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).

I wrote, produced, edited, costume designed, cast tons of kids, sunk $1000, and fell in love with 16mm film making this.

My picture is the front cover of Oxford American’s Best of the South 2010 issue. I named the picture “Backyard Defenders” because I didn’t know how to title it “I told her to get on his back and look like the war was coming”

The photo itself was an outtake for a photoshoot I did for the new Watch Out For Rockets EP Shaman Shit. Their album is available FREE from Bandcamp. And it is sooo good. I love these boys, I love the music. They are magic. Special thanks to Austin child stars Ryan and Lauren Lee for being my sibling duo.

The album cover was created with the Trichromie color process. I made my RGB filters using Sharpies, which is why there are some pretty sweet striations in the background.

I am about to completely revamp my website. I may make it artsy. I may strip it down all indexhibit style.

So I’m pretty torn about what to do with my life. I am going to Los Angeles, I know that. But I don’t know if I should try and do motion graphics/animation/editing or really try and focus on comedy and acting. Deep down I want to be an artiste director or some crap so that I’m respected and renowned or something but I’m coming to terms with the fact that I’m a loser goofball that makes stupid faces and can do a lot of impersonations. And maybe that’s not that bad… except I could be volunteering in Iraq and Afghanistan or saving the Gulf Coast from the oil spill.

BTW: The Fritzl Babies played at the Future is Analog show. My favorite vids were the Goatherder and the Mother song… the goatherder is just fun for me and Dave and the Mama song, I’ve decided, is very boring, but the projections in the background really suit the song. I need to work on my stage persona… when I’m drunk all my intonations and the little subtleties I could have run into a ditzy drunk version of myself (if there’s a difference)

Here’s the text version of that
FUTURE IS ANALOG

Future is Analog is an art and music exhibition featuring lo-fi and analog artists in celebration of the resurgent interest in these technologies.

Date: Sunday, May 2nd
Time: Free at 6pm; $3 after 8pm
Location: United States Art Authority

Music:
Watch out for Rockets
Reverse X-Rays
Zest of Yore
Scan Hopper
DJ set by Businessman

Art, installations, and photography will be presented by:
Switched On Music Electronics
Noël Kristi Wells
Alexandra Dibrell
Stephanie Bonham
Khrystean
Samantha Jacobus

Cool, nothing else I don’t think. Life is hectic. I don’t know why I have a blog.

I’m doing a photography thesis for Plan II, which means that I have to make it all smart and shit, and I don’t really care to. So basically, I haven’t done much but take pictures and outline a bunch of qualities about film history and film as a medium and I’m trying to figure out where to go from there. It may be really lame, and if it is, that will suck. I’m just not good at focusing on anything to really make this worthwhile and pop.

Plans for the semester: Self developing & self printing pictures. That’s not that big of a deal. I want to do some stop motion 16mm… gotta get my hands on that bolex. I want to make two music videos for Watch our for Rockets, an 8mm to the song Loretta off their EP they will be releasing late spring and maybe a 16mm stop motion for a song off Beasts with Heart of Gold. I would love to finish Beard War, but… eh. I don’t know.

We’ll be screening Black Jesus Knocking on March 6th I think at the United States Art Authority, then it will go online. I’m excited about that.

I want to release the Fritzl Babies EP. We have, I don’t know, five songs? Six? Seven? I really want to tour so we have an excuse not to work for two weeks and drive across America, so we have to make these performable too, which is kind of scary and takes more work. I’m not much of a musician but I want to be. We just wrote a song called Three Queens of the Sea and I am singing it in my head right now because I like it. I think we may get an omnichord.

I have three jobs now, which sucks to have so many and be torn around between so many things. I can’t get the energy to do all of them and school and my own life. My happy job is at Enspire Learning doing just a bunch of AV and computer stuff which is cool. I like learning stuff about stuff.

I like these pictures I took last week:

I took tons of film with Monica and I’m going to develop them Caffenol style. I did a test with coffee and not instant coffee grounds, and the pictures were only half developed. Glad I did the test.

FINALLY, I am so obsessed with Weezer right now. It’s so painful. I wake up singing Weezer songs in my head every morning. Why are you so good Weezer? And why are half your albums so horrible?

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PS: This happened 10 years ago.. TEN! The episode of Talk Soup aired January 1st 2000. Weird. I’m so old. And still awkward and weird. I still have that shirt. I was really really pissed off about doing this interview; the news anchor sat outside our house trying to convince me to do it for like 20 minutes but it’s really funny now so thank you step father for embarrassing me. Seriously though, 3000 views!

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:

Asleep in Cozumo

Things to Make: Cover Art
Things to Do: Drum lessons