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I just saw this movie last night. Filmed in New Orleans just after of Kat­rina, it’s an alle­gory for the whole dis­as­ter. But it’s not preachy or edu­ca­tional or in any way lame. It’s actu­ally a totally per­fect film made by a RISD grad with the help of lots of other RISD grads, who you prob­a­bly know. Do what­ever you have to do to see this film. Here at two screen­ings, two tonight and one on Tues­day, all in New York. Kind of out of date web­site at court13​.com

Ba-​​ROCK the vote Sat­ur­day July 26^th 6pm - http://​www​.ba​-rock​brook​lyn​.org

an Obama fundraiser Glory at Sea, Egg, I Get Wet, Jet­ti­son Your Loved Ones and Death to the Tin­man will all be screen­ing con­tin­u­ously start­ing at 6pm at  East Coast Aliens - http://​www​.east​coastal​iens​.com

and

mid­night at Van Goghs Lounge - http://​www​.myspace​.com/​v​a​n​g​o​g​h​s​r​a​d​i​o​l​o​u​nge

147 Franklin Street (between India & Java) Greenpoint, NY

and “Love my Block” Sum­mer Film Fes­ti­val July 29^th 8pm - this looks awe­some, out­door Glory in this Amphitheater-​​like park in the bronx Bronx, over­look­ing the East River, highly rec­om­mended: http://​nycvote​.blogspot​.com/ at Bar­retto Point Park: 2÷5÷6 train. A pool shut­tle that leaves you directly in front of the park is also avail­able from the MTA. The Shut­tle runs every 30 min­utes and can be caught at 163 and Fox St or Long­wood and Hunts Point. 

Tonight was hilar­i­ous. I had a shoot for Heeb, I met the food edi­tor of a major mag­a­zine at Hill Coun­try Bar­beque to take his pic­ture sur­rounded by meat for the Heeb 100. It went pretty well: shot one roll in the smoke room, one at the table, and one in the back of a taxi cab. (Dri­ver was pretty down. He even held my flash.) I have like 15 busi­ness cards in my wal­let and 5lbs of brisket in my fridge. Hooray!

Also had a job inter­view today at the Queens Tri­bune to cover Bay­side and East Queens. I think that went pretty well also, but that pay would only nom­i­nally improve­ment my qual­ity of life: I’ll go from being totally broke to almost broke. Still wait­ing to here from an agency that man­ages pho­tog­ra­phers about inter­view to be a junior rep. Fail­ing all of that, I’ll try to get my job back at Amer­i­can Apparel. Then I can hook Amy Stein up with the tube tops she wants to badly.

Also, tonight is the first night I have both neg­a­tives and scan­ner all in the same place. But I’m too tired to any­thing. I’d go to sleep, but the dudes out in the street are blast­ing a song that goes like this:

Suck my dick,
Suck my moth­er­fuck­ing dick.
Suck my dick,
Suck my moth­er­fuck­ing dick, bitch. 

View from my roof, April 2008

I get back to the big bad city tomor­row but my room­mate has opted not to move back in. Sooo… I need some­one to move in with me for two months, from August 1 to Sep­tem­ber 30. I’m open to more than one per­son also, if you come attached to another indi­vid­ual. Here’s the pitch I wrote when I was look­ing to sub­let it back in May:

The place is located on the Dekalb Ave stop on the L or the Cen­tral Ave stop on the M. It’s a rad build­ing full of painters and drum­mers and the like.  The block is full of kids who play wif­fle ball in the street and crack open the fire hydrants when its warm out. There is a mas­sive base­ment only acces­si­ble thru this unit and roof access, per­fect for cook­outs. Just a quick walk to Life Café, the organic mar­ket and the other shops and gal­leries at Mor­gan Ave, gro­cery store and Kicker­bocker Ave shops just around the cor­ner. Maria Her­nan­dez Park two blocks away.

Here are some pic­tures. Let me know if you have any questions.

1. Blog­ger, Vil­lage Voice

When I get mar­ried, it should def­i­nitely be in the most impor­tant news­pa­per in the coun­try. Like this guy from They Might Be Giants. And then the song I write for my wife can be embed­ded into the arti­cle an as mp3. You know, just like this.