And when my telephone rings in the dark You say ‘Hey, I’m at the White Cross on Las Vegas Boulevard’ No matter where I am, I’ll get on a plane I’ll go anywhere to see you again –Red State Soundsystem, “Scatterlings + Refugees”
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Dark Miracle
I just reposted my microjournalism story “Dark Miracle”, by request from several readers. I no longer have all the images I embedded in the story, but the text is there for you to read, if you’re so interested.
My First After Effects Compositing Experiment
My First After Effects Compositing Experiment from jzellis on Vimeo. Shot with my iSight at Starbucks and composited in a few minutes. Not perfect, but a good first try, I think.
Chuck Heston died!
Sigh. I was never a fan of Heston’s politics — the exact opposite, actually — but dude, he was fucking Moses. I met Heston in high school. He was supporting the governor of Wyoming’s re-election campaign. i was writing about it for my high school newspaper. Dude was a total right-wing fascist. But afterwards, when […]
Yay!
I had been seriously sweating the vocal recording part of the album – I can’t afford a studio and my house is just not an optimal place to record. Luckily, Miss Melissa Marth of the Big Friendly Corporation has graciously agreed to let me use her new soundproofed studio / rehearsal space! So I’ll probably […]
Recent Neologisms
Douchelganger – Your douchebag twin. Someone who looks exactly like you, except they have frosted tips on their hair and they wear oversized Versace shades and Volcom shirts and they have sleeve tattoos with stars on their elbows and they call everybody “bra”. May be located anywhere in the world, but most often found in […]
The Album Title: Your Thoughts
Okay, so I’ve been going on the assumption that I was going to call the album Travelogues. But the more I think about it, that makes it sound like something of a concept album, which it’s not. It also sounds like some sort of world-music thing, which it kind of is, but not really at […]
A Terrible Beauty Is Born
I just finished the first draft of a Cthulhu comic script I’ve been working on with my buddy Josh Wagner (whose comic book Fiction Clemens is appearing this month, and you need to go buy it, or I’ll totally kick your ass). It’s the first real piece of fiction I’ve finished in a long time. […]
links for 2008-04-01
Strategy by Design | Fast Company Must remember — I am, essentially, what they call a T-shaped person. That’s my skillset. (tags: design strategy interesting)
Hard Decision
I’ve been really thinking a lot about the album and the direction I’m going with it. I love electronic music, but I’ve been deeply dissatisfied with the way the songs have been coming out. They’re just too cold and mechanistic, you know? So I’ve decided to re-record the album again. This time, though, it’s all […]