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THIS BOOK IS CHANGING ME LIFE!
so we all saw Me and You and Everyone We Know, and went “back and forth” for a while, she stayed in the NY art scene with her performance/installation pieces, and then she re-appeared in the New Yorker in this year’s summer fiction issue with “Roy Spivey” which had me sprint to buy this book. It’s got me in tears from heartbreak in stories like “The Man on the Stairs” (about a woman lost in her wants and fears) as well as laughter with “The Swim Team” (with has a woman giving swimming lessons in her living room with old people dipping their heads in bowls of water, paddling across the room). Installation artist, performance artist, filmmaker, and now sick-ass writer - Miranda is my heroine, in fact, she’s inspired me to do a massive installation piece showing soon in San Antonio. Point is - buy this book, it’ll change your life.

I was right there with Salma Hayek, getting all emotional announcing a vast number of Latin filmmakers as nominees, including Penelope Cruz for Volver and Adriana Barraza for Babel. It doesn’t stop in front of the camera, behind it includes composer Gustavo Santaolalla and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, screenwriter Alfonso Cuaron and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men, writer/director Guillermo DelToro and cinematographer Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth. It’s the Mexican New Wave, and as a Latin American filmmaker, it feels pretty damn good to know that I’m being represented at the most revered awards ceremony for film.

apes and androids
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CREAM! -
Apes and Androids are my new favorite band! I saw them for the second time this past week at the Knitting Factory -they first came out with a giant papier mache ship floating through the “sea” of people -green glow balls were tossed around the crowd -then a great brass section with authentic asian percussionists circled the audience for the crescendo -AMAZING!

EYESstill
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so I’m back in NYC, just started another year of school, trying to get myself a few freelance jobs all while finishing my film, “Eyes of a Blue Dog.” I’m hoping to have it shown at festivals and many film fests prefer virgin films that haven’t entirely shown anywhere else, so I’m teasing you guys the first 3mins. Click here to watch

duality
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to empathize with Ryanne Hodson’s “sometimes I feel like this.” I’m in between shoots and the moment I stop working, nothing feels right. Inexplicable. ::”Singularity” by Into the Ether:: Click here to watch