Archive for May, 2007
May 31, 2007 | Filed under: la famiglia, misadventures
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We continue our exploration of Planet Nana with a journey atop the planet’s surface. The terrain is somewhat rocky, bound on three sides by a turbulent sea. If one ventures too close to the shore and is not careful, there is the possibility of either getting caught in a riptide or having their body smashed against the jagged jetty, or both.
You shouldn’t travel to the Planet Nana without appropriate safety gear. The range is wide: you may need as little as a life-jacket or as much as full titanium body armor, depending on the thickness of your skin. Please choose accordingly.
12:07 pm | 19 Comments
May 28, 2007 | Filed under: la famiglia, misadventures
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After much planning and plotting Our Gang headed down to sunny Miami, Florida to visit my Nana on her 86th birthday. My Mother and her hubby, my Aunt and myself have all made this trip separately over the years with my visitation being by far the most lax, having gone once when I was five and then again at twenty (bad, bad, naughty granddaughter, I know). We have never made this pilgrimage as a family. The trip was to be brief–fly down Friday morning, fly back Sunday morning– about as fast and forceful as a blow to the skull with a sledgehammer, which is what we all felt like when we left.
We never knew what hit us.
Music:
Dill Pickles Rag (Xylophone Solo)
William H. Reitz
1922
Courtesy of the Internet Archive
2:54 pm | 9 Comments
May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Head on over to the Vlog Deathmatch and vote! Quite a delectable video buffet happening, there. There are retro remakes, visits to far away lands, animated techno, a public display of punk rock, crooning classics, subtle New Wave Bush-bashing, a (very) tall glass of EuroSmooth, artness, and old-skool rappin’. But before you fall prey to her track-suit stylin’, note that trash-talking Irina character has called you OUT! You got served! You, readers and watchers of MMMofM , you! Are you going to let her talk to you like that? Verily I say unto you no, bi-carbonate of soda–no! Protest with your vote (that is to say, vote for me. Duh.)!
Oh, who am I kidding. MC Slutsky is a lock, and deservedly so.
But vote for me anyway. I don’t expect to win, I just don’t want to come in last.
I went the classic ’80s MTV writhing-chick route, the product of some sort of mid-30’s crisis.* Think Samanatha Fox without the back-up dancers. BigB was such a good sport. He was somewhat concerned that neighbors would witness our shooting PG-13 video in our driveway and in the cow pasture next door. It’s a small town, smaller than Mayberry, even, and we don’t want to get a reputation for filming naughty video while trespassing. People might talk. And you can’t imagine how hot the hood of that truck was…
Putting this together was much harder than I expected. I knew I wanted to use the original videos (thanks Tommy and Joan!) and a special guest star, but lining up the guitar riffs and drum beats was a biotch. Never again. I echo BigB’s sentiment (come on, sing it with me!) “Crimson and Clover…Thank God it’s over!”
…until the next deathmatch, anyway…
*What? You know I’m technically not in my mid-30’s anymore? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nitpicker. Whatever. Shut up.
8:21 am | 9 Comments
May 12, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
For the first time in months I’ve actually got my fingers in five projects at a time. So much footage! None of it edited! I am lame.
But until Monday May 11, 2004 11:59PST all my efforts are being funneled into the latest Vlog Deathmatch Challenge.
And there you go. Music Video is the theme, and the competition is wicked fierce. My plan is to go the traditional route– to take us all back to that Golden Age of music videos, when men were men, and women wriggled atop cars in their underwear. No innuendo was too smutty, no sleazy cinematic angle went unexplored, no plot was too stupid, and cherry pies were dropped into laps like so many gentle Spring raindrops.
Good times, good times.
So go watch the Vlog Deathmatch Music Video Challenge. Voting begins May 15th and ends May 21st.
Vote. Enjoy. But most of importantly: Rock.
2:31 pm | 4 Comments
May 8, 2007 | Filed under: hello, nurse!, country mouse
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This morning I went to feed the birds and got a furry surprise.
FYI: birds aren’t furry.
UPDATE 5/9: less than six hours after I shot this video, I opened the box to show the babies to a friend. Gone. Vanished into thin air like Keyser freakin’ Soze.
“…and poof. Just like that, he’s gone”
4:17 pm | 12 Comments
