If it wasn’t obvious already, I’ve been watching massive amounts of playoff basketball. And I’ve noticed an irritating trend mostly on TBS. It’s creative camerawork. The standard shot in basketball games is from the side, slightly elevated. But we’ve started to see a bunch of huge crane shots, or wide angle [...]
Archive > May 2006
More Mohels
So MOHELS made it through the gauntlet last night at Channel 102. So that means we’ll get to make a second episode. Pretty exciting. You can go here and watch it if you weren’t there last night.
How To Make Out In Arabic
That’s the title that I saw of a man reading a book on the subway last night. It didn’t look like a jokey book either. It looked very serious. But what can that mean? Does it mean like how to make out in arabic like how to throw in some saucy [...]
Hooky Pop
Last night, Huck Slim played in Union Square as we are wont to do when the weather is nice. At one point, somebody came up to us to request something which happens sometimes. This man was missing a hand and had a hook instead. Which is unusual. He was drunk. [...]
Fashion Plates
It takes me a while to notice things. I’m not a Johnny-on-the-spot keen observer. After a while, though patterns start to emerge. I noticed the whole Burberry craze. Ugg Boots. The short tee over the long tee. And today, another one hit me. It’s the whole girls-wearing-skirts-or-dresses-and-then-jeans-underneath. Which [...]
Water Is Free
There’s a restaurant called Nino’s here in NYC that likes to advertise and the owner has this big proclamation that “Water is free at Nino’s!”. Like it’s a big deal. I guess it’s sparkling water. But still, I ask, who drinks sparkling water? It tastes terrible. But Nino says that [...]
Not Even Remotely Famous
I was on the set of a commercial yesterday and it boggled my mind that everyone thought that there was someone famous there. People would stop and watch us and assume that it was some movie or tv show and then they’d try and figure out where they had seen that person before. [...]
Niblets
Porter had asked me to help him with some songs for a screenplay he’s writing with a friend of his, so this weekend I sat down with his lyrics and fooled around some. Here’s some of the results in a short crappy demo format:
Lying To You
Over Simplified
A work in progress!
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Stupid ‘Zards conspired to break [...]
Sweet Relief
So….. Huck Slim got into the third round of the Emergenza Festival!!! Pretty sweet. So we’ll be playing at the Knitting Factory either late this month or in June. Not bad. Not bad at all.
In sad news, the ‘Zards come back in dramatic fashion to force overtime with the Cavs after [...]
Breakout
I have been waiting for this stupid thing for like a year now already. This is the breakout box for Apple that will work with Garage Band. It is supposed to be out in January. It was supposed to be out last January. I’ll prolly buy an M-Box in the meantime [...]
