January 2012
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December 2011
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Become a part of "Slum Lord!"
Some of you may be aware of my most recent project, Slum Lord.
For those not already apprised, it is an independent, single-camera comedy series about a Minneapolis landlord who looks like—and happens to be named—Jesus.
We’ll begin shooting in the Spring, and airing episodes in the Fall—provided we can meet our Kickstarter goal of $5,000 by the new year.
That’s where you come in....
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“Listening to Ryan Adams turns me into a pile of mush.”
– Andrea Swensson
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
My Morning Jacket (1)
Marching Band (1)
Rick James (1)
Michael Jackson (1)
The Guystorm (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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SHORT: Slum Lord
mfrfilm:
[LOCAL] Local filmmaker Todd Pitman of Noiseom Misdeeds has embarked on an amibitious project entitled Slum Lord: a sardonic one-camera comedy about Twin Cities landlord Jesus Johnson who, like the well-known Jesus, helps the less fortunate, eats Cheetos and has long flowing hair. Check out the ten-minute preview/pilot above and donate to their Kickstarter here.
Thanks, Ian!
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SBC: Ryan Adams Week →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Ryan Adams (22)
Neko Case (12)
Arthur Fiedler & Boston Pops Orchestra (6)
Communist Daughter (5)
Titus Andronicus (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Watch
Hey everybody! Help support our little would-be web series “Slum Lord” on Kickstarter! It’s a single-camera style comedy about a Minneapolis landlord and his tenants.
And the landlord’s Jesus! Except he’s not that Jesus, or… well… watch the preview pilot above, and then head over to our Kickstarter page and help make two six-episode seasons of this...
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“i just watched da movie OLD SKOOL and dont understand how dood fixed his ear so...”
– Texts From Bennett
November 2011
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Slum Lord: A Comedy of The Highest Order
So, tonight I’m launching a Kickstarter and premiering the preview pilot for Slum Lord—the single-camera comedy I’ve been flogging for the last few months and change.
I’d love it if you could be there. I even booked all the best bands in town just to coerce you into coming: UMAMI, MAYDA, VAGUE-À-BONDE, and THEEVES. So… it’s going to be legit.
If you can’t be...
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The Listenerd: Best Places to Go in St. Paul →
Here, at the Ramsey County Yard Waste Removal Site, you will see the largest leaf pile you have ever laid eyes upon. Here, you will witness an ORDERLY procession of civic-minded Ramsey-county citizens pulling up their cars, trucks and trailers to an ENORMOUS pile of yard waste, wearily getting out of those vehicles, SLOWLY dumping their sticks, leaves, branches, clods of dirt and the occasional,...
October 2011
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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 →
“People shop for their own realities to reinforce the way they feel already,...”
– Jeff Tweedy
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September 2011
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Spell your full name without an...
hummingnerd:
abloodymess:
ericgrau:
I am Gu. Only Gu.
I am: Ow Bz
Jess: J H Bu
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Todd Pt My entire first name was left intact; my entire middle name was eradicated; only a pt. of my last name remains. Lolzzzzz[fart noise].
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Fast Co. Design: Rebranding 10,000 Lakes →
Nicole Meyer got a great write-up in Fast Co. Design today about her amazing design project Branding 10,000 Lakes.
Every time I visit that site (pretty much daily at this point), I wish not only that I had her chops—especially with type and identity—but also that I had that kind of discipline, or even just such a simple, enduring, satisfying project with which to hone my craft. Even within...
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The Awl: Jon Stewart, Stop Hurting America! →
Maria Bustillos gets to the bottom of some things I’ve been pondering a lot lately, regarding progressive elitism and this ridiculous assumption that theirs is the party of intellect.
“You’d think if Republicans were so dumb it would be child’s play for the brainy Democrats to bamboozle them into passing some useful legislation, but this turns out to be well-nigh...
August 2011
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WatchMilitary Special’s farewell blow-out at the Entry last November was probably one of the best things ever. We put this video together with the dudes from Northern Outpost and John Empty to commemorate the insanity.
(via militaryspecial)
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July 2011
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From a state that works to shutdown: What changed... →
Eric Black crushes it:
“The reason we have a shutdown is because the new brand of Minnesota Republican believes in something so strongly that they would rather have a shutdown than a compromise.”
…and they will lie and lie and lie, or at least commit to one logical fallacy after another, to WIN at all costs—rather than do right by the largest number of people possible.
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June 2011
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Welcome Toddd to Switchblade Comb →
I joined the dudes at Switchblade Comb as another conduit for my media nerdery:
He hopes to use his space here at Switchblade Comb to further stunt his development—discussing the minutiae of modern dystopia, filmic tropes, and Oasis b-sides (among other most-certainly fascinating and myriad topics)—and cramming his posts full of semi-colons and em-dashes to distract you from his horrid...
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This Thursday! Are you coming?
This poster by Brian David Downs.
Other poster by Eva Rose Cohen.
Presented by MPLSSTPL.
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WatchVideos from Northern Spark
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What "Tree Of Life" Teaches About Movies... →
Phenomenal article from John Pavlus at Fast Co. Design; this guy Jason Brush has some pretty encouraging things to say about the future of cinema:
Filmmakers who attempt to make ‘elastic cinema’ stories will have to take the ‘user experience’ of different viewing contexts into account right from the beginning, he says, and ‘think about the means of...
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May 2011
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