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Jeff Harrington
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So last Saturday we're sitting out back in our garden drinking some brews and I'm lamenting how the contemporary classical scene I help run http://sequenza21.com sucks and I'm really missing the old ElectronicScene where you'd get feedback and some arguments, etc... and not just stupid careerist hyping. Elsie goes, well maybe you ought to start hanging out there again... Heh. DUH! I just haven't been doing any electronic music so I've been lurking... but seeing Fourier and Ryan post got me going...
Anyways, a quick update! Lovecraft's Adjectives you'll love this.  We've been living in H.P. Lovecraft's old apartment for 3 years now. 169 Clinton Street was probably the low point of H.P.'s live... Brooklyn Stuff (See Ghostly Gentleman). Elsie was home one day when this weird guy came by who said that he was from the H.P. Lovecraft Society and wanted to take pictures. She was like, 'Huh... I don't know...' and he finally convinced her to come in and showed her H.P.'s own drawing of the apartment and it totally matched! He actually invented the Cthulu myth while freaking out starving to death in Elsie's front room. Weird cuz Elsie used to be girlfriend to an H.P. fanatic that took her all over looking for H.P. sites- that and the apartment is really weirdly haunted.
And... they're making a movie in our back yard and paying us $$.  Burn After Reading
The new Coen Brothers film starts shooting tomorrow outside our apartment with Clooney, Pitt, McDormand and Malkovich. Brad Pitt is supposed to jump over our garden fence.  Going to go on for 3 days with a Friday night shoot where they'll place lights in my music studio and fake rain will fall from the side of our apartment. And Clooney is supposed to kill Pitt outside on our street.
And I've been looking at making some more electronic music. In the meantime you guys might like this:
Surge - For Disklavier (Yamaha robot piano)
Anyways... hope you guys don't mind me popping in after so long. 
How bout that new Radiohead album pricing?
Jeff
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 1:40 PM
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ha... i sent you a mental PING about a week ago... thinking... "now what's Harrington up to?"
as you can see, the scene isn't as active as it was - people stop by from time to time, but I think most people are plugged into their offline world more than they were a few yrs back. Then again, the Web has also doubled in size a few times since then - much more to distract ones mind on - like 'ole YouTube.
Fortunately - people keep recording tunes, and we still see a fair amount of new songs on the site.
Downloading your tune now...
I'm still releasing tunes - and currently working on a limited edition box set. Next year will mark my 10yr anniversary as 'sonic wallpaper' - so the box set will have all my songs, some live recordings and a video of a performance. Plus it will have 3 CDs, 2 with breaks, 1 as ambient.
glad to hear from you Jeff 
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Subtronik
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 5:21 PM
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Sonic Wallpaper wrote:as you can see, the scene isn't as active as it was - people stop by from time to time, but I think most people are plugged into their offline world more than they were a few yrs back.
I kind of like how quiet things are around here at times.
Less people = less contention.
Anyhow, does this mean you'll be a regular around here now Jeff?
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Danny K
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 5:59 PM
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Hi Jeff,
Good to hear from you mate - I was wondering what you were up to just the other week. Love this track you have posted up - it reminds me a little of Prokofiev's 7th piano sonata (last movement). It sounds deeply difficult - would love to see the dots!
I've just recently finished a project of music for string quartets and was wondering what you might think of them! They are collected here if you want to have a listen. Looper Shakes is probably the best one.
I still listen to Mercurealities by the way - beautiful piece! 
Take care,
DK
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 6:27 PM
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Subtronik wrote:Sonic Wallpaper wrote:as you can see, the scene isn't as active as it was - people stop by from time to time, but I think most people are plugged into their offline world more than they were a few yrs back. I kind of like how quiet things are around here at times. Less people = less contention. Anyhow, does this mean you'll be a regular around here now Jeff?
Hey thanks guys... 
Yeah that's what I was thinking just because I'm kind of missing the whole music/comment/diss/innovate cycle. And I think Gideon's a little off on this a bit. I think they just don't remember what we had and so they don't really feel the loss. It's not just the extra distractions. I've been running these other sites and it's just impossible to get people to actually talk about music. It's like all they want to talk about is their status. Anyways... I'm drunk and tomorrow at 7:00 AM Brad Pitt is going to be jumping into our garden. 
Weirdness prevails... Community rules. 
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Danny K
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 2:31 AM
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Most feedback round here these days seems to revolve round a couple of smilies and a thumbs up sign.
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(((stereofect)))
Joined: 09/02/01
Location: Ontario, Canada
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:47 AM
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Danny K wrote:Most feedback round here these days seems to revolve round a couple of smilies and a thumbs up sign.
It's still better than a couple frowns and thumbs down....
Jeff: 
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 6:04 AM
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Hey stereo... you got that right.
So the Coen Brothers are outside our apartment now getting ready for the shoot. Brad Pitt is supposed to be on the run (he's stolen Malkovich's memoirs and is trying to blackmail him - Malkovich is retired CIA). Left Elsie with the door open and her binoculars and camera ready... Crew everywhere and we can eat at the crew table. Clooney's been sighted although nobody we had talked to had seen him yet. Weird how you just get sucked into this BS. 
Back to this community thing - after being away and trying to start communities for contemporary classical and other forms you just realize how hard they are to get together and how easy they are to break. My friend Pesach runs a air traffic controller community - http://jfktower.com - and they were down for 6 months - no fault of his. He brought it back up and bam... it's rolling again like nothing happened. And they have JetBlue execs and shit hanging out there... Seems each one is different and has its own loyalties etc. E(A)S is remarkably like that in that respect.
Here's something you might like Danny, my recent solo violin piece Puce just being absolutely hammered by a phenomenal violinist, Piotr Szewczyk at the Spoleto Festival.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xJGdeOUNokM
Studio Recording of Puce - Better Sound
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doofgoblin
Joined: 01/21/02
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 6:17 AM
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hey Jeff. I actually think about you (and Ryan) fairly often, partially because I've been hitting Manhattan and Brooklyn a few times a year keep thinking "man, I need to see if those dudes want to meet up." And also in part because I've got these three ES mix cds that I made years ago which still get spun from time to time, and they've got a couple of your tunes on 'em.
anyway...
Quote: I think they just don't remember what we had and so they don't really feel the loss.
speaking for myself - okay, and a couple of other old ES-ers that I see from time to time - I remember. I know that that period of intense community activity and production was really a huge part of my growth as an computer musician.
I remember I'd finish up a tune and couldn't upload it fast enough. It was so exciting, and each feedback posting was like a Christmas gift that I couldn't wait to open.
At a certain point, I stopped being so excited to upload. Not sure exactly what it was. Part of it was when I started releasing on a label, I felt I needed to keep a lot of what I was working on to myself. Part of it was that I was starting to get reviews in print and on other web journals. And I know yet another reason was that as I started playing more live shows and releasing music, I just didn't care as much about what people had to say about each second of every new track. I felt confident about what I was doing and satisfied with my own enjoyment of each piece and sometimes didn't want that altered. This habit just sort of took root and still today, I rarely upload any music (except for live performances).
Gideon is right about people being plugged into their offline world more than they were a few years back. A few years ago, I really ramped up my live show schedule. That came out of what I'd been working on for a long time - designing synthesis environments/interfaces that let me improvise in my style, a style that I used to spend days zoomed in on and editing. The only thing comparible to that early feedback rush now is the interactions I have before, during, and after a show. Actually, I have to admit, it's a far more satisfying for me. On so many levels.
Also about offline world - life stuff. Interests change over the course of, what are we talking, almost 6 or 7 years since "those days?" I spend almost as much time growing vegetables and building cold frames as I do in the studio. Actually, we've been renovating an old gutted and abandoned house on our own since March, which has been a full-time job. The only real music I've done since then has been live shows. Everything except my live rig is in storage, and the room that will one day be a studio is packed with scrap lumber and tools at the moment. That's not to say that won't change back this winter - oh it will. As long as we finish this heating system we're building!
What I like is when someone we haven't seen in a while stops by, says hi, and then others we haven't seen in a while chime in...
Anyway, long ramble there. Coffee's getting cold.
Good to hear ya!
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Sonic Wallpaper
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 9:27 AM
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since our history is the part of the current topic, I just spent a few minutes building a playlist of artists and songs from this musical past we've created.
One of the things I like about browsing my /independent mp3 directory, is looking over the dates when I downloaded some of these songs... going back to 2000 and 2001 on some of these.
So today, I'll be streaming this playlist of 150 indie artist tunes, and enjoying the 1,000's of hrs of creativity that went into all these songs.
How many artsits do you know/remember?
1. sporophyte - superlime (6:12)
2. void - woom (8:18 )
3. Swamay - lowriders delight (8:36)
4. S. A. Fred - Landforms Part 2 (6:07)
5. S.O.U. - Glimpse (5:16)
6. Tokyo Dawn Records - keith303 - into the unkown (11:12)
7. Knellotron - Corpulent Conifer, Part 2 (7:31)
8. Swamay - What's your frequency? (5:12)
9. Icotec - Googolplex (6:30)
10. Dr.Heckle and Mr.Jive - Serene (5:16)
11. Sense (S.O.U.) - Flutes (5:55)
12. Captain Ahab - you never ever ever ever (5:22)
13. sporophyte - Mindforge (6:54)
14. Captain Ahab - Discofunkbot 3000 (3:31)
15. Adrian Bond - Lotus Feet (3:55)
16. Blue Vitriol - pomponio (6:43)
17. Beat Chemist - Chromosphere (6:46)
18. van der Rohe - Variant (5:46)
19. Independent - All Work and No Play.mp3 (5:02)
20. Kettel - Ketteltian (6:35)
21. seestrings - The Moon in Venice (4:50)
22. Fourier Wave Device - Liverpool Street 2002 (6:08 )
23. Em - 120 - Family Tree (5:56)
24. O.R.G. (Dalminjo) - Orgtek (6:06)
25. S. A. Fred - Landforms Part 1 (6:55)
26. Machine Love - Five Miles To Midnight (6:00)
27. Ochre - Reverse Engineering (5:07)
28. Octal40 - vegas (4:33)
29. Bowlfinger - Need For Weed (bogartmix) (16:52)
30. Adrian Bond - Dead Orbs (7:52)
31. (((stereofect))) - Earthrise (9:00)
32. Ochre - Children Playing with Lego (4:51)
33. icotec - Chromosome 21 (5:35)
34. Adrian Bond - Bandwidth (3:21)
35. Twisted Pair - Hole in the Flo - Vampyros Lesbos (6:09)
36. Aem - the flight of john murphy.mp3 (7:00)
37. Smpl - Sunset in Tokyo (4:51)
38. CRELM - Meanwhile (2:54)
39. Prehensile - kung fu death noodle (2:52)
40. Swamay - on the subway (5:12)
41. van der Rohe - Tendril (7:41)
42. SA Fred - Tommorow People SA Fred Remix (3:47)
43. The Love Frequency - Third Thoughts Adventure (5:49)
44. Nimrod Tsabari - simex - under the ocean (nimrod tsabari remix) (3:48 )
45. Yorky - Neuronium (20:28 )
46. SevenEyes - Isogeneic (6:24)
47. Pamplemousse - Spooky Interference (5:14)
48. O.R.G. (Dalminjo) - 4th Chapter feat. Coco Street (Krii rmx) (7:07)
49. Captain Ahab - Robutrippin' (part 2) (3:41)
50. Magic Sound Fabric - We are all connected (11:20)
51. Nokalypse - unveiling signs (4:52)
52. Independent - MultiPanel fading.mp3 (3:15)
53. Xylox - Jazz Ripple Sandwich (7:15)
54. sporophyte - Reasonable Jazz (4:23)
55. send - the love chamber (4:38 )
56. seestrings - Frozen Spores (3:48 )
57. El Bix - Funky Green Machine (5:29)
58. Mercurial - Rainwalker (5:51)
59. Kinetic Science - Original Badman Ting (5:11)
60. Canton - Map of the Cosmos (6:32)
61. icotec / Atman - Ohio (icotec Atman remix) (3:35)
62. Planet Bliss - palma (6:11)
63. Captain Ahab - Puddle Battle of the Tweedle B (3:12)
64. Kat Yidaki - Soulsighting (5:27)
65. Danny K - 72 Hours (5:26)
66. Ikarus - Touched the sun (3:04)
67. Mystical Sun - 15 Billion Years (bang mix) (5:20)
68. synaptic loop - calling ms tram tran (4:37)
69. Genesis7 - The Look (6:00)
70. DubCreator - steppin dub ii (5:07)
71. Red Orc - Bongo Equals Death (6:25)
72. Dr. Mario - Controller's Dub (Spacerazor D (8:48 )
73. simulacra - Smoke Stack (6:15)
74. Blue:Tech - Eyeblade (6:07)
75. snd - bask (6:54)
76. the "legendary" danny k - Deep Space Dub (3:52)
77. Electrostatic - Duality (Fingertwister Remix) (5:18 )
78. O.R.G. (Dalminjo) - Smooth feat. Dustlab (5:38 )
79. Lovecraft's Adjectives - ANDROMEDA (1:52)
80. Jeff - Erg for Mandolin and Guitar (9:40)
81. van der Rohe - Hybrid (5:30)
82. SIMPLY TANGIBLE - Rowlan (4:05)
83. ramen (5:05)
84. Octal40 Vs Danny K - Because of This (octal40) (3:22)
85. Woland - in memory of phineas gage (5:30)
86. Wintermute - Ghost Nation (4:16)
87. Woland - stockburn strikes again (4:24)
88. Mercurial - Escape Velocity (2:41)
89. Dr.Heckle and Mr.Jive - Fade Out With Friends (3:17)
90. Ochre - Low Grav Freefall (6:39)
91. Gnomadic - Gnomeasy (6:23)
92. Red Orc - Plus Two (7:07)
93. Captain Ahab - 22 (3:05)
94. SevenEyes - Ionic Bond (9:33)
95. Fourier Wave Device - Nightbeat (4:09)
96. Dr.Heckle & Mr.Jive - Funkmaster 5000 (5:02)
97. Twisted Pair - Hole in the Flo - Brotherz (6:10)
98. Bigside Left - Auctioning My Notions (3:39)
99. Wissing - Sad Dread's Journey (ft remix) (6:39)
100. FreeZ June (4:19)
101. I Am Robot and Proud - Sunset / Redshift (4:48 )
102. Sisk - White Powder Bubbles Part 1 (2:57)
103. sporophyte - Walk In The Garden (4:52)
104. synaptic loop - the tomorrow people (4:33)
105. The Love Frequency - Time Bubble (shopping trip mix (1:42)
106. Multi - Panel - None (5:16)
107. Apheleon - REDSHIFT SPECTRA (9:39)
108. Kmotiv - One After Five (4:12)
109. Jinx - Beauty Cyberspace (6:06)
110. florianz // liquid morphine - The Tone T(h)ree - part 3 (5:38 )
111. robot boulanger - lessives de montagne (3:09)
112. Ganzfeld - Life (3:45)
113. Omniverse - Sunsplit (4:21)
114. S. A. Fred - 07:00am Disaster S. A. Fred re (9:52)
115. synaptic loop - milton's session (4:27)
116. Fourier Wave Device - Flying Machines (2:14)
117. Polypore - 365 night bus (3:57)
118. Magic Sound Fabric - Photonic Phonic (14:16)
119. Mercurial - Dollbreaker (3:55)
120. Meridian - Rollen (Old Skool Tokyo Mix) (4:59)
121. (((stereofect))) - Dream Catcher (4:30)
122. Subtronik - Energytab (1:49)
123. Doofgoblin - Saxident Jazz Diaper (2:55)
124. P9fm - melt (2:18 )
125. Xylox - Playsoundground (7:36)
126. Avalo - Winds of Time.mp3 (6:50)
127. Apheleon - INTERPLANETARY DRIFTER (se2) (4:54)
128. Knellotron - Cadence (5:46)
129. Danny K - Grand Central (4:01)
130. Jeff Harrington - Lachrimae Crystallinum (4:53)
131. Beng - bocish (2:33)
132. Presethead - ARMAGEDDON AMEN (5:58 )
133. void - xhale (5:50)
134. cell - []()[] (3:37)
135. Mystical Sun - Nebulous Mist (7:00)
136. void - sun in her hair (5:42)
137. Opponent Process, The - Respect for Matter (4:55)
138. Aem - bicycle poker 808.mp3 (4:23)
139. Swamay - bicycle theme (2:03)
140. Beat Chemist - Jazz Break 03.11 (7:34)
141. Error 404 - tools for the instinct (6:00)
142. send - chisk (4:17)
143. octal40 - cocooning (feat. Euphorium) (1:20)
144. Xylox - Ultraglide in X (5:39)
145. AEM non sum qualis eram (2:30)
146. Gentle Jones - meadow fabulous (3:27)
147. Twisted Pair - Hole in the Flo - Summercutz (5:12)
148. Independent - Moron preacher.mp3 (3:29)
149. Fingertwister - the reverend will return (6:19)
150. Leoix - Force Field (6:39)
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 9:37 AM
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Wow, that's some good choons! 
BTW, I discovered Tipper thanks to you recently listening to your last.fm station.
Good to hear from you doof! Wow renovating a house. I'm looking at a possible layoff in the next 12 months and we're trying to figure out how to maybe go low cost and skip the whole McJob thing. We'll see...
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Subtronik
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 7:19 PM
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Danny K wrote:Most feedback round here these days seems to revolve round a couple of smilies and a thumbs up sign.
That must have been in one of your track posts.
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Sonic Wallpaper
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 11:42 AM
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man, I've been loving this playlist! I kept having to pause it yesterday due to phone calls, so it's still playing now
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LoveCraft's Adjectives
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Friday, October 5, 2007 at 4:42 AM
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Hi Jeff!
"He actually invented the Cthulu myth while freaking out starving to death in Elsie's front room."
Damn.
"The new Coen Brothers film starts shooting tomorrow outside our apartment with Clooney, Pitt, McDormand and Malkovich. Brad Pitt is supposed to jump over our garden fence."
" . . . we can eat at the crew table. "
Dude, you lead an interesting life. always a pleasure to read of your adventures. Thanks for checking in!
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Friday, October 5, 2007 at 8:31 AM
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Hey LA! If you have the Joshi biography of H.P. you'll see a drawing of the apartment at 169 Clinton Street. That's it!
Malkovich was hanging outside our bedroom all morning long yesterday... tonight is going to be an all nighter. Yikes... they're installing a balloon on our building roof to provide light and they will be simulating rainfall on our street (from practically every building up and down the street). They're going to install lights inside our apartment this afternoon and Elsie and I will be turning them off and on.
I saw them crash about 10 cars yesterday from our garden. Take one. BAM! Take two. BAM! You ok in there? Kinda scary actually... Tonight's the last day of our location's shooting so they'll be fixing everything back up to normal starting tomorrow morning. I'm ready to get back to normal!
Here's some video of us last night (well Elsie I'm holding the camera) jumping up on top of the fake brick wall they built and showing the car crash street film scene. 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kqhEGAqibLw
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louwhoz
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Friday, October 5, 2007 at 11:40 AM
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The video footage was nice. I've been having a hard time not getting jealous over all of this. I finally broke down and admitted to Gideon that I wished I was "hangin' with Elsie". Brad Pitt? Um...ok. George Clooney? Hmmm....better. But John Malkovich?!?! Fuck yeah! 
It's true...you two really do lead an interesting life. You so deserve it!
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LoveCraft's Adjectives
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 5:34 AM
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I'm always blown away by the insane logistics involved with getting a movie made, crew members scurrying around like ants in that look over the fake brick wall. It's just amazing to me that movies don't just fall apart due to breakdowns in communication, or the sheer tedium . . . (Take 12, the light wasn't right).
I've seen first hand the patience it takes in getting FIVE BAND MEMBERS to understand what the hell other members are trying to impart. Sometimes it's like the tower of Babel or something. A movie, yikes . . . Do you get the idea that John and George and Brad spend a lot of time just sitting and waiting?
And yeah, we're jealous too. In our neck of the woods we mostly just sit around and wait for the Phillies to lose. 
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 7:00 AM
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Hey Lou! And Lovecraft...
It's all over now except for the re-painting and the repair of our garden and the other buildings they had to modify for the shooting. It really was amazing how they got so much done in so little time.
Man oh man that was exhausting. We're still recovering from Friday's night shoot. The noise, the
excitement, the chaos... I've set up a Flickr set of the past few weeks. The fake rain was incredible; the whole block was illuminated by 7 or 8 helium balloons with lights in them. Malkovich was hanging out about 3 feet in front of our apartment where we were standing around.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jayuhfree/sets/72157602303579263/detail/
I climbed over the wall a bit with a ladder and taped this brief take of Malkovich bashing the door in on his townhouse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY3N5MvUNXg
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Danny K
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 3:48 PM
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Hey Jeff,
This Puce thing is pretty good - I listened to the studio version.
Its a nice piece and obviously played by a supreme instrumentalist. It reminds me a little of Tippet.
I was in a film with John Malkovich in 2005 - where he played the part of a man pretending to be Stanley Kubrik. I never saw a release for the film but would be interested if my part of "heterosexual male" made it into the cut. He was really nice on set though and even joined us lowly extras for lunch.
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Multi-Panel
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RE: Hey, Long Time
Monday, October 8, 2007 at 12:19 PM
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heh just saw the pics on Flickr today. (of Jeff's backyard and the Coen bros innit)
very cool
i felt sorry for Pitt surrounded by the paparazzi
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