For West Mass Kids: Amherst Cinema is having a one day blow out ticket sale on Saturday (Dec 1st). 5 bucks for anytime tickets (sold in packs of 20), holy hell!
I love this theater to death, it does everything I want and it does it right.
If the theater somehow turned into a person the next day I would ask it out Say Anything style only instead of Peter Gabriel in the boombox it would be Andrew W.K.'s "She Is Beautiful", also? I would have a mic with a 50 ft cord and sing (scream) to it/them/her(?) like a belligerent fool.
i would've posted this earlier had i had steady internet, i've gone for like the past 4 or 5 years and i've been missing comickaze like crazy (i don't like the store here, bleh)
My heart aches for it. Shut up. You don't understand nerds.
GO SAY HI TO ROBERT AND LUCKY FOR ME, AND HAVE FUN! THE DEALS ARE INSANE (BUY ONE GET ONE FREE)
I'm going to go to bed and snuggle with robs roommate's cat named waffles now.
1) You staying in amherst/noho for thanksgiving break? I'm pretty much free wed and thur, anything going on? I think i'm going with rob to his work at the movie theater in CT and just doing my homework or watching every single freaking movie that's out right now.
2) Make me a mp3 mix, zip a few files of your favorites/what you've been listening to recently/a theme (or none)/whatever and upload it to sharebee.com, post the link in the comments
Last time i tried this i only got one response (thanks dude)
I set up the comments so you can post anonymously, go for it.
No videos, just me rambling in a blog post that I will inevitably delete when I'm more self conscious and get embarrassed by the stupid shit i wrote.
1) I went and saw Japandi and Sleeping People tonight which was fun because it reminded me of home, I wont be home for thanksgiving so this is the only taste of home I'll get until December. Too bad I didn't bring my camera... Sleeping People is on tour all over the east coast right now and Japandi is playing a show tomorrow in CT. Catch them if you're a fan of mathy rock.
2) I'm probably going to Circle Pit Fest in Baltimore over thanksgiving break with Rob, I'll probably be repping the edge while filming in the corners.
3) For West Mass Kids: WMUA blog run by erika and eric, get into it.
4) So the movie Tony Takitani randomly popped into my head last night and I ended up musing about it for a good three hours in bed until 3 or 4 am and had Julian rent it for me from amherst college as soon as i woke up. I know how corny this sounds, but the movie is haunting. I don't know how many of you actually listen to any of the recommendations I make (such as this one) but i strongly urge you (90% on rotten!) to rent/buy Tony Takitani if you can stomach a melancholy film dealing with the nature of being alone and loss.
In fact, saying the movie was haunting before was an understatement. When I watched it for the first time over winter break of freshman year, I sat for a bit just staring at the T.V. while the menu looped after the credits. Besides being one of the most lovingly crafted adaptations of a work of literature (by Haruki Murakami nonetheless!) the movie was absolutely devastating by how deceptively simple it was. You could watch it for face value and get as much out of it as one who choose to dig a bit deeper. The scene changes elegantly resembled the pages of a book turning while the narrator filled in the story with soft strokes.
And the story... reminded me of why I left san diego for amherst. Having the disastrous mind set that one had to have love to be happy coupled with the contrarian view on relationships of "better to never love than to love and loss" since as far as I can remember, Tony was a wake up call to me of who I was becoming. I was determined not to go down that path well before viewing the movie, moving to amherst was my last ditch effort to find some sort of salvation that was bound to come if I just let it find me. I didn't want to be stuck for the rest of my life doing some lifeless job with an empty house filled with meaningless trinkets, there was something better for me. There had to be something better.
When the movie ended that first time, I pitied Tony because being alone was a death sentence. I thought no one should lead the life he lead, disconnected and distant. He was a good person, he didn't deserve that. That last phone call was supposed to go through and he was just seconds away from happily ever after.
I wasn't saved, of course. Fast forward a year and in a sudden panic of what I was going to do with my life I was reminded of my parent's advice that they gave since grade school which was to choose something practical which I "could live on" and settled on becoming an accounting major.
I just finished the movie for the second time and I didn't feel pity or any sort of unexplainable strong sense of sadness for Tony when the movie ended on this viewing. The lifeless job and empty house don't seem as scary, nor does being alone. I'm fine with going down the same disparate path that he took and quite frankly I'm already well on my way. I'm not sad or lonely, far from either.
Whoa, somewhere between today and the past 4 days i've hit 100,000 YouTube views!
Well not really, I'm taking a gander that most of those views are from the same 30-40 people of which 75% are friends/people i know.
No one seems to click "more info" on any of the videos so they don't come here and only 2 or 3 of my friends read this blog but i like that, it's our little secret.
Michael filmed Engineer with my camera on October 26 when they were in CT, i'll have the full info later but for now: Engineer in CT ^ YouTube Sample 1 ^ YouTube Sample 2 Again, all credit for this video goes to Michael I.
I've also been playing around with vimeo the site is fantastic, the quality is basically that of the original wmv's if not slightly compressed and the options and the site design is great. I'm not switching though for a number of reasons: 1) the first and most important being that i'm a stubborn bitter old miser and i hate web 2.0/new media buzz yadda yadda youthful bullshit that the site and CV (busted tee's ring a bell?) tries to be. 2) They make more money then i will ever see while having fun doing it (see point 1) 3) The site is slow, god awfully slow 4) I like me some ugly. (re: youtube) 5) Youtube has a greater user base and the whole point for posting samples is for the greatest amount of people to see it and to download the full video (if they are smart enough to click more info and get the link to archive.org)
In regards to the last point this is not for any sort of glory or recognition, I've said it before and I'll say it again: tell people you shot any one of my videos if it'll earn you points with a lady/dude you've been crushing on, get you a free lunch, impress your friends, whatever. This is a dumb hobby that I continue to keep because it's fun to me and I have no idea what I'm doing (anyone with any sort of background in video/film/photo will tell you this) you ever see American Beauty? Remember the creepy kid with like a drawer full of mini-dv tapes? Yeah...
Anyways it's 4:27 am on 11/11/07 and I'm rambling again for this update. I added a meebo chatbox to the right ---> but i expect only trolls to use it so have fun with that.
I've been in Amherst, MA for three years. The sunrise is fantastic.
