Just be happy it's not my short film. That's even more pathetic.
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/30/2006 -
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I'm going to see the real live
PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION this Saturday in Buffalo. I'm hoping to run into Blohan, while praying that Virginia Fartface Madsen won't be there.
I can hear old Garrison now "Where the women are pink-cheeked, the men are robust, and the children are pink-cheeked and robust..."
Stupid TV, be more funny.
I'll be taking a flask.
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/29/2006 -
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These are the SEARCH ENGINE KEYWORDS that led people to my site this month.
Maybe if I wrote "Britney vagina" somewhere on my blog I'd get more search engine hits. But I wouldn't stoop to that level.
Here are some other words that I do want associated with my site:
Zentai
Rebound
Hack
Castles
Rideout
Eventually
Tar
Sparkles
Spiteful
Tickles
Mockingbird
Labels: DESPERATE AND SAD
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/29/2006 -
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After a beautiful weekend spent saying goodbye to our family cottage I came back to Toronto and updated my ONLINE PORTFOLIO with some junk you may or may not have seen (4 new photo-shoots and some film work that has been posted elsewhere).
The Cat Power concert was beautiful. Seeing her with the band was incredible. But she really has to start doing shows at venues where you can sit down, cause (most of) her music ain't for dancin' I'm afraid.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON.
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/27/2006 -
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CAT POWER and the Memphis Rhythm Band, Wednesday night at The Phoenix in Toronto.
This way if you all know where I am you'll never have to run into me. Perfect, no?
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, DESPERATE AND SAD
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/19/2006 -
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Thought I'd post an old favourite for you by one of my favourite artists, DAVID SHRIGLEY.
Watch the video for Blur's "Good Song" HERE.
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, DEATH AND DRAMA, DESPERATE AND SAD, HOW TO PROCRASTINATE, THINGS I WISH I'D DONE
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/17/2006 -
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This post has taken on a religious tone. I didn't plan it. It's just that this is so cool and that's the name of the image...
Labels: MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/15/2006 -
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I've come across three different artists making sculptures out of paper using pre-existing illustrated material in the past 24 hours.
They are as follows:
THOMAS ALLEN (Pictured above).
PETER CALLESEN
SU BLACKWELL
I promise I'll stay on my side of the spine.
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, DESPERATE AND SAD
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/14/2006 -
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KEVIN BLECHDOM this Friday at...aherm...The Drake in Toronto.
UPDATE:
Just got back from Blechdom show. She was the best of the group - but I have to say that Knifehand Chop was great as well. The bass hugged me and I am not afraid to say I liked it.
But Kevin was amazing. I was disappointed that she didn't play "Day to Day", but she more than made up with it by covering "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton/Whitney Houston. I was laughing so hard I was crying, which is better than my usual "crying so hard I was crying". It was well worth the ten bucks and the humiliation of going to a concert alone. I rushed home to blog about it.
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, DESPERATE AND SAD
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/13/2006 -
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Google yourself IN THE PAST.
I'm just trying to do the best I can.
I'm just trying to do the best I can.
Labels: DESPERATE AND SAD, HOW TO PROCRASTINATE, NOBODY LIKES A NERD
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/12/2006 -
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FELICE VARINI says about his 2D SHAPES PAINTED IN 3D SPACE:
"The painted form achieves its coherence when the viewer stands at the vantage point.When he* moves out of it, the work meets with space generating infinite vantage points on the form. It is not therefore through this original vantage point that I see the work achieved; it takes place in the set of vantage points the viewer can have on it."
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, DESPERATE AND SAD
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/12/2006 -
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POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/10/2006 -
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I'm going to be romantic and a bit lame tonight instead of whatever I've been on here up until now.
I've been (slowly) reading a book called SHANTARAM by Gregory David Roberts since I was in the airport in Singapore in August eating McDonald's breakfast (scold me all you like, I really don't mind). The website ruins it a bit because it's so terrible and because I just found out that it's going to be made into a movie starring Johnny "Assface" Depp (whom some have said I look like until they meet me and realize that I'm just good at lighting and that I look more like a gingleberry-turtle than a star).
Nonetheless, there are some really nice quotes in the book that got me, such as these:
"Other women cry hard, and all the loveliness in them collapses in the agony of it."
"Someone told me once that if you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself." (This is my downfall).
"...men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate."
"There is nothing so depressing as good advice..."
"For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested, and loyalty. But there is no test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love."
"The wrong thing, for the right reasons."
This post is the wrong thing for the right reasons, and sometimes I like being wrong. (For more on the wrong thing for the right reasons, check out the BEST FRIENDS FOREVER episode of South Park (full episode streams in new window when you click).
So now that the spell that was cast over me this week by the shocking first glimpse of the long dark winter ahead has nearly lifted, and now that democrats are taking back the United States, and Rumsfeld has Rums-fled, I feel myself getting back to my dancefloor side after a few dark days (a few dark days is not so bad, all things told).
I'm beginning to understand the contradictions of who I am versus who I want to be (not to mention how I want you all to think of me). I made up this quote, which you can quote me on:
"You can be everything, even if it all conflicts. You could be The Bible and somebody would still have faith in you."
That said, I've never been to church.
(Here are some more quotes from the book):
"...every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret."
"We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die."
"The simple fact is that fighting to save a life is a better and more enduring reason than fighting to end one."
"...if we all learned what we should learn, the first time round, we wouldn't need love at all."
"...I also agree with Winston Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won't change his mind and can't change the subject."
"At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart, Prabaker. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep."
I've been (slowly) reading a book called SHANTARAM by Gregory David Roberts since I was in the airport in Singapore in August eating McDonald's breakfast (scold me all you like, I really don't mind). The website ruins it a bit because it's so terrible and because I just found out that it's going to be made into a movie starring Johnny "Assface" Depp (whom some have said I look like until they meet me and realize that I'm just good at lighting and that I look more like a gingleberry-turtle than a star).
Nonetheless, there are some really nice quotes in the book that got me, such as these:
"Other women cry hard, and all the loveliness in them collapses in the agony of it."
"Someone told me once that if you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself." (This is my downfall).
"...men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate."
"There is nothing so depressing as good advice..."
"For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested, and loyalty. But there is no test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love."
"The wrong thing, for the right reasons."
This post is the wrong thing for the right reasons, and sometimes I like being wrong. (For more on the wrong thing for the right reasons, check out the BEST FRIENDS FOREVER episode of South Park (full episode streams in new window when you click).
So now that the spell that was cast over me this week by the shocking first glimpse of the long dark winter ahead has nearly lifted, and now that democrats are taking back the United States, and Rumsfeld has Rums-fled, I feel myself getting back to my dancefloor side after a few dark days (a few dark days is not so bad, all things told).
I'm beginning to understand the contradictions of who I am versus who I want to be (not to mention how I want you all to think of me). I made up this quote, which you can quote me on:
"You can be everything, even if it all conflicts. You could be The Bible and somebody would still have faith in you."
That said, I've never been to church.
(Here are some more quotes from the book):
"...every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret."
"We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die."
"The simple fact is that fighting to save a life is a better and more enduring reason than fighting to end one."
"...if we all learned what we should learn, the first time round, we wouldn't need love at all."
"...I also agree with Winston Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won't change his mind and can't change the subject."
"At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart, Prabaker. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep."
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, DESPERATE AND SAD
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/08/2006 -
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POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/07/2006 -
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Why didn't anyone ever tell me about LUKAS MOODYSSON'S film SHOW ME LOVE when I was coming out? This incredibly acted (as far as I can tell, it's all in Swedish) story of two small-town girls figuring out that they're lezzies caught me off guard when I threw it into the DVD player today as I attempted to squelch the hangover I had from drinking too many KALIMOTXOS at my birthday party and getting no sleep last night.
Everything's gonna be perfect from here on out...I just know it.
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/05/2006 -
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