Jack Conte's "Yeah Yeah Yeah" Video

Hey everyone,

Make sure to check out Jack Conte's music video for "Yeah Yeah Yeah," a song on his Nightmares and Daydreams album.

It's absolutely stunning, and it just won an award for Best Music Video in the 2008 Alice 3-Minute Film Festival.

Jack and I have collaborated on numerous projects together. He was my director of photography on MODEL MAN, and an instrumental version of "Yeah Yeah Yeah" is featured in I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU TRENT AND GREG.

Here's the YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzr32OqGlOA
If you like his music, visit him on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/jackconte

LA Writing Cafes!

Finally, I found some cafes I can write in! These two spots make me wish I lived on the Eastside:

Casbah Cafe:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/casbah-cafe-los-angeles
Great Moroccan atmosphere, and prosciutto and brie baguette sandwiches for $7.

Intelligentsia Coffee: http://www.yelp.com/biz/intelligentsia-coffee-los-angeles
Way cool blue and white tile floors, hip laptop counter, Darjeeling tea.

Marble Madness

Thomas, Dean, and I build the world's tallest marble tower!

Populate

Kids at church:

Girl with a bunny ears headband sticks bits of tape to her mother's hair.

Boy draws a duck that looks like a cracked bowl.

Lemonade Research

Here are some of the articles I've run across while researching for my new short script, LEMONADE.

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000479perfect_lemonade.php

FindArticles - Lemonade stand nets profits for soup kitchen
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Aug 29, 2004, by CARY LEIDER VOGRIN THE GAZETTE

Lady Lazarus coming to bookstores

My creative writing instructor and friend, Andrew Altschul has his first novel arriving in stores next week. It's called LADY LAZARUS, and here's the book description:

"This spectacular, sprawling debut novel tells the story of Calliope Bird Morath, daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath—whose horrific suicide devastated the world—and his notorious wife, Penelope.

The novel is narrated by both Calliope and her obsessive biographer, who follows her from her silent childhood to her first tortured, manic public statements about her father; from her highly publicized publication of a book of poetry to her mysterious disappearance; from her reappearance as the mute leader of a cultlike brigade known as The Muse to her spectacular showdown with the biographer.

A disturbing and razor-sharp meditation on twenty-first-century celebrity culture, Lady Lazarus is also a funny and moving story about the age-old question of the nature of the self."

And here's his book tour schedule:

April 15 - BOOK LAUNCH at Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, 7pm.

April 17 - InsideStoryTime, Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA, 6:30pm.

April 22 - Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, 7pm.

April 23 - UC Riverside, INTS-1128, Riverside, CA, 3pm.

April 24 - Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA, 7pm.

April 29 - Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, 7:30pm.

April 30 -Books Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 7pm.

May 8 - Powell's, Portland, OR, 7pm.

May 9 - Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle, WA, 7:30pm.

May 15 - Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA, 7:30pm.

May 19 - Drunk Poets Society, Winston's Beach Club, San Diego, CA, 6:30pm.

May 21 - Stanford University, Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford, CA, 7pm.

Andrew's a gifted writer--make sure to check out his book!

Voter Profile: Bruce Mayhall and Tom Rastrelli

Meet voters Bruce Mayhall and Tom Rastrelli, two members of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.