The Holiday Season

Oh Sweet Baby Satan, Halloween is so close I can taste it.


Hari Kari
And J.H. Christ

A deliciously horrid weekend building costumes and taking in the macabre performace of French classic theatre in the tune of Le Grand-Guignol featuring many of my dear loved ones as actors, directors, and writers.

"The Tragedies present Le Grand Guignol as a faithful take on the infamous, original French Theatre of Horror, with realistic special effects in the intimate setting of a deconsecrated church in Portland's popular Alberta District. Le Grand Guignol's formula for the horrific, the erotic, and the comic insists the stage will be haunted by sexy women, roaring with physical comedy, and dripping with blood!"

You love this fancy shit so go ahead...follow Monsieur Oscar Metenier down the hall to La Histoire de Theatre du Grand-Guignol. Tis' the season anyhow.

Qu'est que ce que j'ai fais le dernier weekend?

"I need you to make me a corset so I can be a pirate hooker," She says.
"ummmmm.....Jesezzy Chrizzy, Mom....Alright, Ill do it. But, I better get a top hat in trade."
It's a deal.
First I drafted up a seven panel, underbust, front closing pattern for The Mom. Cut that shit out of this total shit...


Sew them up.

(No, Really...It takes forever. The nature of the fabric is counter productive. It works against itself. You have to hand sew before sewing. It's like having to wash your dishes before using the dishwasher. Fucking asinine.)

I gathered tools of the metal cutter, hammer, grommets, boning, pliers, Ipod, towel variety.


One virgin to Satan later and....

One weekend, one corset, one happy Mom. Since I am playing the role of my Mother in the final picture, the corset is too large for me. Not tight on me in the slightest since she is of larger proportion. When fitted proper, it will have no wrinkles and crap. Generally look nicer being on the body it was patterned for.

In case you think of me as lazy...
I also redecorated and organized my office, made rootbeer (see below), went to the Japanese Garden (see below), went grocery shopping for the first time in darn near four months, caught up the laundry, made some photos for some people, worked on my Halloween costume, and went to the fabric store twice (that was my own penitence though- I have a tendency to run on the retarded side).

A moment for you.

Unwind a bit won't you?

Can't sleep?

How about try making rootbeer at home?

Hunt & gather some stuff.



Dissolve 1/8 tbs. yeast in some warm soothing water.

Add that shit to an empty gallon jug with a little more water...

Add 2 1/2 cups of sweetness to your jug o' yeast water


Because sweet yeast soda would taste a lot like shit- add your essence de jour. In this case we have a melange of sasperilla, birch, and vanilla. You need to have 1 Tbs. then add that 1 Tbs. to your gallon jug.

Cap it and shake it proper.


Take two 2 liter bottles from your recycling (or random 68 oz. jugs) and split your rootbeer mix evenly between the two containers. Finish off by filling each bottle with water until its about 1.5 - 2 inches from the top. Don't be a cheap-ass with the water either.

Cap it and shake it proper.

Sit there and stare at it for 4 days. On the forth day- check the scene. You can tell by the firmness of the two liter bottle how carbonated the soda is. If it's firm, drink it. If it's not feeling firm enough for you liking....No matter. Put it in the fridge at this point anyway. You can recap it tightly and it will continue to gain carbonation. Give it a few days and keep sampling. Unfortunately, it walks a very fine line between almost there and crap. Hopefully it will be pretty refreshing.
Who doesn't love refreshment?

And for my closing argument...

The photo of the day.
The quote of the week.

"You know he truly loves you when he doesn't pull his dick out
immediately after your done fucking".

Todays Pinhole

The notecards

Stashed in my pockets
When no one is watching me
I work it all out

Down with the Sickness

I have been ill lately so as a result the doins' and whatnots' have been less than exiting. Its hard to me to rest and do nothing. When forced to do so due to illness, I tend to be plagued with depression of "what could have been done".

I have begun a pirate-esque corset for my mom as part of her Halloween costume and have also started working on my costume. I'm having fun with it even though at this time I have no killer Halloween plans.

I turned my contact lens case from something so horrid & gross that I almost liked it....


Into something that is much more fun and appropriate to hang out in my bag.

That was a few minute good time with some plastic sealant and the wrapper to a particularly delicious Japanese snack lovingly bestowed upon me at the Melvins.

I have also been studying up on Japan and beginning to learn the language. Travel to Japan will commence next June. I am overly exited about this as you soon will see and I will wallow obscenely in the glory of the journey. It would not be false to say that this will be a fulfillment of a life long desire. I have wanted to see Japan since I was young. I used to cut out photos of the country from National Geographic when I was a kid and paste them to my walls. There will be many post on this to come, I'm sure. Stay tuned.

The latest pinhole camera is made from a Dragonfly Wafer Stick container. Coconut flavor- to be specific.

This sweet mama has produced the best picture to date, Bien Sur.

I know, I agree..Photography really is witchcraft.
Bonus Photo from out the window at work. This one was from the ol' oatmealcam.

On the horizon comes a few projects. For the first time since its purchased the Elmo Super 8 camera will be used as a contrabution to a video music short for Rust.

I'm looking forward to seeing the products of that. I ordered some black and white super 8 film around a year ago and there it is still sitting....waiting.
I guess the Elmo and I were waiting for just the right occasion.
The video footage will be blended with some stop motion to bring the awesomeness to a level 11.

Gathering of the Minds

If anyone knows locations of Photobooths here in Portland or anywhere in Oregon for that matter...please let me know. Im on a mission. I know of the one at the roller rink obviously and also at Red Light. If you see one...holler.