There are so so so many things right with this video I don’t know where to begin.
Thank you, France. Thank you, late-80s-into-early-90s. Thank you, Timbertoes. Thank you, magic rocks.
I take everything I said about you, Michel Gondry and every thing else you’ve made in your entire filmography. This makes up for everything.
T.G.I.Springbok, everybody.
Chinese New Year President’s Day Mardi Gras Ash Wednesday
Shock Corridor is most insane movie I’ve seen this year and it’s already set a high hurdle for the next 10 months. In brief, this shit is bananas.
I started work on this late last night and it’s in a rough state. It still needs labels/captions and some of the elements need to be redone. I think it’s too illustrative to use as an infographic, so I might strip it down to just 3 colors and see if that helps.
I mostly want to see if I can post things from my flickr—
I’ve often thought about doing funny valentines with my characters from various projects… variations on the pun-based innocuous crap that kids share… but never felt motivated to do it.
Thank goodness for Brandon Bird—
See more Law and Order Valentines on his site (but the rest of them are all SVU and that’s the worst franchise)
The big hold up for my next video project is getting a venue to film in. We’ve hit multiple stumbling blocks and all of our leads have vanished.
We asked Union Hall in Brooklyn to film there and despite initial enthusiasm from a bartender, the bosses gave it a thumbs-down.
So, we’re half-way through the month with only 10% of it shot and no set for the main scene.
(what we were looking for)
I managed to squeeze in a lot of drinking this weekend and I’m still an insomniac.
Somehow, I’m starting to question my home-style holistic insomnia cure of “drinking a lot with Mitch Magee.”
I had a small bottle of Klonopin (legally prescribed) left over somewhere that I found suddenly and then immediately lost again. Even though I remember it not working when I got it, I’m at the point of “Huh, maybe I should do something about not getting any sleep.”
The five people who read this blog are second-hand sufferers…the less I sleep, the more boring the blog.
I have to go back to work… it’s been two months of fucking around and I got a call I have to go back to the 9-5, which I am of two minds about.
I also need a haircut.
I have insomnia that won’t quit, by the way. This last couple of weeks have been murder… I can’t get to sleep before 3 or 4 and then I can’t wakeup until the mid-afternoon. I blame, in part, the hyperactive radiators.
I became aware of Errol Morris with the documentary Fast, Cheap and Out of Control. The movie is about four men: a topiary gardener, a robotic scientist, a naked mole rat specialist and a wild animal tamer. Turns out that there was a fifth man, Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. interviewed for the film. Uh, what’s the short story of Leuchter? He began by trying to create more humane capital punishment devices and ended up hired by holocaust deniers to prove the holocaust didn’t happen.Morris felt like FL didn’t fit in the mix. His wife summed it up, “Hitler is not a spice. Once you add Hitler to the soup, it becomes Hitler flavored soup.”
from loosetooth.com
A really long time ago, I designed a Harold poster but never bothered to actually finish it… despite getting more email about it than anything else I’ve ever posted.
Seeing as its a Friday night and I have nothing to do, I buckled down and knocked out the finishing details and posted it to CafePress. I have no idea what the quality of their poster printing is, so this is an experiment… if I hear back that these posters are bullshit, I’ll find another distribution method.
“This Take-Five bar tastes like Take-Ass”—Mitch Magee 1/30/2007
