yeah… from the love in my guts. I get that. I just have to use that voice, right?
Geek 💙 (Taken with instagram)
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This is what used to used to happen in my little house. The  drums were in my bed room and the rhodes was in the bay window in the front.
I culled this from about 16 tracks of piano and 1 eleven minute drum track. It’s not a final mix by any stretch of my wild imagination. It’s just what happens in the middle of the night when I only want to use my ears.Â
Here’s a link to the genius who plays the instruments. He’s a genius when he’s not playing the instruments, too.
Red Envelope Day
Unpacking, I found a large red envelope. Inside were photographs and postcards and various items of the like. Things I had collected over the years. Pretty little memories. And on the back of each I had written something about the image on the other side. Turn over a postcard with a photograph of a the neck of a horse and find, “the most beautiful thing in the world”. But I don’t remember ever doing this, putting together this little package to myself.
I also used to drink a lot. And eat lots of pills.Â
So what I find so curious about this red arrow from my past is the photograph above. I’m obviously up to something nefarious. And yet by the two little words on the back I’m telegraphing a note to my future. Whenever I put together this little Valentine to myself, in whatever state of intoxication I was, I knew that I wouldn’t be eventually. And I knew that I would receive this present one day and so I told myself, in some strugglingly poetic way, to not be weird about the mistakes I had made. Don’t be too sorry or too unforgiving.Â
“Sin”… as one postcard reads, “despite itself”… as I wrote on the back. Not sad.
when things get too dark...
Jane Campion made this series of short, hilariously dry and serene clips in 1983. They premiered at Cannes and all that biz. But they still feel like a secret when I watch them. I make up elaborate fantasies about finding a canister of 16mm film and THIS is what lies inside… I’m getting dramatic.Â
I fucking hope so.
Haikus for America on its Birthday
1
Hi America
Today you are 2 3 5
Only look 2 10.Â
2
The Fourth Of July
Where can a Tom Hanks turn
If no more to you?Â
3
Would we have done it
Had we known we could have had
Prince William and Kate?Â
4
From the Jersey Shore
To the lattes of Portland
Let freedom ring. bro.
from Rushfield Babylon
it’s so quiet in here right now.
THIS IS WHAT I PUT MYSELF TO SLEEP WITH EACH NIGHT…
the 100 greatest movie threats of all time
0’04 - the limey, law abiding citizen, cape fear (1962)
0’33 - fargo, scarface, back to the future part iii, tombstone
1’02 - coogan’s bluff, they live, laughing policeman, the dead pool, casino
1’33 - full metal jacket, major payne, in the loop, good morning vietnam
2’05 - midnight run, the departed, the big lebowski, the blues brothers
2’33 - coming to america, punch-drunk love, goodfellas, casino
3’03 - carlito’s way, kill bill, sudden impact
3’30 - pulp fiction, way of the gun, scream, trading places, the running man, full metal jacketÂ
3’59 - a few good men, smokey and the bandit, robin hood: prince of thieves, speed, gangs of new york, miller’s crossing, blue velvet
4’31 - wild at heart, the wizard of oz, the long kiss goodnight, the shining
5’00 - anchorman, the man, tank girl, diner, mulan, the goonies, in the loop
5’31 - team america: world police, new jack city, training day, robocop, animal house, harvey, talladega nights
6’01 - the warriors, rocky iv, matchstick men, way of the gun, the big lebowski
6’38 - stand by me, commando, the shawshank redemption, welcome to collinwood
6’57 - the long kiss goodnight, anchorman, step brothers
7’30 - tommy boy, home alone, sexy beast, robocop, monty python and the holy grail, the breakfast club
8’00 - from dusk till dawn, the untouchables, unforgiven, the prophecy
8’32 - true romance, casino, payback, inglourious basterds
9’01 - ripley’s game, way of the gun, pulp fiction
9’28 - home alone, con air, american history x, man on fire
10’05 - taken, patriot games, tropic thunder
10’35 - there will be blood, dead man’s shoes, robocop
10’57 - rambo: first blood, predator, hard to killÂ
(Source: cultfilms)
