weekend itinerary

****Friday****

7pm - Serious Lunch @ UCB Theater

10pm- One Step Beyond @ The American Museum of Natural History.

All day- Give warm birthday thoughts to "leaper" Robert Johnson. Its his 9th Birthday. YAY!


****Saturday****

VJ ME w/ Theo & The SkyScrapers, Shiragirl & more at GO! For The Cure Benefit. Supreme Trading. 8pm

ROCK!

Nada Surf plugs me in Much Music Interview!!!

This is why it's perfectly healthy to google yourself once in a while, and not at all narcissistic... (mmmmhmmm....)

MM: Do you have any favourite recent music videos? Do you still watch videos?

Matthew: I guess I watch them on YouTube. A friend of mine, BA Miale, she won the Les Savy Fav contest to do a cheap video for them and she just did another one.

Thanks Matthew, you made my 2008 and its only February! Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Karma Farming OP- this Saturday

Girlz in the hood asked me to provide the visual stimulation this Saturday at their GO! For the Cure Tour show benefiting women's cancer research @ NYC's Callen-Lorde health center.

Bands include ex- Lunachic Theo & The Skyscrapers, The warped-tour-crashing-then-dominating Shiragirl and many more.

It all takes place in the backroom of Supreme Trading
213 N. 8th St, (b/w DRiggs & Roebling) Williamsburg Brooklyn
Doors @ 8.
$12

GanoRyan

My friends Billy & Brendan Ryan (formerly of the Bogmen) have been playing with the Femme-tastic Gordan Gano for years. They've finally decided to make it official and record an album, even play a few shows. This makes me very happy, two of my favorite bands coming together like this - it's like fucking macaroni & cheese.

Give 'em a listen. Especially "Under The Sun". But its one of those songs that just builds and builds so listen the whole way through. It might make you cry. In a good way.

song obsession of the moment...

Standing in the road - Blackfoot Sue

Kinda been on repeat lately, even when I'm not listening to it. Look how happy...



OK, now read the lyrics:

I'm standing in the road
A man without a home
My friends all pass me by and never say a word
I'm feeling so alone
And all the things I've known
Just seem to disappear and never reappear

I feel the rain and cold
My clothes have all been sold
And all my shouts for help just seem to go unheard
I'm a just a lonely man
Won't someone lend a hand
Don't leave me on my own just standing in the road

There's no way they wrote those lyrics without being in a dark, dark place.
But look how happy.

The moral of the story is...

a. I shouldn't blog at 5am after drinking for free all night.

b. Next time you want to shit on someone because you feel like shit, why don't you just write that shit down instead and turn it into good shit?

Na na na na na...
(repeat and fade)

Tonight on a very special Youtuebsday...

That and whatever else you tell me to play...

He ain't heavy....

Let me rock the nepotism for a sec and give a plug (once again) to my little brother. This is where I'll be friday, let me know who'd like to join...



I've been preparing him for this his whole life:

site updates

Linkage up the wazoo.

Also, I've seen to have broke 2 tvs (how punk rock) in one week -- the one on my homepage, and the one in my living room. If anybody knows a thing or 5 about flash & dreamweaver, hit me up. Evidently, I pretend to know a lot more than i do.

I don't really care about the one in my living room. The tv links/projector combo seems to be working out nicely.

This has got to be my favorite pissing contest of all time

the rebuttal...

Craftwerk

I've been doing a lot with my hands recently. It's a combination of an influx of free art supplies from awesome awesome folks and the realization that creating in any visual medium only compliments my video stuff. And vice versa. I'm painting and collaging. Also, I find myself taking more pictures, jotting more things down in my notebook, appreciating other peoples pieces (OPP) more. Yesterday, I sat on the subway gazing at a broken window for a half hour.

The more you make stuff, the more you wanna make stuff. (DUH.)

My new "vertical blinds" courtesy of Stocki Fresh's ribbon collection.


more to come...