I got to submit an audition tape to Saturday Night Live. I didn’t get an audition, obviously, and I wasn’t going to show anybody this, but I did buy a Barbie doll and like $100 worth of wigs and my family thinks its funny. I guess I was just afraid people would steal my jokes or think I was lame. And I don’t want to be lame.
Special thanks to Huay Bing-Law, Evan Ho, David Crumley, and David Thomas Jones for helping me get it filmed. And special special thanks to Steven Baranowski, who helped write some of the bits (especially my personal favorite, the Drew Barrymore rant).
The Fritzl Babies will have an EP out late spring featuring seven songs, each one jam-packed with my off beat pan pounding and filled with allusions to dungeons, gods, and epic fights to the death.
For now, I have uploaded two of our songs for your listening (and if you’re saavy enough I guess downloading)
I Saw the Sky:
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Asleep in Cozumo
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Things to Make:Cover Art Things to Do: Drum lessons
So Johnny Skydiver was received warmly, but almost everybody said “It was so short!” Uuuggh I knooooooow!!! But…… I picked the song because it was short and because I notoriously run out of time to finish my animations and I wanted to finish SOMETHING for once.
There weren’t many people there that could make use of my demo, but I’m glad I made it. When I got back I made about three dozen more copies and I have no idea what I am planning on doing with all of them. Sometimes I think I want to design DVD menus… I have a lot of fun making them and they’re a great way to top off the long hard road of making something for viewing consumption. (Like the SKINNY DIP DVD menu I made, which loops absolutely seemlessly for eternity might I add)
Here’s what the DVDs look like:
And here’s the DVD menu homepage. It’s super simple but I like it.
If you want one, please, I’ll give you one. Just e-mail me at noelwells at that gmail website. I like sending mail.
Here are a few of my favorite pictures from LA:
Finally, I have to catch up with three days of school work which is surprisingly a shit-ton of school work. Plan II Physics is seriously eating me for lunch and I’m tired of being its meal. I just put out a casting call for my 16mm 1-3 minute short. I’m sort of not looking forward to it because I feel like I won’t have time to make it good.
My thesis ideas are coming along well. I’ve actually started doing research, which I guess means I am excited about it, which I guess means I might do a good job on it. Could it be?
________________ Things to Do: Brainstorm DVD menu business plan Things to Make:Business plan for DVD menu company
