With the substance fueled week long siesta created by commencement finally at an end I'm left to settle into a mellowed Virginia summer. The question promoted within my mind being, will I suffer from bouts of boredom and ennui regarding the fact that I'm never actually here enough during the year to know of anything to do or whom to do it with? Oh the allure of a pre-staged social environment.
- adam
Off to Nashville tomorrow for Liz's graduation from Vany Law, which of course means. . . going to see Kool & the Gang tomorrow night!!!
- adam
Gadabout went really well yesterday, the best turnout IFS has had this year thus far. Personal favorites included the "Tales of Mere Existence" series by Lev and "I Oversee the Maintenance of a Tool Shed" by the folks at Funtime Entertainment. Eric, Dom and Eva also did a short performance of some of their Halo Fauna tracks which was pretty enjoyable especially in regards to sharks being evolutionary winners.
It was really rad to get to hang out with those kids for the day as well as it had been a year give or take since I had seen any of them. It's always really refreshing to have people from outside of Oberlin come and provide a fresh perspective on this little town that I inhabit. Also, the fact that they've been traveling around the country for months on end put a little spark of travel romanticism in my mind.
A few days back I stumbled upon a series of French Mod sites with some sweet jukeboxes, making my show a) hella psychedelic as the French totally electric organ apparently and b) unpronounceable as I refused to butcher French and say the names of what I was playing. All-in-all though I found it to be a pretty uplifting show, though I wish I had the money to actually buy a lot of the albums in non-electronic form.
Such is life.
- adam
The Gadabout Film Festival
Monday, April 24th @ 8pm
The Cat In The Cream
Totally Free
Back for the 2nd Year
"The Gadabout is a nationally touring film festival that screens a program of 20+ international short films. Independent in every sense, these films share the same willingness to challenge the conventions set for filmmaking. The Gadabout is a distribution avenue for truly indie filmmakers that distrust Hollywood and the commercial film festival circuit. We are NOT a competition, rather a celebration of what is possible in independent film and video.
Above all, the Gadabout is super cool. We tour in a van, and show amazing films to our new friends we get to meet while traveling.
We have completed 3 national tours and have screened the works of filmmakers from all over the country, and the world (India, Singapore, Australia, Argentina, Isreal, and the U.K.). Independent in every sense, these films share the same willingness to challenge the conventions set for commercial filmmaking.
This is filmmaking as art, entertainment, and fun."
Sponsored by the Independent Film Series
The rundown on "spring break" (what exactly is it that I need to take a break from?) 2006:
I have to say that I didn't really expect much from this past weak except for a break in the cycle of watching tv at AC's house to createa a new cycle of watching tv at my mom's house. I did in fact manage to accomplish a great deal of this, however, I also left my idyllic setting of hardwood floors and a balcony with beach furniture.
My arrival on Monday evening involved nothing of note, Tuesday being where all the fun begins. After waking up with my usual mid-afternoon timing I made a trek over to the cinema with mother dearest. This, of course, meant going to Hoffman Center, the very same complex where many high profile government court cases are held (Moussaoui and Miller of NYTimes fame for instance). Needless to say this was fairly prevalent in my mnd when half-way through Spike Lee's new picture "Inside Man" the fire alarm system goes blaring off. 45 minutes and a free movie ticket later, we come to discover that "hey, we can't find the car!" To our surprise, this is not because of my family's penchant for poor memory, but b/c our car had been towed. This led to a two hour journey of misery in which i learned that, among other inconvieniences, tow companies only take cash.
A brief trip to visit Mason frends later that night (for stress relief purposes of course) led to the discovery that as unfortunate as the legal troubles of other's may be (snitches get stitches), one can benefit through the inheritance of $400 glasswork. Further, in NoVA laws of sobriety apparently run opposite to those of typical society. More on this later.
And that, my friends is Tuesday. Wednesday to follow when I feel like typing more.
- adam
While laying out on my balcony earlier I had this weird moment in which I realized that moving to a new place where you don't know anyone a) enables you to act with an air of alluring mystery towards anyone you see on the street and b) totally bosts your self-image.
Found a job the 1st day back. May even find a better job; cheap clothes being a better perk than books. Yet I have a subtly increasing fear of walking into Urban Outfitters and being eye-mugged by the faux-hipster staff. Then again, at least it wouldn't be Barnes and Noble.
In summation, Georgetown is hilarious and come this summer I'll be seeing a hell of a lot more of it, whether I like it or not.
- adam
Exausted from my life of 9am work and 2am Madden 2k5. This calls for one thing and one thing only. SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!!!!!
Get your copy of the player here
Been broing down consistently these past few weeks, it's almost to the point that I feel the need to hide in my room and read books. It's not even that I feel like I miss things anymore, that's bound to happen, but that as much as I get excited about "adam time" whenever I sit down by myself to read or watch a film or some such activity I'm totally ADD'ed within 30 minutes. I can't tell whether it's a positive or negative phase but I figure I'll ride it through until break when I'm back in Virginia at "Telegraph Estate."
- adam
Guerrilla News Network turned out to be quite interesting, especially the segment from the "Battleground" documentary. Anthony from GNN turned out to be a really amusing guy to hang out with at a bar as he regalled us with the trials and tribulations of his career and journalism while at the same to managing to put up with/contribute to our wise mouthed haterism.
Found the Aa in Cleveland to be hella boring though everyone else seemed to be in to various aspects of the show. All-in-all I agree with AC in the notion that noise music is very difficult to reproduce live in an engrossing manner.
Still waiting for my manager to send in her letter of recommendation so I can get started on figuring out how my finances and whatnot are going to work out next semester. It's utterly tiresome to have to wait for someone to complete a simple task that they agreed to finish with a finite period of time. I even wrote up a complete draft of the letter for her 2 weeks ago, yet the process remains stalled.
Think I'm gonna go back to VA for break though I very well may venture up into NYC for at least a few days as I'm inexplicably drawn there after a period of a few months.
- adam
Had a lazy day yesterday and ended up watching "Peeping Tom" through no volition of my own. Either way, it's an amazing film that has a creepily amusing aspect throughout. The sense of unease you get from watching the images that the character films is transposed onto yourself as you end up feeling like the one who is spying. It really makes you question the nature of audience when it comes to cinema; why are we so entrance with watching the lives (scripted or not) of others? In essence all cinema is vouyeristic and there's a peeping tom in all of us.
- adam
The cinemateque in cleveland was pretty rad. Saw "Once Upon A Time In the West." It kind of seemed like a dudes club since I sat in like the 3rd row and all these random dudes who were by themselves were seated all around me. If you sit in the front row you can even put your feet on the stage and luckily the screen is still a decent distance away. One dude even cried when the little boy got shot by Henry Fonda. Willie says he wishes he cried more at movies. I said i'd call him a wuss.
Overall I think what last night proved once again was that Charles Bronson is a bad enough dude to save the president. Or just mean-mug the shit out of him, while playing his harmonica and bustin' a cap. Also, Henry Fonda will totally pull a Wayne Brady and choke a bitch.
Word.
- adam
Dance parties are weird. I need to come up with a playlist for a jet-set themed radio show. Freeform? This should be interesting.
- adam
After watching the Grammy's last night I've come to the conclusion that if one simply picks up a musical instrument they are nominated for an award. Put out an album and you're a shoe in. Fall off or die within the past 5 years and bam! Lifetime acheivement award baby!
- adam
Q: Who needs a new job?
A: This guy.
$6.50 an hour to unpack and shelve books all day is a scam. I hope the whole foods market I applied to gets back to me. The worst part of it is that I have all these books I want to read but by the time I get home I barely want to look at a book.
Oy vey. On a positive note I got to listen to "How I Beat Shaq" by Aaron Carter today when I was unpacking textbooks and I was totally inspired to acheive my goals or whatever. Added to that "New Fist of Fury" starring Jackie Chan is totally triumphant!
- adam
"For the 57th year running, a mystery man today paid tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by placing roses and a bottle of cognac on the writer's grave to mark his birthday."
Poe graveside tribute remains a mystery.
- adam
"PARIS, Jan. 6 - The Dada movement made its name in the early 20th century by trying to destroy the conventional notion of art. Taking literal inspiration from their exploits this week, a latter-day neo-Dadaist took a small hammer to Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," the factory-made urinal that is considered the cornerstone of Conceptual Art."
Conceptual Artist as Vandal: Walk Tall and Carry a Little Hammer (or Ax)
- adam
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