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History Night 8/28/08



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What a difference two weeks make! I still think Obama is going to win. He’s still a great communicator and still has the better plan for America. But, back on August 28th I did not imagine that Obama would shortly be smeared as a pedophile, that McCain would pick an unqualified running mate, that this running mate would distort her and Obama’s record and be allowed to get away with it for days on end, that the media would accept this unqualified running mate being sequestered from public questioning, and that fake charges of sexism would dominate the news for days. Good God, the market place of ideas seems to be broken this September. Fear not, there are better days ahead. I hope.

Thanks Pauline.

Next To Heaven/all



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www.nexttoheaven.net/all

There you will find all 52 episodes of NTH season one; set up for easy one-page playback.

Meanwhile, I’ll be releasing NTH Season One on Youtube – so if you want to see NTH through the prism of a crappy flash codex go on over there. You’ll also be able to follow the action on revver, veoh, dailymotion, and metacafe.

And, NTH season two is in the works. I’ll be casting and shooting his spring! See you soon!

Your Metal Brain



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“Your Metal Brain” is a film I made for an event curated by uber-videoblogger, Mica Scalin, called FEAR REVERE.

Here is a description from the website –

“Fear Revere is a collection of 13 short films by an international group of artists and filmmakers. They were asked to reflect on the genre of horror and the general idea of making something for the purpose of frightening ones audience. Boo!

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FEAR REVERE was originally presented on Tuesday October 30th, 2007 by Mica Scalin at the Pioneer theater for the Fourth Annual Month of Horror, Terror, and General Mayhem.”

You can see many of the other Fear Revere films here.

Your Metal Brain marries two of my favorite things — weird Japanese things (in this case, Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Tetsuo: The Iron Man“) and the coming technology Singularity. You couldn’t tell it from the film, but I’m looking forward to the Singularity. Nonetheless, I’m still a bit . . . fearful!

For Ray, with Love!