Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Banksy: An Artist Unmasked






Mi-deo-deok (Warty sea squirt)


Pearl invited me to a night of home made Korean BBQ in Philadelphia . I cannot wait to make the trip to H-mart with her and find some strange delicacy to add to dinner. She was planning on trying to add Mi-deo-deok (Warty sea squirt)tot eh menu but unfortunately she couldn't find it fresh, only frozen. she has yet to come up with an appropriate or at all enticing description for what these creature tastes like so i don;t think i will miss them.
Here is how Masan City tourism guide describes them...
The Mi-deo-deok produced from clean waters of Kohyun village Jindong takes 70% of the national production. Its special taste, flavor, crunching, munching and champing taste is fabulous.
ooohhh yummmyyyyy

Alice, Sweet Alice

Alice, Sweet Alice starring Linda Miller, Jackie Gleason daughter and the mother to actor Jason Patric.
This movies been playing non stop on Show time lately and i am addicted to watching it. it so very over the top but observing from a cinematic perspective some of the shots and shot angle are actually quite fascinating. I am unsure where it was shot, but the locations play a large part in creating tension. there are many dutch angles and pans through industrial spaces. unusual choices in perspective that may have been typical of the time but sadly aren't used so much today in suspense.
i also love Linda Miller face, she has one of those odd adult child faces that are easily menacing. Brooke Shields plays her prettier little sister whom is killed early in the film.
It worth watching at least for the cinematography and the over the top 70's gore blood.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Animated Sex Guide


I was kind of a late bloomer and though i have many many far more sexual experience girlfriends to call on whenever i have any questions or concerns fomr time to time i consult outside sources, the internet is a tricky one because your very likely to get a little more then your asking for in terms of sexual "references". Looking up oral sex will more often get you some interesting videos more likely to scare you away from dick for a life time. Porn penis is ridiculous by the way, i mean what makes for interesting "cinematic cock" is not really so appealling to me in person. Mayeb i am a prude or just to "nice" a girl to be creaving such monster cock.
but anyways back to my "research". there are naturall things your curious about or insecure about in your own repetu and open fortethright friends do hlpe with such issues but sometime it helps to look to a publish professioanl.
also it can be really entertaining. Woman friendly sex advise sources are everywhere. Ivillage is a great one, Cosmo online and in print has random fun stuff to read, but my new fav is http://www.sexinfo101.com/.
mostly because it these funny animation that display various position and tecvhniques. they are not too explict. they are not intended to arouse like cartoon porn but they merely display the position breifly driscribed below. the names of various position are also pretty priceless.
Game's On, the Suplex , Southern exposure, the usual, etc.

I loved Sophia

Estelle Getty has passed away.

The legendary actress died today in her Los Angeles home at 5:35 A.M.

She was 84.

While this is truly sad news, we must be comforted to know that she is in a better place now.

The Golden Girl had been very sick recently and had been fighting dementia for years.

Monday, July 21, 2008

I visited Amma


Amma was at eh Manhattan center last week. i stood in a line running around the block to get i thought just hug. but i ended up getting sucked into a 2 hour meditation session followed by live music and a vegan meal prepared by her followers from her ashram. it took 3 hours from there to make my way up to Amma though line after line of devotee to get what was a pretty amazing hug. here this woman must have just hugged 300 people before me and probably almost a thousand people the 3 days she'd been here and still her hug was still going strong. she attacked me with the force of his good will with this bear like clasp pulling me into her flowered bosom for a good 20 second count while whispering blessings to me in hindi. after the hug i was asked if i wanted to paticpate in a mantra. I'd been there so long already i said why not. i was asked to join one of the groups sitting in circles of folding chairs behind the stage. each group of 5 or 6 was lead by a devotee whom explained the master/guru system and asked if we already had a guru and felt conflicted excepting Amma as our guru. she explained the commitment it required to repeat our mantra daily and hold a picture of amma if we can and give blessing to her and know that she does the same every day towards us.
the level of commitment i felt from the group varied. ONe either side of me sat guys with strong commitment and interest in spirituality, one was an earnest prematurely balding Indian guy, maybe about 23yrs old but his head made him look older.
the other guy was a kind of Hispanic hipster i think i know from somewhere but cannot place. he had an amazing mouth full of braces you couldn't help but notice because he had the biggest friendliest smile on his face all the time.
they both asked the most thoughtful question of the group and seem most educated about gurus.
the other two people in the group were a pair of girlfriends,i guess were either from Jersey shore or long island. every townie feel about them mixed with a upper middle class sense of entitlement. one was decked out in Indian garb, she had wrist chimes on both wrist which seem too much. when ever i saw Indian woman wear the same thing they usually wore just one. but white people have a habit of overdoing it when they try to dress in other cultures tradition wear.
she reminded me of a aunt i had who would go to Chinese restaurants in a strip mall wearing a silk Chinese dress she got in china town Boston. a bit much for the occasion.
her friend wasn't dressed much more appropriately but as least she was being herself. she has a mini denim skirt and spandex top better set for a club. she was quiet and timidly lost in this experience. i guess her friend must have dragged her along.
I agree to take my mantra and by doing so i agree to expect Amma into my heart, i sat by her feet for a some time then again entered another line to hear my mantra. i was sat by her as she hugged person after person, while her attendant took the pins from my hair for Amma wouldn't hurt herself embracing me. when it came my turn again she warmly but with disarming strength embraced my face and put my face to her bosom and whispered my mantra to me. then just a quickly she released me, a devotee slipped a piece of paper with my mantra written on it for me and i was swept away to another group to explain the meaning of my mantra.

Tearing the Veil of Maya

We went to the 2 year anniversary of the Union Hall comedy show Tearing the Veil of Maya, hosted by Eugene Mirman and Micheal Showwalter.
Eugene told a story about his experiences with Delta Air losing his luggage ...so unhappy with their service he handed out these post cards asking people to sign and mail them to Delta on his behalf.
before i mail it i thought i'd share it.



Pate = Dog Food


I tried Pate this weekend and not only does it look like dog food it also tastes like it. i mean high end dog food...a nice pedigree but for the dogs no less.

Monday, July 7, 2008

I am famous in France


A girl whom went i to college with was recently in Paris and she saw ads all over the metro with images of mine and Greg Lesar faces. She took a quick video but the name of the company is hard to read.
The pictures were taken by Bob Jones a photographer we both know from SCAD. Greg is a popular subject of Bobs , a year ago another scaddy spotted him in a billboard in Rome , for an ad using Bob stock photography.
Bob took my picture upon request of a friend whom wanted him to photograph us as superheros. i wasn't feeling confident enough to put on tights for a guy i didn't know at the time.
but i feel really cool about this strange happening. never thought i had a commercial enough look for any one to use in advertisements. in fact from the set he sent me from he shoot i thought my friend looked so much prettier and easier to photo graph then my awkward face.
My mom is shitting herself over it all. she is so supportive she would be just as happy if i found a dollar in the street. but bob is her new favorite person.
thing is for all his talent, Bob gets maybe $15 off a picture like that. Here he is , his work being used for this expensive campaign, and where his commission or credit for his work.
He wouldn't have even known his work was being used for anything like this if it had not been for this incredibly random connection to someone from our college.
I don't know what the ad is for. I am hoping it is something embarrassingly inappropriate....like herpes meds.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Thursday, July 3, 2008