Thank you Wally and Brian for the photography “[Referencing Chinese Three Character Classics]:‘People at birth are inherently good.’ I still truly believe [that] today, even though sometimes it might seem like the opposite is true, but… I have always found goodness in the people I met everywhere I went in the world. So this isContinue reading “Spectacle Theater, NYC”
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The Comfort of Outsider Art
I finally got to experience the audacious incompetence of Spirit airlines myself by not experiencing it at all i.e. they cancelled the flight, not even providing a reroute to Orlando for the transfer flight to Montreal. And because the transfer is with Air Canada “it’s not Spirit’s problem” die Spirit die die die die die—WithContinue reading “The Comfort of Outsider Art”
All Teeth
Every year around this time I think the most about Hadrian. And every time I listen to this song, I think of him. At the time of this writing, 98% of everyone I know from my life a-year-and-back-ago is taking an indefinite vacation from my face (I know these chickens knew my jackass dad diedContinue reading “All Teeth”
Surprise
https://brokenpencil.com/canzine/online-canzines-double-bill-of-lo-fi-canadian-epics/ Online Canzine’s Double Bill of Lo-Fi Canadian Epics! Join us on May 5th at 6 pm EST for a double bill of lo-fi Canadian Epics. Broken Pencil and Online Canzine in association with The Laser Blast Film Society and Gold Ninja Video present a special online double bill of DUEL ON THE RIVER and OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO. Tune in at: https://www.twitch.tv/brokenpencilmag
Gloomy day gloomy single
From the physical media re-release of the OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO + The Rest Of OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO records, exclusively handed out at screenings. This track had been haunting me for the longest time, and I was never content with how it turned out on the initial The Rest Of OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO release. So IContinue reading “Gloomy day gloomy single”
Insomniac Dreams
Written way-on-the-nose to “Pictures of You” and “Out of This World” by The Cure. To every beautiful-ass amazing-ass badass person who came to Insomniac’s screening of Open Doom Crescendo at Eyesore Cinema—I am forever grateful, humbled, and moved. Tell everyone you can. Forget about me—this kind of creative giving (n.) that you give (v.) lifeContinue reading “Insomniac Dreams”
Insomniac presents
Thursday 13 April 7pm @ Eyesore Cinema 1176 Bloor W. in TORONTO cause yknow mtl is figuring itself out Try to take at least the morning shift of Friday off to existentially recover/process.
Artist Perspective Panel Discussion
This is substantially pretty unwatchable but y’all kept requesting it. tl;dr
5-alive years later
5-alive years since the only two programmers on planet earth who’d enable me did enable me, and to this day I’ve yet to make worthwhile all the collateral existentialism they’ve endured for giving me a screen. Since then I’ve only made increasingly inaccessible work, making my barely-programmable first feature that they bet on look mainstreamContinue reading “5-alive years later”
Happy New Year
Written to David Bowie’s “I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday” A Lunar New Year’s greeting from your local hero nihilist: Another year of heartwarmth and heartbreak await. They await equally contradictorily. They arrive with their tongues in each other’s mouths. But I don’t know why it feels different this year. No No I do, toContinue reading “Happy New Year”
OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO 