
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
double Spanish burton
Some descriptions in the dictionary are short.
verbatim (ver ba’ tim), adv. 1. in exactly the same words, word for word.
Some descriptions in the dictionary aren't short so much.
verbatim (ver ba’ tim), adv. 1. in exactly the same words, word for word.
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Rauschenberg (rou’shen burg). n. Robert, born 1925, U.S. artist.Some descriptions in the dictionary aren't short so much.
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dou’ble Span’ish bur’ton, a tackle having the load suspended from one of two single running blocks, supported both by the fall, which is rove through it, and by one end of a runner which is rove through the standing block and which supports at it’s other end the other running block, made in two ways, either with the standing end of the fall attached to a fixed point beside the running block, or with the fall rove through the standing block and attached to the running block, supporting the load, with a mechanical advantage of four and five, neglecting friction.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Archive: Back in the Day Series. (Photo # 327D)

Here's a picture of yours truly back in the days before email (remember those?).
it was a kinder, gentler time. maybe. this was taken back in the day when photos were taken with film. (a cellulose nitrate or acetate made in thin sheets or strips and coated with a light sensitive emulsion.) It came in perforated rolls and you would thread it into your camera. After taking a shot you would have to, and get this! MANUALLY wind the film through the camera in order to get to the next section of unexposed emulsion. Also when you took a photo there was no deleting it if you didnt like it. Once you popped the shutter you were committed. In fact you couldnt even SEE your shots until you were done with the entire roll and had it processed. AND printed.
Stay tuned for further ruminations on How We've Changed In This LifeTime!
Next week...The Dial Telephone.
maybe.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
branding coleman miller

While floundering around here in the job hunt one creative director, after seeing my work, told me i had to market myself. This guy was great. He actually returned my calls! (If you're reading this sir, it's most appreciated) (He's not reading this..too busy making a living as a CREATIVE DIRECTOR) Now THAT sounds like a great job. But who knows..damn i am so lost as to how those places work i might as well be applying for work on Mars. As a glurnatologist. and i have no formal training in glurnatology. just a passing interest really. but i digress.
"aw shucks you guys I'm not lookin' for a handout... just a hand".
it's starting to look like im gonna have to do this the old fashioned way. DIY.
yeah thats it. by this time next year I'll have produced my first Super Bowl commercial, I'll be living in my Laurel Canyon house with my superspokesmodel wife and our three superspokeskids and I'll be driving a classic 1965 cherry red Asti Spumante.
Yeah, I got it all figured out.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
drilling for oil in a goldmine

Have been busy looking for work in this world and not feeling that bloggy so it’s been awhile yes readers searching for the almighty dollar and whatever that entails trying to market myself in a world of commercialism and commercials and the ordinary after spending a life believing in the unordinary (the more unordinary the better!). Trying to get my foot in the door of where the money is. Showing my
Damn. Something will give soon, it has to. If anybody out there who has seen my work and knows of a company/person who could use these skills -let me know. Housepainting and demolition work is taking it’s toll on this 48 year old body. Rather use my brain for awhile.
Looking for work . . .Feels like I’m drilling for oil in a goldmine.
so yeah this taking up my time so might be posting more visual stuff for a spell instead of words . . .comes easier to me these days.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Church of the Holy Coincidence.
I haven’t written too much on my ideas on religion and god but it's about time to let 'em out. The planet's been hijacked by ignorance and mythology and there really is no end in sight.
The following are some random thoughts from the journals:
Like an old hound dog religion has treed us. It’s all in our heads. Take a look..the dog is old, lame and blind. Climb out of the tree, stand on your own two feet and go help some others get out of those trees. It’s a start.
We change with the time. Our spirituality is too important to disregard each generations ideas. It’s the humans that are alive now that can save us. Not our dead heroes in books. It can happen in your lifetime. This is something to pray for. But not to a god. Pray to everyone living. Put your faith in the human race.
This planets ignorance in regards to spiritual evolution is shameful. We may be the laughing stock of the universe.
The following are some random thoughts from the journals:
Like an old hound dog religion has treed us. It’s all in our heads. Take a look..the dog is old, lame and blind. Climb out of the tree, stand on your own two feet and go help some others get out of those trees. It’s a start.
We change with the time. Our spirituality is too important to disregard each generations ideas. It’s the humans that are alive now that can save us. Not our dead heroes in books. It can happen in your lifetime. This is something to pray for. But not to a god. Pray to everyone living. Put your faith in the human race.
Big Bang? More like a Cosmic Ejaculation..
If religion has taught us anything it is this:
Get 'em When They’re Young.
Church of the Holy Coincidence.
No Guilt.
No Sin.
No Father/Sky god judging us.
All the old bets are off.
No Guilt.
No Sin.
No Father/Sky god judging us.
All the old bets are off.
This planets ignorance in regards to spiritual evolution is shameful. We may be the laughing stock of the universe.
It's time for churches to start keeping the books and pay up.
Our government gives em a free pass.
Church & State - Totally in bed together.
It's time for religion to stop sucking off the tit of society.
Our government gives em a free pass.
Church & State - Totally in bed together.
It's time for religion to stop sucking off the tit of society.
the thing i refuse to buy into (re: religions) is they make their gods so petty. not only do they give these gods very human characteristics, but the very worst of them. Vindictive. Egomaniacal. Petty. (Notice i said "not only do they give these gods.." who can argue- we humans were the ones who came up with this grand idea of gods and later "a" god) so yes, we give our gods their traits. Lets' not fool ourselves ladies and gentlemen - it's all us.
if there is a god i can safely say he/she/it has not communicated with us. Certainly not by giving us "his rules"
Getting "over" religion will take awhile (understatement) and will be a huge human hurdle. And a great day. The Huge Human Hurdle.
if there is a god i can safely say he/she/it has not communicated with us. Certainly not by giving us "his rules"
Getting "over" religion will take awhile (understatement) and will be a huge human hurdle. And a great day. The Huge Human Hurdle.
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Monday, January 14, 2008
How to write a movie
A lot of people are asking “How can I come up with new and interesting film ideas?” And now the answer is as easy as A, B, three. . . All you need is a TV Guide. First go to the back and peruse the films playing and their brief descriptions. Here are some examples:
“A cowpoke is accused of murder but escapes to track down the real culprit and win the hand of the girl he loves”
“A runaway kid meets ups with a factory worker on his way to an arm wrestling competition and they become friends”
“A brother and sister who were condemned to eternal death 12,000 years ago must eat virgins to keep their bodies from rotting”
OK what does this tell us? Well first we need a main character or characters….
So let’s go back to our tv guide.
A powerful NY gangster
A French schoolboy
The Caped Crusader
A paralyzed man
An aimless tv salesman
A minneapolis waitress
A blind Australian
Members of a film crew
A circus owner
General Douglas MacArthur
A 16th century thief
Now we need a dilema or a conflict or just something that happens:
Gets a taste of high society.
Hooks up with a widows teenage daughter.
Assumes the mantle of a superhero.
Video tapes her affair with a married Detroit salesman.
Decide to take their act to Bolivia.
Is surrounded by a bevy of beautiful students.
Now we just mix and match to our hearts content:
An aimless tv salesman decides to take his act to Bolivia.
A French schoolboy is accused of murder but escapes to track down the real culprit and win the hand of a minneapolis waitress
A paralyzed man and a circus owner hook up with a widows teenage daughter and become friends.
General Douglas MacArthur assumes the mantle of a superhero.
A 16th century thief video tapes her affair with a married Detroit salesman.
Members of a film crew get a taste of high society and become a blind Australian.
A powerful NY gangster and General Douglas MacArthur are surrounded by a bevy of beautiful students and must eat virgins to keep their bodies from rotting.
Voila! You're a screenwriter.
“A cowpoke is accused of murder but escapes to track down the real culprit and win the hand of the girl he loves”
“A runaway kid meets ups with a factory worker on his way to an arm wrestling competition and they become friends”
“A brother and sister who were condemned to eternal death 12,000 years ago must eat virgins to keep their bodies from rotting”
OK what does this tell us? Well first we need a main character or characters….
So let’s go back to our tv guide.
A powerful NY gangster
A French schoolboy
The Caped Crusader
A paralyzed man
An aimless tv salesman
A minneapolis waitress
A blind Australian
Members of a film crew
A circus owner
General Douglas MacArthur
A 16th century thief
Now we need a dilema or a conflict or just something that happens:
Gets a taste of high society.
Hooks up with a widows teenage daughter.
Assumes the mantle of a superhero.
Video tapes her affair with a married Detroit salesman.
Decide to take their act to Bolivia.
Is surrounded by a bevy of beautiful students.
Now we just mix and match to our hearts content:
An aimless tv salesman decides to take his act to Bolivia.
A French schoolboy is accused of murder but escapes to track down the real culprit and win the hand of a minneapolis waitress
A paralyzed man and a circus owner hook up with a widows teenage daughter and become friends.
General Douglas MacArthur assumes the mantle of a superhero.
A 16th century thief video tapes her affair with a married Detroit salesman.
Members of a film crew get a taste of high society and become a blind Australian.
A powerful NY gangster and General Douglas MacArthur are surrounded by a bevy of beautiful students and must eat virgins to keep their bodies from rotting.
Voila! You're a screenwriter.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
drinking about films
Random Journal Entry
Last night wITh fRiends watchInG aNd
talking anD drinkinG about Films.
Last night wITh fRiends watchInG aNd
talking anD drinkinG about Films.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
maps of the cow
here's more languagey stuff ...
i took a handful of my recent blog posts and put em through our SuperSecretTRanslatorFunMachine. (English to Spanish and back to English.) Our SuperSecretTRanslatorFunMachine likes to inject the 'of word' quite often while translating words and their offspring so take it or leave it. I didnt edit any of these - just picked em as i saw em. The entire translations are below (for you WerdGluttons, translateMongers, ofLovers, etc)- but here now are the top wordmoments, or so i thought . . .
Passwords of the Father
the maps of the cow of the disease of madonna
the poetry of poems
ticketmaster of thumbzilla
Canguelo rejected!
the map of the angry search of the map
quotations of the fibromyalgia of the fished ones
the free fabric of the email of the tests of the sources of the game of the direct transferences
White Target
Spasmo of the Art
the bestiality of the baseball of the bottoms of the names of the baby
the idiots of April
Chinese War Five
bukkake of the icons
legal gentleman of the blue book
the modernity of the death converter
Shakespeare of Serialz
of the dog of the dog of the chaste ones of the dog!
the maps of way
serpents that smoke
I am speaking here of the orations of the use
the women of winzip
Yahoo de Yahoo Yahoo of yahoo
Era hour
The Island Pricks
Tubular Powders
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i took a handful of my recent blog posts and put em through our SuperSecretTRanslatorFunMachine. (English to Spanish and back to English.) Our SuperSecretTRanslatorFunMachine likes to inject the 'of word' quite often while translating words and their offspring so take it or leave it. I didnt edit any of these - just picked em as i saw em. The entire translations are below (for you WerdGluttons, translateMongers, ofLovers, etc)- but here now are the top wordmoments, or so i thought . . .
Passwords of the Father
the maps of the cow of the disease of madonna
the poetry of poems
pictures of the pictures of the PICTURES of the Pics of pics of picpost of the photos of the photos of the photography
ticketmaster of thumbzilla
huns of humor
The Island of the email Canguelo rejected!
whispering silencer
the map of the angry search of the map
quotations of the fibromyalgia of the fished ones
the free fabric of the email of the tests of the sources of the game of the direct transferences
White Target
Spasmo of the Art
the bestiality of the baseball of the bottoms of the names of the baby
the idiots of April
the maps of the route of the
route of the translator
route of the translator
Chinese War Five
bukkake of the icons
legal gentleman of the blue book
the modernity of the death converter
Shakespeare of Serialz
of the dog of the dog of the chaste ones of the dog!
the maps of way
serpents that smoke
I am speaking here of the orations of the use
the women of winzip
HorseradishTree Gazzara
Yahoo de Yahoo Yahoo of yahoo
Era hour
approval of failures
Madhouse of the hmmm. The Island Pricks
Tubular Powders
The Fabric of the Weather Message.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
82 Words for Splank
The eskimo language Yupik has been estimated to have approximately 24 words for snow. In keeping with this theory my apartment has 82 words or phrases for "a fucking mess". It started when i came up with the phrase for the grizzled charred pizza strands hanging from the grill inside my oven.
Pizza Scoundrels.
After coming up with this i started looking around my apartment..
Piles of stuff in corners, unfinished sculptures, stacks of crazed semi ideas, forgotten projects, it all added up. Here then is the list of small and glorious sections of disarray at TeamMiller Headquarters:
Pizza Scoundrels.
After coming up with this i started looking around my apartment..
Piles of stuff in corners, unfinished sculptures, stacks of crazed semi ideas, forgotten projects, it all added up. Here then is the list of small and glorious sections of disarray at TeamMiller Headquarters:
Creeping Nitch, Chelm, Art Phlegm, Whispering Squelch, Y'melmahay, Corner Thingees, Disinterpreted Norp,Resting Urk, Table of Contents, Silent Gargle, Dwellers, Interfangle, Unfinished Nerbs,Discarded Funk, Frutz, Mess Throng,
Skrulk, Big Bang, Junk Attack,Yesterdays Explosion, Balancing Frax, Murder One, Mini Scrutz, Fuckit, a Pile of Fuckit, a Lingering Pile of Fuckit, Yobobo, Curbsters/Curblings, Past History,Incarcerated Wingdings, Talminkle,
a Pile of Brakhage, Headache, Disproportionate Flink, Art Spasm, Falling Backwash,
Stacked Frangles, Leaning Twilch,Wasted Idea, Sprawling Nooch,Sculpture Burp, a Roomful of Me,
Sri Larry,Filthco, Window Squelch,Once Proud, Sliders,
Scattered Change,Trigger Happy, Meandering Filth,Cornered Fernlings, Idea Pile,Tow Jam, Hangdog Sink, the Unforgiven, Grandfathers, Latners, Scattered Froop, Kranch, Truncated Nurt, Rectangular Gruttz,Dirty Melvit, Fart Collage,Diagonal Tharch, Wandering Blutz, So Yesterday, Chankle, Standing Felch, NoOne’s Lark,
Fixated Whereabouts, Yummsters,Pile o' Shame, Frantic Laziness, Salt Lick,
Tripping Little Epiphanies, Ancient Grease, Concentrated Miller,Splank, Not Exactly Hallmark, Forgotten Schmutz, Leaning Beige,
Wall Twirch & Floor Splat.
Skrulk, Big Bang, Junk Attack,Yesterdays Explosion, Balancing Frax, Murder One, Mini Scrutz, Fuckit, a Pile of Fuckit, a Lingering Pile of Fuckit, Yobobo, Curbsters/Curblings, Past History,Incarcerated Wingdings, Talminkle,
a Pile of Brakhage, Headache, Disproportionate Flink, Art Spasm, Falling Backwash,
Stacked Frangles, Leaning Twilch,Wasted Idea, Sprawling Nooch,Sculpture Burp, a Roomful of Me,
Sri Larry,Filthco, Window Squelch,Once Proud, Sliders,
Scattered Change,Trigger Happy, Meandering Filth,Cornered Fernlings, Idea Pile,Tow Jam, Hangdog Sink, the Unforgiven, Grandfathers, Latners, Scattered Froop, Kranch, Truncated Nurt, Rectangular Gruttz,Dirty Melvit, Fart Collage,Diagonal Tharch, Wandering Blutz, So Yesterday, Chankle, Standing Felch, NoOne’s Lark,
Fixated Whereabouts, Yummsters,Pile o' Shame, Frantic Laziness, Salt Lick,
Tripping Little Epiphanies, Ancient Grease, Concentrated Miller,Splank, Not Exactly Hallmark, Forgotten Schmutz, Leaning Beige,
Wall Twirch & Floor Splat.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The crowd goes nuts.

Now that the relative smoke has cleared from Khartoum and our british school teacher (Gillian Gibbons) is back home safe and sound we thought it prudent here at TeamMiller to get to the root of the problem. Tonight in our studio we have a special guest. Please put your hands together folks for Muhammad the Teddy Bear!!
(wild applause as the TeamMiller house band plays a funky tripped out version of Who Let the Dogs Out)
Muhammad appears stage right pumping his fist in the air and performs a highly animated two step over toward Miller.
MILLER: (yelling over the clapping and the band) "They LOVE You!!"
Muhammed The Teddy Bear suspends both arms over his head and continues pumping his arms in this fashion so as to "raise the roof".
The crowd goes nuts. Muhammad The Teddy Bear now genuflects the crowd and then bolts upright and poses with one hand to his ear as his opposite hip is thrust out in the universal mock sign of "I can't hear you". The crowd goes nuts. The band keeps playing LOUDER NOW. Muhammad The Teddy Bear now jumps to the center of the stage and wiggles his hips back and forth culminating in his now signature move of licking on his paw and then pressing it hard on his outstretched furry buttocks as he had done earlier in the week on Oprah. And now the crowd is peeing itself. Literally.
This only energizes Muhammad The Teddy Bear and he runs over next to Miller and tears open his fuzzy torso and starts tossing his wooly insides over the top of himself and Miller as it falls lightly in the air like furry brown confetti. Cut to Close up of the two laughing and yelling into each others ears as Muhammad The Teddy Bear keeps flipping his insides over the two. Now Miller in uncontrolled enthusiasm reaches into Muhammad The Teddy Bear and starts flipping more of his insides over the two of them as Muhammad The Teddy Bear feigns shock at so much of himself being discarded for a sight gag. He quickly gets down on the floor on his back and attempts to catch as much of his fur back into his chest cavity. Making the crowd go....
FLASH CUT to: a crowd of Muslims in Khartoum, Sudan watching this all take place on a small black and white television and thinking : "Those people are nuts".
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
a picture's worth a bunch of words
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Celebrating the Stupid (#1 in a series?)

some ideas are just so stupid they might actually work. then again. . . . was recently leafing through some old sketch/workbooks and came upon this. now it must have been something i thought had something (validity?) because i spent the time to spell it out on a whole page..
my only notes were on the preceding page..."comedy skit..wetnurse horse - old female horse feeds a different starving foal each week. Hilarious. But play it serious?"and this . . .
"si-nop'sis : The McMiller's live on a farm in Battletown, Kentucky with their horse, Esmerelda"
hmmmmm.
i can see the pitch
two words . . .Wetnurse Horse. That's all i'm saying.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Less of the same, please.
Humanity Series # 22 - From hunters and gatherers to drivers and shoppers in 2,000 years'good porn name : Magic Wand&spaghetti western relationship . . .A Fistful of Honesty J26 characters in a world they didnt invent<LI'm not ashamed to admit it..through creative business tactics and a keen sense of the market, i was able to become a multi-thousandaire by the time i was 40. And so can you!"Celebrity marriage wagering . ..whats the over/under on Bradjelina? bThe Greatest Story Never ToldY guy falls in love with a photographer named Iris wseemingly disorderB
jE r n i e Kovacs, J e r r y Garcia & D o c k Ellis j
Express AbstRactionisM!S if human nature tended toward contentment we'd still be living in caves} Special OccasionseHumanity Series # 47 - Curious For A Reasoni Haywire Wayside bZen and the Art of Motorcycle AccidentsVFictitious Dieties . .(where do we begin?)
jE r n i e Kovacs, J e r r y Garcia & D o c k Ellis j
Express AbstRactionisM!S if human nature tended toward contentment we'd still be living in caves} Special OccasionseHumanity Series # 47 - Curious For A Reasoni Haywire Wayside bZen and the Art of Motorcycle AccidentsVFictitious Dieties . .(where do we begin?)
Friday, November 9, 2007
Self Promoting, shamelessly

And doesn't "Festival of Appropriation" sound much better than "Celebration of Swiped Imagery"?
Monday, November 5, 2007
Slow News Day
here's a very short test for the F of it. this piece was quite a bit longer but I guess i need to keep 'em under 100 mb to get it up on this site. damn. need to figure out these compression rates..the extended dance version of this is much funnier...hopefully there will be more..
Friday, October 19, 2007
random entries from the current journal (Miscellaneous Various)
It's come to this . . .Corporations selling us minutes. cc captioning mistypings on tv tonight:mod rat republicans. Look at you! livin' in your white castle. In The Band Or Not In The Band? take a photo of a local band with two other people in the shot..all album covery looking. viewers job to decide . .. who is or is not in the band. Ben Gazzara the 69 Mets Man Ray. The thing about autobiographies is you can only do it on one person. a cinema on the spot...little or no graphics...probably a bad name for your graphics firm ..when your receptionist answers the phone "Little or No Graphics. How may i direct your call? " To Catch a Predator - ..these sad, F-ed up men and their lives crumbling apart in someone's kitchen. like watching a car wreck. that rabbi the best so far for my money. watching people plead...i dunno picking the right religion .. they make it all important..it's just a crapshoot..where you are born. Church of God the Verb. Think. all the religions say they are The One. if that's so then all the rest are null and void regarding the afterlife. (talk about positive spin...reruns now an "encore presentation" and death is "afterlife") God is hope repackaged. Now that we know this . .Let's just bring back hope! favorite quote from the bible to use against them : "The truth will set you free". SockRay Blue!! Shawn tonight . . . a few too many cocktails gave him a headful of thunder. words are just agreed upon. Don't Fuck with Wendy Testaburger! when your eyes are shut, you can see to infinity . Earth: Making It Up As We Go Along. each finished film is ultimately the answer. when you started it was still just a question - to play with and take on down a path of your own choosing. character name: Tao Jones. Go with God..... Just go! The Fag That Broke the Camels Back. Consciousness: the continuous situation. When your planet gets filled with martyrs . .it doesn't bode well. character in film: Rapper who has a panda bear named Bling Bling. good comedy club name: Hilarity & Sue's. No boogieman is an island.character in the story goes into a store to buy some context. good documentary idea . . .The History of Tomorrow. It's actually pretty wonderful that the universe always remains this constant mystery . .keeps us forever curious.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Bill Paxton is a National Treasure!
Ok last night i watched a film none of you have ever seen. The Dark Backward. see? i told you.
Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton play garbage collectors in a world filled with garbage. in one scene they walk behind the garbage truck tossing in random crap they pick up off the street which is COVERED in trash. some of the tosses make it into the truck, some don't. whatever. (for those who know me it's like me cleaning my apartment. enough said. that would be for another blog entry.)
Oh, and along the way in this film, Judd Nelson grows an arm out of his back, which seems to help his career as the worst stand up comic ever. Every time he takes the stage he is COVERED in flopsweat. "Comics with two arms are a dime a dozen", says Wayne Newton at one point as the slimy talent agent, Jackie Chrome.
But back to Mr. Paxton. His portrayal of Gus the accordian playing sidekick is Amazing, Disgusting and WAY over the top. Bill Paxton. Who IS this guy? a genius? or just another guy from Texas? Both, i say!!
a couple years ago he directed and starred in Frailty. a twisted film with religious overtones and subtle humor. In the theater I was in tears laughing at some shit while the rest of the audience looked at me like i was a freak. (It's happened before - I'm used to it.)
anyway, Bill Paxton. Wow. Keep an eye on this guy.
OK, i have important stuff to do as far as you know . . . .
Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton play garbage collectors in a world filled with garbage. in one scene they walk behind the garbage truck tossing in random crap they pick up off the street which is COVERED in trash. some of the tosses make it into the truck, some don't. whatever. (for those who know me it's like me cleaning my apartment. enough said. that would be for another blog entry.)
Oh, and along the way in this film, Judd Nelson grows an arm out of his back, which seems to help his career as the worst stand up comic ever. Every time he takes the stage he is COVERED in flopsweat. "Comics with two arms are a dime a dozen", says Wayne Newton at one point as the slimy talent agent, Jackie Chrome.
But back to Mr. Paxton. His portrayal of Gus the accordian playing sidekick is Amazing, Disgusting and WAY over the top. Bill Paxton. Who IS this guy? a genius? or just another guy from Texas? Both, i say!!
a couple years ago he directed and starred in Frailty. a twisted film with religious overtones and subtle humor. In the theater I was in tears laughing at some shit while the rest of the audience looked at me like i was a freak. (It's happened before - I'm used to it.)
anyway, Bill Paxton. Wow. Keep an eye on this guy.
OK, i have important stuff to do as far as you know . . . .
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
kaleidotest
I'm putting up a quicktime test here just to see how it plays online. it looks great on Final Cut Pro while i'm editing, but here it loses all it's detail. damn. more coming but this is a little disconcerting. maybe i should just go back to 16mm.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
Is This a Test?
Please answer to the best of your ability.
1. Which of the following best describes your feelings about this first question?
a. Confusion
1. Which of the following best describes your feelings about this first question?
a. Confusion
b. Annoyance
c. Laughter
d. Scorn
2. When taking tests regarding things and stuff, do answers come easy to you?
a. yes
b. no
3. When answering the previous question, if there had been a third option, 'sometimes" would you have checked that instead?
a. yes
b. no
c. sometimes
4. If you were a test, which of the following would you be?
a. Drivers
b. I.Q.
c. Breathalyzer
d. Rorschach
5. Looking back, would you say your life has been:
a. easy
b. difficult
c. sometimes
6. What word or phrase would best describe this question?
a. yes
b. no
c. only in an emergency
d. is this some kind of a joke?
(if you answered "D", please go to question 6a.)
6A. If this is some kind of joke, who or what is the joke 'on' ?
a. the status quo
b. test taking in general
c. yourself
d. them
(if you answered "C", please go to question 6B)
6B Oh come on! We're just having fun here, OK?
a. OK.
b. not OK.
(If you answered "B", go to 6c, for chrissakes)
6C. What's your fucking problem?
a. little or no sense of humor.
b. questionable upbringing.
c. Republican.
d. just not that into this kind of stuff.
7. Would you say you are more of an answer or more of a question?
a. answer.
b. question.
8. Would your friends say you are more of a blueprint or a haiku?
a. blueprint
b. haiku.
9. If your life is a baseball game, what inning are you in?
a. 1st
b. 2nd
c. 3rd
d. 4th
e. 5th
f. 6th
g. 7th
h. 8th
i. 9th
j. extra innings
k. one out in the bottom of the fifth, with the score tied. men on first and third and Derek Lee up.
l. I'm more into football.
10. Would you rather have pizza or sex?
a. pizza.
b. sex.
c. sometimes.
d. I'm more into football.
11. Is this test almost over?
a. yes
c. Laughter
d. Scorn
2. When taking tests regarding things and stuff, do answers come easy to you?
a. yes
b. no
3. When answering the previous question, if there had been a third option, 'sometimes" would you have checked that instead?
a. yes
b. no
c. sometimes
4. If you were a test, which of the following would you be?
a. Drivers
b. I.Q.
c. Breathalyzer
d. Rorschach
5. Looking back, would you say your life has been:
a. easy
b. difficult
c. sometimes
6. What word or phrase would best describe this question?
a. yes
b. no
c. only in an emergency
d. is this some kind of a joke?
(if you answered "D", please go to question 6a.)
6A. If this is some kind of joke, who or what is the joke 'on' ?
a. the status quo
b. test taking in general
c. yourself
d. them
(if you answered "C", please go to question 6B)
6B Oh come on! We're just having fun here, OK?
a. OK.
b. not OK.
(If you answered "B", go to 6c, for chrissakes)
6C. What's your fucking problem?
a. little or no sense of humor.
b. questionable upbringing.
c. Republican.
d. just not that into this kind of stuff.
7. Would you say you are more of an answer or more of a question?
a. answer.
b. question.
8. Would your friends say you are more of a blueprint or a haiku?
a. blueprint
b. haiku.
9. If your life is a baseball game, what inning are you in?
a. 1st
b. 2nd
c. 3rd
d. 4th
e. 5th
f. 6th
g. 7th
h. 8th
i. 9th
j. extra innings
k. one out in the bottom of the fifth, with the score tied. men on first and third and Derek Lee up.
l. I'm more into football.
10. Would you rather have pizza or sex?
a. pizza.
b. sex.
c. sometimes.
d. I'm more into football.
11. Is this test almost over?
a. yes
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Alphabet prose #1
Another beautiful camera describes everything.
Fail-safe gumbo heads issue jumbled knowledge like manmade normalcy.
Oysters panic quietly, repressing sarcasm.
Tiny unpaid volunteers wash x-rated yucky zippers.
Fail-safe gumbo heads issue jumbled knowledge like manmade normalcy.
Oysters panic quietly, repressing sarcasm.
Tiny unpaid volunteers wash x-rated yucky zippers.
woof world
I've been reading the dictionary again lately and have found some more interesting things. Yes there are the descriptions, meanings, pronunciations and all those other facts we crave and adore. But if you step back, metaphorically speaking, and really explore the book with a naïve curiosity you can find those beautiful things you weren't looking for in the first place. It all started for me with the Guide Words. Those two words linked together randomly and forever at the top of each page, telling us exactly where we're at, alphabetically. The first pair of these that caught my eye was:
Hmmm. That's kind of an interesting find. Not only does it roll off the tongue but it conjures up boisterous images of excitable pasta.
I wondered if there were more of these two word chance poems so I dug further:
The place was nuts with 'em! Elf emancipation?! I love this book. Now go find some of your own.
Next I realized the book was smothered with fiction. The dictionary!? This holy reference book of all that is factual? That's right. Somewhere in the bowels of the dictionary company there are men and women writing fiction for our literary edification. I'm talking here of the usage sentences. Those short italicized sentences with our word used in them.
My old Thornton Barnhart Junior Dictionary copyright 1965 is full of the shortest pieces of fiction written. For starters, there's this woman Mary and she is all over this book:
They named the baby Mary.
Mary knows all her chickens by name.
Mary abhors snakes.
Mary loitered along the street, looking into all the shopwindows.
Mary held the baby.
Mary seems to be a popular name in 1965. There were a few references to Ruth, a couple to Helen but Mary seems to be the girl of choice here. Of course like most good books there were a variety of characters:
In a fit of abstraction Ed forgot to eat.
It was a lifeless party until Tony came.
Senator Tompkins is sure he will get support from the grass roots.
John's room was a chaotic mess of clothes, books and toys.
James married Ida.
It was time for some heavier artillery. The grade school dictionary has a simple beauty but I was ready for my Webster's Unabridged. This is where it got scary. Did I mention it was a hot day? And humid? It was. And so I opened her up and looked for the first italicized sentence I could find:
Time just seems to creep along on these hot summer days.
OK. So it's going to be like that, huh? This dictionary meant business. None of this windowshopping and chicken naming stuff.
macaroni madhouse
Hmmm. That's kind of an interesting find. Not only does it roll off the tongue but it conjures up boisterous images of excitable pasta.
I wondered if there were more of these two word chance poems so I dug further:
insane inspiration
monosyllabic moon
let's liberalize
tuneful turf
homosexual hooray
externally Ezra
hallucinatory handicap
arrogant articulation
Newtonian night
elf emancipation
llama lockup
flirtation floss
island itch
woof world
monosyllabic moon
let's liberalize
tuneful turf
homosexual hooray
externally Ezra
hallucinatory handicap
arrogant articulation
Newtonian night
elf emancipation
llama lockup
flirtation floss
island itch
woof world
The place was nuts with 'em! Elf emancipation?! I love this book. Now go find some of your own.
Next I realized the book was smothered with fiction. The dictionary!? This holy reference book of all that is factual? That's right. Somewhere in the bowels of the dictionary company there are men and women writing fiction for our literary edification. I'm talking here of the usage sentences. Those short italicized sentences with our word used in them.
My old Thornton Barnhart Junior Dictionary copyright 1965 is full of the shortest pieces of fiction written. For starters, there's this woman Mary and she is all over this book:
They named the baby Mary.
Mary knows all her chickens by name.
Mary abhors snakes.
Mary loitered along the street, looking into all the shopwindows.
Mary held the baby.
Mary seems to be a popular name in 1965. There were a few references to Ruth, a couple to Helen but Mary seems to be the girl of choice here. Of course like most good books there were a variety of characters:
In a fit of abstraction Ed forgot to eat.
It was a lifeless party until Tony came.
Senator Tompkins is sure he will get support from the grass roots.
John's room was a chaotic mess of clothes, books and toys.
James married Ida.
Time just seems to creep along on these hot summer days.
OK. So it's going to be like that, huh? This dictionary meant business. None of this windowshopping and chicken naming stuff.
Don't build your future on dreams.
The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.
I hope to be myself again soon.
and so it goes . . .
The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.
I hope to be myself again soon.
and so it goes . . .
Her Lucid Medusa
Like a shady imposter, her lawn tennis was secondary to his rising jalopy.
His hasty timber a shadowy Portugal.
Fragrant rules like suddenly mythical.
To is of means is a one of just really.
Clumsy fur come running face.
His methodical sensibility sprang open like a brokenhearted epiphany.
them words was just angular and curvy
doodles with and without meaning.
Her lucid medusa danced a ferocious geometry.
Dirty filthy lucidity, a narrow adornment unnoticed.
The davenport spelled trouble.
His hasty timber a shadowy Portugal.
Fragrant rules like suddenly mythical.
To is of means is a one of just really.
In regards to edible pirouettes, she delivered.
Mr. Jones' God is almost a treasure!
Mr. Jones' God is almost a treasure!
Clumsy fur come running face.
His methodical sensibility sprang open like a brokenhearted epiphany.
them words was just angular and curvy
doodles with and without meaning.
Her lucid medusa danced a ferocious geometry.
Monday, July 9, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
fashion statement
sometimes in life your elders will dress you in clothes you might not have picked yourself if you had been able to fully comunicate your ideas of fashion in an articulate manner. In this photo, Grandma Coleman and i enjoy each others company at 714 Augusta Avenue. i'm guessing they picked up this outfit on one of their trips to florida.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
I'm a copywriter, I think
Saturday, May 19, 2007
twelve classmates

here's a picture of me and eleven of my class mates circa 1972. (If you're reading this you probably weren't born yet) but here is another test in spilling images onto this page.
from upper left: Timmy Johnson, Charlie Knowles, Scott Miller, Bob Nelson, Jeff Wisser, Mike Thompson, Jeff Phillips, Marianne Mosiman, Jo Ann Selin, Yolanda Tamayo, Keith Rauschenberger, Steve Izatt.
girl, sweeping
Friday, May 18, 2007
Questions and answers.
Evites are for E-holes.
If “they” are right then 3 heads must be better than 2.
In regards to the finer things in life . . .Who says?
Is the universe provable?
Warren Moon has no effect on the earth’s tides, as far as we know.
If you believe in God . . . Lookout!! There’s a vampire behind you!!
Barden’s Ping Pong roommate turned out not to be.
The answer to life is unspellable.
Ways to not spend money….Stop going into stores.
Leave it to Jesus.
Don’t believe everything you read.
If “they” are right then 3 heads must be better than 2.
In regards to the finer things in life . . .Who says?
Is the universe provable?
Warren Moon has no effect on the earth’s tides, as far as we know.
If you believe in God . . . Lookout!! There’s a vampire behind you!!
Barden’s Ping Pong roommate turned out not to be.
The answer to life is unspellable.
Ways to not spend money….Stop going into stores.
Leave it to Jesus.
Don’t believe everything you read.
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