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Okay, So there are a million little things to write about. And since it's so many little topics I will make each one brief and interactive (links to click) as much as I can.


Friday I saw the Holy Mountain again. This time in a theater. Each Friday Mondo Celluloid shows midnight movies at the Art Theater. So far I've seen: A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, El Topo, and The Holy Mountain. This time though, before the movie, there were bands performing. The two bands mixed music and film. The first band, smgsap, is a duo featuring my friend Shea. For this show they did a soundtrack to some abstract movie and were joined by two other musicians. Their sound is kind of ambient noise. The next band, Parasitic Fantasy Band, was all the way from New Zealand and was also a duo. They showed four of their own movies that were done with multiple projectors overlapping images and made some live sounds with such techniques as putting a home made guitar up to a projector so that the reel strums the strings. Their web site is worth checking out. Being at this show was like how imagine being part of some avant-guard art movement in the 1960s must have been like. Like the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. The main event was the Holy Mountain, but I already wrote an entry about it before so you can read that.

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Monday morning I had to go to Compton (as I got off the highway and into the ghetto my iPod started to play Nick Cave's version of Elvis's "In The Ghetto" somehow when on random) to finally get food stamps. I don't know why more people don't do it. Granted, it took five hours of waiting to see a case worker, but it's free money from the government! And I learned that there is more money put aside for it than people apply for and so privileged people like myself are not stealing from poor people if they do this. The office was not as scary as I thought, but still a bit scary. Metal detectors at the doors. I thought everyone in Compton is African American, but almost everyone there was a Latina lady with tattoos on their faces and five or so kids. Durring those five hours I saw maybe five white people and all the males in this group had handle bar mustaches. Later that night I saw Tokyo! Had to go all the way to Irvine. The movie comprises of three short movies by three different directors: Michel Gondry (eternal sunshine of the spotless mind), Leos Carax (pola x), and Bong Joon-ho (the host). I am a big fan of all three so I had to see it. All three stories are shot just beautifully and have that subtle sadness that I enjoy and a bit of sci-fi elements (but not too much). If you are in a town that plays independent movies, I highly recommend it.


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Today Brian came over and I played around with his 50mm lens and close up filter. Here are the results: And a photo taken by Brian of yours truely (he was showing me how to do those soft bright dreamy blown out back-lit kind of photos):


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Lastly, I have finaly made a flash movie. This is a simple one but I enjoyed making it. The sound is a bit different each time you play it because the song overlaps and depending how fast the site loads it overlaps differently. It can be seen here.