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I uploaded my favorite pictures from January to my Flickr account. I spent the last 4 hours or so working on it, plus several hours going through 30 days of photos last week. So this update took me some time. So you only get two updates today. Then it is the weekend, and I only post twice a day on the weekend, then I am probably going to Rhode Island on Monday and Tuesday to campaign for Obama so I would imagine updates are going to be slacking for the next bit of time.

Anyway, check out the best of January on Flickr.

I check my key words that people search in google every day to see who comes to my site… most people are looking for the Lindsay Lohan topless pics, the Vanessa Hudgens nude photos or for some reason videos of Japanese Sharking. That being said my most popular keyword is overwhelmingly “driven by boredom”. So anyway, yesterday I was looking through my key words and I found that “2 Topless Girls Walking Down The Street” was searched for like 10 times. I am not sure why this is the case, but I honestly want to go take a photo now of topless girls walking down the street just so I can help these people out. Anyway, here are 10 amazing key words that people searched in order to get to my site in the last week:

1. my favorite things are fucked faces
2. lauren flax lesbian
3. girlfriends kissing balls at home party pics
4. safe sites for amimal humen fucking
5. 1970 thru 1990 softcore pornstars
6. girls who smoke crack and get naked
7. cow fucking
8. girl shoots football out of her vagina
9. guys who jerk off watching a girl get a flat tire
10. free blackula sex fetish

Amazing… Also, I don’t like leaving you guys without some media so here is one of those Japanese Sharking videos, but this one is of bottom sharking where a guy pulls up a girls skirt and pulls down her underwear on the street. It is basically rape, and completely horrible and these guys should go to jail and be sodomized by huge men. That being said, watching sharking videos is like watching a car accident, you just can’t stop. uncomfortably NSFW.

Sharking Bottom sharking

And it’s over. Invite Them Up’s 6 year run has come to an end. Pretty much every comic said it was the best room in New York. A place where they could all come and test out their material and fuck around and have a great time. I have been going since I first moved to NYC and I met a ton of rad people and laughed myself to tears. Highlights from the night included Baldo’s 30 Seconds Of Stand Up dance party, Demetri’s touching eulogy/set, a standing ovation for Eugene & Bobby and Jon Benajmin putting his own urine into the Invite Them Up time capsule. It was amazing. I took over 600 photos. Here was the last line up ever:

Kristen Schaal
Jim Gaffigan
Eric Slovin & Leo Allen
Todd Barry
Chelsea Peretti
DJ Craig Baldo
Mike Birbiglia (enjoy your Google Alert)
Jon Benjamin & Jon Glazer
Demetri Martin

RIP.

Things of note from last night not directly related to the party pictures below:

• I found out that “sept11″ is in my cell phones predictive text. I tried to type the word “rest” and “sept11″ came out.
• I find it completely offensive that there is a party flyer out there promoting a Barack Obama themed party featuring “free chicken and waffles”. However, I asked several black people how they felt and the most common answer I got was that they were not offended, and that they would probably go to the party in order to get the free chicken and waffles.
• I had dinner with my friend Xochielt who I had the biggest crush on who disappeared on me for a month. It was nice to see her again. We sat next to three large people who were clearly fetishists of some type. The only male of the three was wearing a leather jacket with no shirt and kept kissing one of the girls knees. They talked about weird sex stuff the whole time… loudly.
• My flash is completely fucked for some reason.

Pictures from High Voltage go here.

Due to horrible economic conditions in Zimbabwe their currency is completely worthless.  Just the other week my mom was telling me about a book she read about Zimbabwe and how the government kicked out all of the white land owners who were farming and gave them to the natives of Zimbabwe, but these people did not continue to farm the land properly and it lead to starvation and a dying economy.  I am sure I am completely simplifying the situation, but the Zimbabwe government just kept printing too much money and now things are completely fucked. Anyway, to either draw attention to, or make light of, someone came up with the Million Zimbabwean Dollar Homepage. Remember that site Million Dollar Homepage?  Well it is a parody of that site, except each pixel costs one Zimbabwean dollar, which according to his site is worth 1/90,000 of a US dollar.  So for one cent, you can own a part of history.  I bought 8,100 pixels for Driven By Boredom for 9 cents (plus like $3 in pay pal fees).  It is pretty exciting.  I think I am going to buy some pixels for The Gaskets too.  Dig the site, buy some space.

I am late for comedy so I will make this quick.  I was so tired and feeling like shit last night, but I had a great time.  Happy birthday to Lucy and Dana.  And it was good hanging out with my former VA neighbors, Cobra Kai.  Images go here.

I got to Rififi a bit late and the show sold out and I had to stand in the way back or watch it from the bar area.  I chose to watch it on a screen in the bar.  I didn’t get to photograph the show, but I shot the after party.  I also snuck in to shoot the surprise Yo La Tengo performance.  Comedian Todd Barry played drums.  They did two different songs about Invite Them Up.  The first of which may in fact be the greatest song they have ever written.  The second was a reworking of Bobby’s Girl by Marcie Blane with new lyrics about Bobby Tisdale and Eugene Mirman.  It was a pretty great show, and tonight should be even better.  I am going to get there really early so I can get a decent seat to shoot from. The line up was:

Patric Borelli
Brett Gelman  (w/ Jon Daly)
Pete Holmes
Leo Allen
Andy Kindler
Zach Galifianakis
Todd Barry
Yo La Tengo

Click for photos.

I have spent many, many Wednesday nights at Riffi watching Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale’s Invite Them Up Comedy show. For just $5 you could watch some of the top names in NY comedy try out new material, up and comers bringing their A game, a consistently brilliant Eugene Mirman, and Bobby farting and rubbing his mic on peoples balls. It was amazing. I am very sad to see it go and I will be documenting every day. I meant to get these up yesterday, but I just ran out of time. Tonight is the last night ever and it is going to be crazy packed. If you have a chance to go, I would show up by 7:30 at the latest. Anyway on day one I got there early and had a front row seat to document the show. Here was the line up:

Michael Showalter
Heather Lawless
Greg Johnson
John Oliver
Craig Baldo
Seth Herzog
John Glaser

Click for photos.

PS. The biggest laughs of the night came not from any of the comics, but from John Oliver’s velour American Apparel”jumper”. (See below)

In the last few days I have had an unusual number of people send me YouTube videos that they wanted me to blog about. However, I have been busy as shit trying to organize my life. I spent like 5 hours cleaning my room the other day. I am trying to get a part time job, and I am trying to be awake during the day so I can work a day job. I also have been trying to get some portfolio jobs together so I can apply to a variety of photography jobs. Anyway, instead of blogging about these videos, I am just going to dump them all here and you can have at it and write your own commentary… in your mind!

Hugh Laurie plugs a dead camera.

Barack goes Bollywood.

Barry says: “At 2:19, I’ve never seen anyone do that before. Fifty-three year old freak.”

Diablo Cody won the Oscar for best screenplay.  Everyone seems so excited about the fact that she used to be a stripper.  Like it was so amazing that a former stripper could write a screen play.  I sort of feel like I need to come to the defense of sex workers everywhere.  Just because you are sexy for money, does not mean you are a waste of life.  That being said, I thought Juno had some of the worst, most unrealistic, corn ball dialogue I have ever heard.  And the idea that she would be even nominated for an award is fucking astounding.  Well, at least now she’s famous and I have a reason to post these naked photos of her.

I seriously only have one more update of cartoons that I made nearly 7 years ago. This has been my favorite things to post when I was running low on content… like today when I spent most of my day and night trying to get my life in order.

Way back in January when I was at Sundance I photographed an alumni event for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. They asked me not to put up any images until they put theirs online. They did. So now you get to see them. It was only two hours work and it paid for my plane tickets and I got to eat some pretty amazing food at Robert Redfords’s restaurant. There were some NYU Alumni celebs in attendance like Clark Gregg who directed the film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke, Jason Ritter, actor and son of the late John Ritter, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck who wrote and directed Half Nelson, and Marley Shelton from Sin City and Grindhouse. I was talking to Marely Shelton for probably 15 minutes before realizing she was a reasonably famous actress. I knew she looked familiar but I couldn’t really place it. I started telling her about shooting celebrities holding products for gifting lounge things and told me how weird it was for her to have to hold the products for pictures. We talked for a long time, defiantly longer than anyone else at the party. She seemed like a rad lady, but I still couldn’t place where I knew her. When I got back to the hotel one of the girls working working with me at the gifting lounge told me who she was. Neat. Anyway, other than a few famous faces, these photos are pretty uneventful.

A Few Of My Favorite Things is a series that appears most weekends on Driven By Boredom. Each week I talk about three of my favorite things from a specific genre of film, music, or something else all together. Each favorite thing is accompanied by a video and a description of why it is one of my favorite things. Click here for more favorites.

Since I just wrote up Be Kind Rewind I decided it would be a good time to do a Favorite Things about one of my favorite directors, Michel Gondry. The first time I saw Eternal Sunshine I became obsessed with Gondry. I started trying to track down all his music videos. I got a big help when PALM released their Directors Label series which featured Gondry. It had a pretty good collection of his videos. When comparing it to the Spike Jonze DVD I realized that I was not as into the musicians Gondry worked with. I loved the videos though and I found myself watching Bjork videos despite hating her music. His videos got me into several bands and complete inspired me. I couldn’t come up with just three favorites, but I tried to do my best… so keep reading to see three of my favorite Michel Gondry videos.

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Be Kind Rewind is the new film from Michel Gondry. It is about a video store clerk (Mos Def) who has a moronic friend (Jack Black) who accidentally erases all the movies. So they start making new movies themselves based on the erased movies. For those who insanely don’t know who Michel Gondry he is the man who directed Eternal Sunshine On The Spotless Mind. He is probably the most brilliant living film director who’s name is not Werner Herzog. That being said, Be Kind Rewind meanders. It drops some random plot points and a number of things don’t make sense. (For example, the movies they make are called Sweded versions, but no reason what so ever is given for that.) It is not exactly the best story telling on earth. Gondry is probably a much stronger director than he is a writer (this is the second film he has written, his last film, Science Of Sleep he also wrote, while his first two films were written by Charlie Kaufman. Anyway, the amazingness of the film more than makes up for it. It is extremely funny, completely inventive and overwhelmingly touching. Mos Def is sort of incredible playing a roll that is not only very out of character for him, but very different from any character I have seen anyone play. I had read some slightly negative reviews of it so I went in with slightly lowered expectations, but I have to say it blew me away and I was almost in tears at some points. Also, Danny Glover played the store owner and while I was not overwhelmed by his performance or anything, I did meet him and he was extremely nice.

Check out these two trailers. The first is the actual trailer, and the second is Michel Gondry’s Sweded version of the trailer.

I was sitting in my room, working on this site, when I realized it was nearly 2 AM.  I jumped up and got on the Train and made it to Trash just after two.  For some reason everyone just left around 3, so I did for a second, and then I came back.  When I came back I suddenly had a bunch of friends there, including Sarah 2.0 who’s birthday it was so I bought her a crepe for her birthday and we hung out with a large bearded man who paid for my cab ride home and was a pretty awesome dude.  He also is a big fan of the artichoke crepe, which is my personal favorite.  Anyway, none of this is the point.  I don’t know what the point is, but if you figure it out… let me know.  I gotta go see Be Kind Rewind now, I’ll let you know how it is.

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