rubber johnny
Synopsis: Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark.
I have heard of the video sometime around July last year where the Director, Chris Cunningham was releasing the short film in DVD format that comes with a book containing stills from the film as well as photographs and drawings during conceptualization, and more. My fascination for Mr. Cunningham's work started when he directed Aphex Twins' video for Come to Daddy around 1997 (see myspace blog), and I knew I had to find a way to see it when footages of the video started to come out on the internet. I even started to have a fear of Johnny in the beginning. I didn't want to write about it not until I've seen the entire film. I was creeped out to finish the whole thing to be quite honest, but now I find it somewhat fascinating. Disturbing and amusing all at the same time. The imagery really is outstanding and I've never seen anything like it before.
I hope to see a full length feature from Chris Cunningham in the near future.
for more info, go to:http://www.rubberjohnny.tv/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Johnny
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obligatory post for the last month of 'oh five
Arnold, Drake, Kimmy and Lei, you guys seriously put me up to this. how the fuck can you just think of things to write so easily? and WTF Goldi too? Shite. I am just waaayyy behind you guys. Flippin' eck people! Think of something else to do!
Okey, I'm too late for the a-new-year-is-upon-us shit, so I might as well be my usual tardy lazy-ass blogger I am known to be quite the expert, ya hurrr? I'm bored and a bit of a scatterbrain right now so imma spit out and write down whatever I feel like saying alright! Damn straight.
Anyways. So I was really looking forward to December right, bonus pay, shopping, parties, ya dig? So I pretty much got all the stuff I wanted, dude I splurged out like I gave a fuck. Yeah, too much. But it was alright, I got everything covered. Oh and the company christmas party! Now how can anyone forget that. Play Underground Rockwell? Jesus Christ. The whole thing felt like we were inside a brick oven. I felt guilty for all my fellow officemates who stood up and waited in line for hours just so they could eat nuggets. The planning was poor and frugal. I mean, if you were going to throw a huge party and made sure that everyone's going to have a good time then you might as well go crazy and all-out extravagant right?! No. No seats and bad, fucking lousy music. It turned out to be a complete failure. Oh well, what can you do. But in spite of all that we still managed to laugh it all off and have fun. Those peeps should do us a cheesey quaver and make it up to us next year. Yeah they better be.
Our family reunions are the best, man. I gotta give it up to my gramma for creating such a tradition. It made it a bit special because my Uncle Edgar came home to spend Christmas here. Lunch and gift-giving at gramma's, dinner, card games and karaoke at Aunt Millete's house. Oh and I know how to play poker now! Good stuff.
I saw the most amazing fireworks display ever at the recent World Pyro Olympics held December 30th. It was the last day of the event, and I knew I just had to haul my ass all the way down there.
We had to walk great lengths just to get to the venue and man it was worth it. It looked fabulous how they lit up the night sky--the entire place was 'oohing' and 'ahhing' as the wonderful display of lights unravel right before our very eyes. It was a wonderful pyrotechnic experience I will never forget.
That's about it for the last month of the year 2005. I hope that you all have a safe and happy new year. Here's to new paths, new journeys. Here’s to an even better 2006.
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