Cold Weather

by on February 8, 2012 in Movies

I had the pleasure of seeing Aaron Katz‘s new film Cold Weather the other night. It was lovely! Aaron was one of the original “mumblecore” directors I got into when I saw Dance Party USA and Quiet City. He doesn’t make nearly as many films as some of the others (looking at you Joe Swanberg), [...]

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Bellflower

by on February 2, 2012 in Movies

Wow this was a weird movie. I like weird, so I recommend it. I was impressed by the visuals and the tone of the film. At first I thought the dirty lenses were trying too hard to be hip/retro, but it grew on me. I didn’t really like the characters at all and the story [...]

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Is Drawing Ability Important?

by on January 20, 2012 in Inspiration

One of my favorite quotes is from Milton Glaser, he says: And people spend their entire life trying to learn how to draw. And then, after years and years of effort, they discover that they can successfully replicate what’s in front of them. It’s a kind of drawing that appears in all the art classes [...]

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Featured in Quint Magazine

by on January 17, 2012 in General

Recently I did an interview with Quint Magazine, a online digital arts publication. Issue 12 is the music issue, so naturally I talk mostly about my music related design work. There are also some other rad artists in the issue too if you want to check it out. You can view it online or just flip [...]

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2011 Updates to the Finley Home

by on January 11, 2012 in General

My wife Kim posted about all the updates we’ve done to our home in 2011. If you’re a homeowner, it’s always interesting to see what others are doing. Check it out!

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Parachute Journalists – Heroes

by on January 10, 2012 in Music

It’s been a long time coming, but my band has put out a new song. Well, to most people’s it’s new. It’s called Heroes. It’s a very personal song to me. I wrote and composed this about 3-4 years ago after the singer of one of my favorite bands treated me like a complete asshole. [...]

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RSO [Registered Sex Offender]

by on January 8, 2012 in Movies

I couldn’t sleep last night for fear of having another night terror (long story, should I blog about it?), so I distracted myself by knocking out another movie from my Netflix instant queue with my iPod. I added the film RSO [Registered Sex Offender] to my queue a while back because Andrew Bujalski is in [...]

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Beastie Boys – Nonstop Disco Powerpack Fan Video

by on January 5, 2012 in Music

Over the holiday break, my wife Kim, her brother Greg, and I decided to act out a fantasy of ours. Yep, you guessed it, make a Beastie Boys music video! Kim had long talked about each of us taking a role and rapping our parts to a song. Well we finally had time to do [...]

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BOXOMYLK – Rabbits on the 213th

by on January 4, 2012 in Music

Here a song I made about 7 months ago, which was my first BOXOMYLK track in quite some time. If you’re unfamiliar, sometimes I make my own music under the alias BOXOMYLK. It’s a mix between funky breaks, pop punk, and nintendo. I’ve done some with vocals but most are without. Most of my songs [...]

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Yeast

by on January 4, 2012 in Movies

I was home sick today with a head cold and feeling pretty terrible. This was the perfect opportunity to watch a movie that I know Kim would not want to watch with me and that is Yeast. The film is directed by Mary Bronstein, which happens to be the wife of Frownland director Ronald Bronstein. [...]

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