bushwick bird

job interviews are so retarded to me. I hate the application proccess. so stupid the protocol of copying the exact information i put on my resume to their form of application. fucking stupid then the interview where I can't stop from adjusting my hands and legs, speaking with a sight shakiness in my voice like i'm afraid of getting hired.  but the thing is i am overqualified for all of these positions in this tryfe city full of closet drug addicts and alcoholics.  i see people make it here through that. but how real is it to just get paid to party? i think this is the only place where that could be a way of life. maybe i'm jealous that it can work for some people but not for me. i saw a dead baby bird on my way to the interview.  on my way home i picked up a pack of cigarettes and walked by the local bum that practically lives on a bus bench. he of course asked me for a cigarette, a lady waiting for the bus asked me too. i told them they could share, but then on second look this lady look relatively clean and normal, so sharing with homeless jesus was probably something she wouldnt want to do. i decided id give her one too, thank god i did.  she told me there was a box of books right there that i could look through someone just left it.
so for the price of 2 cigarettes i got 4 practically new books
-Diary of a Madman (and other stories) by Nikolai Sogol
-The Idiot- Fyodor Dostoevsky
-The Sound and Fury-William Faulkner
-The Darling-Russel Banks

already half way through diary of a madman.

Into The Abyss (2011)

Werner Herzog's 2011 film Into The Abyss, a documentary about a man on death row and the humans he effected with his choices.  I enjoy the way Herzog always handles his interviewees.  He asks questions from an objective yet relative perspective.  The emotions and personalities he captures on camera in this will definetly break through your wall of blocked emotions.  you are able to see the inner workings of an Texas group that is riddled with crime and hick excitement.  what made me decide to blog about this is the great camera work around 1 hour 4 minutes, where there is a red camero. the camera man keeps the reflection of the camera smoothly out of the shot the entire time, then when the scene ends he shows the camera in the reflection and manually zooms into blackness, flawlessly transitioning to the next scene. 

Black Pus, Buck Gooter, Mounds 4/13/2012

Went to death by audio to check out a long time favorite musician that is one of the people that inspired me to move to new york.  I went with my girlfriend we were chilling to the other bands drinking some pbr's rolling cigarettes.  when buck gooter came on (a  two piece noise duo or i dont know what to call them) thats when we decided we must purchase the lame 1$ earplugs they were definetly out to take some  kids hearing home with them.
we saved our joint for right before black place, chippendale was watching mounds right next to me when we decided to spark up our tree's.  after we got stoned the complete scene changed and we both became very weak in the legs and i couldnt take myself off the wall when he started playing i think my mind was blown for longer than any other show.  watching his feet twitch and hit his loop and wah pedals was the only view we really had, but it was so worth it.

David Lynch Art Exhibit

this was at jack tilton art gallery right on the edge of central park.  I wasnt able to make the opening where the man himself made an appearance.  The gallery had 2 floors and a theater showing a less than minute movie on loop of a strange egg cracking and glowing.  the tilton gallery was nice, i had tried to go before the last day but got lost and showed up 4 minutes after it closed.
here are some pictures:

Lil' B at NYU

I haven't stopped looking at everyone like a baby, it has helped my life. glad i didnt go in person tho
'nuff said
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Doomsday device

finally built this little toy noise maker housed in a pencil box, highly recommended to any beginner that wants some soldering practice before they fuck up one of their precious toy keyboards. you dont have to do much circuitry, just folllow simple instructions and find body contacts. I plan on adding some potss and things to it. I've also bent a casio sk-5 and a yamaha pss, but this is a first kit i've built.  I also have an atari punk console that I'm going to be building soon.