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December 27, 2005
"Shag Labs for Shelter" is a good Emo band name
I dream about the end of the world constantly. Last night, it was the sudden awareness that a huge, alien-plotted firestorm would engulf most of the earth. I remember thinking, but not really thinking, more like that sort of voice-over dream narration, that anything without modern structural reinforcement would fall and burn. This narration was accompanied by some visuals of a primitive, Wall Street Journalesque illustration depicting Washington DC being blown away, as if on a powerful breeze - of DOOM. And then we cut to a big, show-stopping CGI piece of the Arc de Triomphe falling over, but most of Paris' modern arch-i-torture standing still. Maybe the aliens are fascist-modernists.
Suddenly we're in my sort-of hometown of Missoula MT: My cousin Amy leads me through the chaos to her "father's secret laboratory" underneath a recording studio near one of the old apartments I grew up in. Is this getting desperately Jungian or what?
My family had betrayed me somehow, but Amy was still good, true, pure-heart, etc. The "lab" was wall to wall to wall dark blue shag carpet. I remember Amy showing me where the bathroom was.
Anyway I woke up needing to pee.
YOUR FRIEND,
DANA
PS. Happy New Year to you. I've posted the long-promised Rad Bros entry (w/ pics, below) - Deathray is going to be on CBS' "Ghost Whisperer" (w/ J. Lo Hewitt), show airs on Friday, Jan 13th... new Night Night shows! In Portland on Jan. 15th (Dunes) and San Francisco on Feb. 16th (Hail and Ride). See the dudernetweb for details. Cheeeeers.
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December 08, 2005
Rad Dad
Just found this piece by satirist Neal Pollack on his blog. Funny stuff, very much parallel to my experiences as Jack's papa:
http://nealpollack.com/archives/2005/12/index.html#a000348
(Here's a pic of the fam washing the Bro-lvo last summer, prior to the beating it took on tour - photo by Simon Weller:)
Anyway, I haven't posted here in, like, for-ever. I'll get it together soon - there's so much I wanna write about, but just haven't felt the inspiration.
Oh, and I started a Vimeo page here: Vimeo is like Flicker for video content. I've got a few silly things up now, but will have more artsy-film stuff soon. Alright, then.
YOUR FRIEND,
DANA
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