Saturday, March 31, 2007

the library should love me
I've spent over $70 in fines there so far this year. I should be on the list of benefactors. I'm considering netflix as it may be a cheaper option.

Labels: fines, library

posted by meg @ 9:28 PM

Friday, March 30, 2007

CHOCOLATE JESUS

Tom Waits - "Chocolate Jesus" Well, I don't go to church on Sunday Don't get on my knees to pray Don't memorize the books of the bible I got my own special way I know Jesus loves me Maybe just a little bit more I fall down on my knees every Sunday At Zerelda Lee's candy store Well, it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel good inside Got to be a chocolate Jesus Keep me satisfied Well, I don't want no Abba Zabba Don't want no Almond Joy There ain't nothing better Suitable for this boy Well, it's the only thing that can pick me up It's better than a cup of gold See, only a chocolate Jesus Can satisfy my soul When the weather gets rough and it's whiskey in the shade It's best to wrap your Savior up in cellophane He flows like the big muddy but that's okay Pour him over ice cream for a nice parfait Well, it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Good enough for me Got to be a chocolate Jesus It's good enough for me And it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel so good inside Got to be a chocolate Jesus Keep me satisfied

Controversial chocolate Jesus exhibit cancelled NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was cancelled Friday amid a choir of complaining Catholics that included Cardinal Edward Egan. The "My Sweet Lord" display was shut down by the hotel that houses the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan, said Matt Semler, the gallery's creative director. Semler said he submitted his resignation after officials at the Roger Smith Hotel shut down the show. Word of the confectionary Christ infuriated Catholics, including Egan, who described it as "a sickening display." Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, said it was "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever." The sculpture was to debut Monday evening, the day after Palm Sunday and just four days before Roman Catholics mark the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. The final day of the exhibit was planned for Easter Sunday. The artwork was created from more than 200 pounds of milk chocolate, and features Christ with his arms outstretched as if on an invisible cross. Unlike the typical religious portrayal of Christ, the Cavallaro creation does not include a loincloth. Cavallaro is best known for his quirky work with food as art: Past efforts include repainting a Manhattan hotel room in melted mozzarella, spraying five tons of pepper jack cheese on a Wyoming home, and festooning a four-poster bed with 312 pounds of processed ham.

Labels: art, chocolate, jesus

posted by sasha @ 7:27 PM

Thursday, March 29, 2007

those Hartman brothers really get around


How did we miss this? Awesome!

Labels: hartman, menno, video

posted by sasha @ 5:27 PM

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

julia and i have and announcement!
we were going to bike across the usa this summer
we even made a post on robinhoodfund to raise money for a new bike for julia.
and i'm impressed to say it's done pretty well with out any promotion (btw, feel free to register and VOTE FOR US!)
a week ago the realization was made that 3 months isn't enough time to bike across the usa, learn french, do an entire semester of graduate readings and start work on a master's thesis.
so we've limited our travels from baltimore to goshen, where we'll catch a ride to traverse city for a schrock family reunion and back and then maybe ride to chicago.
we're inviting any shoupers or foas along
we're probably leaving july 6thish
here's the plan
the cool part is we're mennoniting most of it!
okay, we're going on a walk, more to come...

Labels: bike trip, summer

posted by kate @ 10:36 AM

new macbook and a cold
I am sickly, sickly, sickly.

Or, as one of the Hartman brothers once wrote in a poem judged too offensive for The Record, "My nose is ejaculating, ejaculating, ejaculating".

Labels: hartman, sick

posted by sasha @ 9:27 AM

Sunday, March 25, 2007

powered by ODEO

Labels: awesome, music

posted by sasha @ 2:27 AM

Friday, March 23, 2007

Chicago
Hey! I'm going to be in Chicago tuesday to visit the Art Institute and see the Symphony... those in the area, would you be interest in meeting for dinner or coffee/tea or something?

let's make plans.
erini[stop]christine[located]gmail

Labels: travel

posted by Erini CS @ 9:09 PM

http://www.truemajority.org/gonzales/index.php

Labels: ice cream

posted by kate @ 12:43 AM

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

TOC verifies a suspicion raised by various Old Town posters about: the character Bitch in Shortbus is in fact a real person playing herself. This is confusing, because I took the character to be a sort of spoof. I mean, how much room is there out there for electro-folk lesbian white-kid-with-dreadlocks recording artists?

Please god make the answer be "not any more room."

posted by weiss @ 11:22 PM

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Go see a play: make meg happy
This is my friend Chris:


Chris is an actor with the Organic Theater company in Chicago:


Here's the calendar:
March 23 Friday 7:30 p.m Man with Bags <-- Chris
March 24 Saturday 2:00 p.m $30,000 Bequest
March 24 Saturday 7:30 p.m The Dressing Room
March 25 Sunday 2:00 p.m Bartleby <-- Chris
March 30 Friday 7:30 p.m $30,000 Bequest
March 31 Saturday 2:00 p.m The Dressing Room
March 31 Saturday 7:30 p.m Bartleby <-- Chris
April 1 Sunday 2:00 p.m Man with Bags <-- Chris
April 6 Friday 7:30 p.m The Dressing Room
April 7 Saturday 2:00 p.m Bartleby <-- Chris
April 7 Saturday 7:30 p.m Man with Bags <-- Chris
April 8 Sunday 2:00 p.m $30,000 Bequest

The shows are at the Ruth Page Foundation School:
312-337-6543
1016 N Dearborn St
Chicago, IL 60610

Please go see a show and tell Chris hi for me. It should be super awesome and you'll be supporting some great artists.

Labels: theater

posted by meg @ 11:46 PM

Monday, March 19, 2007

great joys through old emails

so, apparently since coming to goshen and obtaining a gc mail account... I've saved a shitton of emails...
so while weeding through one of the folders... I found this lovely picture sent to me by Mr. Dyck.

..you know... in late april... say, around the 29th or so... that'd be a great time for people to return to goshen for a visit...
it'd be a good chance to see all us youngin's before we head our separate ways...
As for me, after June/July you may have to hunt me down in Chicago somewhere...

Also, this is a seriously belated and repeated THANKS to everyone who sent me encouraging and loving emails during my manic-depressive* summer working at Cedar Point. (I'd thank others for other various emails, but I've only gotten as far as August 2004...)

*term describes the experience, not Rini's mental state...
posted by Erini CS @ 11:39 AM

Saturday, March 17, 2007

posted by celestial @ 10:52 AM

Best news of the week
Nova Scotia retiree not diggin' sinkhole in yard

Labels: news

posted by sasha @ 6:27 PM

Times Select
Good news, y'all. The New York Times Select section — a walled-off Internet garden of Eden where Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman play Adam and Eve and Khoi Vinh is God — is now available to all college students. For free. Sign up now (any old goshen.edu address will work) and drink deeply from the well of ideas...

Labels: free, goshen, nytimes

posted by sasha @ 2:27 PM

posted by weiss @ 11:45 PM

it's 72 degrees in Goshen right now!!!

let the skirt wearing commence!!

Labels: GC, skirts, spring

posted by Erini CS @ 3:51 PM

posted by sasha @ 12:27 AM

I gaffed this elvis perkins music video in December. I think the quality looks like crap and I hope it's just because of youtube. Anyway, this shoot was cool because unlike most music videos where the song is pre recorded and then it's played back for the band to sing along with (so everything syncs up in post), this one was shot live with live sound and 3 cameras. some of the extreme closeups were picked up later and the cigarshop-indian-statue-thing was also done later. it was a small space with not many windows, low celings and 3-cameras, 'twas a bitch to light but we pulled it off in the end. so check out the music video:


Also!

There's a new icon in my credits! Yes folks, not only have I earned my art department patch for creating a giant spider web and nearly tying up justin timberlake, but now I've got another paint can next to a feature film! yup, I've left the world of big lights and am currently spending my days making little lights blink on fake control panels, making antique elevators light up and occasionally fixing cords of power tools that the construction boys have cut through.

here's my web. it made it into city magazine

Labels: art department, elvis perkins, music video

posted by meg @ 12:21 AM

my favorite sloth sites
my favorite sloth sites
one
two
three
four <-- the best!
posted by kate @ 1:04 AM

OMG I totally called Girl Talk!! Jesse, you were there on the El. I also am going to go ahead and predict Joanna Newsom. Gotta check w/Angie about whether I can get of work on the Fridat.
posted by weiss @ 11:15 PM

El Perro Del Mar is way cool. I bought the CD, still owe Annie $5. But I liked the live version of "Candy" better because a dude named Bjorn was singing the background vocals rather than some weird female voices. Lakeshore Theater is not so cool. Seats about 300, and who wants seats? But the bartenders were hilariously funny and pushy.Openers were also not so good, except for the one song that sounded like All Mine.

But the real thing this post is about is Lotus and how they are coming to Abbey Pub. Downsides is that Abbey Pub is really far away, but for the chance to do a funny dance and drink in nostalgia I will go. April 7 boys and girls, mark your calendars.

p.s. does anyone live out that way who could pick up tickets at the box office early?
posted by weiss @ 11:00 PM

Bluffton tragedy

Labels: bluffton

posted by sasha @ 2:27 AM