This was a little blurb in "FADER" magazine, that i thought was an interesting, semi-fucked up concept, but hilarious nonetheless:


" Musician and artist celebre, Jeremy Shaw (bka Circlesquare) has been doing some awesome wyld out shit up in Vancouver that only Canadians could pull off. Case in point: his exhibition DMT--A synthasized hallucinogenic that is, apparently, 15 times more powerful than your basic tab of Haight Street acid. No, but like seriously-- tripping their faces off. DMT  the Book is your armchair user's compendium of stills, complete with facetripper transcription from the videos. My favorite line is from buddy Eric's trip, when he drops, "My skin is always gonna be kind of dancey and weird...and cauliflowerish." Ther are also some nuggets about a goat lady and someone's body melting and flipping inside out, but i don't want to get all PSA and shit and scare you away from government-sponsered mood-elevators."
-Alec Wagner

so the first part of my series: "The Deconstruction of Oceania," has been sold. Yes that's right...it was a good night for me. My jellyfish that i worked for months on...have been sold. i was unsure how to price them...so i asked my brother..."What should i do?" 
So we broke it down... I spent over $100 to make them, and probably put in over 40 hours...like 2 and half months or three...i forget (they're still sort of unfinished, but the guy doesn't know that), so each jelly came out to $250. He wants the triple sooo $750. 
He wants to put them in his 2 month baby's room (which i asked if they would be too scary...he said no), and hang them from the ceiling. he lives in a loft so the ceilings are like 30 feet high. 
Sooo if he wants to make it a mobile...which i suggested, they'll get raised to $900, let's hope he wants to do that.
I was nervous at first thinking it was too much...then i thought it was too little...then i was completely unsure. Now that i think about it though...it really is my first piece i'm selling legitimately...so you know i don't have the cred yet...and it just makes sense i guess. i'm happy...i'll miss the kiddies though...my jelly family :(

Michael Francis Wiley doesn't have any arms, only has one leg, and he's 40...yet he managed to outrun Pasco County (FL) police. this guy is a fucking badass. i mean, maybe the police aren't too good...it is one of those bunk ass towns in FL (i've been to those towns, another world i tell you), but either way...this guy's got to be a sick driver. supposedly he's an asshole...has a serious criminal record. you know, drugs, alcohol...beating women, that sort of thing. one person who knew him stated, "He is one of the best driver's I've ever seen in my life. But he's the worst person i've ever met."
ha.

it's been a while. but this news coverage is too precious to not display openly. thanks to my dear old friend Dana Lee for showing me this...she knows where the funnies are at.
the news...a shambles i tell you. this is an undercover LA newscast about EMO kids. i sort of find it fascinating that the newscast started as purely factual, and then spiraled into some sort of melodrama. anyhoo...watch it, you'll laugh, and then get angry at how much the news doesn't do it's job. 



http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=3096234&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

amazing.

" what have i become?" 
this is what i ask julia as i enter our room at 2:45 am on thursday night, or friday morning, or whatever. i had a long strange night at work...i found out i was in debt...again. the good thing is that i made over $100 that night from tables randomly (sorry for using that word jesse) giving me money. i sat that football guy Carl Banks, of whom i didn't know at the time, so when a server told me i looked him up on wikipedia, and my manager caught me and made fun of me. I'm also almost positive i sat Dave Attel, but since the managers and servers at Chakra don't really know things except for sports and alcohol, i had no one to back me up, but i'm positive it was him, since my buddy "skateboard greg" reassured me today that it was probably him because he lives around here. if it was indeed him, he was a really nice guy, not creepy, and not even drunk, just very pleasant. his table tipped me $10 just for sitting them: thanks guys.
Back to the question i asked at the top of this silly post: I was caught eating crust from already eaten pizza out of a pizza box on the floor. As i hunched over the box, consuming with much vigor (mind you) i felt ashamed...so i did my laundry. 
more things happened this weekend...that resulted in my life feeling like it was crumbling a bit. julia still likes to exclaim (!!!)  to me, "JODIE, YOUR LIFE...IT'S CRAZY!"
"yes, yes...i know."
so last night i tried to clean my life up a bit by cleaning the bathroom for two hours...and giving myself bangs, which i immediately regretted.
this is sort of a silly silly post. i'm sorry guys.

MILLTOWN — Ava and Henry wanted to go on the run after robbing a convenience store. They go to the borough to hide out, but, is anyone really looking for them?

So is the premise of "Lovers on the Run," a student project partly filmed in Milltown, where the film's director and actress grew up.

Director Rachel Schaff said she was going for a "Bonnie and Clyde" theme for her film, and thought Milltown would be the perfect place to film it.

In the film, actors Ava and Henry rob a convenience store and shoot someone dead in New York City, and then hide out in Milltown, worried someone is looking for them. At the end of the film, the couple is stopped by a Milltown police officer for a broken tail light, and they drive off.

"It was the only place I could picture the scenes playing out," said Schaff, a sophomore at New York University.

Schaff and her 15-member crew, including assistant directors, a director of photography and the actors, were in Milltown from Feb. 23 to Feb. 25 to shoot the short film.

"I came up with the concept last year," said Schaff, 19. She said she hoped to finish a rough eight-minute cut by May.

The film, she said, would be about 15 to 20 minutes, and should be finished within the next year.

Aside from presenting it to her Color Sync class, she plans to enter it to the student intermediate film festival in New York City, and also is looking at different festivals.

Schaff recruited her friend Jodie Carr, who also grew up in Milltown, as Ava.

"Milltown fits the rural aesthetics that we needed," said Carr, a fine arts student at William Paterson University. "It was comfortable to film in my town."

Schaff and Carr used to shoot smaller projects and shorter films in the borough when they were in high school.

"It's really fun, and fun to do, but I have to focus on school," said Carr, noting that she worked many hours on this film.

"She's (Rachel) my friend. I want to help her out, and support her," said Carr, who is a painter and a sculptor.

Schaff has made eight small films, but this is her first color 16 mm negative film. She spent $2,500 out of pocket, mostly on film and equipment.

"My parents are helping out," Schaff said, with a laugh. The film is graded on the final cut, so she will get "incomplete" grade for the class in May, and continue working on the film next semester.

Also an aspiring writer, Schaff said she knew since she was a youngster what her career goals were.

"When I was in 4th-grade, I wrote down "director' when the teachers asked us what we wanted to do," she said.

A summer program at NYU during the summer before her senior year in high school helped fuel her passion.

"I'm positive I don't want to do mainstream Hollywood films," said Schaff, whose favorite film genres are drama and French New Wave.

My fish Enoki died tonight. He almost made a year, and we had an awesome relationship. I have this sort of quiet sadness thing happening to me, and I feel really stupid about it. I miss him.