Prisencolinensinainciusol

Adriano Celetano, an Italian singer/songwriter, wrote and performed this song to sound like fake English back in the 70's:



Let me just say, I love my heritage.

And we're pretty badass dancers.

Puppets Bring Happiness #7

Yes, this is Kermit the Frog performing "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads.

I find it funny that they used stocks photos in the background. Even the Jim Henson company's keepin' a tight budget.

Good Times, Bad Times

Good times and bad times happened during the time I haven't posted.

Good time: Signed a lease on a studio apartment located in perhaps the coolest possible residential area in the Loop. Only $1177 a month for an apartment, party suite, fitness center (like I'll use it), 2 hot tubs, 2 saunas, a patio, a little park, complementary coffee, guest suites, a fancy Italian café next door, a morning shuttle bus that takes you up and down Michigan, and some sweetass modernist fountains outside. And it's just a 15 or 20-minute walk to the Michigan and Sharp buildings.

However, I'll need to crash somewhere from May 12th-June 5th since I can't move in 'till June 6th. Anyone need a housesitter?

Bad time: For some reason, after excitedly telling everyone that my piece was going to be in Art Bash, it didn't show up at Art Bash. I asked Leone, the teacher who sent it in, and she said she handed the copy of my video directly to the person who made the compilation that played at Art Bash. So hopefully that asshole will pay my tuition for the next three years, get fired, and/or be publicly humiliated in payment for the frustration and humiliation he/she caused me. Now I'm feeling like a total loser, so thanks, whoever you are and you know who you are. I missed out on seeing my work projected inside an actual theater setting because some twatface decided to be lazy and unprofessional that day.

Good time: I went to lunch with my uncle and my cousin who were in town on a short vacation. We ate at Cheesecake Factory and later on joined up with my aunt and my younger cousin to go to Filene's Basement. I bought two articles of Ben Sherman clothing for only $20 each. Such a bargain, I tell you.

Bad time: I was not born to gesso. Especially pieces of masonite.

...I can housesit from May 12th-June 5th...

The Strokes, The Julio, and The SOV

I've been listening to a lot of Lady Sovereign lately. I'm gonna try and deport her. But not really.

I also just finished my FIRST Barbie doll clothes dress (we will not speak of the "other" one... that was not a dress...) I hope Edmund erases those photos of it from last class and replaces them with this one, because I'm sure it looks more like a garment. It would be kinda funny if he had scissors in his hands and cut it up, then we could call him Edmund Scissorhands. But it wouldn't be that funny.

I've been thinking about my bad art project. I'm thinking about making an intentionally bad video (well, duh) of me making out with photos of characters from "Física o Química". It'll probably be a "remake" of the "Dedicated to the One You Love" project, with crappy titles and all (i.e. " Dedicated to THe 1 U loveprojet")

I hope The Lonely Island makes a video for "Boombox" soon. I'd like to get re-acquainted with my long lost love, Julian Casablancas.

OMG GET RANDOM!

Why, hola, Julio.

Hola, Julian.

Bleh Week

I have to re-do my Barbie doll clothes dress like, MAJORLY. I went to Joann Fabrics yesterday to get a pattern that hopefully turns out to be easy to make. The lady who cut my fabric was telling me that the Project Runway patterns (the one I got) tend to be confusing to read. I read through it a few times and so far it seems OK, since I'm only making a strapless dress. Then the lady (who was a bit older, by the way) apologized for talking to me so much because, "they hadn't given her any drugs." It's kinda hard yet easy to believe that the employees at Joann Fabrics have to be on drugs.

This week hasn't been too interesting. I started to re-do the subtitles of the first episode of "Física o Química", which I did back in November and December. They went a little too quickly the first time around, plus I can't find the file anymore, so I figured it'd be best to start over.

I'm thinking about having an (ironic) slumber party when I finally settle into my new apartment and showcasing it then. I'm thinking about having a lot of parties in my new apartment, actually...

I uploaded my "Please Don't Talk to Me I Fall in Love So Easily" video onto Vimeo:


Please Don't Talk to Me I Fall in Love So Easily from Kimberly P on Vimeo

Sigh.

Sigh. What was actually two days felt like four days. Now it's time to make an electronical playlist with corresponding You Tube links:

1. "Holiday" The Tough Alliance
Official Music Video

2. "First Class Riot" The Tough Alliance
Official Music Video

3. "Koka Kola Veins" The Tough Alliance
Official Music Video

4. "DVNO" Justice
Just the song and cover art

5. "Phantom" Justice
Just the song and cover art
As performed on a Game Boy

6. "Club Soda" Thomas Bangalter
Just the song and random pictures

7. "Zdarlight" Digitalism
Song and something with fireworks

"Are you trying to hide your mistakes, Dr. Jones?"

Some of My YouTube Crap

So today in Media Practices we had to make a video about the news and upload it onto YouTube. This is the fruit of my group's labor:



Not too fancy, not too shabby. We had about 30 minutes to film it on Photo Booth (the immediate capture on YouTube wasn't working.)

But, hey! Check out the music video I made back in September: