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Bears and Chipmunks
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Some new Edison Proposal news!

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My birthday/graduation party was on Saturday. It was snazzy.

Following the party, the EP got together to practice.

I had to stick around after the party to help clean up so I arrived at practice about an hour late. As I was driving I thought to myself, \"I hope they write a new song and I can just show up and jump in.\"

Well, that\'s exactly what happened. And it\'s a good one! At least I think so. My new plan is to now show up an hour late to all practices!

With the addition of the two new songs, I think we have a good set list coming together for the February 12th show with Jemina Pearl at the M Room.

DETAILS:

Friday, Feb 12th / 9pm @ M Room

Jemina Pearl (of Be Your Own Pet)
Ecstatic Peace Records-- Jemina Pearl is the former frontgal for Nashville garage popsters Be Your Own Pet. With the Edison Proposal

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Here is a video demo of our new song. It\'s called Dizzy Grizzly. Best part about this video: Delicate High-Five ending!

EP: New Demo, \"Dizzy Grizzly\" from PUDP on Vimeo.

2.

In further EP news...

I think we have a chance to go viral! In my worldview, more than imitation, parody is the highest form of flattery. And with that, the Edison Proposal have been chipmunked!

Check out this new perspective on our song \"Stalker\". Not sure who it is... I\'m guessing a student of P.G.\'s.

Delightful!

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Naissance
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I am 35 today. I think this is cause for significant reflection.

I must say. I am happy.

I have accomplished more than I thought I might 13 years ago. Around that time I was a bit lost. However, due to a series of good happenings that for some reason have been graced upon me, most likely due to no effort of my own, but the support of others, I am where I am today.

Here I am today:

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This past weekend I saw a couple of movies that had me quite nostalgic.

The first was Adventureland. For me, I found the movie quite amazing.

It had a dual-nostalgia for me. And so, operating on these two levels it gave me a unique movie-going experience that I have never experienced heretofore.

The movie takes place in the summer of 1987. This was one of the best years and certainly summers of my life. I was 12.

Why, you ask? Well, for mainly two reasons: Baseball and Carmine.

My little league team won the town\'s championship that year! It is one of the great memories of my life, and one I will hold fondly in heaven. Also, that summer, Carmine and my friendship really burgeoned and I learned what the word \"friend\" can me. It is brother and sister. It is family.

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So, the power of 1987 came over me.

In the movie, the characters are older than I was in that year. The main character has just graduated college.

As I mentioned earlier, 13 years ago, I had also just graduated from college and that time in my life was a little scary. For me, as for him, the certainty and bravado we had as undergrads got tipped over.

I had a plan. It didn\'t pan.

However, this ushered in a completely spontaneous and excellent period in my life. The next two years were great. Then, I finally went to grad school and began to grow up. Sort of... And, one thing led to anther, and here I am.

The movie uses a lot of great 80\'s music as the soundtrack. Much of the obvious stuff: Falco\'s Amadeus!

But also some lesser known stuff.

They rocked some great Lou Reed/VU numbers as well as The Replacements. And wow, I haven\'t thought about them since playing with Cordalene in the 2000-2002 period... They were a big influence on the band.

The movie ends with, quite effectively, Unsatisified.

I forgot how much I liked this song.

Paul Westerberg\'s vocals have all the necessary and justified anger and urgency of youth. It is righteous indignation demanding more from love. You feel the song in your throat.

Listen:

The other film I saw was Youth in Revolt. Once again, it\'s a film that speaks to urgency, naivety, foolishness, passion, anger... youth. I am convinced these are the greatest of all the ingredients of love and are only taken advantage of by the most reckless of spirits. A great partnership for youth.

In this way, the classic saying, \"Youth is wasted on the young,\" does not fit. Here they have one up on us... They give over to their hearts instead of their brains.

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Reshoot, the shot, $h!t...
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I wasn\'t happy with the first outdoor shoot for the Whitman Faces piece. Actually, I love the way it looked (Thanks Steve!), but I didn\'t like me reading the poem, and I didn\'t have enough of me just staring. So I re-shot it last night, myself (Sorry Steve!).

Let me tell you this, 8 minutes is much longer when you are standing outside with no shirt on and it\'s 27 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Oh Henry!
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This has been on my mind of late:

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Act 3, Scene 1

SCENE I. Westminster. The palace.

Enter KING HENRY IV in his nightgown, with a Page

KING HENRY IV

Go call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick;
But, ere they come, bid them o\'er-read these letters,
And well consider of them; make good speed.

Exit Page

How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature\'s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee
And hush\'d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull\'d with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common \'larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy\'s eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them
With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds,
That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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Bookface and Videotrace
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Lots of little newsies today.

1.

I have finally ripped and compressed Enthusiast: The 9th Art. It\'s a little painful to watch. There are some nice moments, but they seem overshadowed by the massive technical shortcomings. On a meta level, it\'s a document of a documentary. Consider it a documentary on my development as well as comics.

Anyway, to watch it, you must guess the password. It\'s my second favorite superhero.

Email me for a hint if you can\'t get it. Though I doubt anyone is reading this except for maybe Justin and Kyle, so I don\'t expect to get any emails.

[UPDATE - I REMOVED ENTHUSIAST. AFTER I TOLD JUSTIN THE PASSWORD, I WATCHED SOME OF IT AGAIN AND THE SOUND WAS HORRIBLE. MOST OF IT WAS IN MONO, IT WAS BAD. I HAVE RECOMPRESS AND POST LATER]

2.

Still in development on the Whitman project for the gallery piece. I think I\'m finally moving in a good direction with it. Here are some still pulled from the video.

Previously I posted Whitman\'s Faces poem. The Face is something I have been giving serious consideration to for a while now. It is at the heart of my writing in media and comics when considering the Other and ethical responsibility. The face is our first encounter with the other.

This has me thinking about Facebook, and what is this thing. I see these little faces, their updates, their thoughts, opinions... But what do I know I them. They\'re passing, peripheral. They are persona. Can I know them? Are these representations important?

That\'s what I am looking for in this piece.

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As previously mentioned the Edison Proposal has been working on a new single. I like the direction the song is going in. I filmed the recording process and am editing it into a low-fi video of the song and the days events.

Here is a clip:

4.

Finally, and regarding the new EP song... Stefan likes the track and will play cello on it! That will be recorded sometime within the week of Jan. 24th.

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