more 8-bit stuff....

Check this out--- here's another blog that covered the "I Am 8-Bit" art opening. They even have a photo of my piece!!!

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Hot Fuzz

Go see this movie. It's nothing short of amazing. In celebration of its cinematic genius, Carlos and I went downtown to the LA Gun Club firing range this afternoon and manhandled some firearms. Sweet sweet guns. We chose a target that depicts a hostage situation. The hostage, to us, was a zombie. We blew its brains out with a 38 special revolver. Yeah, we're a really good shot, bitches. Fuck yeah.

Pixels + Polaroids = see below

Here it is, the "I Am 8-Bit" art opening in polaroids. Enjoy!

Syd Barrett...

...is posthumously to blame for my not having posted the polaroids from the gallery opening other night (sorry Elizabeth!). I played organ with Yes Me To Death downtown where Little Pedro's used to be (now the Bordello) as part of a Syd Barrett tribute night. I had no idea what to expect going into the whole ordeal but I'm stoked about the results! The place was packed all evening long as 20 or so LA bands took their turn on stage to perform a cover of the aforementioned early Pink Floyd man's work. Everyone seemed to be on top of their game and sounded great. We even felt pretty damn confident as we twanged out Barrett's "Love You". So so glad we got to take part in the evening...



And I promise, as soon as I get home from work, I will scan and post the polaroids from "I Am 8-Bit"!!

Matt & Trey are my heroes, fo rizzle.

I can't believe how good tonight's South Park episode was. If you haven't seen it, please make it a point to. 'Cause you like zombies-- I mean the homeless-- right??? The quiet town of South Park finds itself with a homeless problem that turns into everyone's favorite zombie movie scenario, complete with Randy Marsh blowing the head off of a freshly infected "homeless" man. And who can forget fat ass Cartman jumping a line of comatose homeless on his skateboard (straight up pummelling the last one before he lands)?? It is a supremely crafted and thoroughly designed episode that nails the zombie apocalypse environment where the word "change" is adopted as the homeless' zombie groan. I mean, there has to be at least a hundred extra incidental homeless characters designed specifically for this show!! Oh hell yes. This past month has been a great one for zombies and comedy! And I say, fuck yeah to that!!



P.S.---> Cali-fornia... loves the homeless.

art fart

Last night's "I Am 8-Bit" Gallery Opening was a blast. Free booze, good friends, killer art and video games makes for the perfect combo. Even got to talk to some people that I haven't seen in about 3 months. Awesome! Polaroids to come later this evening....

I Am 8-Bit V 2.007 Gallery Show

Here you go (see below). Needless to say, I got in touch with them in the nick of time to get my piece in. Please do yourself a favor and come to the awesome opening/party at Gallery 1988 this Tuesday and see work by me, Carlos Ramos, Elizabeth Ito and many many other radical artists!!!

Get there early cause this place gets crazy packed.

WE HEART VIDEO GAMES 4EVR!!!!

end of the road

Call me a sissy, call me a quitter, whatever. I'm ending the master cleanse today (for reals). Four days is long enough. However, I'm definately not switching to solid foods just yet. I'm in a solidarity pact with my buddy Katherine to not eat solids (hehe-- i just got that) until our fabulous power lunch tomorrow when we will feast on delicious soup from Pho Cafe. As for the rest of today, I'm only on orange juice, boring vegetable soup broth and TONS of water. Damn, I'm experiencing the absolute worst thigh pains ever these past few days. Not sure if that's an effect of the "cleansing" going on with my system or just severe lack of potassium and i'm slowly dying. I'm thinking the latter. Otherwise, I had no real problems with the fast and I'm proud of my little food lovin' self for lasting as long as I did. Yay!

forgot to mention....

...that Grindhouse was pretty damn sweet. Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" segment is an all out zombie wet dream. Fuck yeah! I needed me a new zombie movie! Who would have thought that Josh Brolin was so damn radical? Haven't liked that guy since "Goonies". The Eli Roth, Rob Zombie and Edgar Wright trailers are sweet bits of candy cigarettes (mmmmm candy cigarettes) sprinkled in the middle of this 3 hour adventure. Tarantino's segment, "Death Proof" was a bit lengthy and way too talky talky talky for me but nothing beats watching Kurt Russell experience a breakdown on camera. Sweet jeebus. He totally pulled a bit of "Big Trouble..." on us. Now I wanna go watch "the Thing" AND "Captian Ron" again.

salt water flush

Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. For this cleanse, first thing every morning you gotta pound a quart's worth of salt water and hope it will "move" you within an hour. It worked yesterday but not today. Feels like my heart might palpitate right out of my chest. Too much sodium that stuck around too long? I think so. Oy vey. Did I do something wrong?

Or actually, why am I doing this in the first place? I'm not THAT unhealthy of a person to justify an internal spring cleaning. Right? Right???!! Aw, jeeze. Here we go. I'm starting the back and forth on why I should and shouldn't be doing this. See, the whole cleanse thing tends to make one a little loopy. I am no exception. Soon I'm gonna be referring to everyone else on the planet as "those fooood eaters" and try to convince myself that the soyrizo/tofu dish from the Bright Spot was actually causing cancer somewhere in my system....

Hehe. Anybody that knows me is aware of the fact that I am (my tapeworm is) always hungry. So far this hasn't been all that bad but I still so want to put real food in my mouth.

the secret to a long life is a healthy colon...

Bill Cosby was right. And I intend to clean out not only my colon but my kidneys and any other functioning systems within my person over the 10 days with the help of lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. And who could forget my morning salt water flush?? Yeah, it's pretty gross but so is how I've been feeling on the inside lately. Thank goodness I'm not in this one alone! My radical roomate Jared and I are on the same trip and will provide eachother with the necessary moral support to see it through. And hey, we'll be saving a LOT of money on food!

Here's to health and happiness...

A night/day of Man Man:

The show on Thursday night was incredible! The guys will also be performing on the Jimmy Kimmel show sometime at the end of their tour with Modest Mouse. More details when they come. Until then, please enjoy some polaroids of the boyz & friends...

show me that smile again...

yeah, the robot brain is getting better. definitely no more crying and certainly not slumping around so much in the times when i don't have a million things to do. yeah, when i wasn't distracted, i got bummed out. not saying i'm not upset though overall. it's just not ruining my doggone days.



ew, my teeth suck. i got to get those fixed.

speaking of a million things: work is steadily becoming more busy and i, for once, am not complaining. aw, who am i kidding? i love complaining! (i get it honest though. my dad is the king of all bitching and moaning.) here's a bit about the awful commissary we have here on the studio lot.... i had the worst $9 lunch ever today: a very weak grilled portabello sandwich with a disgustingly dry "crudite" cup. tasted like they put yellow mustard on it. i think i may go vomit.

whew. i am not a rotting human carcass.

i effin' love realage.com! they have this free test that takes info from numerous areas of yer life (like health background, what you eat, stress factors, how you exercise, etc) and mashes them together to tell you whether you're a large piece of rotting human shit or a shiny happy "younger" snapper who can justifiably turn yer nose up to yer actual calendar age. i take this test every few years and found that my innards are still younger than the blistery old year of 27.9. in fact, they say i'm 2.7 years younger than that awful number. the only bullshit factor you have to get around in taking this type of test is all the new age vitamin crap they are trying to sell you from start to finish. go forth and discover thine actual age, mo fo!

animation show 3- UPDATE

wow. don hertzfeldt is, once again, king of animation. just came back from the screening.

if you have a chance, definitely go see Mike Judge's Animation Show 3 and just stay until the end of hertzfeldt's new masterpiece, "everything will be ok"... the rest of the show doesn't mean anything after you've seen that, the beavis and butthead opening and another cool short called "rabbit".

week 2

whatup. just got back from a sweet sushi lunch and an equally grrreat weekend. spent a ton of cash again but i'm not cryin'. picked up this radical book at a new-ish store called Family on Farifax next to Largo. The book's titled NINJA by Brian Chippendale. It's rediculously huge and doesn't fit on any shelf. Perfect. You either get it or you don't. Feast yo pupils and maybe buy it or somethin':



oh yeah--- ron rege jr. did the painted sign for the outside of the store. yummy.



i got carlos hooked on guitar hero II. poor monkey hands has his new crack but the crack pipe makes said hands hurt. my remedy? ....don't stop a rockin'! i have to pick up another guitar controller for some serious 2 player showdown time. also awesome is the metal slug anthology for the wii. that damn game series is endlessly entertaining but only because i love to blow shit up with a rocket launcher. i mean come on, look who's blog you're reading, internet stalker.



oh yeah, and today is the start of week 2 on the new job tip. we still haven't received any picture (animation) back from overseas and may not see anything until wednesday. that means more training time with supa. it's so great knowing that even if the shit totally hits the fan (and i'm sure it will), that i don't have to keep up after 10 other fires on 10 other productions at the same time. you know, the stuff i had to do on a daily basis with my old shit shoveling position. all i have to deal with is ONE goddamn show. yay for me (shade tipping with Avid in background):



also making me sing in retarded bliss is the new stereo system i had installed in my land rover last week. holy sweet radical mommy clue goo!! it allows me to hook my ipod up with the actual whatever-pin computer cable so all of my ipod info shows up and is controllable on the screen of the stereo interface. And if that wasn't enough, they rigged it so i can control all of this with my steering wheel controls! Finally, I don't have to deal with a stack of burned cd's larger than your mom's fat thigh. when things become streamlined, lauren gets super happy. if you ever empty yer trash bin on yer computer and notice that the system performs better, know that my brain functions on a similar principle.

gonna go for a run around the silver lake tonight and continue my new-found good fitness habits. seems like this and being settled back into my house has helped me sleep better and feel better overall. duh, you say? yeah, i know, smart ass mo fo. sometimes i lose sight of the important stuff. all this AND a new Kusai & Ben comic strip coming later!!!

party on wayne!