shawn avery

he's apparently the most important dj in music. hmmm. he's described as also being the warhol of the west. that kinda makes sense. celebrities flock to him, and visa versa. he's quiet small, and get's more play than kobe. it's a fascinating movie about fame, the loss of fame, and people who love music. rent it ...

this weekend was incredibly action packed. thursday night, jen and i went over to ashby's house for a four way pumpkin' carvin'. christine, ashby, jen, and i did up 5 different pumpkins... all of them rocked... we took pics... friday jen and i got comped tix (thanks amber) to the alabama theatre for the rocky horror picture show halloween ball. very cool venue for this kind of thing. i've seen rocky horror on halloween all over the country, and this was the best production. amber got her camera stolen, only to later find the abandoned purse/ wallet of the thief. a trade was made early saturday. some people are so stupid. the rocky horror crowd... i edited some more of the album. I'll probably be saying that phrase well into my 40's. went later to the nick where i hung out with what is coming to be defined as the "nick group." james, jody, his girlfriend, amber, judah and some others... until well after 5am. saturday was comprised of sleep, shower, and ...

i started the weekend in earnest by going to the surprisingly long concert : co-headlining jay-z + r. kelly. jay z is simply the best rapper/hip hop artist alive. well, maybe not better than mos def , but close. he was so good, it's scary. we had seats eye level with the stage, in the 4th row. jay-z could have touched us if he wanted to. but, alas he didn't. and then there's r. kelly. we thought that each artist would do a set by themselves. nope. they went back and for for over 2 1/2 hours, each doing 20-30 minute sets. they opened and closed the show together. we ran into judah and his brother, on the way into the arena, and everyone, including them, seemed to have to go on a smoke break whenever the r. kelly set came around. it was so strange to go to a show where you completely respect and identify with one artist, and you totally loath the other one. i'd never gone to an arena show specifically to see a major hip hop act before. for instance, in the past i had seen...

this morning on salon, i read this article about world sentiment toward the american people vs. bush's presidency. turns out that they actually like us - probably because we make all of the big movies - but they hate bush. if we re-elect him, will the planet still show the love? i dunno - here it is . somehow i have found myself, by way of people cooler and more hip than i - going to the jay-z concert tonight. that should rock quite hard. i ended up not watching ambulance ltd. last night. i was all ready to go, but the prospect of watching eternal sunshine of the spotless mind w/ jim carry was too compelling not to watch - one of the best movies i've seen in years. what an incredible, impossibly hard-to-write script.

i had a pretty interesting weekend, scene-wise. friday night i went to see the pierces at workplay. they are a sister-singer-songwriter duo, presumably from birmingham, but now based out of nyc. great voices. before checking out the duo, i ran into sidewalk ceo / og-mtv-vj, alan hunter . we talked about opening night at sidewalk and agreed that the editing of silver city could have been better. we spent some time pondering donnie darko , and ended up chatting about his new feature film, dreamland , the possibility of me providing film score material down the road... and the lifeless yet brilliant music of photek . alan is a great conversationalist. a dying breed. after seeing the duo sing some incredibly moving songs, i relocated to the workplay bar, where i struck up a conversation with graphic designer / filmmaker carl ross. we also talked about the festival, the films, zombie movies, " shaun of the dead " , local filmmakers and the annual sidewalk scramble , for...

on saturday night i went back for more of the film festival. i watched dig!, which is an enthralling rock documentary about the on again - off again relationships between the cult bands the dandy warhols and the brian jonestown massacre. i was completely immersed in the lives of these people for the full two hours. it's premiering at pretty much every major festival in north america at the moment. wicked good movie.i got home (actually ashby's) and checked out the various related web sites for the main films, the festival etc. the ashes were actually featured in 3 or 4 of the sidewalk scrambler films last year. interesting stuff. i did some baby sitting for ashby's dog. tried to do some editing for the album, but all i really got to was editing the piano on "bad luck" (which is a working title), and the picked guitar part on the chorus. the bass is tighter now, and the drums are "ok" sonically. david's perfomance pretty much makes the song. i've ...