER"

I've been awake since 4pm on Monday
Lines are starting to move
Improvise at 135
(bpm)
It's a 20 minute song in 5 parts
I like III and IV
It may or may not be about a bull fighter
Enjoy!

The Bull Fighter EP

PARIS WAS REAL FUN BECAUSE OF THE TRANSPORTATION STRIKE

1 - I love you.
4 - It must be terrible to die.
1 - See you later.
4 - You drink far too much.
1 - What are childhood loves?
4 - I don't understand you.
1 - I knew it. And there was a time when I regretted it very much.
4 - Would you like an orange
1 - The beautiful breakups of volcanic islands.
4 - In the past.
1 - I have nothing more to say to you.

2 - Once again, after all the untimely answers and the aging of youth, night falls from on high.

2 - Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

from Howls for Sade by Guy Debord

I imagine this conversation as being between a man and himself at 8 years old. What was Guy like at 8? Probably knocked down churches to build playgrounds.

I LIKE THINGS THAT ZAP LIKE ZAP GUNS, I LIKE THINGS THAT SQUEEL LIKE SIRENS

I also like deerhunter. Boo.
Not the most innovative song in the world, but it does kick ass.
MTVs's videographers, however, do not.

Deerhunter - New Music - More Music Videos

FUCKING CORN DOGS

In Lieu of going back to my roots for it is the raining mating season, what? Who's there? Long story short: this band changed my life back in high school. The cover of their first album even influenced the way I paint. I don't think they're talked about enough for how insane what they were doing was in the early 80s; alongside Black Flag and the peers playing schizophrenic jazzfunk and shouting beatnik poetry, but never letting it linger more then a few measures. Just enough for it to be catchy. And yes, the Jackass theme was a song of theirs.



There's a documentary I really want to see about them. Trailer!



Someone posted their first album on the youtubes if one were so inclined: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62UjBLo63g

Our Band Could Be Your Life.

STRANGE PARALLEL

Might I begin by saying I've never really been much of an Elliott Smith fan. I don't know. I love Nick Drake for sure, but Elliott never did it for me except for a couple of songs.

That being said, here's a half hour film about Elliott Smith! Kind of. Apparently, it's a semi-lost and/or oft-forgotten promo vid from some goofy, optimistic youngsters.

Fan of his music or not, it has a really playful narrative. Elliott digs up a guitar in the woods, people are smoking broccoli and there's an endless pursuit for the robot hand. The live footage is surprisingly pleasant too. You really see how vulnerable and intimate he is when he's not hiding behind layers of harmonies. So here's my ode to Mr. Smith. Fan or not, he was a person who did things, and I like that.

FLIPCAM LIVES!

i thought the flipcam was broken, but in fact, i had bought dead batteries.

1. flight 815
2. costa rican beetle - by jackson
3. spying on shane
4. trashed wreaths
5. greg hasn't worn socks in 2 years

HYPOTHESIS

FROM MOM:
Hi Hon,
Inside your inner ear are hair cells that are naturally pulled downward by gravity. When your head position changes, the hair cells move and that tells your brain where you are in space. Your equilibrium gets disturbed when your eyes and the hair cells "disagree". Therefore, you are always going to get dizzy in a spinning chair!!!

WHAT IF YOU PLUG YOUR EARS

BARBARA BOSWORTH - NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

The Live Sand Oak, 8x10

The Common Pear, 8x10

This morning Shane and I had a nice conversation about the influential presence of trees. The Gaelic druids believed that trees were spirits, and each tree had its own unique power. You can't blame 'em, as trees are some of the largest living things on the planet. So in photo class today, we looked at the National Champion series by Barbara Bosworth. All these trees are deemed by the American Forest's National Register of Big Trees, as the largest tree of its species. The tragic fact that I learned while researching the project was that many of these champions are often stripped of their title due to death by fire, disease or pests. According to sources, only three of these beauties remain from the original list taken in 1940.

LATE NIGHT NUANCES

I don't write songs,
let alone have six strings on my guitar, but I record a lot of
improvisations. I've got over a hundred of these silly things now.
"This is How My Head Feels"

"I AIN'T FARTIN' ON NO SNARE DRUM"

Hiroshi Teshigahara was this guy back in the 60's in Japan Right? Right. His dad founded an art's school right? But this ain't your typical kindergarten art's and crafts right? Right. They had pottery and stuff.

The Story: Boy makes a few surrealist films that own face. Dad dies. Boy takes over the school and focuses on documentaries. The documentaries are strangely surreal in their own right due to some interesting montage editing and rhythms, and the way the camera explores the architecture. I just found out he did a documentary on Gaudi's architecture in Barcelona. This thing, right:


There's turtles, chicken families, palm eyes and prophets in them thar pillars. But that's for another day.

Anyways, this is supposed to be about Toru Takemitsu who did a lot of scoring for Teshigahara and at some point decided to be one of the most important composers of the 20th century. I more or less just found this out. I want his job.