Edmund John Barraclough

2011-10-19T07:03:00.000-07:00

ATRIUM

I made some new work for a show at our friends' shop-space, SAUNA, this week:

watch out world!! (many hidden links)

2011-09-16T08:12:00.000-07:00

I guess blogs can often have pretty short lifespans, and this one kind've died this summer. I've been busy with my band HALO HALO... making music videos, releasing a record and playing gigs in the arctic circle.

I guess doing all this took over from maintaining a blog of 'musings' and talking to myself about the strange ideas I have for possible artworks ..etc

well its about time to get back into it. I'm gonna be in a few shows this autumn, HALO HALO are taking a 3 month break and this was just on TV a few days ago ...

Read an earlier blog entry if you wanna get contextualised!

....and one more thing. Me and Pete Inkpen (.com) made an album, its called HULA LOOPS. and its recommended listening when you have a spare 13 minutes after breakfast and before you leave the house.

2 EP's

2011-05-16T05:51:00.000-07:00

I've put two collections on bandcamp. Click on the covers to go to the songs. I haven't blogged for a while, I haven't really thought about much for a while, I've just been working for the census and saving money for a camera maybe or a plane ticket to another country.

The first collection, called "talltales&voicemails" is made up of a few answerphone messages and banjo noodlings in my bedroom, which I recorded just after graduating. I didn't pick up the phone for a few days.

The second is called "Look Up! Can you see it coming? (The rainbow)". I made it for the whole family at christmas when I didn't have any money but had a lot of time to sit around and use musical typing on garage band.

Red Sky At Night

2011-03-16T13:43:00.000-07:00

Late 2003: They leave the cinema after watching LOTR: The Return of the King. It ends when he enters the polling station to vote for the first time in the 2005 general election. Sometime in between these two significant events he smokes too much weed in the back of his friends car on a country road. Whilst slipping in and out of consciousness he experiences a jungle fantasy, in which he meets the girl of his dreams and raises a son, teaching him how to hunt the strange creatures that loom in the darkness.

I want to call it "Red Sky At Night" and it'll probably be 34 minutes long. Need to get a new camera and round up some actooorrs first though. Who's with me?!

2011-02-23T15:37:00.000-08:00

Uma Thurman by quinkinkdontblot

I've been in a band with Rachel now for a while, after all kinds of bedroom and sitting room jamming with different instruments and things and being embarrassed about singing and writing cheesy lyrics, oh, and lots of arguing... its slowly turned into a kind've complete and ready to go thing with a name and everything. We're called Halo Halo, have I mentioned it on this blog before? I can't remember. ANyway.. we have played a few gigs already, and one which went especially well I think, with Lucky Dragons a couple of weeks ago...but maybe it was extra good cos we got a new member that week, someone called Dr.G... this is her...

Oh and that thing at the top of this entry, that soundcloud thing, its a clip of us all playing together in our basement, its not a song really yet but I like it. Oh and its called "Uma Thurman" cos I was looking over at a VHS of the film "Gattaca" when I was saving the file, have you seen "Gattaca"? Its pretty cool... If you listen to the recording, try thinking about some of the themes in the film, you can read the synopsis here, or just imagine what a sci-fi movie with Uma Thurman might be like.

2010-10-20T07:09:00.000-07:00

This is how I sleep now. And when I wake up, its another day decorating the studio.

I've finally started writing about Korea... http://weallsangshoutatthenorebang.blogspot.com.

And I've found an empty shop, which is going to be transformed into... a shop! and a gallery! When I've actually paid the rent for the first month I might start talking about it. I'm excited though!

meanwhile..

2010-10-01T09:51:00.000-07:00

I'm working on a new blog all about what happened to us in Korea. Its called A.I.R in the R.O.K, and i'll put it here soon. I'll write about what was in the box and everything... but meanwhile coming back to London was kinda weird, I've being buying sugar waffles from Aldi nearly everyday and covering them with apples and cinnamon... i'm going back on the J.S.A too so i'll probably draw more pictures of people waiting to sign on or monsters rampaging through cities... oh but we do now have a breadmaker and a blender so the kitchen is an exciting place to spend the day.. and my bedroom is too, i'm playing final fantasy VII which everyone knows is the coolest game ever. OH and I'm moving into a studio next week with Naama, we'll be sweeping up the cobwebs first.

2010-09-02T17:51:00.000-07:00

What was in the box??.... here is a clue...

Made in Korea

2010-08-30T00:39:00.000-07:00

What's in the box? Updates on our time in Korea very soooooooooooooooooooooon.

2010-08-01T23:07:00.001-07:00

2010-07-29T13:44:00.000-07:00

soooo it looks like I'm gonna be spending the rest of the summer unemployed watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and all the motion picture films all the way from "Star Trek: The motion picture" right up to that prequel they made simply known as "Star Trek". Man I really can't wait to get into that job centre again filling out all that admin and...
WOAH!wait wait wait sorry I seem to have slipped into a parallel universe for a second there, that isn't what I'm spending the rest of my summer doing, no, I remember now, ah thats it, yeah I'm going to SOUTH KOREA!!!... and hang on, didn't I have some plans involving a hot air balloon? yes its all coming back to me now, coming back to this reality.

I'm sure there could have been a series of events leading up to me signing on again and wasting my days with Jordi La Forge. Thankfully I had some of those tabs of Safari dedicated to more important tasks than using wikipedia to find out all about the different special guest appearances from Teri Hatcher to that guy from Twin Peaks. There were some tabs that steered me in the right direction. So I owe it all to them. And my employers, who for the past six months fed me such a grueling amount of work I only really had, oh, entire days to fill with searching for enka singers and hot air balloon companies. Ok so I did watch a lot of Star Trek and Newsnight Review. But now, with one weekend left to go before a long journey I have a plan. I love it when you have a coincidence of an ancient Silla burial mound shaped like a chocolate hill, or when you lose all the hot air and find a helium balloon that doesn't really go anywhere, tied to the ground and with a possible audience of 30 Japanese tourists ... you never know. Here's some pictures, this has been pretty cryptic.

actually... no, wait, I'm not gonna put any pictures here. Well apart from one. I was looking at pictures of Star Trek special guest stars, Mark Kermode, and then I saw this. This tiny picture of a place called Gyeongju, in a South East region of Korea. See there. That small balloon shaped object in the sky above the city. Thats it, that's where we're going!!

2010-06-29T07:41:00.000-07:00

A London Poem by Pete Inkpen

http://peteinkpen.com/poetry/london-poetry/

it made me remember that day we spent walking from a garden to a gig, oh wait, there was a gig in the garden too, I might've written about it in my diary but I can't remember. I haven't written in that for ages, now I want too!

2010-06-24T15:05:00.001-07:00

2010-06-22T07:05:00.000-07:00

In the picture I drew of my hot-air-balloon-karaoke-machine, you might have noticed some spiky yellow things that look a bit like sparks coming out of the loud speakers either side of the basket. Well in the case that any sparks do fly whilst up in a hot air ballon, things tend to blow up. I don't want to die whilst singing "onna no ryoka", just cry a little bit. So I might have to just take up a pilot who can play the guitar, or find some battery powered speakers. Which might not actually be that much of a problem in Seoul. Aviation laws are much more relaxed over there too, so maybe a few sparks aren't that bad. The karaoke machine may also be more of a karaoke booth too. I went to see a hot air balloon yesterday and you could fit 16 people in the basket. The pilot starts the flight holding flame throwers in their bare hands, and the basket comes back down to earth with a bump. Singing karaoke towards horizons sounds fun. Apparently its so quiet you can hear dogs barking on the ground. Maybe its time for the dogs to hear us singing showtunes.

2010-06-12T03:32:00.003-07:00

2010-06-04T06:43:00.001-07:00

you can actually see the universe expanding!

2010-06-03T07:17:00.000-07:00

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JERO

2010-05-29T10:47:00.000-07:00

This is Jero, the first black Enka singer in Japanese music history. His Grandma was Japanese, and he started singing enka when he was 6. His mum and dad divorced when he was 7 so he grew up amid a strong sense of Japanese culture.

When me and Rachel were in Japan he was everywhere, this is because he had only just made it big and had started appearing in Kirin Coffee commercials. He was singing enka on NHK and clearly thinking about his Grandma all the time, who sadly died before being able to see him perform on prime time TV.

Jero is a true inspiration.

Loud speakers and Helium Balloons

2010-05-25T08:53:00.000-07:00

so i've been spending a lot of my time lately sending e-mails. e-mails to enka singers and to hot air balloon companies, e-mails to daytime TV editors and to the guy I bought a piano from a couple of years ago. Inbetween sending these e-mails i've been browsing through a serious amount of tabs on safari. I've had THREE safari windows open with about FIFTEEN tabs open in each window. That is some serious tabbed browsing, and its slowing down my mac. But it means i've been looking at enka videos on youtube, buying books about Japanese feminists on amazon.co.uk, searching for hot air balloon companies in Korea, following the news, checking the weather, blogging, and browsing a whole load of other stuff all at once.

This might be confusing but then again, maybe not, maybe that's the reason why I've ended up booking tickets to Seoul, started chasing hot air balloons, and dreaming up music videos over the sea of Japan in my head. Well there are other reasons but being able to have 45 tabs of information open all at once is how you make these things happen. millions of pixels all working together to send you thousands of feet up in the air with a cheap aluminum camera rig and a very loud speaker.

Speaking of which, they've been using them at the DMZ to send AM radio and propaganda broadcasts to the north. They've also been sending helium balloons with thousands of leaflets over the border too. I drew a couple of pictures of what I was looking at on my computer screen in my sketchbook. And I've been thinking about my karaoke machine which also happens to involve loud speakers and balloons ... interesting.

Some seriously light entertainment in London

2010-05-21T10:26:00.000-07:00

the istore is a very strange place. Here we all are, floating around macbook pros whilst "mr tambourine man"is being piped into the shop. we're all waiting for our turn to log into facebook and upload pictures of ourselves onto our blogs. I came in to escape the heat and find out where the nearest STA travel is. But I decided to join in the fun, I was planning of sharing some of the sights i saw on a walk between the southbank and regent street when I got home this evening. But why not do it now!!

ok im leaving now... back to the humidity with extra heat fumes from bendy busses thrown in. a walk down oxford street to urban outfitters where i'll meet pete and hattie, what more light entertainment can i expect from central london on the hottest day of the year? well we'll see! tara for now!

Rough guides and travelogues

2010-05-15T05:45:00.000-07:00

My rough guide to Korea came through the post this morning. Exactly a day after our flights were booked. Now if there's something I really love doing then its printing off a map of a far eastern country and sticking it on the wall next to my bed, with a few statistics about currency and trains. I'm going to do this today, then I'll have 2 and a half months to read through the rough guide and imagine August, it'll be another humid month, rainy season too, but it sure beats another bleak and drab british summer.

I have my spinning globe right here next to me, and I keep wondering if i'm going to Korea simply because its right next to Japan. Well maybe, as I mentioned before, having a globe is partly about improving your geography skills, and pointing at a few countries on your desk just isn't good enough for me. Why not get up close to these places on foot and in a hot air balloon, sailing just above them like your index finger brushes across continents from your swivel chair.

That's what I plan to do. I have amazing memories from Japan that are driving me pretty crazy just because of how amazing they are. I know I'm going to go to the Philippines one day too, so I guess I am mapping out this corner of the world in my head. My legs felt all wobbly when I was in Japan. Feeling new latitudes under my feet that I never expected to feel made me excited non-stop for four weeks! I'm going to Korea because, well why not!? And Naama and Jihoi are doing a residency there.

I would've applied but you have to be over 25. I was going to apply with an idea I have to build a karaoke machine. South Korea is a pretty good vantage point between both Japan and the Philippines, so I guess my Karaoke machine is some kind of communication device between me, and these two countries that have found a firm place in both my recent memory and my future plans. I think it's going to take the form of a hot air balloon. And the machine will have on its databanks, this enka song, performed here by Yuki Kadokura, called "Onna no Ryoka"

A New Bookcase

2010-05-14T02:15:00.000-07:00

3 songs from the past few months

2010-05-11T10:11:00.000-07:00

here are 3 songs i've made over the last few months, with a banjo, and small whistle and lots of stamping on the floor and drumming on my knees.

No 1.

House Song

No 2.

I LOVE EVERYTHING

No 3.

My Favourite Christmas Present

I made this one with rachel. she plays the accordian, and my favourite christmas present is a funny bird whistle i received this past christmas, you can hear it on the song.

within the meridian and beyond!

2010-05-11T08:28:00.000-07:00

i got a globe for my birthday, listen to what it says on the box:

"hold the world in your hands with this spinning globe. Discover new countries, plan expeditions, navigate the oceans, and improve your geography skills."

i think this globe is going to become an essential part of most of my future plans.

Heavy In My Heart

2010-05-11T04:33:00.000-07:00

This is Video No. 3 for "Columbus and Crusoe". This time for the song "Heavy in my Heart" which was recorded last year in Chris' bedroom in Lewisham. I made it after work one day with my co-worker, Aaron. We came up with a storyboard together and both roped in a couple of friends to help. It took just a couple of hours to make, and we all worked together, and made it up as we went along. Now Columbus and Crusoe have THREE promotional music videos, i think we need to promote the music a bit more!! http://www.myspace.com/columbusandcrusoe

two sitting room installations

2010-05-04T11:12:00.000-07:00

On Saturday I made two installations in the sitting room. In collaboration with Naama Yuria, we spontaneously arranged things we found in the sitting room into these:

No. 1

END OF THE WORLD TV WALL

something you could join in with, 8 TV's, foliage and blossom from the park, black sugar paper, pastels and chalk.

No. 2

CHESS ON HOLIDAY

Upturned dining table, dark blue curtain, various kinds of paper, cardboard and felt, poster paint, coloured pencils, chess peices, cotton wool, straws

I just took photos of them now, so they aren't as well ordered as when we made them. Next time you're in your sitting room and a little bit bored, have a look at what's around you, and, in the words of Neil Buchanan, "try it yourself!" Although I guess it helped that we have a lot of junk in our house.

Hotel Us

2010-04-22T07:27:00.000-07:00

i've been making this for a couple of weeks now. I put it in the most recent art show at Ozlem that i arranged seating - wise with Naama, "Teen-Romance-Ploitation" last night. It was a more than good show and i'll blog about it soon. I was thinking about one day opening a love hotel in bohol. Chocolate hills is a popular tourist destination, and there's definitely a market there, but then I thought it might be a bit grim to run a place thats filled with people having sex in themed rooms, if there were lots of Tarsiers running about though people could get distracted..

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the conservatory at the barbican

2010-04-13T03:55:00.000-07:00

i followed this guy around the cactii at the barbican conservatory the other day, he knew a lot of the latin names of plants that live in dry climates. the more water a cactus could hold the more impressed he was i think. some of the plants were drooping or spilling out of hanging teracotta pots and others climbed upwards with one huge bubbling green finger almost pressing up against the glass ceiling. i also tried to feed the koi carp my fingers and nearly fell in the pond.

you should go to the conservatory in the barbican if you feel like seeing something that will make you want to be a botanist for a while.

the triumphant return of the rock band WIKIPEDIA.ORG?

2010-04-10T10:46:00.000-07:00

I was cycling past the park the other day when I saw an ice cream van, and I thought maybe wikipedia.org is a bit like an ice cream van, a summer establishment, chiming our bells between may and september. Maybe we'll always have our last gig of the year on halloween. Maybe we'll go back to club accoustiKA in Twickenham to dance with the mums and dads again. Maybe we'll make a video to the song 'sebastian'. Maybe it can have french subtitles.

pete still has faith in wikipediaorg, he has some mp3s on his blog here... peteinkpen.com

listen to P.A.R.T.Y all the way through, it gets really good at the end, we can't play it that good live though..

A Really Bad World Map

2010-04-06T05:27:00.000-07:00

there's a really bad world map just opposite from where I'm sitting in the kitchen in this video. at least I think its bad, it might not be, world maps come in all shapes and sizes, i always just get confused about the size of greenland and australia. because I though that australia was the largest island containing just the one country in the world, but greenland always looks massive, so maybe it is the biggest.

...vs daytime TV

2010-04-05T04:48:00.001-07:00

...when this was all happening, I had no idea that one day, this would be happening...

Daytime TV is being made in this picture, the programme is called "to build or not to build" and each episode will follow a 'self-builder' as they build their own homes. One of these episodes will be devoted to my dad, who is currently in the process of 'self-building'.

Now after three years of making videos about dad as our abandoned old house became more and more decrepit (seen above), and eventually demolished. Seeing this happening is so confusing. I had finally made a film to end everything with and move on to making teen-romance movies, (http://quinkinkdontblot.blogspot.com/2009/08/here-it-is.html) but its carrying on, it never stops. Back in 2009, as the local council were putting off the demolition date, leaving a house in a sorry state, I went back and with my dv camera to make films about dad carrying dead christmas trees around the garden, or having spontaneous christmas dinners with kids who had come to fish in the river at the bottom of the hill...

As this was happening, the end was in sight, which I saw as the house being knocked down, I saw what I was doing with dad as a collaboration, yeah i used that word, it was. I couldn't have looked at it in any other way. Because apart from it being about completely personal things, circumstances relating specifically to us, and our lives. It was about cameras, pointing cameras at each other, art and our different ideas of education, and what was best for us. About where a relationship meets in the middle.

So now that it is carrying on, now that the house isn't there anymore, and the foundations have been laid down for the new house, I've lost quite a lot of control. I feel like its me vs daytime TV, a medium which completely celebrates everything I was trying to pick apart, dinner parties, wines and building homes and families. Why is dad being so complicit in all this? is it because its in HD? I had two cameras in my hand when I was there with the small TV crew last wednesday, a small HD camera given to my dad from the BBC to make video diaries at home with (!!!) and the DV cam i've been using since everything started. When I was sat there video-ing on both these cameras I realised I'm going up against this well-packaged, inoffensive and organised institution, which I'm actually really excited about. Its only just started, and the episode won't be broadcast until next year. So I have a lot of time to think about it and work it out, I don't want to interfere with their process, rather let it unfold a bit, or completely, and just work around it. I'm still going to make teen romance movies in the mean time.

A Crab Landing in Shibuya (130x138)

2010-04-02T00:54:00.000-07:00

I made this for my friend Sara Nunes Fernandes, for her first publication for her ongoing project called, "the river people publications". The first publication is called, "this time is just the wall space above my fireplace", and for it she asked 50 of her friends to make something, anything that would fit the dimensions of the wall space above her fireplace. I found it pretty hard because I was doing things and because the image is pretty square I kept thinking the pictures I was and were making just looked like album covers, but then that doesn't matter so much, I was happy in the end when I came up with this. I can't wait to see everything when it comes together in hardback.

here's the website... www.theriverpeoplepublications.co.uk

into the night with john landis

2010-03-16T17:38:00.000-07:00

this photograph is brilliant. just brilliant. look at us all happy and looking right into the camera. how often is it that you take a photo with only 3 seconds to spare and someone isn't smiling, or they're looking at the ceiling with their tongue in their cheek? well here we all are. we don't care who the person taking the photo is but we're staring out as if we know you, all we do know is that we're here with john landis. And we've just been entertained for two hours by his charming anecdotes about hitchcockian insults and off set tomfoolery. And he's pointing at us! he points at everyone but somehow it works each time. He points at people as if to say, "look who i'm with! its these guys!" or maybe he's saying to you, "look! here's all your friends! and they're right here with me! john landis! i know jeff goldblum!"

oh and you know what, i've just realised what i should have asked him... i watched an american werewolf in london whilst i was in school, i must have been about 14. My grandma recorded it for me off the tv. When I watched it i noticed it was very short, I asked my mum why and she told me it was because grandma had cut out the sex sceene with jenny agutter and david naughton using her vhs recorder. In fact she'd edited it so well that i didn't even notice! I wish i could've remembered about this in time to ask John Landis to describe that scene to me fully. But I guess i'll just have to watch it now instead.

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I want to make a film

2010-02-04T07:10:00.001-08:00

I want to make a film next week, i've already made a soundtrack, which is how it started. Its a mix of voicemail messages and fiddly songs i've been recording since the summer. I think i'll release this cd to hopefully go with another awkward little dvd i'll produce. I'm being a bit speculative here because I don't really know what the film is going to look like or be. I want to try making something in a new way after collecting a strange mix of footage and ideas over the last few months.

2010-02-02T11:11:00.000-08:00

Myself

2010-01-12T06:47:00.000-08:00

Me and chris made a video for the song "myself" by columbus and crusoe.

2010-01-07T07:06:00.000-08:00

New Year's Human League Private Disco

2010-01-07T07:01:00.000-08:00

2009-12-09T04:27:00.000-08:00

errrrrrm so last night I dreamt that I went to see a show at the Maureen Paley gallery. Whilst I was working there Seb Patane came in one day, and arranged a small piece of what looked like red sugar paper on a piece of wood with some nails in it. This was then photographed by someone for frieze magazine. His show is currently on now, I haven't been yet but last night in my dream I saw all of it.

He'd completely taken over the place, downstairs all the walls floor and ceiling had been burnt somehow, and it all kind've looked like solidified lava, or when you deep-fry a popadom and it bubbles up and expands. I thought this was pretty cool and that maybe the piece of red sugar paper was just some sort of red herring, or maybe i'd find it upstairs. I headed in that direction but i got lost, because instead of stairs leading up to the next part of the gallery they went down, he'd made some sort of strange double-helix type passage way out of two spiral staircases. I followed it and ended up in a room covered in nicely carpeted wooden stairs, in groups of two or three, sticking out of the walls or climbing up into dark holes in the ceiling. I didn't really understand the significance of all these stairs, both in my dream and in this exhibition. There were invigilators everywhere. And I couldn't see any red sugar paper.

Then I opened a door which led me into the toilet, he'd done something in here too, the room was now much much bigger than I remember it. There was no longer just one toilet in the room but about 20. All spread out. The room was much bigger now. It was a bit like an open plan maze. I could see round a lot of corners but it was also easy to hide. There was limescale everywhere. I didn't know how many people were in here, it could've just been me, but a few of the toilets might have been occupied, I just couldn't see them. Then Maureen Paley started walking in, I got scared and leant on the door. Her beehive became stuck in the doorframe and fell off.

I paused, and held my breath for a few seconds. I didn't really know what to do, maybe she was waiting outside or she had gone back towards her office. Maybe she wanted me to bring back her beehive.

But I couldn't resist trying it on. There were a few mirrors dotted around, quite steamed up, I put on the beehive and wiped one of the mirrors so I could look at myself. I looked pretty good. As I looked into the mirror, hairs started splitting and the longer I stared more hairs would split until the whole thing had become a monstrosity. Then the door started slowly opening, I freaked out and tried to jump over a small wall in front of me. I had gotten half over it when I realised it was only a couple of invigilators. They saw the beehive and then they looked at me, one of them told me that it was insured for £26,000. I woke up wondering whether it being insured was good for me or bad for me. I don't know, I'm not sure it mattered.

I'm going to go to the show, I hope I can find this small piece of red sugar paper, and I'm sure i'll breath a sigh of relief when I see it.

Part 3: Mr-Banks Mash Up

2009-11-30T07:16:00.000-08:00

As i said, these films were making things happen. Luckily for me, the events of the final installment of the trilogy weren't reflected in real life. But it is pretty dramatic. I think Veronika Zemanova gets her revenge. And I also think our brief fling might be over.

Now the trilogy is complete, you can have it on a dvd. Just come and ask me for one.

Its a small dvd so its pretty impractical. But it has a booklet that you can open up and enjoy, which also contains the secret of the bedroom window elixir.

2009-11-21T05:49:00.000-08:00

Part 2: Where is Love

2009-11-12T02:00:00.000-08:00

These films are making things happen, I swear. On the same day I made 'Part 1: Climb Ev'ry Mountain, a film about being unemployed'.. I was offered a job. After that I thought, I might be able to get a job, but I doubt I could bring my dead bird back to life. I also didn't know how to solve the continuity issues surrounding my hat, and really wanting to wear it in the second part, until I decided to have it land right on to my head. After all, where is love? does it fall from skies above?

Anyway, I did bring my bird back to life, but on the very same day, it was eaten by our new cats. And that day happened to be the 11th of November, Memorial day.

I don't know what's going to happen in part 3 yet, but I do know that it will be pretty dramatic.

www.wendycarlos.com

2009-11-06T09:07:00.000-08:00

I've just been browsing Wendy Carlos' official website. and oh my god it is incredible, go now, and browse the official website of the person responsible for making some of the most amazing music ever.. i'm speaking mainly of the clockwork orange soundtrack which is out of this world. browse her drawings of cats, and browse her photos of solar eclipses, and read her essays. go now.

Introducing ... Klaus

2009-11-06T07:28:00.001-08:00

This is Klaus. He's a She. I've never known a cat to constantly purrr like a machine, but she does. She likes dark places, food, and the Pet Shop Boys, seriously, I didn't know that was going to sound like a joke until I wrote it. We have another cat called Una, she likes dark places so much that she hasn't come out of one until she moved in, so i'll introduce her when she introduces herself to me.

The Soundtrack of my Life on the Way to the Jobcentre

2009-11-03T08:33:00.000-08:00

This song has made me happy for the last few days. That and the return of the rock band WIKIPEDIA.ORG being a success. We played our four and a half songs and it

made me want to make up four and a half more, that will make nine and we can release an album with 9 songs, like the Roberta Flack album, Killing me Softly, which

i'll always remember noticing having 9 songs and thinking it was quite brave because it would confuse people.

Love is a stupendous gravitational pull.

2009-10-25T06:54:00.000-07:00

Rated Aww

2009-10-23T02:00:00.000-07:00

The Story Of My Conception: Narrated by Veronika Zemanova from Jack Barraclough on Vimeo.

Veronika Zemanova lives in a world of silence. All she seems to care about is the taste of her own tit. See how she reacts when she just manages to catch the story of my conception on her tv.

This just happened!!!

2009-10-23T01:41:00.001-07:00

Blepharospasm (Defined as Eye Twitching)
Blepharospasm is the technical term for involuntary eye twitching (eye spasms). Blepharospasm is more specifically defined as an abnormal involuntary blinking or spasm of the eyelids. Eye twitching usually involves involuntary movements of the eyelid specifically. Some refer to this condition as eye spasms. Some doctors often refer to this condition when chronically present as "blinking disorder." Sounds pretty serious. But it may not be.

I've been searching my soul tonight...

2009-10-15T10:55:00.000-07:00

this is a warning. i just had an ally mcbeal moment. you know when you're walking down the street, there's music in your head. i was listening to the b-52's, but i was still relating to it like ally relates to vonda shepard. anyway, this couple who were swinging around lamposts asked me to take their picture. it was a pretty rubbish picture, the flash was on. if i was in a good mood i would have said "it'll probably look better without the flash". but i didn't, i walked on and realised that i'd just had an ally mcbeal moment.

i would avoid these if i were you.

remembering the bird funeral.

2009-10-14T00:11:00.000-07:00

One of my birds died. If you want to know why it died, it was neglect. It was a long time ago now and there's probably not much of it left. I want there to be a perfectly intact skull so I can dig it up and put it on top of the cardboard fire-place in the other bird's cage. I can't believe it's still alive.

This was the funeral. Not many people in the house wanted to attend. Truth is they didn't care, it all happened very quickly one morning. But Kit was present, after all she spent more time than anyone with it, I almost thought she deserved to have it for breakfast. Instead we had a mock service, there wasn't a priest because no-one wanted to dress up in the robes for us. But some Jehovah's witnesses did turn up at our house minutes after John died.

OMG HAT FFuckbaby blue shine

2009-10-13T02:23:00.000-07:00

So my hat fell off but I managed to find it and put it back on again.

Ally McD I E

2009-09-27T04:11:00.000-07:00

Zeal: noun

Eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something.

Alley Mcbeal's zeal is the endless pursuit of love. What I'm saying is that she's gonna lose it.

As for Dawson O'Leary, well...

The Return of the rock band WIKIPEDIA.ORG

2009-09-25T01:49:00.000-07:00

we sound good on cd...

...and we look good

...so why am i so worried??

Haven't you ever heard of suspension of disbelief??!!

2009-09-24T09:33:00.000-07:00

Evelyn Wood: He told me he wanted to do everything in two takes or less. In this one scene, I was to come out of the other room, into the living room, and find Ed in my clothing. Well, I looked surprised, but he said, "well, I think we can get a better look of surprise." I went behind the closed door, I waited. I waited. And I waited. I thought, they've gone to dinner. They've forgotten me. Finally, I heard Ed holler, "Roll 'em!" I came through the door, all the furniture had been removed. They had set it up as a kitchen. I was expecting to walk into a living room. Naturally, I looked surprised. Ed said, "Print it."

Here it is

2009-08-20T01:39:00.000-07:00

Part 1: "Climb Every Mountain"

2009-08-18T09:58:00.000-07:00

I've been listening to all the songs from different musicals that me and my sister used to fast forward through when we were kids because we found them really boring...

In particular, 'Climb Every Mountain', sung to Maria by the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, after she has returned to the abbey after falling in love with Captain VonTrapp, 'Hushabye Mountain', sung by Caractacus Potts to all the children of Vulgaria, trapped in the caves beneath the kings castle in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and finally 'Where is Love', sung by Oliver in the musical of the same name when he gets locked in the cellar of the funeral parlour after getting into a fight with a servant of the undertaker.

I love these songs now! I can't get enough of Mother Abbess singing out of that window, encouraging Maria to get right back to Captain VonTrapp and his child family of singers, and realising her dreams, which of course is cemented in our hearts when she joins him on stage after he has broken down singing 'Edelweiss'. I'm still not so sure about Dick Van Dyke, or Mark Lester's annoyingly squeaky voice, but oh man, Mother Abbess.... yyeah.

So I'm making films using these 3 songs, inspired by their motivational content.. here's the first, 'Climb Ev'ry Mountain: a film about being unemployed', it's a sci-fi. I'll only be able to make the others if I can get over ML's squeaky voice and DVD's errrmm, actually its nothing to do with him, I just despise that annoying boy "Peter" demanding to be "taken out of here"...

Anyway, I just can't seem to be able to leave my bedroom and enter the workspace.

here i am

2009-05-08T06:10:00.000-07:00