3.31.2008

Opening Day at Dodger Stadium 2008



I didn't make it to the game, but I watched from the comfort of Casey's house in Burbank. Dodgers won 5-0. Brad Penny of the Dodgers vs. Barry Zito of the Giants. I won't recap. But I will drop this info about the two pitchers and their ex girlfriend Alyssa Milano.

From ESPN2

SAM ALIPOUR: I can imagine. Are you still dating [Dodgers pitcher] Brad Penny?

ALYSSA MILANO: No! [Laughs] It's been almost two years. But it's OK. Bloggers and everyone on the Internet still think we're dating.

SAM ALIPOUR: Note to self: Don't trust the Internet. Except ESPN.com. So you wanna play some word association?

ALYSSA MILANO: OK, cool.

SAM ALIPOUR: I'll cheat. Two words: Hockey players.

ALYSSA MILANO: Strong.

SAM ALIPOUR: Baseball players?

ALYSSA MILANO: Heroes.

SAM ALIPOUR: Football players?

ALYSSA MILANO: I don't know many, but … well-protected.

Chickslovemeth.com

Just an observation. Watching that disgusting show "Intervention".
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3.24.2008

Akasa . May 27th . Trademark Recordings



Trademark Recordings is finally releasing Akasa's Debut album. It's been a long journey over the mountains of mars, into the blue abyss, and beyond the limits of light. Josh Benedict wrote the music for this album nearly 4 years ago and early last year I came in and recorded Vocals. I know you will all enjoy it. Check out our first single YOMI. This album is very important to us all. Expect shows in Summer here in Los Angeles.

Everything that can happen will happen....

Arthur C. Clarke Interview from Lifeboat Foundation. I believe in infinite possibilities unlike the Wilhelm Reich.

JLC: Do you believe that there is life in the universe?
ACC: I think it is quite common. Probably even Mars had life before!

JLC: But how about really intelligent life?
ACC: Sure, and the proof is that they are not here! The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

JLC: When will we make contact with them?
ACC: Well, we are still searching for intelligent life here on Earth. Who knows? Who knows? I mean, it could be tomorrow! I don't believe it has happened yet because people could not keep quiet about it.

JLC: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of humanity?
ACC: I believe one should be optimistic because there is a chance of a good self-fulfilling prophecy. It is dangerous to be pessimistic because that could become a self-fulfilling prophecy, but a bad one. However, one should avoid being naively optimistic.

JLC: Do you think that time is linear or cyclical?
ACC: Everything that can happen will happen. There are billions of universes proliferating everywhere.

JLC: So, do you believe in parallel universes?
ACC: I don't "believe", but it is a possibility since in a practically infinite universe almost anything is theoretically possible to happen somewhere.

JLC: And, some of those parallel universes could have cyclical time?
ACC: Yes, yes. In one of those universes I shoot you now, you see, and we end this interview (laughing out loud).

Doomsday Ark

Very interesting article from the Lifeboat Foundation.


IF civilisation is wiped out on Earth, salvation may come from space. Plans are being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the moon containing the essentials of life and civilisation, to be activated in the event of earth being devastated by a giant asteroid or nuclear war.

Construction of a lunar information bank, discussed at a conference in Strasbourg last month, would provide survivors on Earth with a remote-access toolkit to rebuild the human race.

A basic version of the ark would contain hard discs holding information such as DNA sequences and instructions for metal smelting or planting crops. It would be buried in a vault just under the lunar surface and transmitters would send the data to heavily protected receivers on earth. If no receivers survived, the ark would continue transmitting the information until new ones could be built.

The vault could later be extended to include natural material including microbes, animal embryos and plant seeds and even cultural relics such as surplus items from museum stores.

As a first step to discovering whether living organisms could survive, European Space Agency scientists are hoping to experiment with growing tulips on the moon within the next decade.

According to Bernard Foing, chief scientist at the agency’s research department, the first flowers - tulips or arabidopsis, a plant widely used in research - could be grown in 2012 or 2015.

“Eventually, it will be necessary to have a kind of Noah’s ark there, a diversity of species from the biosphere,” said Foing.

Tulips are ideal because they can be frozen, transported long distances and grown with little nourishment. Combined with algae, an enclosed artificial atmosphere and chemically enhanced lunar soil, they could form the basis of an ecosystem.

Read the entire article at Times Online

3.21.2008

Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 Diary

Yep, that's right.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0073.html

3.19.2008

Shopping with the boys.

Well I decided to join Shin and Casey shoe shopping in Venice today. My vans are literally falling off of my feet, and I the homeless artist looks is alright, but I'm over it in 2008. Anyways I couldn't find anything in a 12, which is depressing. Nothing. I bought a grey hoodie instead. I still look homeless. I can't fight it, if you can't beat em, join em, be em. Whatever.
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3.18.2008

Sci Fi legend Arthur C. Clarke has crossed the abyss at 90 years old.

"We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins."
Arthur C. Clarke






My favorite science fiction writer of all time died today. His name is Arthur C. Clarke. The most famous of his work was "2001: A Space Odyssey" but he also wrote such classics as "Childhood's End", "Rendezvous with Rama", and "Imperial Earth". There isn't a whole lot I need to say, but thank you universe for his his great life. Thank you Sir. for providing me with unknown depths of imagination that catered to my artistic spirit as a teenager, and the winds of Rama that carry me to this day. Arthur C. Clarke is legend. He was one of the most intelligent, abstract, and individual thinkers of the 20th century. There wouldn't be science fiction without the man. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you and Kubrick as well. Thank you for "the romance of space".


Clarke's three laws:

1. "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
2. "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
3. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
Arthur C. Clarke

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."
Arthur C. Clarke

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."
Arthur C. Clarke

"We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation ... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began"

"They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge ... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command ... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young."

"Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."

RIP ARTHUR C. CLARKE

3.17.2008

No time for losers

Cause we the champions. Foreal. I'm sick of losers. Only winners in 2008.
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Tickets

Does anyone have a guest pass or tickets to the upcoming "Bryan Singer Swinger Party". I am willing to pay top dollar.
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All god's children take off their clothes.

Well, Mammoth is finished. We are on the long road back into hell. Los Angeles. I am exhausted, not sure why. Sorry for all the spelling errors and bad grammer. I'll fix it all once I get to a computer. 275 miles away from reality. It's knocking at my mental doorstep.

God i'm tired. I need sleep, preferebly next to a sweet scented lady.
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St. Patrick's in Mammoth

Drunk already.
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Funniest thing ever

Tangle free encore.
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3.16.2008

Mammoth Night Sunday

We are at Whiskey Creek. Carmello has a bag full salted meats in his room. I swear to god.
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Amy Smart

I love you. I love that you are so modestly cute.
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Truth

Tom Mahoney loves being the truth.
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Day 2 Manmoth

Casey and I bunk buddies, I am pretty sure there a snow bunny giving him a hand job down below in the wee hours of morning. I might be wrong though, I have a wild imagination. Shin has been in a horrible mood ever since he arrived in LA. No one knows why, no one wants to ask, no one wants to cross the bridge.

He got very aggresive with me last night and kicked in the throat, then while I was down he put me in an asian death hold and neary took my life. You should see the bruises on my neck. He then proceeded to smoke inside the rental cabin and puked over the banister on to living room couch below. Shin is not know for this mysterious behavior, but people change.

Carmello somehow got lost on the top mammoth mountain, he was drinking, and apparently had a flask of schnapps, peach to be exact. All I know is that lift two hours, and still is M.I.A.

Myself, I had a burrito and I'm drinking Tecate. Shin keeps accusing me of lying, but I don't trust him anymore, so his wretched attitude isn't affective.

Someone we know is in huge fucking trouble. More trouble than anyone I know has been in. Such big trouble, that this person may be blacklisted from LA.

Gavin is pumped. Gavin is a really investigator.

Kelsie came clean. She got 50 points leaving her at -220. There is hope for her still.

Casey is still in the process of getting a bunkjob.

Whoa, Shin finally smiled.

We are going to whiskey creek and thai food.
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3.15.2008

Haribo

Makes the best gummi bears. We're moving across the desert, the wind is heavy, the mountains don't need us.
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Mammoth Mountain Trip Day 1

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-----Original Message-----
From: cameronpkelly@gmail.com

Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:58:35
To:"Metawitch" <drearyland.metawitch@blogspot.com>
Subject: Mammoth Mountain Trip Day 1


Day 1 of Mammoth Mountain trip commenced with Gavin fur bumping with a lesbian who earlier that night made out with my sister. Don't ask any questions.

Shin rented Chevy Tahoe, and it's a really unique experience sitting passenger with an asian at the helm, driving such a monster truck.

I will be updating this blog via blackberry.

It's already stormy in Los Angeles. We're in big trouble.
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3.13.2008

3.10.2008

A rush of blood to the head

I booked a principal role in a Miller Lite commercial. Here is an article I found on the man Directing, Joachim Back. Seems like a rad dude.


A rush of blood to the head
Joachim Back's Comedy Exhilarates


Remember when Viagra commercials induced a 1950s hush-hush attitude about sex? Happy men smiling, bouncing along to work, women looking satisfied? Joachim Back's commercials obliterate those peppy spots from memory, hilariously repainting Viagra with an X-rated feel as gritty as your favorite four-letter word. Funny enough, not a sexual word is uttered in the spots, so that blush that heats your cheeks, they're all products of your own lascivious imagination. And Back would have it no other way.

"I try to help the pictures tell the story, rather than literally saying anything. The visuals are so important. Someone's reaction, a strange habit, the nice, big, funny visual. It's such a fine line," he comments.

Based in New York, the 33-year-old Back is used to many things, such as hearing 'Joachim' butchered in pronunciation and turning down projects that don't challenge him. "If I know a shoot is going to be a long walk in pain with a corporate knife in my back, I won't do it."

Back's career began in his native Denmark with on-set running gigs for television and film productions. His first demo reel was produced with a "by-any-means-necessary" mentality, quickly drawing notice. In 1997, he signed with European-based Metronome for commercial representation. In 2001, along with like-minded directors Kasper Wedendahl and Martin Werner, he formed Bacon, which drew steady accolades. The projects were exciting, but Back left the shop in early 2005, itching for a change of scenery. "I felt I needed to refocus a bit," he says. "Bacon turned into too many things, too many worries, and I wanted to get back to focusing on my work."

Today, Back is affiliated with Park Pictures, New York and Partners' Film Company in Toronto - with whom he won a Gold Lion at the 2005 Cannes Festival. From Toyota to McDonalds and Ikea, Back has put his indelible comic stamp on brands the world over, aiming to "help the product, but have a good time as well."

He gets turned on by ideas that grab him and won't let go. Brutal honesty excites him; weird people make him salivate and cautiousness turns him off, as do people afraid to experiment. "Creativity is universal, and I always find people who are willing to take risks, we always find each other."

3.08.2008

Vatican City is back!


http://welcometovaticancity.blogspot.com
VATICAN CITY

Great interview with Errol Morris and Werner Herzog

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200803/?read=interview_herzog
INTERVIEW

true metal . march . some photos






it was another great success. paul and i split our set and annihilated the horde.

3.05.2008

National Sunday Law Tour


They rule, check em out!

3.04.2008

Maddad . New Ep coming soon.


We're back.

myspace.com/maddad

3.03.2008

TRUE METAL . MARCH


INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHERS