Abigail's Video Mixtape Continues... #5

And this...

simply genius.

I'm gonna wanna listen to this at work tomorrow (Thursday) - they RULE!

pt.3

mindflayer 2003, 2003 i tell ya: I was there.

recorded and posted by bf

pt. 2

practice #2

second idea/test made from practice#2 for album no.5, guitar played the other night, vocals done on garageband today. first take melodies as always. the crappy tape recorder didn't quite record over the mixtape underneath, that's dear nora in the background, then joan of arc. but, do i even need to say this?, its these kind of "mistakes" that're gonna make this into one solid song.
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And in other news...

Michael Williams died yesterday.
He was only 31. They say he went out for dinner Thursday night and never made it home. He just collapsed. While I did not know him very well, it was sill a shock to hear one of my customers(?) was dead. He ordered a lot, so I delivered to his cube a bunch even though he was usually absent. Even just last week or so, I commented to him how he was 'livin the life!', you know sorta 'what's the secret max' sorta thing. He seemed pleased and agreed that he was. Crazy, now he's dead. Going up to the second floor was sadd, people were upset and crying, one girl was packing his stuff up in boxes, his boss left work early. seen it before. i feel like this kind of thing happens more and more as we grow older. but its not like music or movies, it doesnt get old. when i first heard about it, honestly, i was like, ugh guess today's gonna be a headache. and it was for a good part of the day. it makes you think about death and our life and josh and steve. max. this time though, i thought to myself, well at least if i were to go tomorrow, im feelin ok with who i am and what im doing these days. sorta. more than any other time i think. there's always that ap honors biology class that keeps me down.
but i'd rather die at full speed than live at half. or with my brakes on all the time.
after work, i went out and surfed the streets. by the time i got to sleep i had boughten, yep boughten i said it, a tom petty album and came up with some good words for a new idea for a song i recorded two nights ago. i'm taking my time with number 5.

a preview

Batman Begins
saw this awhile ago but was really struck by it. i think its just new blood to whats now a genre that reinvigorated it for me. plus liam neeson fighting on ice is pretty cool too. i liked how dark it was. the girl from dawson's creek plays the vicki vale type character. whatever, who? the scarecrow dude was kinda cool.

Bottle Rocket
obviously the best wilson/anderson film by far. you cant even compare its heart with say the zuzu movie. oops, Zissou. this is owen wilson's finest performance and everything he did after turned to shit. (im just saying that mind you to get your goat) But, truth: a character like Dignan is only born once. im not gonna bother with this scene or that scene cause the whole thing is solid all the way through.

Groundhog Day
before lost in translation bill murray had only a couple attempts with material deeper than say Dr. Venkman in ghostbusters. but here he really shows his distance. thats not the right word but i forget the right word, you know his talents. shit. anyway, watch the movie and feel at peace with shit for an hour and 40 mins then go back to the real world where shit keeps moving on. or just rewind the dvd and watch it over again, and again, and again, and again. the best part of the movie is the story of the street bum. goddamn.

There Will be Blood

this movie's alright. kind of a great undertaking for the dude who made punch drunk love and that movie magnolia. i feel like he's really finding his own place in the history of it all. this movie's long but for me it could have been a lot longer which is a real compliment to daniel day lewis who carries the entire film, although i bet another great actor could have played this part too. if it had gotten made back when it was supposed to - the 70s, then maybe bruce dern coulda done a good job too. but they probably wouldve given it to jack n. anyway its nice to see some refreshing cinema, mind you its not All that, but still pretty good for These Days... the first 15 or so minutes are genius.

why even download into your local computer? when we just have one universal jukebox we can tap into. like seeqpod but more organized and full of information like a library.

president's day

i did this today after a lazy day at work with nothing to do. recorded the guitar part onto a tape this weekend. transfered the tape to the computer and did the vocals in garage band today, which is monday. now im gonna watch caddyshack
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reasons?

some mom wrote this comparing san francisco and detroit. yeah.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/542843/
ten_reasons_why_living_in_san_francisco.html

I found this earlier today at work and went still

I don't think I'm so far off to create something like this. timelesss.
now i just need a kelly slusher

Halloween (2007)

003 (test), codename: "O"

Better than Barak

Yep.

Benjamin Franklin, my childhood hero

Polaroids.

free movies

http://www.watchtvsitcoms.com/movies.html

trains

Norm.

mixtape002

Ok, here's the second mixtape for this page. Unlike the last one, this one was slightly more thought out, but only slighty. The order uses three sources - itunes, seeqpod.com, and the tape in my walkman - pieced together creating a seemless new order. Each cluster, parallel (ie they all happened at once). All the major formats are represented: mp3s, cds, and records, all used without bias or judgement.
It's actually a lot more simple than it sounds. It sounds ridiculous, probably is.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9sduzxjnjan

anyway enough said, lets bring it back.

Drunk History vol. 1 & 2

vol.1


vol.2

"B on the Beach."

My first job was working at Dunkin Donuts at Hampton Beach. You can imagine the rest...

Olde New Hampshire

I grew up in the town right next to Exeter, NH called Brentwood. We used Exeter's post office because we didn't have a zipcode of our own. Ahhh, Exeter.


...and later on in life I started hanging out in Portsmouth

"Monopoly taught me how to manage my money!" says Satisfied Customer

I was playing Monopoly for awhile there.

Monopoly

and here's how to crack the game so you don't have to buy it

- Control-Click (Right click) on the Monopoly.app to show the package contents
- Look inside the folder /Contents/MacOS
- See the Monopoly....... double click and....
Done

And now... bored at work a quick conglomeration

http://www.sagmeister.com/

but its really this one
http://www.sagmeister.com/work8.html

We're living the future

Yes, but.

+ Sometimes the pace of this town kills me.
Yes, the pace of my heart is one speed and its people are living at another. sometimes it's like a funeral procession. It feels like death sometimes so sllowww. The beat of my heart comes close to stopping sometimes. no really, I've never yawned so much before just standing around than in this city. I feel like I cant relate to anyone because its just the way here or something. i need to meet more people though.

But, I like it here alright; don't get me wrong. it's got it's own charm. Like last night on my bike seeing all those protesters on Market Street going crazy for Obama and cheering to whoever passed them by. That made me real excited, and lucky to be living in This city Now. I feel like 2008 is gonna be a good year to be in SF, with the election and all, this one especially. Those people were so alive in their cries. 2007 was like the death year. The death of Bush, the death of the darkside, the death of the past 8 years. I feel like the people reflect the leader in charge, to a degree. So hope is something we need now and will probably come, simply cause it's nature's course. You gotta keep hope alive cause in another 8 years we're gonna be aching again. I kinda wish SF would care a little more about the homeless problem it had than plastic bags when it comes to front page headlines. My boss just came by my desk and won back some respect. seeing the news on television, it's all very Exciting. :)
+ Sometimes I kill the pace of this town.
United States 2008.

yep

It Came!

Helll Yeah!

the 7" (version)

mixtape002 (short test)

It's Monday!

they got a documentary coming out april 2008, yep.

Batman Begins
Robin Hood
Bottlerocket
Rushmore

And in other news...

ww what?!

Abigail's Video Mixtape #4

mixtape de videos, canción cuatro. cuando éramos niños.

Robin the Hood

The medieval period. This was a time when the true symbolic Arthur was formed. The Arthur who fought with dragons or serpents; the Arthur who married his Guinevere - the Queen of Serpents; the Arthur who would have a shape-shifting father named Uther, another term for Zeus. This was also the time when another character emerged who was also joined with a peculiar female counterpart and who materialized from the mists of history as a mythical hero. This hero was Robin Hood.

Etymologically Robin comes from the Norman 'Robert,' a form of the Germanic Hrodebert and it originally meant 'famous' or 'bright' or even and more pertinently 'to shine.' This is and has always been an indication of one who has achieved illumination or enlightenment.

Robin Hood is therefore the 'Bright Hood,' a similar name to the Naga serpent worshippers or deities of India, with their illuminated serpent or cobra hoods. As many have previously stated there are strong links between the origins of Robin Hood and the Green Man, who is also the ancient Egyptian god Osiris and the Greek-Roman god Dionysus/Bacchus, and so we should hope to find something of interest in the many stories surrounding this enigmatic character.

There are elements of the Robin Hood myth that relate to other legends. The 'tree of life' is seen as 'Robin's Larder Tree,' supplying all that could be required like the 'Horn of Plenty' or the 'cauldron' of Celtic folklore.

Robin's link with the 'Horned God' is also telling as he is Lord and Master over the human 'animals' of the Forest and they are guardians of their stolen treasure, like the hoarding, serpent Nagas of Hinduism. They do good deeds for those who deserve them and dastardly deeds to those who do not. The horned element is also telling, as the horns were symbolic of enlightenment or illumination, just as Moses is often depicted with horns whereas the meaning is simply 'shining.' We must also remember that Moses was taught in Egypt, the home of the Green Man Osiris, and that Moses was the one who raised the Brazen Serpent in the wilderness to heal the people of Israel.

In the connected tales of Robin Goodfellow, the 'trickster of the woods' also known as Puck, there is also the link of Sib, the fairy who lives in the hillside and is linked as being a 'serpent spirit' of healing. Robin falls in love with his lady of the waters or Queen of Heaven (a title also given to Isis the sister/wife of Osiris and also a title given to Guinevere) later to be known as the Maid Marion (Marion/Mary coming from Mer = Sea/water/wisdom) and in many ways is undermining the new Christian world that forced itself upon this ancient mixture of paganism.

Puck incidentally is thought to have a much older pedigree, being traced back to an Irish Pan-like deity known as Pouka. Indeed, Robin Goodfellow is said to be born of a human mother and a god-like father in the form of Oberon (king of the fairies and Ob meaning serpent.) He is also green like the 'Green Man,' which is the special healing color attributed to many things surrounding the serpent cult — such as the Emerald Tablet, the color of initiation into Gnostic mysteries associated with the Masons, and the Green Glass of the Grail.

What we also find however in some of the earlier tales is that Robin Hood and Little John - like Jesus and John the Baptist - were equals. Walter Bower, in the 15th century, said that Robin Hood together with Little John and their companies rose to prominence. This in itself points out that both Robin and John were seen to each have their own followers very much like Jesus and John. They are therefore and must be the 'twins' of Gnosticism, like Castor and Pollux - the duality and balance.

Tammuz, Adonis and Osiris are vegetation gods of greenness. Indeed Osiris himself in the Pyramid Texts at Saqqara is called the 'Great Green' and often appears green skinned as a symbol of 'resurrection and life.' The battle between Osiris and Set seems all the more familiar now in the struggle that ensues between Robin and his archrival the Sheriff of Nottingham. Osiris becomes Horus when resurrected and we find that it is Horus who is protected by the Wadjet snake — the green snake. Even in the way he dies there are links with older mysteries. Robin is ritualistically bled to death like the ancient pagan sacrifices. The deed is done by the Abbess of Kirklees, who acts as the priestess in some ancient pagan ritual. Could it be that the tales of Robin are more ancient than previously believed? Could they really be tales of ancient Egypt and even Sumeria? Passed down over millennia and altered by time?