Art Machine
Just another former infatuation junkie

This is not one of my productions – I only wish it was.

The movie is safe, but exercise caution if checking out CollegeHumor.com. The site features Not Safe For Work content.

Now available from Lulu.com, the new short fiction anthology It Came From Airport Security. Featuring new stories by Victor Bornia, Peter Wild, Jack Cleary, Steven F. Lott, Kevin Hayes, William Coker, Michael Orbach, and C. Glen Williams, with an introduction by Fred Coppersmith. It’s fun! It’s funny! It makes a great gift!

As a matter of fact, that is my middle name for the next month or so. C. Glen “It Makes a Great Gift” Williams.

It’s licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (2.5 because that’s the license we started under), and it’s the perfect book to be seen reading on the airplane!

The Official Press Release

It’s been a long time since I did my Friday 10, and having reduced my iTunes library from 112 gb to a mere 17, I thought I’d take another crack at it.

So if you recognize the song and the artists, post it in the comments!

1. “House Where Nobody Lives” – Tom Waits – There’s a house on my block that’s abandoned and cold…
2. “Priest” – Stephen Lynch – I could dress him up like the Pope…
3. “Early in the Morning,” by Peter, Paul, and Mary (guessed by Sarah) – This lonely body needs a helping hand…
4. “Wednesday” – Tori Amos – I’m just sitting around being foolish when there is work to be done.
5. “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” – Big Daddy [Pat Benatar cover] – You come on with a come on, you don’t fight fair
6. “Rock the House” – Gorillaz – Come on trace the globe and shake ya pants…
7. “Rock and Roll Lifestyle” – Cake – Well, your CD collection looks shiny and costly.
8. “Nobody” – Johnny Cash – Who says, “Come on in and have a beer”?
9. “Devil Inside” – Utada – Everybody wants me to be their angel…
10. “Gumboots” – Paul Simon – I said, “Hey, is this my problem? Is this my fault?”

Thanks to everybody who has written to let me know that they enjoyed MyFirstRiotGear! Commentary on the video sites has been spare, but I enjoyed finding this one on YouTube.

This is hysterical! My Brother is one of the inventors of the REAL, “My Child’s Pack” and I was searching for things on the internet for him regarding what kind of buzz is out there. I found this, and I have to give you props. So you know, the Inventors, (my bro and his friend), have a good sense of humor and also see the humor in this! Great Job.

Hey, the say you haven’t made it until you’re parodied, right?

To be blunt, that’s a very cool comment to receive.

Sometimes you try an idea and people don’t like how it turns out. It’s pretty much a given that it will happen at some point in your creative career – everybody except Pixar fails at least once.

Over on the Marvel.com blogs, Tom Brevoort has posted a 4-entry series on comics he doesn’t apologize for. It’s a fascinating look into the editing of comics (a sentence which rarely appears in – well, pretty much anything) that shows how an editor can make a choice they firmly believe to be the right choice, only to have the fans disagree. The first entry is on the ill-received Codename: X-Men.

CODENAME: X-MEN concerned a covert government project overseen by Colonel America, which had rounded up 666 rogue subhuman mutants, and used them as shock troops to hunt down others of their deranged kind. Written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Sean Phillips, it was full of big, crazy ideas and manic energy. (My one meager contribution of note was the notion that Cyclops’ gaze turned people into stone.)

While Brevoort is being unapologetic for his creativity, I feel in a mood to be proud of my own. I launched my latest video project – MyFirstRiotGear this week. For the most part, it has been well received, although at least one person on one of the numerous video sites feels that I really suck. Not the video, mind – but apparently he feels that I suck. Meh.

Coming soon: more information on my next unapologetically creative project. Stay tuned…

I find myself back from L.A. It’s a long story that I’ll tell more of later – but for now…

I’ve been hard at work on the latest Doctor Hu album, Investigations Into the Recent References to Various Non-Persons. I’m pretty proud of this one – I think it represents a step forward in my hip-hop/techno mixing. And I thought I’d share some of the work with you! The tracks I’ve worked on so far are now available in an advance download – no strings attached! Once you have it downloaded, feel free to share it with your friends – or your enemies, as the case may be! (Note: Some tracks contain strong language)

EDIT: You can now download this file using your favorite BitTorrent client. Grab the torrent file here.

I’m trying to give people options on downloading. It’s not a large file, so if you choose to do so you can get it directly from this site!

If you so choose, however, you can also download it via RapidShare. It’s not everybody’s cup of tea, but it’s there as an option, anyway!

And if you choose to go elsewhere, try getting it from my deviantArt account, where the unfinished album is currently stashed in my Scraps bin, just waiting for you to download it and give it a decent home!

On a final note, I enjoy seeing people enjoy my music – so if you feel inclined to, say, rock out to one of the songs in front of a webcam or make your own personal music video for it and post the results to a video site like YouTube, Revver, or the video sharing section of MySpace, I’ll post it up on my various blogs and networking pages, as well as on the official site for the album once it launches!

So download and enjoy! In the meantime, here’s the video trailer for the album.